The Elevator Rhetorical Analysis
The moments on each floor of the elevator represent the moments that Cobb regrets, but they also illustrate how Cobb creates Mal’s projection because of her relationship to the initial traumatic event. His subconscious uses archetypes from each of the memories in order to create what Cobb recognizes as Mal in dreams. For example, the basement level portrays the memory-dream of Mal’s death; however, this dream does not reflect the actual events of the memory, as revealed by the flashback of the event. Although extremely similar, the detail which differs is Mal’s presence within the room that Cobb walks into, as the audience knows she actually sat on a window ledge in the building opposite. We can extrapolate from this that his subconscious has