Before they go under, Cobb notices an open window. This, of course, symbolizes options and looking to the future...
I kid. Obviously it's his memory of his wife jumping from the hotel balcony (with her balcony hookers and her balcony cocaine at her balcony party). Anyway, they go under, and...
Holy shit there's still forty minutes of this movie left. And it just turned into the exterior area to Metal Gear Solid... Yusuf's still running a merry chase through the streets of Imaginary USA, and now Arthur is running a merry chase through Imaginary Hotel.
Fischer's security in the hotel is Kung Fu Fighting, but Arthur is more prepared to deal with gravity shifts due to Yusuf's having problems driving.
Oh here's that awesome spinning hallway fight scene fron the trailers and it's not only better than I expected, but it actually makes sense now!
Arthur manages to stay on top (or on the side of or underneath I lost track) of things, and manages to plug the security dude with his own gun.
Saito's still coughing up blood from being shot two levels back, but he should have plenty more time due to time dilation, what gives, writers?
Yusuf's all set for the kick, but nobody else is even near in position yet. A problem with this sort of heist: you can't communicate unless you've mastered XKCD's dream-typing thing.
F1R5T P05T!
Yusuf warns the kick's coming, but Arthur's nowhere near ready. Neither is anyone else. Time dilation means that Cobb, Eames, Fischer, and Ariadne an hour to get through a labyrinth designed to take a few hours.
Fortunately, there's a shortcut, which is good, because exclamation points are popping up all over this bitch, but there's also the possibility that Cobb's "wife" will find the shortcut.
Yusuf hits the railing, but Arthur's not in place. Arthur's having to deal with freefall and everyone else is less concerned about gene soldiers popping exclamation points than they are the spontaneous avalanche.
Cobb knows they've missed the kick, but he also knows that there'll be another impact when the van hits the water.
Fischer and Saito are in the air vents, which sets off more exclamation points — holy shit I love that metaphor too much.
Meanwhile, Arthur has a zero-G kung fu fight with security. It starts off about as awesome as you'd expect, then gets wrapped up in a hurry because this is not an action movie, it's a god damned Batman suspense movie.
Arthur's doing a pretty good job of navigating the hotel in zero-G. Also, Ariadne takes pity on us poor audience members to make Cobb reassure us that killing projections does not harm the target's mind because "they're just projections."
That's good, because an inception is worthless if you make the guy you gave the idea to mentally retarded or incapable of speech or something.
And Cobb's wife fucks everything up by shooting Fischer right when things were coming to a head.
Arthur figures out how to make gravity in zero-G: Put people in an elevator and let the pushing of the elevator simulate gravity. Will it be enough? We'll know eventually.
Ariadne has a plan: Follow Fischer into "limbo" and get him back from Cobb's wife.
And now we're in "limbo," where pure subconscious rules, so it's a good place to update.
Next: EVERYBODY LIMBO! (I'm so sorry for that pun.)
