Lemme give it a shot
I didn't ask who trained Saito. He simply seemed like one sharp hombre (don't know the Japanese word for dude..lol).
I asked who trained Fischer.
If Fischer was aware of Inception, he didn't show it, in fact other than his assassins, he appeared relatively eased to succumb.
Why does it matter who trained him, it seemed to me like there is a confusion between inception and dream invasion. Dream invasion was apparently a known and possible tactic which is what Cobb and Arthur were trained experts in doing for hire.. Inception, on the other hand was thought not to be possible for the reasons Arthur was explaining before Cobb interrupted and said that it could in fact be done (knowing this bc he did it to his wife).
Fischer was trained by the military people who were probably part of his defence team. Part of that training is to train his subconscious to respond to attack in the dream because he is unable to consciously do so himself
It all comes back to Cobb. His dreams, his guilt, his wife, his inception, his apparent madness, his control issues.
He was the original architect and his control issues permeated the whole fandangled movie.
Incept his own wife without telling her...
Don't tell Arthur this..
Don't allow Ariadne to do that...
Don't tell anyone about the limbo/insanity phase until everybody is committed and inside the dreamscape.
...and all these people traipse behind him into what amounts to complete submission of their mind?
Arthur especially, is aware of Cobb's misfires and goes in?
Yeah Cobb chain up everybody for his own selfish gain. It really was supposed to be a simple in and out job but the military people defending Fischer mess up the whole play because without that they wouldn't have been pressed for time and no one wouldve been the wiser.
I don't think anyone felt their life was in danger going in but it end up being that and they had no choice but to follow him down because if they military men killed them on level one, they was all too drugged up in reality to come out of the dream as normal and wouldve end up brain dead.
I disconnect at these points and refuse to say it was can be overlooked and be logical...it contradicts.
Even if Saito was the behind the scenes kingpin, it would behoove Fischer to know this...and also Browning...neither men were fools. The stakes are too huge not to have all their bases covered.
btw...what sort of professor was Cobb's father?
who allowed Cobb to leave the US after being accused of murder?
I find you being real harsh now.. how yuh go hinge the whole logical basis of the movie on feeling that Fischer
should recognize Saito? At the end of the day lets not forget the man is dreaming just like any other night, he not consciousy looking out for an attack.
Also, I would think if Cobb was part of a covert military operation and a valued expert in dream interception then it very plausible that there would be government people (the guy in the suit with the plane ticket) that would give him an escape route.. After all he still working for them no?