Awesome fuckin' movie, but there is just one thing I didn't get: If you can escape from Limbo by killing yourself, why in the first level of dream they were so scared of going to the Limbo? (I thought that maybe Cobb didn't want to admit he had been there, because he escaped time before) and: If Cobb succeded in rescuing Saito, how can they wake up almost at the same time? Saito has been in the Limbo for a while..
@007suit There is actually a fascinating Biblical interpretation to that particular detail. Here's first a fascinating and well-written article about a neat interpretation of the movie as a metaphor for... making movies!
His totem is a six-axis representation, place a dot on it somewhere and choose a place to observe and you'll see. He can tell if he's in the dream because inside the dream it can't rotate in all three dimensions directions on it's axis. It's a Turing Test, a Voight-Kampf.
Such a nice detail and so thoughtfully place in the film.
if his wedding ring is the fucking totem then wouldn't the person that sold it to him know what the fucking ring feels and weighs like so then it wouldn't work for him
espero que leas español xD! bueno.... Es sencillo cuando cobb le da su pasaporte al guardia del aeropuerto se ve claramente que tiene muchas paginas selladas es por esto que el policia lo ve con cara de que ha tenido mucho tiempo viajando y por eso le da la bienvenida ^^... en uno de esos viajes se sobreentiende que estubo en Francia... otra cosa recordemos q esto es un mundo paralelo donde la extraccion es un de terrorismo poco popular pero conocido...
@enituxia29 you're retarded dude. it fucking explains that in the movie. "burreaucratic nightmare" read the damn script. you're thinking too hard idiot. what you said has no significance whatsoever..
@NeoBlackProtocall the top still works for him f*cktard.... it doesnt MATTER if it was mal's, shes NOT alive. NO ONE ALIVE knows what the top feels like except for cobb. the ring wasn't his totem..
@NeoBlackProtocall Doesnt Cobb let go of Mal at the end, and if they are then no longer together in dreams and in reality, then the ring has no signifiacnce after that event. Idk i could be wrong im just stating my theory.
@NeoBlackProtocall omg yes it fucking is! it WOULDN'T work for him if the Mal was still alive because then she would be able to create it while cobb is in a dream but she's dead and he took it so its his totem.
@sinan926 well, it was supposed to, but if you pay attention to Cobb's hand, in dreams he wears a wedding ring, and the kids are older too, so I think it isn't a dream, but yes, the totem thing is very confusing :)
To clear everything. In end scene, the totem does wobble. The whole movie isn't a dream cos if it was, the only architect possible to create the world is God, not Cobb. Cobb's dreams were made from memories. In the last scene he saw children's faces, which were not part of his dream, so it's reality. In Wired magazine, the director said he used two sets of kids, and said "The important thing is Cobb's not looking at the totem. He doesn't care" suggesting he knows it will fall and left it behind
@anonymousaccount100 Cobb not looking at the totem & not caring if it fell is correct, however, the main point is that he did not care & accepted being with his kids as his "reality"; it didn't matter to him at that point if was a dream or reality.
0:47 - 0:49. Turn your volume all the way up, the little green bar on the volume adjuster will flare up at that one moment. And if you listen very carefully, you can hear two little taps. I couldn't hear it when I originally saw the movie over all the chatter in the theatre, but I think that confirms it - he wasn't dreaming. I mean, it doesn't really matter, as someone said before, his happiness is what really makes the ending - but still. Those two little taps.
The point of them not showing whether it fell or not was to show that it didnt matter to him if he was dreaming or not anymore once he was happy and saw his kids. I thought it was very beautifully ended.
Idk, I'm pretty sure it's real life. If he was still dreaming the top wouldn't have moved at all. As we've seen before throughout the film, whenever he's dreaming the top doesn't slighly start falling like it's about to fall over. It stays upright and at a constant. I think the same would have happened here if he were dreaming, but it starts shaking so I infer that he's not dreaming.
So much evidence points to him still being dreaming though, the entire part after he wakes up is filmed in this dreamlike state, and his kids are in the exact same spot he always remembers them being in.
@Usul573 Not really. The kids are in a completely different position outside when he sees them at the end. They're also wearing different cloths/shoes. Very similar I know, but it is different.
Someone also pointed out that every time he is dreaming he's wearing his ring, everytime he's in reality he's not wearing the ring, they've obviously talked about a lot of other stuff too.
@Usul573 Yeah honestly the only reason why I know that about the kids is because I watched it again saturday haha. But I didn't catch the thing about his ring, I'll make sure to look for it next time.
If you think about it the spinning top isn't Cobb's totem but it was Mal's. Cobb's totem could well be his children since he never see their faces when hes on a dream.
@propjam2 I'm not 100% on this - appropriate I suppose! - but I remember reading that there were two sets of child actors, one pair whose faces you don't see and another in the final scene (above). Like I say, not 100% but I'm pretty sure... Not sure how that affects things anyway!
Watch a Pre-January 8th copy of Inception. Listen closely when the actors say imagine, reality, safe, and envelope, or point pistols. You'll hear the words, Loughner, offin' her, part of the word Giffords, and much more. Some even say they hear, do it.
