Mal and Cobb

I think Mal might be an ISFJ (or ISTJ) Type Six, and Cobb might be an ESTP Type Eight. He's all about 'regret' and 'guilt.' Guilt and innocence are Eight themes. He's 'having big adventures' and 'controlling' other people and getting away with it. He does things that are illegal.

Eights and Sixes supposedly are one of the pairs that has a special chemistry together. Some of the enneagram types are more strongly attracted to each other than others.

Mal is all about the security she felt marrying him and about hoping to grow old together. She 'undermines his security' the way an unhealthy Six would do - going behind his back, betraying him, setting up the paperwork to prove that he killed her and that his children should be taken away. That's something a Six would do. They do that in real life. Female Sixes are the worst ones to get in a divorce with - they will take everything you have and they will turn all the paperwork against you. Mal is a 'backstabbing crazy bitch' with a crazy idea in her head that she refuses to let go of. She 'questions' reality and Sixes are questioners.

Robert Fischer might be a Six too. His story is all about attachment to the protective figure, about questioning and going his own way, about trusting and believing and doing what other people tell you to do, or doing your own thing.

This is another movie like Avatar, where you don't even question the rightness of what they're doing. The bad guys are the good guys. In Avatar, it's true that the invaders lost in the end, but nobody in the movie ever asked the question about whether the avatars had their own personalities that were being suppressed while they were being controlled as puppets. So they lost the planet, but they still had the unquestioned tool of making and using avatars. The Inception movie is like that. You follow the action, you get fascinated with the complex world of the dreams, you want them to succeed, but you never really think much about the wrongness of forcing people to fall asleep and then controlling their minds while they dream. The 'heroes' are actually villains. We 'get used to them' so that they don't seem bad anymore. But at the end of the movie, it looks like Cobb is still asleep, and, as I said before, I think he lost it way back when Yusuf first let him 'try' the super strong sedative. So now he is still asleep somewhere for years and years, unable to wake up, waiting for a sequel.

I'm a little bit afraid to complain about and criticise a movie having to do with mind control. There was an incident a few years ago where a movie had a theme about mind control where it portrayed mind control as a 'funny joke,' and 'they' punished the creator of that movie by burning down his warehouse at the exact moment that his movie was setting a box office record or something like that. The movie was Nick Park's 'The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.' 'They' burned down the warehouse. If Lemony Snicket were here, he would say that 'the bad VFD did it.' And it's true, I disapprove of a movie where mind control is a funny joke, but Nick Park is probably a type Nine, so to him, it's going to be a lighthearted, silly, harmless thing that can't possibly be evil and horrible. Still, somebody decided to punish him for it. So I'm a little afraid to complain about a mind control movie now.