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I’m writing about each of the steps of the dreams and how they occur in the story.

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I am going to write about how the viewer must fill in key details. I am going to analyze the scene with the pinwheel.

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I am going to write about instances where Inception makes you do the work throughout the whole film and relate that to Johnson's ideas of foreshadowing at parts that you will need to remember later in the film.

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I'm planning on analyzing Mal and Cobb's relationship as it relates to the structure Inception, totems, ideas (as they are like a virus), and their children

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I am going to explore a fan theory that Cobb's wife did die, completely unrelated to how we see her die, and that his therapist (possibly Ariadne) is putting him through this whole dream to help Cobb find closure on his wife's death.

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I think I am going to do how Mal is trying to wake up Cobb because he is dreaming throughout the entire movie.

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I am going to analyze the multiple threads within inception. I am going to use what Johnson talks about when referring to how the viewer has to do cognitive work in order to make sense of the film.

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I'll look at the multiple times throughout the film that hint at the fact that Cobb is still in a dream. I'll use Johnson's bit about the viewer "filling in" what is left out or ambiguous on purpose.
Or I might look at totems and how the whole idea of Cobb's totem is invalid if he is in his own dream. His subconscious knows the weight of the totem so he can choose to make it fall over, even if he is not in reality.

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I want to write about how multiple threads make us actually think about the film instead of just simply watching it. Then I will talk about how you can fill in the story with what you think happened.

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I want to either write about the totems or a theory I found online that Cobb's father-in-law hired Ariadne to find out if Cobb really did kill Mal.

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I am doing a few of the best fan fiction/ conspiracy theories related to Inception and I will tell you which one I believe to be true.

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I can't decide from Mal actually dead and he is trying to get back to his children or that he is still stuck dreaming

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I think the ending is exactly how the director put it, you can interpret it whichever way you want. So as of right now I'll be trying to prove the happy ending who wants to talk about some depressing story about the man actually never getting to see his kids. I'll be using the totems and levels to prove the side I argue for.

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I want do either the thought behind totems and use Steven Johnson's foreshadowing tiny details or I want to prove that Dom isn't dreaming, but the more I think of it I believe he is... So maybe I'll prove he is

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The Johnson's Idea that I will be focusing on in my paper is that some narratives make you make sense of the film. I will talk about how the ending is totally up to what you believe in and the steps there are in the movie that lead up to what I think of the movie. I will also tell my opinion about why I think that.

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Inception within inception. I'll use Johnson's theory of multiple plot threads. I'll explain how Cobb is still dreaming and how while he and his team (who are projections of his subconscious) are planting an idea in Fischer's mind, Ariadne is planting the idea in Cobb's mind that Mal's death wasn't his fault and he shouldn't feel guilty, which makes him accept a dream as his reality.

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My second paper (which I will start today - Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy) will focus on Johnson's idea of "multiple plot threads." By this he means more films today have not just one plot running through them but several. This is certainly true for Inception. I'm going to focus on two different theories (1. Cobb completes the mission and can return home to his kids and the top falls over. 2. When Mal jumped she really woke up, but Cobb is still dreaming and the top never topples over at the end.). I believe each of these theories can be argued validly, which is what I will do in my paper.

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My first paper focused on Johnson's theory of "Flashing Arrows" as narrative signposts pointing out key moments or events to viewers. As far as Inception goes, I'm going to analyze the first 127 seconds of the film (when Cobb wakes up on the beach). It contains no "flashing arrows" whatsoever. I'm going to analyze all the key details that are shown there (the totem, the kick, important lines, Cobb's kids, Cobb and Saito) that are important for us to know for understanding the film. Yet, we are give NO CLUES as to the importance of any of it. The viewer is expected to keep all that in their mind as they watch the rest of the film.