Inception: The Wedding Ring Theory

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Film & Animation

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• inception
• 2010
• wedding
• ring
• band
• theory
• ending

[cassiegb365]

I'm aware that this video has quite a few flaws. I didn't expect this video to blow up to 24k views.. I was barely expecting a couple hundred. Because of this I'm remaking the video, and I will provide a link when it's finished. It may take me a while, because I'm busy. I'm sure the new video will have some flaws too.. but nothing is perfect. - Thank you all for watching, liking, and sharing the video. It's been great to respond to you guys, and talk about the movie.

-Cassie

[linghu7]

The ring itself does not tell you whether its dream or reality, it reflects what Cobb thinks about Mal. When he wears the ring, he thinks/knows that Mal is connected; and when he doesn't, he is in a state where he accepts that Mal is gone. While it seems the appearance of the ring coincides with dreams, there is no causal relationship. If Cobb accepts the fact that Mal is gone, that he lost her forever, that its time to live without her, no matter its in dream or reality, the ring won't appear.

[fajflai]

@MrAgmoore no, because that time he was actually married with her and she was alive. But after she dies he only uses the ring on dreams...

[MrAgmoore]

@voirdire If we follow the ring theory, there is a scene with the train-induced, double suicide. We see Mal laying on the bed. Then there's a kitchen scene with Mal slicing vegetables and Cob rests his hand on hers ( revealing the wedding ring ). Cob can tell the difference between a projection ( his "shade of a wife ) and the real deal. The wife is in a level different from him or escaped to reality. Cob is stuck in Limbo. Mal is constantly trying to save Cob by incepting the children

[Sariz38]

in my opinion the director chris nolan put an inception to the audiences brian with this spinner thing.

if the spinner falls then he is in reality, if the spinner keep on spinning he is dreaming. this is what the audience believes or should believe because this is his totem. but if we try to remimber how he gets this spinner we will realize that this was acutally mals totem and after her death he gets it as his own.

[Sariz38]

a totem does work if its the persons own totem and no one else do know its characteristics. but this is not the case. so cobbs spinner never works in this hole movie but the audience thinks to know when coob is dreaming or not.

great inception from chris nolan to us the audience....

[viciouswhips]

The whole film wasn't a dream, it was a nightmare.

Extra credit goes to Hans Zimmer for those fantastic scores.

I'm probably asleep typing this, who knows...

[shoelaceking]

@rednosechulo mombasa is real...

[soto293]

i have to agree with cassiegb365. the ring is cobb's totem, remember, the top that he uses to check whether he is dreaming or not belong to mal not him. he only wears the ring during dreams because he is attached to mal in the dream not reality.

the fact that his children have the same clothes on when he sees them is false. both the girl and the boy have similar cloths on with different shoes. the boy has shorter hair and the girl has white sleeves in the end. rewatch the ending of the movie.

[rednosechulo]

Here is a thought for you all. Notice that cobb does not have his wedding ring on in mombasa, is it possible he was not in his own dream...but could've been in eames dream? think about it jumping out of the window fighting off a bunch of armed (possibly projections) corporate security guards, dodging bullets, and to have but who appear to rescue him of all people??? Saito! hmmm makes you wonder if this whole inception was performed on cobb. =/

[aWinkler2010]

Yes the ring theory suggests that he is back in his original world. However, the important lesson of the movie is that we can never be sure of reality, only assume it. So, YES, he is back where he started, but how do we know that this is reality in the first place? The world we see is the one we assume to be real, but the coolest thing about this movie is that it calls into question what we experience. So this theory actually magnifies the power of the argument that reality is always uncertain

[tomasthegreen]

@linghu7 dude you are so deep...

wow