How can it be inside a dream if he is lifting the kids upp.... before, he was only able to project in hes mind the scene where they were facing backwords
When I left the cinema, I realised I just sow the best film ever made, the ending was perfet.... he finally got to see hes kids, why the pesimistic view ?
The spintop was swinging, so that means that it was slowing down, what means that was stopping, what means he wasn't dreaming, what means you should worry anymore. ;)
Actually the top was his wife's token and would not work correctly with him as he's not the right owner of it. Cobb's token is his wedding ring. In the dreams he's always wearing it, while he's in reality he is not wearing it. In the last scene he's not wearing it either, so it's not a dream.
@Tiddes I see that, but somebody told me his is wearing the ring on the airplane (right after he wakes up). We can't be sure if the ring is even his totem.
The outcome of the spinning top didn't matter anyway, because when Cobb was in limbo getting Saito, Saito picked it up and handled it. So Cobb couldn't know for sure that anything after that was a dream or not.
Yeah we were watching this with my father and told him that i finally managed to see a good movie with this actor with an appropriate ending and then director spawns this shit . Good job idiots . BTW i definately believe that the wobble will fall .
If aliens burst through the doors of the cinemas just as this scene was playing, they would be like "WTF?? Why on earth is humanity fixated in watching these simple children's object spin with such concentration?"
i say its a dream still....the Japanese guy spun Cobbs "totem" thus making it unusable because he knew the physics of the totem so it would act as if it were real
they could not have shot themselves. there was the whole big ordeal about how you could not die when they went into fishers mind. they had to wait for the chemical to wear off or have someone on the plain to wake them. now i doubt anyone could have timed that one up perfectly. that is rash assumption. does he use his wedding ring as a totem? no. does he use mals? yes
if it isnt a dream how did he and santo make it out of the van?
also when he goes to the arab guy the first time to test out the chemical they are going to be kept asleep when he wakes up and spins the totem, but he knocks it over in the bathroom. he never spins it again until this scene.
there is no true ending to this movie. that is what makes its great. there is no point in arguing over it.
@alienpbscott Yeah, but it eventually becomes useless. You see, after he gets over Mal's death, his wedding ring should be gone, since he's let her go.
it can't woble forever, it eventualy has to fall. if that moment was in a dream, it would just keep on spinning without wobbling. so yes it was real live, idk why everyone says it didn't mean anything cuz it was mal's totem? O_o Still the ending was perfect!
When Cobb wakes up in Limbo, his mind is just like Saito’s (who in his mind has been there becoming an old man). Saito’s memory of Cobb’s totem and dialogue “ A leap of faith” and “An old man full of regret, waiting to die alone,”Cobb and Saito are able to remember talk they had in reality, where both of them had desires (Cobb wanted to be with his children and Saito and wanted his business). Once they remember that limbo is limbo, they are able to wake themselves up. Make Sense?
Look from 0:00 to 0:02. Notice how the top was wobbling and moving in a circle? Now look at 0:32 to 0:48. the top corrected itself; thus proving, (this might be) a dream. Why else would the top correct itself?
He tripped hard on acid freaked out and thought he could invade people in their dreams, this movie might be about the inception of psychosis although it make little sense it does allow the viewer to not know. I went to the gas station after watching it and felt schizophrenic but that's the affect of the movie. It's not there. Like his family isn't there neither is his sanity. Quit viewing movies with reality it's about message not just what's on the screen.
@dfb92 Well if you can bend cities over and completely mess with the physics in a dream, I'm pretty sure you can allow a top to spin forever. Since it's a dream you can pretty much make it do whatever you want.
@dfb92 because, in a dream, physics are different in re ality. Only Cobb could know that the top would keep spinning, and it was his symbol that he was in/not in some-one else's dream. they could not have thought up this totem. This is why all totems have to be unique
You know, it really is a pointless argument after Michael Caine said on record that it falls over... and especially after Nolan said the children have aged, are wearing different clothes... and are played by entirely different actors ¬_¬
This is the most pointless argument. Chris Nolan CLEARLY made the ending so it could be left up for interpretation. Shutter Island did the same thing. Made the ending vague and made it so all the points made, and possible endings could have evidence to back them up. There is no clear ending because there's evidence that says it's reality and evidence that says it isn't. There is and never will be a clear ending to this movie. Ever.
He's still in a dream people, the top wobbles which is never does in the dream, yes we can all agree, well mist of us. But is he was in reality why would his kids look exactly the same after two long years and why the he'll would they be wearing the same clothing, and bit sitting in a similar position? I may be wrong but that's something to think about. We will only ever find out if we ask the Director! :D
The whole reason why this is still a dream is because in the beginning of the movie Cobb talked to his son and daughter on the phone. They sounded much older. Another reason why i think it is a dream is because i watched the extraction mode on the blu ray disc and Nolan was talking about all his drawings and charts he made. The film showed these charts and showed everyone waking back up through the diffrent dream levels except for cobb. All cobbs name said next to it was limbo.
