Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” Explained In OS X Finder

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Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” Explained In OS X Finder

Chris Nolan’s Inception is such a deviously complicated film that even an unseredipitously timed bathroom break is enough to reduce the rest of the film to mere gibberish. If you’re one of the many, many people who just didn’t get it, though, perhaps this informative Finder-based infographic explaining the dream structure in the film will help.

Of course, that big “Reality” parenthetical is as debatable as a wobbling top, but otherwise… if Finder can’t make sense of Inception for you, what the heck can?

[via TUAW]

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John BrownleeJohn Brownlee is news editor here at Cult of Mac, and has also written about a lot of things for a lot of different places, including Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, Gizmodo, Kotaku, Lifehacker, AMC, Geek and the Consumerist. He lives in Cambridge with his charming inamorata and a tiny budgerigar punningly christened after Nabokov's most famous pervert. You can follow him here on Twitter.

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  • Meghann

    Haha, I love this!

    I know the storyline is fairly complex, but only really because it revolves around something we don’t know/are not used to. If you pay attention, you learn and once you’ve picked it up, it’s easy enough.

  • Joseph

    LOL. I love it too! I imagine he chose jpegs relevant to the dream of each subfolder. I’d like to see those. And what a great movie.

  • zameltzer

    I really don’t understand what was so hard to understand about this film. They just kept going deeper. How hard is that to explain?

  • http://www.stevenzwerink.nl Steven

    And the question remains, is Airplane reality? The children are the same age and wear the same clothes at the end of the movie as in all the scenes in between… I think there is another level…

  • http://www.grinningidiot.com JAYnLA

    Watching this movie was like being on a date with someone who won’t stop talking about themself.

  • Church of Apple

    If there was another level wouldn’t Mal have shown up at the end?

  • Cami

    Yeah! Woo Jonah Ray!

  • Brian

    #corrections

    serendipitously*

    Awesome stuff though :D

  • Marc

    “The children are the same age and wear the same clothes at the end of the movie as in all the scenes in between”

    no they are not. look closer.

  • Brian

    Btw I came up with an extremely elaborate logical argument that a majority of the movie HAD to be reality, but it was so elaborate that I forgot all of it. Haha. That being said, I’m taking my dad to see Inception tonight because he hasn’t seen it yet. I’ll look for some of this stuff while there.

  • David

    There’s one thing missing. Mal’s projection was also in Eames’ Dream, since it was her shooting Robert Fisher Jr. that forced Cobb, Ariadne, and Saito to go in to Limbo in the first place.

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