Is Mal alive in limbo?

Exactly because she’s a projection hidden down in Cobb’s subconcious. So she actually lives in limbo, it’s her world. She didn’t go there because she died, she simply is always there, in the same way as she’s always in Cobb’s dreams.

How long was Cobb and Mal in limbo in real time?

50 years
Limbo, the purgatory of dreamspace, is the rarely seen fourth level, a place where time stretches out for eternity. It’s on this level that Cobb and Mal were trapped in for 50 years, eventually reawakening to find themselves young again.

Did Cobb stay in limbo at the end?

Ariadne successfully retrieves Fisher, Cobb stays behind in limbo to retrieve Saito, whose wounds also plunged him to limb but I really don’t have time to tell you about that in full, and the team gets off the 10-hour flight from Australia to Los Angeles.

Why did Saito grow old?

The answer is fairly straightforward: Saito died on level three, which pushed him into limbo well before Cobb. Cobb was in level four searching for Fischer when Saito died. Cobb entered level four as a reflection of his last time there with his wife.

Does Dom Cobb wake up?

To be clear, DiCaprio’s Cobb is awake at the end of the movie and reunited with his real children, not false projections that could never realize these young souls in all their perfections and all their imperfections. They’re the real deal.

Why was Saito old?

Why did Saito age in Inception?

In the movie, we see that the scene right after the van sinks is with Cobb waking up on the beach. Saito is old because those minutes between both deaths felt like decades in limbo.

Did Cobb get out of limbo?

Cobb and Saito got out of limbo by waiting until the sedative ran out (and they were normal-asleep) then they shot themselves, thus waking up. Just like how Cobb and Mal got out by lying on the train tracks. Saito grew to be an old man, and Cobb reminded them they had a mission.

Why is Saito so much older than Cobb in Limbo?

Cobb also enters the ‘Limbo’ level much later in the movie. In fact Cobb spends time in one extra level than Saito trying to rescue Fischer thereby causing Saito to grow older relatively.