Preferred Reading- You can believe in the films concepts and take it as face value as reality. You can buy into the concept of the film and that this scene is just to advance the plot. You acknowledge that the scene has meaning in it but because you are engaged in the films concepts, you don't notice it immediately.
Negotiated Reading- You can disagree with certain aspects of the film, like the open/cliffhanger ending which doesn't specifically answer the question whether Cobb is awake or not. You could also question the motivation of Cobb's character in that it is too dramatic, with his wife murdering anyone who steps into his mind.
Oppositional Reading- you dislike the films concepts but can read metaphors and meanings into the film on a intellectual level. The city folding in on itself could be read as a metaphor for being trapped in the city, especially considering Cobb's dreamworld is restricted to a city when he could think of literally anywhere else to be. The people looking at Cobb as they walk past represent social anxiety and the people walking in his dream could represent red blood cells.
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