@RickeySnake it most definetly is reality. His totum is his ring, think about it. In his dreams, hes married to his dead wife. Therefore, if you watch in his dreams, hes wearing a ring. However, in reality, he is not married to her. Therefore, he does not wear a ring. Look closely in the end. He is not wearing his ring, meaning its reality!
I don't know why but I always thought cobbs dad would take the totem while Cobb was with his kids. And while I can't decid weather i think it's a dream or not; I think the theory that cobbs kids are his totem because you dont see there faces is flawed, his kids run away in the dream, it's a memory of the last thing he saw of them, my theory is that train is his totem, and it doesn't, well run through random places in reality...
In dreams the Totem always spin constantly and smooth, never wobbles. At the ending, it WOBBLES -> it's REALITY. If you listen carefully after the black out [not after the credits], there's a sound of the Totem wobbling n dropped.Cobb didn't wear a wedding ring while in reality, but he wore a wedding ring in the dreams [because in dreams he's still together with Mal]. He didn't wear it at the end.
its sposed to be what u imgaine it to be but the ending is sorta bad considering that if its a dream the totem never wobbles well at least this isnt as confusin as shuter island
i think the ending is a dream, i think Cobb is still in the basement under the Pharmacists shop, i dont think they brought him back to reality after he tested the seditive and all those Asians are acting as his family, Fisher doesnt exist, him and pretty much the whole movie(dream) was created to get Cobb to turn against his wife and delete her from his subconscious. And now that she's not a part of his subconscious anymore, in his dreams he wont have the wedding ring on
well if you go back and watch there a giant fucking plot hole in the movie. that being that the way totems work, they are only really effective if you are in someone else's dream. in your own dream your mind knows how the totem should look feel and act, making it totally useless. cobb lost sight of this, and so did the audience. nolan got you all good the whole thing was a dream.
The wobbling means nothing. it only says that that totem would never stop spinning in a dream. it never said it wouldn't wobble. As long as it still spins, no matter what angle it spins at, it is still spinning.
regardless of whether it was his totem, his totem fell, etc. it was insinuated that he and saito shoot themselves in limbo which would snap one out of limbo no matter what, which would mean that it's reality.
OMG ya'll people are so SMART!!! OR i'm just REAL slow!!! I didn't realize since the top wasn't originially his totem that he'd have a dif totem: His Kids, whose faces we never saw in the dreams.. OMG GENIOUS!!!
Don't worry about the top, it's no the real totem. His real totems are his kpshildren. He never had that memory of seeing their faces before leaving, so when he sees their face, he realizes that they are his real children and he isn't dreaming.
@Jk981206 Yes I noticed that you never see their faces until the end. I just read a theory about him wearing and not wearing his wedding band but I haven't checked that one.
but when he is in a dream his kids look when their mother calls them but he decides to look away when they look. i still believe its not but it just makes you think sooo much
@Jk981206 yes but maybe their faces are in his imagination and he created them because he died. and as i remember the random people that was in his imagination were created by that reason...and the totem didn't fell...
Cobb's totem is not the spinning top, it is his wedding ring. He is always wearing his wedding ring when in the dream and not when "awake". Unfortunate they purposely do not show his left hand for most of this movie and not in the ending scene..
Awesome fuckin' movie, but there is just one thing I didn't get: If you can escape from Limbo by killing yourself, why in the first level of dream they were so scared of going to the Limbo? (I thought that maybe Cobb didn't want to admit he had been there, because he escaped time before) and: If Cobb succeded in rescuing Saito, how can they wake up almost at the same time? Saito has been in the Limbo for a while..
Oktigi15 1 week ago
Does he realize the Problem?
Ghosteriz 1 month ago
his in real life: 1- the kind tourn te face, 2- close is diferent, 3- they are bigger, 4- the grandhater, 5- he is a hero and he deserve happines..
andreycito07 3 months ago
@andreycito07 6-and hes not whering the wedding ring..
andreycito07 3 months ago
Cobb's totem is not Moll
Official01studio 5 months ago
@007suit There is actually a fascinating Biblical interpretation to that particular detail. Here's first a fascinating and well-written article about a neat interpretation of the movie as a metaphor for... making movies!
chud (dot)com/24477/NEVER-WAKE-UP-THE-MEANING-AND-SECRET-OF-INCEPTION/
(if YouTube put any spaces in there, be sure to delete them after you paste and fix it)
Down the page, a comment left by a user named trevelyan refers to the "house on a cliff" quote, among other things.
xZaCloudx 5 months ago
He WAS the subject the whole time...
Thats why his kids were in the same place, he was only asleep for a couple hours.
TheseYeahThese 5 months ago
Spoiler : The answer he is not dreaming. :) Go google or ask Nolan :)
TheOsphotic 5 months ago
Everyone in the Audience: AWWW NOOOOOOOOO!!!!
iamanime 5 months ago
watch?v=KRfc7NYyuWU
inception is the reason I got a date to prom...
