Inception SPOILER Thread

I think it ends in reality as the spinning top moves around slightly instead of just spinning accurately straight in the dreams :)
 
I think Nolan is deliberately ambiguous - not just with the ending but throughout the movie. There are signs that it could be reality *or* a dream all the way through, but nothing truly conclusive.
 
I think it was reality, though the answer could boil down to the timings.

Did Leonardo wake up on the plane at the same time as everyone else or later? Because "dream 1" only lasted around 2-3 hours, which equates to 10-15 minutes of real time, yet the plane was about to land (ie it actually took 9.5 hours real time).
 
daz said:
I think Nolan is deliberately ambiguous - not just with the ending but throughout the movie. There are signs that it could be reality *or* a dream all the way through, but nothing truly conclusive.
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Absolutely. It's the way it cuts from scene to scene, you never really know how they got there, how long it has been etc... For me though, throughout the film you see numerous times that it spins perfectly still and there is too much of a wobble at the end for it to be a dream, for me. Great movie!
 
Could Mal have been right to jump and kill herself? Was Leo still in the dream.

When you fall in a dream, you wake up right before hitting the floor Did Mal create a self kick I wonder.
 
If Leo was still in a dream of his own at the end, his totem wouldn't have told the truth because it's his dream.

The behaviour of the totem only tells you whether you're in someone else's dream -because they have no knowledge of your totem, it won't behave in the specific way only you know it to do.

Whereas if you're in your own dream, your subconscious already knows about your totem so could well "trick" you. There's really no way of knowing whether you're in your own dream with your own totem.
 
Um, clearly still a dream. The shot of his kids was the same shot used throughout the movie and dont forget he has been on the run exiled from america for an unspecific period of time; you would think his kids might have grown up a little by then.
 
^^ i wouldnt sya its clearly a dream, but they were sitting in exactly the same position, and they dont seem to have changed.. alas still a dream..
 
Nolan perform inception on the audience, the film puts the idea that the totem won't stop spinning in the dream world, but it falls in reality. You the viewer will look out for the totem and if it falls, its very clever
 
There are a number of occasions where the characters would have had a sensation of falling (or at least accelerating - like in the lift when they hit the floor of it) and should have woken up - but didn't.

That was my only gripe with the movie. Loved it otherwise.
 
Alex_6n2 said:
There are a number of occasions where the characters would have had a sensation of falling (or at least accelerating - like in the lift when they hit the floor of it) and should have woken up - but didn't.

That was my only gripe with the movie. Loved it otherwise.
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Guessing the sedative used was too strong for those 'kicks' to wake them up. :confused:
 
Alex_6n2 said:
There are a number of occasions where the characters would have had a sensation of falling (or at least accelerating - like in the lift when they hit the floor of it) and should have woken up - but didn't.

That was my only gripe with the movie. Loved it otherwise.
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It required the music and the kick to wake them.
 
^^ no it didnt?- When Leo is sitting in the chair in one of the first sequences and gets pushed into the bath. The music is simply a warning, the music wont wake them.


- Heres something which ruins the whole film- Why dont his kids and the "grandmother" emmigrate?- he says "im never going to see my kids again", surely at worst he'd just have to wait till they were 18 and then could go find him in another country ? :P ..... The lack of any aging of his chidren is concerning, however when he phones them they do still sound like children, so despite what i said in my previous post, id say he hasnt been away from them for that long.
 
ojrules said:
^^ no it didnt?- When Leo is sitting in the chair in one of the first sequences and gets pushed into the bath. The music is simply a warning, the music wont wake them.
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It was the combination, not one or the other, the bath sequence is a different dream and had different parameters, the chemist explained what was required to wake them during the inception dream.
 
ojrules said:
^^ no it didnt?- When Leo is sitting in the chair in one of the first sequences and gets pushed into the bath. The music is simply a warning, the music wont wake them.


- Heres something which ruins the whole film- Why dont his kids and the "grandmother" emmigrate?- he says "im never going to see my kids again", surely at worst he'd just have to wait till they were 18 and then could go find him in another country ? :P ..... The lack of any aging of his chidren is concerning, however when he phones them they do still sound like children, so despite what i said in my previous post, id say he hasnt been away from them for that long.
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Emmigrating - would be an easy solution, and he does say he was going to go to Sao Paulo (was it) and wait for it to die down and then get a job.

Aging - Or it is all still a dream because that was his last memory of his children, them being kids, at the end they are in the same position (crouching on the floor) just like they are every other time they appear. After all he does bring a memory into any dream he has.
 
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