Symbols and Tropes
Water
We hope Leo had a bathing suit on beneath that business suit during filming, because Inception is one wet movie. Water is everywhere.Water is more of a motif than a symbol in Inception—it appears...
Trains
All aboard! Next stop… limbo. Forever.Much like water, trains show up a bunch of times in Inception. The first time we see a train, we're in Japan. Cobb and his gang are riding on a train as they...
Study for Head of George Dyer
A lot of these symbols are of the really in-your-face variety (like the train—hey-o!). Then there are others that you wouldn't catch unless you were really looking, like the picture in Arthur's d...
Surrealism vs. Structure
Dreams are tricky things to capture… mostly because they never make any sense. Have you ever had a dream where you're at your house but it's not really your house and you're in the middle of eati...