Inception
As depicted in Christopher Nolan’sInception , Limbo is the " expanse of countless raw subconscious mind " that Cobb ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) and Mal ( Marion Cottilard ) became trapped within , but how they got there was a little unclear . InInception , Limbo is a space shared by all the wishful thinker that populate it . Thus , they can all form it to their fondness ' message , as Cobb and Mal do while they are in Limbo . However , the rules ofInceptionmean that time kick the bucket at a much loyal rate in Limbo than in the existent world , as prison term exponentially slows depending on the aspiration level that the dreamers inhabit . As Limbo is the lowest possible dream stage to reach inInception , time there is at its slowest .
This means that while bare hours pass for them in the real Earth , Mal and Cobb grew old together inInception’sLimbo . This unmixed amount of time pass in Limbo led Mal to consider that she was ultimately just in another stratum of woolgather when she was really back in the real world . Due to the nous - bending nature of Christopher Nolan ’s film , it ’s easy to lose rails of how Mal and Cobb even managed to extend to Limbo inInception .
Cobb & Mal’s Limbo Travel Was An Experiment Gone Wrong
Cobb and Mal ’s journey to Limbo inInceptionwas reach through their own experiment into how rich they could possibly turn over into their own subconsciousness . As Cobb and Ariadne ( Elliot Page ) are capable to doduringInception ’s ending , Cobb and Mal traveled to Limbo by falling asleep in the third level of their constructed dream . Due to Limbo ’s nature as an area of " bare-assed subconscious , " Mal and Cobb were able to progress Limbo to fit into their perfect specifications .
While on the surface , Cobb and Mal ’s life-time in Limbo was perfect , Cobb was restfully becoming dissatisfy due to his knowledge that it was n’t literal . By contrast , Mal get wind Limbo as a paradise , with infinite possibilities , and thus thought of it as her unfeigned reality . This battle between the couple led to their escape from Limbo , and , ultimately , Mal ’s death inInception .
How Cobb & Mal Escaped From Limbo
Since Mal would n’t accept that she was dreaming , Cobb planted the idea that her world was n’t genuine , performing an inception on his married woman . This doubt think of that Mal was carry to escape Limbo by her husband . Mal and Cobb kill themselves on the wagon train tracks within Limbo so as to escape back to reality . However , Cobb ’s human action of origination upon his married woman was too successful , and she continued to doubt her own reality . Still believing that she was stargaze , Mal jumped out of a hotel windowpane . Cobb and Mal ’s Limbo experimentation inInceptionultimately led to her death and her reflection as a symbol of Cobb ’s guilt in his subconscious mind .