Troboughbo 6 months ago
The main point in the ending is that Cobb finally doesn't care whether he's in a dream or not, he just wants to see his children xD
ReserviorBasterds 6 months ago
That is Mal's totem. It doesn't work for him. It is his ring that tells us everything.
J0Nramirez 6 months ago
His totem is a six-axis representation, place a dot on it somewhere and choose a place to observe and you'll see. He can tell if he's in the dream because inside the dream it can't rotate in all three dimensions directions on it's axis. It's a Turing Test, a Voight-Kampf.
Such a nice detail and so thoughtfully place in the film.
ivanhawkes 7 months ago
dom is awake cuz in his dream he has his ring and in real life he doesnt
mariofan010 7 months ago
@mariofan010 How do you know he doesn't have the ring in real life if he was dreaming the whole way through the film?
kevinscales 5 months ago
@kevinscales you need to look closely
mariofan010 5 months ago
if his wedding ring is the fucking totem then wouldn't the person that sold it to him know what the fucking ring feels and weighs like so then it wouldn't work for him
Snoopy101121 7 months ago
espero que leas español xD! bueno.... Es sencillo cuando cobb le da su pasaporte al guardia del aeropuerto se ve claramente que tiene muchas paginas selladas es por esto que el policia lo ve con cara de que ha tenido mucho tiempo viajando y por eso le da la bienvenida ^^... en uno de esos viajes se sobreentiende que estubo en Francia... otra cosa recordemos q esto es un mundo paralelo donde la extraccion es un de terrorismo poco popular pero conocido...
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HerdysJFernandez 7 months ago
@enituxia29 you're retarded dude. it fucking explains that in the movie. "burreaucratic nightmare" read the damn script. you're thinking too hard idiot. what you said has no significance whatsoever..
cr33pyGamer 7 months ago
the end makes me feel sad
Deville360 8 months ago 2
Its wobbeling so does that mean its gonna fall ?
redstar213la 8 months ago
I saw this movie at the midnight showing last summer.
You better believe, the ENTIRE audience let out a loud
"AWWWHHHHHHHH!" at the end. hahahah
lolmattt 8 months ago 17
@lolmattt We must've been in the same theater, at the ending literally everyone exploded with "AWWWWWW" "WTF?!" "COME ON!!"
orcacam07 7 months ago
It's MALS dream!
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NeoBlackProtocall 9 months ago 16
@NeoBlackProtocall But Mal died, thus taking his wedding ring off?
I N F E C T I O N
LIGHTALY 9 months ago
@NeoBlackProtocall
holy shit
chuckuckuck 8 months ago
@NeoBlackProtocall : but the ring doesnt have a special behavior ( ok.. none we know of ), in my opinion the ring is the audiences totem..
vanzonhl 7 months ago
@NeoBlackProtocall the top still works for him f*cktard.... it doesnt MATTER if it was mal's, shes NOT alive. NO ONE ALIVE knows what the top feels like except for cobb. the ring wasn't his totem..
cr33pyGamer 7 months ago
@NeoBlackProtocall Doesnt Cobb let go of Mal at the end, and if they are then no longer together in dreams and in reality, then the ring has no signifiacnce after that event. Idk i could be wrong im just stating my theory.
TheLyrsChannel 7 months ago
@NeoBlackProtocall wow...very well spotted.
buyneee 7 months ago
@NeoBlackProtocall omg yes it fucking is! it WOULDN'T work for him if the Mal was still alive because then she would be able to create it while cobb is in a dream but she's dead and he took it so its his totem.
Snoopy101121 7 months ago
@NeoBlackProtocall never saw that o.O'
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jamestargetedindiv 9 months ago
Time. BEST.
SONG.
EVER.
To go with the best movie EVER.
xSunlightandShadowsx 9 months ago
if the totem keeps spinnig does it mean that it's a dream?
sinan926 9 months ago
@sinan926 well, it was supposed to, but if you pay attention to Cobb's hand, in dreams he wears a wedding ring, and the kids are older too, so I think it isn't a dream, but yes, the totem thing is very confusing :)
umagarandyorton619 9 months ago
@umagarandyorton619 thanx , yeah i agree it's very confusing
sinan926 9 months ago
@sinan926 you're welcome :)
umagarandyorton619 9 months ago
I saw this movie with a couple friends and during the last scene they were just muttering swear words. Such an awesome film.
CRISNCHIPS12398 9 months ago
I'm guessing it was a dream. His kids look the same and are wearing the same clothes as they were when he left them.
hahamajorownage 9 months ago
@hahamajorownage actually, they look different :)
umagarandyorton619 9 months ago
To clear everything. In end scene, the totem does wobble. The whole movie isn't a dream cos if it was, the only architect possible to create the world is God, not Cobb. Cobb's dreams were made from memories. In the last scene he saw children's faces, which were not part of his dream, so it's reality. In Wired magazine, the director said he used two sets of kids, and said "The important thing is Cobb's not looking at the totem. He doesn't care" suggesting he knows it will fall and left it behind
anonymousaccount100 9 months ago 2
@anonymousaccount100 Cobb not looking at the totem & not caring if it fell is correct, however, the main point is that he did not care & accepted being with his kids as his "reality"; it didn't matter to him at that point if was a dream or reality.
woz30 9 months ago
i saw this film, i said to myself "Its gonna fall. its gonna fall. its reality." when it snapped to black, i said "DAMN IT. i want to know."
