!SPOILERS! Inception, understanding what the ending meant !SPOILERS!

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So I recently saw Inception on Blu-ray. I thought it was an amazing movie. I understood pretty much everything too. I was at the end and Cobb sat down the Totem and it started spinning, and then it started to wobble, and when you think it was about to fall over, they ended the movie. I was sooooo ticked, But decided that even thought it is unclear weither or not the end was a Dream or real life, and was of course meant to be unclear, I thought it was real. But then I really weighed some facts, and became unsure again. So I decided I would start this forum and talk about weither we thought the end was a dream, or reality. Heres how I think we should do it. We should state our opinion, like so. Here is my opinion.

At first I thought the end was reality, but then I weighed some more facts but became unsure.

Why it might be real:

Cobb would of looked at his kids if he planned on staying in the dream world. (When the girl shot his wife in the dream because she stabbed him)

Cobb would of done something to help his wife when she was dying in the dream world because of the gun shot. He would of perhaps been mad at the girl for shooting her.

Cobb also would of not accepted the fact that his wife's reflection was not real.

Cobb would of brought his wife back if it was a dream.

Why the end was maybe a dream:

When Cobb came back to his kids, they were wearing the same clothes and doing the same thing as he left. They also looked the same, from the back side (Since we do not see there faces until the end) and it had been years since he left them.

Even though we will never know for sure, it is still fun to try to figure it out ourselves. So, please give your opinion and share it with the GS users. Thanks!

..theres no understand, if you go do some research its been confirmed what the ending truly is by an actor of the movie

even without confirmation from sources, it was pretty obvious that it was actually real.

He was nuts. Its ok though they made millions and millions of dollars. I perosnally think he was stuck in his head the entire movie.CoolSkAGuy

I gave that same idea a whirl, but thought maybe not.

You could clearly tell the top was about to fall. Reality I say.

Inception wasn't deep or confusing. It was obscure. It's not like this amazingly influential movie everyone thinks it is. It's entertaining with some bizarre concepts.Mousetaches

[QUOTE="Mousetaches"]Inception wasn't deep or confusing. It was obscure. It's not like this amazingly influential movie everyone thinks it is. It's entertaining with some bizarre concepts.harashawn

Edit: in fact, DA:O, which came out a half a year before Inception, toys around with this idea a ton whenever there are demons present.

If you talk to my friend, he will give you an indepth description of why it was a dream. It's pretty well thought out, to. (Which is strange considering he hardly does any thinking.)

[QUOTE="harashawn"][QUOTE="Mousetaches"]Inception wasn't deep or confusing. It was obscure. It's not like this amazingly influential movie everyone thinks it is. It's entertaining with some bizarre concepts.Mousetaches

Edit: in fact, DA:O, which came out a half a year before Inception, toys around with this idea a ton whenever there are demons present.

[QUOTE="harashawn"][QUOTE="Mousetaches"]Inception wasn't deep or confusing. It was obscure. It's not like this amazingly influential movie everyone thinks it is. It's entertaining with some bizarre concepts.Mousetaches

Edit: in fact, DA:O, which came out a half a year before Inception, toys around with this idea a ton whenever there are demons present.

When that object was still spinning at the ending, that was just to keep you thinking. He wasn't in a dream at the end.

I think the bigger question is whether or not the film took place within in a dream itself. Consider this, in order to be asleep so long Cobb and his wife were probably under a sedative and in a Level 3 dream. Later in the movie it is explained that if you die in Level 3 under a sedative you enter Limbo where you can lose track of what is reality and what is a dream, and while in Level 3 both Copp and his wife are killed by a train, so shouldn't they both be in Limbo?

I think the bigger question is whether or not the film took place within in a dream itself. Consider this, in order to be asleep so long Cobb and his wife were probably under a sedative and in a Level 3 dream. Later in the movie it is explained that if you die in Level 3 under a sedative you enter Limbo where you can lose track of what is reality and what is a dream, and while in Level 3 both Copp and his wife are killed by a train, so shouldn't they both be in Limbo?

DarkGamer007

The director said himself, he didn't want there to be a "for-sure" ending. Therefore, there is no right or wrong answer.

It's the feeling of "what happens next?!?!?" that he was trying to deliver. Waddya know, it worked.

You could clearly tell the top was about to fall. Reality I say.

poseidonwest

I thought the same, but who really knows unless it was confirmed.

What is reality?.....Bloodseeker23

Dude, wtf, give a spoiler warning next time!Theokhoth

Dude, I completly did. 3 times in fact. Twice in the Topic and one huge one in the beginning of my post. So don't go telling me I didn't.

[QUOTE="Theokhoth"]Dude, wtf, give a spoiler warning next time!calebcop

Dude, I completly did. 3 times in fact. Twice in the Topic and one huge one in the beginning of my post. So don't go telling me I didn't.

I think the bigger question is whether or not the film took place within in a dream itself. Consider this, in order to be asleep so long Cobb and his wife were probably under a sedative and in a Level 3 dream. Later in the movie it is explained that if you die in Level 3 under a sedative you enter Limbo where you can lose track of what is reality and what is a dream, and while in Level 3 both Copp and his wife are killed by a train, so shouldn't they both be in Limbo?

DarkGamer007

I gave that a thought, but in Limbo his Totem never stopped spinning.

Well, it showed how he got there. In a dream, you can't remember how you got to the point you're at, it shows and he knows how he got there, therefore it must be reality.

Or how about we accept the ending was purely ambiguous to what happened because that's what Christopher Nolan intended for it to be, without people literally reading into every little fiber of every scene just to come to a conclusion even he really didn't make and also one that ruins the original meaning behind it.

Despite that, I believe he wasn't in a dream.

Or how about we accept the ending was purely ambiguous to what happened because that's what Christopher Nolan intended for it to be, without people literally reading into every little fiber of every scene just to come to a conclusion even he really didn't make and also one that ruins the original meaning behind it.

Despite that, I believe he wasn't in a dream.

SeraphimGoddess

It's threads like these that remind me why I loathe Inception's ending so much.

It's threads like these that remind me why I loathe Inception's ending so much.

Niff_T

..and this is why I've stopped viewing the FAU.

Cracked.com summed it up well. It is not definitely either. It is SUPPOSED to be ambigious. Believe what you want, you can't know.