Comments on: Inception Ending Explained

By: Breanna

Breanna — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:04:09 +0000

Well, if they don’t know that it’s your totem, then they wouldn’t know to manipulate it to trick you. If they think it’s just a random object on you, then it’s useless to them. Also, they JUST found him, and brought him to Saito (don’t know how to spell his name) right away so they wouldn’t have had time to change the top.

By: Breanna

Breanna — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:02:17 +0000

Well, if they don’t know that it’s your totem, then they wouldn’t know to manipulate it to trick you. If they think it’s just a random object in you, then it’s useless to them. Also, they JUST found him, and brought him to Saito (don’t know how to spell his name) right away so they wouldn’t have had time to change the top.

By: Robyn

Robyn — Mon, 21 May 2012 22:18:05 +0000

Just been reading all the comments and really like all the theories. I’m not sure what I think but is this a valid idea: what if we are always in cobbs dream and mal keeps trying to enter it to wake him? And in limbo near the end mal realises that she is loosing the battle to convince cobb that he is dreaming and decideds never to come back? Does that mean is is always in a limbo? But if he is why isnt Cobb or the chrildren getting older or is he projecting himself in that imagd? Is any of that even possible or have I missed the idea?? I’m getting mind boggled from this film and now questioning everything about it like mal! But this is definatly reality we are in…

By: Just a Guy

Just a Guy — Mon, 21 May 2012 04:45:39 +0000

Doesn’t really matter whether or not Cobb is still in Limbo or returned to the “Real World”. All that really matters is that he is with his children (real or not) and is ultimately a happier person than what he was in the beginning of the movie. (even if it is just false happiness, created by his own subconsciousness)

My view? The ending was left to keep you guessing so I don’t think there needs to be a concrete answer. (Doesn’t matter how much you want one, you won’t get it. The ending is a big tease, and I like it that way)

Why am I commenting? I just watched the movie again and I felt like it.

[Random Note: Laughed really hard that Scarecrow was the man who got "Incepted". -Yeah dude you use toxins to make people hallucinate huh? Well I just went into your mind and put your subconscious into a dream, into a dream, and then into another dream to just mess with you man... Yeah, who's the BA now?- Love it!]

You actually read this comment? Good going, but I just wasted like a minute of your life… Sorry. But here is some good news, I wasted five minutes of my life to waste a minute of your life, so I basically screwed myself over… Oh well…

By: Vantasia

Vantasia — Sun, 20 May 2012 08:34:39 +0000

I loved this movie. It’s probably the best movie I’ve ever seen! They had a very unusual story line, and I liked it. I was also pulled in to how they ended up being put in a dream, then another dream, and so forth. I was intrigued by the paradoxes and impossible shapes and physics. I thought it was fascinating how the time was distorted according to dissimilar levels. They had 10 hours in reality, days in the 1st level, weeks in the 2nd level, a decade in the 3rd level, and decades in Limbo. Overall, I thought this movie was outstanding.

By: tykjen

tykjen — Sat, 19 May 2012 10:28:34 +0000

Exactly. He needs to get back home in the real world, cause thats the only place he can see his childrens faces. Assurance of reality ^

By: tykjen

tykjen — Sat, 19 May 2012 10:26:18 +0000

Nah. Cobb followed up after that with the experiments. And besides, Saito had seen the totem, “many many years ago”, and he did in that bathroom.

By: rob

rob — Sat, 19 May 2012 08:37:34 +0000

noooo ” see your getting it all wrong. The purpose of not letting someone touch your totem is because if they see every detail of it, they can trick you & you wont be able to know whats a dream or not

By: prince inferno

prince inferno — Sat, 19 May 2012 02:36:09 +0000

There was one small scene that I noticed. When Cobb is finding his team, he meets up with the gentleman (forgive me for not knowing the characters names) that has a room full of men that share dreams together. The man states that the dreams are extremely stable. Cobb has a dream about mal (his dead, crazy wife) and then wakes himself up. When he goes into the bathroom to check and see if he is still dreaming, Sato (the guy making the deal with him) interrupts him and ask him if everything is all right. Cobb picks up the totem and walks away saying yes. Could it be possible that he was sleeping for 8 hours like the rest if the men in the room and dreamt that he completes the job and went home to his kids. In addition, after that moment in the bathroom, Cobb never pulls out the totem until the end…. Food for thought.

By: Collin

Collin — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:45:21 +0000

Just because Cobb gets distracted by his kids at the end of the movie preventing him (and the audience) from knowing whether he’s still dreaming or not doesn’t mean he will never know for sure if he’s still dreaming. He can just go back to the top anytime after and see if it’s still spinning or if it stopped. Sure we as the audience will never know the truth, but let Cobb enjoy his kids whether he’s dreaming or not, all he wants is to experience happiness.

By: warren cancilla

warren cancilla — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:48:43 +0000

What you have missed in the Rule of the Totem, though, is that you don’t share your totem with anybody in the real world. In a dream it doesn’t matter, because the totem owner is still the only person to know the actual weight and feel of the totem (and how it acts in the real world), so it is okay to share a totem if you are positive that you are in a dream. The other dreamers do not necessarily know that this is your totem or how it actually acts/feels/looks/etc. in the real world

By: i lov inception

i lov inception — Tue, 15 May 2012 05:09:23 +0000

okay well that does make sense… but….the kids are wearing different shoes. and their ages are different..so it must be reality..

By: tykjen

tykjen — Sun, 13 May 2012 10:11:19 +0000

She had a radical notion. Nuff said

By: Belles

Belles — Sun, 13 May 2012 02:40:59 +0000

JTS, there is a difference. Unconscious is a STATE, whereas subconscious is an element of the mind.

By: Gene

Gene — Sat, 12 May 2012 15:03:49 +0000

Nobody really cares who knows more about grammar guys… Just post a comment about the film or shut up and go on another website -.-

By: Archaeon

Archaeon — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:25:30 +0000

Jo…

The key…AS YOU SEE IT. Plenty of others have found just as much evidence to indicate Cobb DOES awaken to actual reality by the end of the film.

By: jo

jo — Mon, 07 May 2012 01:24:21 +0000

Nice explanation. but the key is in Yusuf basement, when Cobb goes into sleep and dream about mal, he falls into limbo there and the rest of all movie is a Cobb dream. You can notice that when he suposly wakes up from that dream the top falls to the ground and never was tested. The only thing that changes is the way Cobb thinks about its relation with mal.

By: Sambo

Sambo — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:49:00 +0000

Fresh take Adam, nice angle, I like it.

The more theories the better in my opinion… as long as they only contradict audience assumptions, and not the facts as they are stated.

By: Sambo

Sambo — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:37:39 +0000

The first version imply’s that the Pasiv device is the figment of a fevered dream.

The second, that the Pasiv device is very real and Cobb has become utterly lost within it.

By: Sambo

Sambo — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:31:08 +0000

I think it is also important to make the distinction between

‘the entire movie was a dream’

versus

‘the entire movie takes place within dreamshare and limbo’.