ImTheDVDMan1 10 months ago
I think I crapped my self because this was so freaking epic. :0
heti232 10 months ago
0:47 - 0:49. Turn your volume all the way up, the little green bar on the volume adjuster will flare up at that one moment. And if you listen very carefully, you can hear two little taps. I couldn't hear it when I originally saw the movie over all the chatter in the theatre, but I think that confirms it - he wasn't dreaming. I mean, it doesn't really matter, as someone said before, his happiness is what really makes the ending - but still. Those two little taps.
BluesOfTheFire 10 months ago
@BluesOfTheFire its true but its only because of the recording. i have the movie and in that part theres just silance, no taps.
cossyma 10 months ago
The point of them not showing whether it fell or not was to show that it didnt matter to him if he was dreaming or not anymore once he was happy and saw his kids. I thought it was very beautifully ended.
xvampire4eternityx 10 months ago
Cobb's totem is not the top. It is his wedding ring.
Strikeb4ck 10 months ago
Idk, I'm pretty sure it's real life. If he was still dreaming the top wouldn't have moved at all. As we've seen before throughout the film, whenever he's dreaming the top doesn't slighly start falling like it's about to fall over. It stays upright and at a constant. I think the same would have happened here if he were dreaming, but it starts shaking so I infer that he's not dreaming.
Jopageri40 10 months ago
@Jopageri40
So much evidence points to him still being dreaming though, the entire part after he wakes up is filmed in this dreamlike state, and his kids are in the exact same spot he always remembers them being in.
Usul573 10 months ago
@Usul573 Not really. The kids are in a completely different position outside when he sees them at the end. They're also wearing different cloths/shoes. Very similar I know, but it is different.
Jopageri40 10 months ago
@Jopageri40
I need to watch it again.
Someone also pointed out that every time he is dreaming he's wearing his ring, everytime he's in reality he's not wearing the ring, they've obviously talked about a lot of other stuff too.
Usul573 10 months ago
@Usul573 Yeah honestly the only reason why I know that about the kids is because I watched it again saturday haha. But I didn't catch the thing about his ring, I'll make sure to look for it next time.
Jopageri40 10 months ago
Yeah in the credits you'll see like actors for Janrs and Phillipa age 5 and actors for James and Phillipa Age 7.
PismoLord 10 months ago
If you think about it the spinning top isn't Cobb's totem but it was Mal's. Cobb's totem could well be his children since he never see their faces when hes on a dream.
okano186 10 months ago
hes still in the dream. his children havent aged and there wearing exactly the same clothes from his memory. he's still on the plane!
propjam2 11 months ago
@propjam2 I'm not 100% on this - appropriate I suppose! - but I remember reading that there were two sets of child actors, one pair whose faces you don't see and another in the final scene (above). Like I say, not 100% but I'm pretty sure... Not sure how that affects things anyway!
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jamestargetedindiv 11 months ago
How can it be inside a dream if he is lifting the kids upp.... before, he was only able to project in hes mind the scene where they were facing backwords
When I left the cinema, I realised I just sow the best film ever made, the ending was perfet.... he finally got to see hes kids, why the pesimistic view ?
Valk9Dyson 11 months ago
Thanks for all the comments! Keep the great conversations coming!
woods54 11 months ago 4
Sorry, I meant wobble
7macanudo7 11 months ago
The spintop was swinging, so that means that it was slowing down, what means that was stopping, what means he wasn't dreaming, what means you should worry anymore. ;)
7macanudo7 11 months ago
its starts to wobble
cidcash 11 months ago
Actually the top was his wife's token and would not work correctly with him as he's not the right owner of it. Cobb's token is his wedding ring. In the dreams he's always wearing it, while he's in reality he is not wearing it. In the last scene he's not wearing it either, so it's not a dream.
Tiddes 11 months ago 3
@Tiddes I see that, but somebody told me his is wearing the ring on the airplane (right after he wakes up). We can't be sure if the ring is even his totem.
TonyMaster007 11 months ago
@TonyMaster007
Thanks for your comment.
I rechecked the airplane scene and I can't find any ring on his fingers.
At the airport he's not wearing a ring too.
But you're right we can't be sure what his totem really is.
Tiddes 11 months ago
It would have been funny if the entire story was a dream 0.o
Gibbstagaming 11 months ago
The outcome of the spinning top didn't matter anyway, because when Cobb was in limbo getting Saito, Saito picked it up and handled it. So Cobb couldn't know for sure that anything after that was a dream or not.
DoctorGreyMD 11 months ago
This is not real. This was Chuck Norris' dream..
Mythbustable 11 months ago
Yeah, I think he was still in a dream. The top was his wife's token and would only spin while in HER dream...trippy, huh?
