Something I don't get in the movie Inception:
- Robert Fischer gets shot and killed by Mal on the third level (snowy hospital level)
That means he goes to "limbo" (following dream logic here) but after Cobb and Ariadne retrieve him from limbo, he is kicked back to the third level while Eames kick-starts his heart with a defibrillator and he is alive again. Thus he goes ahead to complete the inception.
Putting aside that I'm pretty sure a defibrillator can't bring someone back to life after two gunshots to the chest, or even that he appears to be in no pain or dying from blood loss then how does Robert Fischer come back to life in the third level when he has already died in that level?
Answer
I think the shooting script gives a bit more clarity on the subject. I've edited and abridged for ease of reading...
Eames grabs a defibrillator from the wall and pulls Fischer's jacket open
COBB : It won't do any good
Eames SHOCKS Fischer's chest...
COBB : Even if you could revive his body, his mind's trapped down there. It's over.
ARIADNE : There's still a way: We follow Fischer down... We'll find him...soon as you hear Arthur's music start, you use the defibrillator to revive him...we give him his own early kick from below.
Shortly afterwards,
Ariadne KICKS Fischer off the roof- AIMS again at Mal- Fischer DROPS as the sky LIGHTS UP WITH ELECTRICITY- Fischer SCREAMS, then GASPS, no longer falling, and we are....
INT. ANTECHAMBER - DAY
Eames pulls the defibrillator from Fischer's chest as he COUGHS AWAKE.
EAMES : Get in there-quick!
Fischer looks up at the double doors. STAGGERS to his feet.
Basically they give him a kick in the limbo level by chucking him off the ledge. This moves his consciousness back up to the third level. At the same time Eames uses the defibrillator to restart his heart and his body magically repairs itself when his consciousness arrives (dream bodies can do that, apparently) allowing him to complete his own inception.
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