If it's not, then it will contradict itself, or it will be somehow insubstantial and end up making the audience feel cheated. Ambiguity has to come from the inability of the character to know -- and the alignment of the audience with that character. An informal poll had the team here split down the middle. But what if the actual point of Inception has nothing to do with the ending? What if the actual story was about moving past the worst things in reality, and being okay with fulfilling your dreams?
Cobb is a broken man when we meet him. Not directly anyway. Whether or not he completes this arc is all that matters, in dream or reality. Cobb had this guilt planted inside him. And he planted hope and happiness there instead. So where do we go from here? The power of filmmaking is taking the audience on a journey. And we know writing characters can be hard!
How can you take your characters somewhere that closes their emotional loops but leaves story possibilities open for the audience? Are you up to the task? Maybe work on some short films first and see where it takes you. My take on that is that this ending has to do with the prison and his avoidance of getting out his acquired madness as he refuses to see and search for the real world too which he is already living in but has attained an inhability to really perceive and see it, or worse: completely lost the will to fight for it.
This film is about Madness, and the almost impossible possibility of escaping from it once stablished in one's mind. In fact, John Nash was partially able to do it Doesn't it matter though? If he actually has kids, I'd imagine they'd rather see him a bit more spry than have visiting rights to a vegetable. As a result, it would then matter to him as well. It's also literally hard to imagine trying to dream the trajectory of your first children's lives if you've never watched children grow before, so I'm not even sure how that would be feasible to do without contradicting your own dream-reality.
You would imagine them doing something, then later recall that children in that developmental range don't do that. Given that having to correct your dream manually has it's own "kick" I don't see how that's sustainable. Cobb rushes to spin the top and is interrupted by Saito.
Meaning From that early on, we don't technically know if he left the dream so the rest of the movie may have been a dream. Also Michael Caine isn't best source for Inception material. He claimed because he saw the top drop while filming the scene it means it was reality. Ignoring the fact that the top dropping is cut, leaving the answer ambiguous. Despite that I think it was all reality.
Although I like how it leaves each person to interpret it how they wish. Skip to main content. No Film School. By Jason Hellerman. October 26, We take a crack at deciphering the ending of Inception and explaining what the movie Inception is about. This is, Inception explained! But it did bring to mind the question again: What happens at the end of Inception? So what does the end of Inception mean? The Inception Ending Explained By A totem.
In the opening dream heist, Cobb tells Saito at dinner that the most resilient parasite is an idea. Approximately 15 minutes later in Inception 's first act, Arthur repeats the spirit of Cobb's earlier sentiment, arguing the impossibility of planting an idea in someone's head because "the subject's mind can always trace the genesis of the idea. And now, as a viewer, all I can think about are these two statements.
For the rest of Inception 's two-hour runtime, I will be thinking about tracing the genesis of the ideas the movie wants to plan in my mind and I will be cautious because those ideas can take hold like a virus. The other part of the foundation for Cobb's reliability as ending key are two basic rules in Cobb's line of work: Dreams always start in the middle of the action. Forget the prologue in limbo; didn't this movie's story start in the middle of an actual dream taking place in Cobb's mind?
Inception wants you to question everything about the nature of what you're seeing onscreen; it's part of the fun. Through it all, we see this story play out with Cobb's personal backstory anchoring it, turning us into his sympathizers and hoping he can break free of his demons. But time and time again, Cobb proves himself to untrustworthy, either to his team, to us, or both. Consider the Cobb knows about the risk of dropping into limbo while on any of the dream levels, a key factoid Cobb doesn't tell his team until the first level.
Or, how about the time Cobb decides the team will pull off the "Mr. Charles" gambit on the second level? Reason to find Cobb way more sus than he lets on is illustrated perfectly in the following exchange between Arthur and Ariadne:.
Ariadne : "Who or what is Mr. So now you've noticed how much time Cobb spends doing things he says never to do. The real kicker is this: Cobb only tells Ariadne a portion of the story about his and Mal's time in limbo.
We don't learn about the infectious idea Cobb planted in Mal's mind in order to coax her back into reality — "Your world is not real" — until the third act during Cobb and Ariadne's return to limbo. After a movie spent wondering what's going on with Cobb and whether he's gonna crack, fully risking the mission as his own fractured subconscious risks flooding the dream levels, the most viral idea of them all is revealed. Now, after all of this, as Inception winds down all I can think about is whether or not the world I see onscreen is real.
You're thinking it too, aren't you? By the time Cobb gets home from LAX and goes to hug his children, it is implied he is free of any burdens of his past. His is not wanted for murder, he has let go of the angry shade of his wife which keeps barging into his consciousness, and he can hug his kids. But, wait, when Cobb sees his kids for the first time in multiple years, they appear not to have aged from his memories.
And that top keeps spinning long after he walks away from it. Reality matters. People who have kids definitely read it differently than those who don't. Dom Cobb himself, Leonardo DiCaprio, has admitted that he simply has no idea what the mysterious ending means. Though the rule of the totem is something made crystal clear so seeing the spinning top wobble but never fall leaves the debate raging on. There's a chance Nolan gave his good friend an easy answer, because as the director himself alluded to, it was never intended to be so simple.
For years to come, there is no doubt that viewers will find different meanings within Inception, different layers within dreams within dreams. If there was only one way to see things, where would the fun be in that?
Inception topped our list of the best movies of the decade.
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