Tara0819 1 year ago
Yeah we were watching this with my father and told him that i finally managed to see a good movie with this actor with an appropriate ending and then director spawns this shit . Good job idiots . BTW i definately believe that the wobble will fall .
DaredeviIGR 1 year ago
@DaredeviIGR make your own summer blockbuster then.
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this movie should be called mindfuck
xXJACKIEXxXFaN7 1 year ago
one thing that made this scene sad..was when he finally saw his kids and they were both really happy to see him!
eyork9 1 year ago
nope he isnt in his dream , he had no ring on :]
t0x1cliverpool 1 year ago
5 people don't have a totem! XD
IbsenStrindberg 1 year ago
If aliens burst through the doors of the cinemas just as this scene was playing, they would be like "WTF?? Why on earth is humanity fixated in watching these simple children's object spin with such concentration?"
Lazurath101 1 year ago
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Best creatvie comment i have read tonight . kudos : ) !
Mohi212 1 year ago
i say its a dream still....the Japanese guy spun Cobbs "totem" thus making it unusable because he knew the physics of the totem so it would act as if it were real
Sudzy1225 1 year ago
and to prove this ending sucks, these totems can spin up to 3 mins long. Sorry!
inFamousGrnApples 1 year ago
In an interview Michael Caine said every scene where he's present = "reality"...so that answers the question about the last scene...
marcussoori 1 year ago
they could not have shot themselves. there was the whole big ordeal about how you could not die when they went into fishers mind. they had to wait for the chemical to wear off or have someone on the plain to wake them. now i doubt anyone could have timed that one up perfectly. that is rash assumption. does he use his wedding ring as a totem? no. does he use mals? yes
mlees92 1 year ago
Best. Film. Ever
ajkingprince 1 year ago 49
@ajkingprince it`s a great film NO DOUBT,but best ever...hmmmm have you not seen blade runner..heat..the shawshank redemption...and i could go on
bradders344 7 months ago
if it isnt a dream how did he and santo make it out of the van?
also when he goes to the arab guy the first time to test out the chemical they are going to be kept asleep when he wakes up and spins the totem, but he knocks it over in the bathroom. he never spins it again until this scene.
there is no true ending to this movie. that is what makes its great. there is no point in arguing over it.
mlees92 1 year ago
@mlees92 They shot themselves. Saito grabbed the gun right when they woke up, right? It's pretty much implied.
Jk981206 1 year ago
@mlees92
His real totem is his wedding ring
alienpbscott 1 year ago
@alienpbscott Yeah, but it eventually becomes useless. You see, after he gets over Mal's death, his wedding ring should be gone, since he's let her go.
Jk981206 1 year ago
it can't woble forever, it eventualy has to fall. if that moment was in a dream, it would just keep on spinning without wobbling. so yes it was real live, idk why everyone says it didn't mean anything cuz it was mal's totem? O_o Still the ending was perfect!
horseluver728 1 year ago
I dont undeerstand. what does the top do if he is in a dream
davidho4 1 year ago
@davidho4 It never falls over, it will just keep on spinning.
AdamB9098 1 year ago
@AdamB9098 nope mate it never wobbled in a dreams state.
albanosbliet 1 year ago
Also don't worry about the top because if you listen you can hear it falling over at the end...It was the directors comment (:
lolliesmile 1 year ago 2
@lolliesmile ::: do you know at what moment/minute could be listen when the top falls?
yuka17 1 year ago
@yuka17
The director just said to listen, sorry, I dont know when to, all I know is to listen when its about to topple over :/
lolliesmile 1 year ago
SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
com0oan 1 year ago
When Cobb wakes up in Limbo, his mind is just like Saito’s (who in his mind has been there becoming an old man). Saito’s memory of Cobb’s totem and dialogue “ A leap of faith” and “An old man full of regret, waiting to die alone,”Cobb and Saito are able to remember talk they had in reality, where both of them had desires (Cobb wanted to be with his children and Saito and wanted his business). Once they remember that limbo is limbo, they are able to wake themselves up. Make Sense?
bsimester2010 1 year ago
What if Maul was right? FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
blkmariah 1 year ago
at the end, practically the whole of my cinema was like FUCK YOU NOLAAAAAN!!!nowtellustherealending
xBellatrixLestrangex 1 year ago
a movie to dream about!!!
prasadthe1003 1 year ago
I HATE THE ENDING!! IT MAKES ME SO FRUSTRARED..ARGHHHH :(
ENDINGS SHOULD BE CLEAR...NOT SUCH CLIFF HANGERS!!!!
BUT MOVIE WAS AWESOME!
apoorva3391 1 year ago
Look from 0:00 to 0:02. Notice how the top was wobbling and moving in a circle? Now look at 0:32 to 0:48. the top corrected itself; thus proving, (this might be) a dream. Why else would the top correct itself?
coolcat2772 1 year ago
Everyone has been trying to get their hands on these spinning tops - they're available from spinning-tops.co.uk.
tobster82 1 year ago
YOU CAN BUY THIS TOP IN BUBIMA STORE
bubima100 1 year ago
He tripped hard on acid freaked out and thought he could invade people in their dreams, this movie might be about the inception of psychosis although it make little sense it does allow the viewer to not know. I went to the gas station after watching it and felt schizophrenic but that's the affect of the movie. It's not there. Like his family isn't there neither is his sanity. Quit viewing movies with reality it's about message not just what's on the screen.
