"Inception" film discussion (major spoilers)

 

 

oh thats right its mine....

i saw this film last night. It really sticks with you doesnt it...

it would have been fun if after the credits when everyone had left cinema the top was seen again and fell off the table.

 

i read this on another forum

 

 

Does Cobb’s totem keep spinning at the end or is it about to fall off the table?
A: The fact that the film cuts away before we know for certain suggests that they want us to keep guessing. But we think it kept spinning. Here’s our reasoning: Note that at the end of the film Cobb’s kids haven’t aged. They match exactly his memory of them. A memory which must almost surely by now be out of date, since he’s been away from them for many months. Though he finally sees their faces, otherwise they look exactly as he envisioned them. They're even wearing the same clothes. In reality, his kids would now be older and different than his memories of them. This could suggest that Cobb is still in the dream and the top does indeed keep spinning after the credits roll.

Alternate Theory Aaron points this out in our comments section: "In the opening moments you get a glimpse of Leo's hand. Specifically, he's wearing his wedding ring. Now, if you follow the rest of the movie keeping an eye out for this you will notice that he only has the ring on when he's in the dream world. At the end of the movie he isn't wearing the ring." If the ring only appears when he's in a dream and he's not wearing at the end of the film, that could be confirmation that in fact, the top does stop spinning after the credits and Cobb is at last in the real world.

 

 

It certainly means the whole film could be a dream.

 

 

or this...

 

 

 

 

Ariadne was never in limbo...she and Cobb went into a fourth dream level to retrieve Fischer. Because the fourth dream level was not planned (Ariadne, the Architect, did not design a fourth level) and since they were in Cobb's dream, it was populated with the construct of his previous time in limbo.

Regardless of what dream level they died, Cobb and Saito can make it back from limbo once they realize they are in limbo and kill themselves...and at this point, the sedative had worn off so killing themselves would wake them up as usual. Since all the other dream levels had dissolved (Eames, Arthur and Yusuf were all awake), they woke up in "reality" on the plane.

The point is, unless Christopher Nolan comes out and says "it was all a dream" or "it was reality", etc., everyone is going to have their own OPINION as to what happened in the movie and that everyone's personal belief as to what happened can be correct.