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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Paul MacInnes

Inception diagram: the shape of dreams

Inception
Wake up to the debate ... a scene from Inception Photograph: Stephen Vaughan

Since its release 10 days ago, Inception has become the word on everyone's lips. Or, rather, the word on the tips of everyone's fingers as they bang away online trying to work out the mysteries that may or may not exist at the heart of Christopher Nolan's blockbuster dream movie. It's almost like a shadowy Japanese corporation planted the idea in our minds, or something.

So from discussions about the reality, or otherwise, of the worlds the Inception cast – and, in particular, Leonardo DiCaprio's character, Cobb – inhabit, to analysis of the movie's score and its relation to Edith Piaf, to questions over whether Inception is actually all it's cracked up to be, the debate is unending. Here, then, for those hoping to get involved and, perhaps, end up writing a PhD in this subject, is a graphical rendering of the Inception universe, of the dreams within dreams, who owns them, and quite how many kicks any participants would need to return to the "real" world. It's all done very nicely by Deviantart user Dehahs (one complaint: the font's a bit small).

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