TheHelixSpirit 1 year ago
Im just asking, why even would the totem keep spinning in a dream? Like what's the reason that it doesnt stop in a dream?
dfb92 1 year ago 2
@dfb92 Well if you can bend cities over and completely mess with the physics in a dream, I'm pretty sure you can allow a top to spin forever. Since it's a dream you can pretty much make it do whatever you want.
OmegaOwA 1 year ago
@dfb92 because, in a dream, physics are different in re ality. Only Cobb could know that the top would keep spinning, and it was his symbol that he was in/not in some-one else's dream. they could not have thought up this totem. This is why all totems have to be unique
coolcat2772 1 year ago
@felipeawesomeness If the Totem keeps spinning, it means he's dreaming. If the Totem stops spinning, it means he's in reality.
AaronInStyle 1 year ago
so if the top keeps spinning hes in reality im confused
felipeawesomeness 1 year ago
You know, it really is a pointless argument after Michael Caine said on record that it falls over... and especially after Nolan said the children have aged, are wearing different clothes... and are played by entirely different actors ¬_¬
EvilNinjaDuckie 1 year ago
chris nolan definitely played inception on us x)
TheLifesavergummy 1 year ago
This is the most pointless argument. Chris Nolan CLEARLY made the ending so it could be left up for interpretation. Shutter Island did the same thing. Made the ending vague and made it so all the points made, and possible endings could have evidence to back them up. There is no clear ending because there's evidence that says it's reality and evidence that says it isn't. There is and never will be a clear ending to this movie. Ever.
BARNEYRAPEDME69 1 year ago
He's still in a dream people, the top wobbles which is never does in the dream, yes we can all agree, well mist of us. But is he was in reality why would his kids look exactly the same after two long years and why the he'll would they be wearing the same clothing, and bit sitting in a similar position? I may be wrong but that's something to think about. We will only ever find out if we ask the Director! :D
Sairium 1 year ago
@Sairium hey yeah ur right! and notice how when he first spun the top, how it was moving in a circle, then corrected itself!! so it was all a dream!
coolcat2772 1 year ago
@coolcat2772 Hes in limbo haha, all he has to do now is plan an idea in his mind that everything is not real and that he should kill himself
Sairium 1 year ago
The whole reason why this is still a dream is because in the beginning of the movie Cobb talked to his son and daughter on the phone. They sounded much older. Another reason why i think it is a dream is because i watched the extraction mode on the blu ray disc and Nolan was talking about all his drawings and charts he made. The film showed these charts and showed everyone waking back up through the diffrent dream levels except for cobb. All cobbs name said next to it was limbo.
tjd1031 1 year ago
When i saw the last scene,
Guy 1:So, is it a reality
Guy 2:We will never know
Me: FUCK!
RickeySnake 1 year ago 21
@RickeySnake Actually Christopher Nolan confirmed whether or not it was.
andyydna101 1 year ago
@andyydna101 AAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDDDD????????????
RickeySnake 1 year ago
@RickeySnake Well some people might not want to know the ending but go to the wikipedia site.
andyydna101 1 year ago
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@RickeySnake it most definetly is reality. His totum is his ring, think about it. In his dreams, hes married to his dead wife. Therefore, if you watch in his dreams, hes wearing a ring. However, in reality, he is not married to her. Therefore, he does not wear a ring. Look closely in the end. He is not wearing his ring, meaning its reality!
singer10157 11 months ago
I don't know why but I always thought cobbs dad would take the totem while Cobb was with his kids. And while I can't decid weather i think it's a dream or not; I think the theory that cobbs kids are his totem because you dont see there faces is flawed, his kids run away in the dream, it's a memory of the last thing he saw of them, my theory is that train is his totem, and it doesn't, well run through random places in reality...
punkpalace2000 1 year ago
best ending ever
pianoCiD 1 year ago
THE TOP NEVER EVER WOBBLED IN THE DREAMS-HE'S IN REAL LIFE
DANARDDOGG 1 year ago 2
In dreams the Totem always spin constantly and smooth, never wobbles. At the ending, it WOBBLES -> it's REALITY. If you listen carefully after the black out [not after the credits], there's a sound of the Totem wobbling n dropped.Cobb didn't wear a wedding ring while in reality, but he wore a wedding ring in the dreams [because in dreams he's still together with Mal]. He didn't wear it at the end.
tektoniktek 1 year ago
its sposed to be what u imgaine it to be but the ending is sorta bad considering that if its a dream the totem never wobbles well at least this isnt as confusin as shuter island
tektoniktek 1 year ago
@tektoniktek Shutter island was fairly simple i think. What didnt you understand about it?
