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"No, but seriously, apart from the actor being incredibly badass, Saito is by far the most badass character in the film. Think about it. Fuck. I'm gonna walk you through it. It's just too fucking badass.
From the very beginning he's pulling one over on Cobb, running a test. Cobb's trying to trick him, but the whole fucking thing is a setup, so basically Cobb's just like sucking his dick in the beginning, while thinking he's being cool. He's not being cool. Saito was on top of that shit from the beginning. Oh, and how do you think he knew the kind of carpet fabric in the apartment that he used for affairs? Yeah. He's been on that carpet before. Naked.
So then he captures the stupid first architect blah blah, helicopter blah blah. The next real badassery comes when he shows up out of fucking nowhere in Mumbasa in the middle of a huge fucking crowded and whisks Cobb away. How did he find him? How did he know any of that shit? How was he better at finding Cobb than the guys who were fucking chasing Cobb?
And then yeah, he buys the airline. But you know what's better?
He spends half the fucking movie with a bullet in his chest, staving off death. Seriously. I don't want to do the calculations cuz I'm lazy but he was in pain for a long fucking time. Not just fake pain. Real fucking pain. He was dying for the entire time they were in the whole dream.
With his dying breaths, he raids an impenetrable fortress. Think about that. Cobb was like, "hey I'm gonna sit here with this chick cowering like a little bitch, and then when my wife shows up I'm gonna fuck up and not shoot her. Oh, and I'm fine physically, it's just that I'm a pussy," whereas Saito was like, "yeah, I've had a bullet in my chest for the better part of a fucking week or some shit but fuck if that's gonna stop me from climbing down a mountain, getting caught in an avalanche but being perfectly fucking fine, and then SNEAKING INTO A FUCKING FORTRESS with some sniveling sheltered corporate asshole who is my mortal enemy."
But that's not all he does before he dies. Oh no. He holds off an army by barely moving. That's right, a whole fucking army versus one guy who's so almost dead he can barely breathe, and the army loses. Reason? Ken Watanabe.
But, though badass, he is not immortal. When he finally does die, he's sent to limbo, where he lives out a full lifetime. That's like, 50 or so years of just sitting there in his own private fucking castle. What did he do during that time? Who fucking knows? He knows. But we don't. Probably just sitting around being a fucking badass, while Cobb's there with his dead wife getting all bleary-eyed like some bitch, being like "I can't imagine your perfections wahhh."
Saito died. He has experienced death, and then he experienced a full life.
One day, while he is old man full of regret and waiting to die alone, this dude shows up the shore of his castle. Yeah, that's right, the castle that he owns and has ruled over for decades. So anyways, he's like, who the fuck is this guy. But then he remembers. He remembers back through an entire lifetime to some distant past that is about as easy to remember even after just experiencing it as remembering a dream upon waking up. He remembers this, vaguely remembers some kind of arrangement. His sheer sense of honor won't let him forget--which would have made him lose his grasp on reality.
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"Has enough faith in this inner sense of duty to kill Cobb and then kill himself. Yes; after being shot and going through the process of dying for approximately half a week, and then dying and then living for 50 years, he then kills himself and "dies," again.
Then, when he wakes up, after having lived an entire life. The audience sees him and is like holy fuck is he really still all there? has his mind not turned to scrambled eggs yet? O Audience, how utterly naïf! To think that the badassery of Watanabe could be destroyed simply by living a full lifetime only to be jolted out of it to find that you're actually a company executive sitting on a plane? Nay, he remembers, all right. He even still has the fucking phone number memorized.
Oh, and so then, since his competitor is destroyed, he basically saves the fucking world after the film is over.
Seriously.
Biggest badass in the film."
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I enjoyed reading this way too much. Thank you for that.
THIS IS WHY SAITO IS THE COOLEST, GQMF EVER TO LIVE. Ever.
He's the boss.
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AGREED.
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