I think the way to do it would be to establish a non-suicide exit strategy from limbo; I'd say ideally by walking through a door, but With Intent. this is obviously different from a normal dream-walking, where the Snap is hugely plot-important, but Limbo is different. I'd rewrite Saito's rescue from Limbo to incorporate this, which would also show that Cobb has learned from his mistake with Moll (Mal?) in a concrete way
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The thing about establishing a non-suicide exit strategy from Limbo, though: how would you do it? I mean, how would anybody have figured it out?
(Here's one thing that I liked initially and in retrospect annoys me: the kids in the final scene of the movie are actually slightly older, played by different actors. Annoys me in retrospect because seriously, guys, there's such a thing as trying too hard to be ambiguous.)
Wait, are they? They looked the same to me, and the house certainly looked identical.
The way I'd do it is that Saito would be unable to kill himself, half-laughing and half-crying at how ridiculous it is that after all this time, and even knowing it's a dream, he still wants to live. And then Cobb has the insight and tells him it's not ridiculous, and proposes the walking through a door plan.
That is definitely the flimsiest component, though--maybe the way to set it up would be to have Ariadne's exit from the balcony work that way, with her intending to jump but simply vanishing as she passes through the door, and he sees that.
But you don't know for sure that the top keeps spinning, it cuts out before it could potentially fall. I think the real point is that he isn't even watching it at that point... he doesn't care.
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The thing about establishing a non-suicide exit strategy from Limbo, though: how would you do it? I mean, how would anybody have figured it out?
(Here's one thing that I liked initially and in retrospect annoys me: the kids in the final scene of the movie are actually slightly older, played by different actors. Annoys me in retrospect because seriously, guys, there's such a thing as trying too hard to be ambiguous.)
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The way I'd do it is that Saito would be unable to kill himself, half-laughing and half-crying at how ridiculous it is that after all this time, and even knowing it's a dream, he still wants to live. And then Cobb has the insight and tells him it's not ridiculous, and proposes the walking through a door plan.
That is definitely the flimsiest component, though--maybe the way to set it up would be to have Ariadne's exit from the balcony work that way, with her intending to jump but simply vanishing as she passes through the door, and he sees that.
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