reedg3613 1 year ago
fuck off
Dupe16118 1 year ago
i think the ending is a dream, i think Cobb is still in the basement under the Pharmacists shop, i dont think they brought him back to reality after he tested the seditive and all those Asians are acting as his family, Fisher doesnt exist, him and pretty much the whole movie(dream) was created to get Cobb to turn against his wife and delete her from his subconscious. And now that she's not a part of his subconscious anymore, in his dreams he wont have the wedding ring on
CHKNSFKN 1 year ago
well if you go back and watch there a giant fucking plot hole in the movie. that being that the way totems work, they are only really effective if you are in someone else's dream. in your own dream your mind knows how the totem should look feel and act, making it totally useless. cobb lost sight of this, and so did the audience. nolan got you all good the whole thing was a dream.
bigjavo36 1 year ago
I cry at this scene because it was just epic
vivatdk65 1 year ago
The description in this video makes no sense
xXEFCkieraNXx 1 year ago
@xXEFCkieraNXx Lmao.
Mist27 1 year ago
The wobbling means nothing. it only says that that totem would never stop spinning in a dream. it never said it wouldn't wobble. As long as it still spins, no matter what angle it spins at, it is still spinning.
InSpudNuggits 1 year ago
@InSpudNuggits But the original owner of Cobb's totem was his wife and he said that the totem only works for one person or it loses its meaning.
Specx210 1 year ago
so touching.
crankdatbatman23 1 year ago
regardless of whether it was his totem, his totem fell, etc. it was insinuated that he and saito shoot themselves in limbo which would snap one out of limbo no matter what, which would mean that it's reality.
NsGymdude 1 year ago
the totem was never his. so he could never tell if he was in reality or not.
EgliLika314 1 year ago
OMG ya'll people are so SMART!!! OR i'm just REAL slow!!! I didn't realize since the top wasn't originially his totem that he'd have a dif totem: His Kids, whose faces we never saw in the dreams.. OMG GENIOUS!!!
Now I can stop arguing with my boyfriend X_X
drscutest3000 1 year ago
i still dont get it was it all a dream he got to see his kids uggh?!?!
52dragon1 1 year ago
Don't worry about the top, it's no the real totem. His real totems are his kpshildren. He never had that memory of seeing their faces before leaving, so when he sees their face, he realizes that they are his real children and he isn't dreaming.
Jk981206 1 year ago 59
@Jk981206 and his wedding ring
bolttheman 1 year ago
@Jk981206
Also he is in reality because his father never appeared in his dreams, or memories.
His children have aged a couple of years, also they are wearing different clothes, subtle changes but different.
justkeely96 1 year ago
@justkeely96 It's Nolan's subtle way of confusing the mind. Pretty cool eh?
Jk981206 1 year ago
@Jk981206
love it.
justkeely96 1 year ago
@Jk981206 wow thats the simplest, best theory i've seen holy crap
n0kia1 1 year ago
@Jk981206 Yes I noticed that you never see their faces until the end. I just read a theory about him wearing and not wearing his wedding band but I haven't checked that one.
gagoon5596 1 year ago
@Jk981206 what are kpschilren?
coolcat2772 1 year ago
@coolcat2772 I knew someone would ask that someday. Blame the crappy iOS keyboard for that.
Jk981206 1 year ago
@Jk981206 o sorry
coolcat2772 1 year ago
@Jk981206 YES FINALLY A CONCLUSION THAT THOUGHT HAS BEEN HAUNTING ME EVER SINCE I WATCHED THE MOVIE :D you freed me, i owe you
Kingsizenerd56 1 year ago
@Kingsizenerd56 LOL, nice to know that I have helped somebody figure out Chris' mindfuck... have you shat bricks yet?
Jk981206 1 year ago
@Jk981206
but when he is in a dream his kids look when their mother calls them but he decides to look away when they look. i still believe its not but it just makes you think sooo much
tyedyeguy 1 year ago
@Jk981206 and besides... that was mals totem anyways
sneakybeaver13V2 1 year ago
@Jk981206 Or he just stops caring and gets stuck in the dream.
derdriui 1 year ago
@Jk981206
either thats common sense, or you're just really good at movies. lol
Phown1337 1 year ago
@Jk981206
Actually his real totem is his wedding ring
alienpbscott 1 year ago
@Jk981206 yes but maybe their faces are in his imagination and he created them because he died. and as i remember the random people that was in his imagination were created by that reason...and the totem didn't fell...
i think he died....
perimenw6 1 year ago
i don't care if it's real or not, his kids are freaking adorable!
wintermoons1215 1 year ago
that is the most excited moment in my life
maybebear 1 year ago
Cobb's totem is not the spinning top, it is his wedding ring. He is always wearing his wedding ring when in the dream and not when "awake". Unfortunate they purposely do not show his left hand for most of this movie and not in the ending scene..
badurp 1 year ago
@badurp his totem is his children faces.....
when he saw their faces he stopped caring about the spinning top..
also he never saw their faces on his dreams..
think about it..
xsamiasx 1 year ago
@xsamiasx that's pretty good point
sciomancy6 1 year ago
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vestiels 1 year ago