Line #2 Heartwarming/Inception


1	* Near the very end of the film, when Fischer Jr. confronts his father in the strongroom. His father starts to speak, and is only able to utter the word "disappointed" before his son finishes the sentence with:
2	-->'''Fischer, Jr.''': I know. You're [[DisappointedInYou disappointed]] that I didn't turn out to be like you.\
3	'''Fischer, Sr.''': No. No, [[RapidFireNo nonono.]] I was disappointed... that you ''tried''.
4	** Then, before Fischer Jr.'s father dies, he has his son open the safe containing his most prized possession: the pinwheel he gave his son as a child. The fact that this was engineered to be an in-universe lie becomes completely lost in how [[TearJerker heartbreakingly sincere an emotional reaction Jr. gives at this revelation]], with Cillian Murphy's perfect, red-faced, choking-back-[[InelegantBlubbering Inelegant-Tears]] face being so heartrendingly relatable that you'd think it was his real father that had died.
5	** Add to that that this was Pete Postlewaite's last movie, as he died shortly afterwards.
6	* The end is a series of this.
7	** When Cobb finally wakes up in the plane, the camera shows Arthur, looking at him and smiling as if to say "you crazy son-of-a-bitch, you did it", Ariadne giving him a look that says "are you ok", then Saito, waking up...and immediately reaching for the phone to make that one call. You feel Cobb's relief as your own.
8	** Then in the airport, at the customs, Cobb has to wait only a couple of apprehensive moments before the guard stamps his passport and says: "...Welcome home, Mr. Cobb."
9	*** ... immediately followed by Ariadne smiling at Cobb again, and then as he walks out of the airport, he passes all the other team members, also looking happy, and finds his father-in-law waiting for him at the arrival gate, to take him home.
10	** And then the very end scene, in which Cobb is reunited with his children. Once again there's a moment of hesitation as he watches his children turn around, and then he sees their faces for the first time since he was forced to leave them. He then rushes forward to play with them and leaves the totem behind, showing that it no longer matters to him whether he's in reality or not--as long as he's with his children, he's happy.
11	*** The top ''wobbles.'' Let that sink in. Michael Caine ended up confirming that it was real and did not take place in a dream.
12	* A sort of FridgeBrilliance sets in when you realize that Dom and Mal lived with each other essentially for a lifetime inside their dream world. Even after getting back to reality, they're still deeply in love with each other and want to spend ''another'' lifetime together! That makes Dom and Mal's marriage one of the happiest, [[TearJerker and makes what eventually happens all the more tragic]].
13	** Shortly before that, the whole speech about how wonderfully complex the real Mal was, and even with all of Dom's imagination, he could never truly recreate her. Made absolutely crushing in the fact that all of these heartwarming things are only being said because Dom is finally able to let her go.
14	* Cobb's line about positive emotions trumping negative emotions: he just states it like scientific fact.
15	** Related FridgeBrilliance: Cobb knows that an inception can grow until it becomes part of the host's personality, and he doesn't want Fischer Jr. to suffer because of him, as Mal had.
16	* Robert Fischer did not give the slightest fuck about being kidnapped by armed men...until he heard "Uncle Peter" Browning screaming. He also refuses to give Dom the six random numbers with a gun pointed at his head, but immediately starts talking when the gun is turned on Peter.
17	* Ariadne agrees to join the team, even though her job is just to design the dreams, because she wants to protect everyone from Cobb's projection of Mal. While the inception crew are all anti-heroes to a degree, she's easily the best of them.
18	** The relationship she develops with Cobb also serves a mention. As he becomes her mentor and teaches her how the dreams work, she in turn becomes his conscience, forming a closer bond with him than anyone else on the crew. He becomes visibly protective of her, trying to physically shield her when Mal arrives to threaten them and she's the one who ends up saving both his life and his soul when they go into limbo together.
19	* Cobb stays in limbo for a while longer in order to get Saito, who waited an untold amount of time (presumably hundreds of years) for him, convincing him to come back to the real world so they can be young men again. Saito, on his end, keeps his word and makes the call that gets Cobb off the hook.

Context Heartwarming / Inception