The real point to the ending isn't whether he's dreaming or not... it's that he doesn't care, he's not even looking at the top. He's forgiven himself for what happened to his wife and is finally allowing himself some happiness by seeing his children, whether they're real or not.
Well I wouldn't say that's the real point. That's like saying the delusion is more important than reality. If you're right, his kids grow up without a father, because he prefers the lie. On a side note, sorry but it's limbo. The kids are the same age and in the same clothes, doing the same thing they were doing the last time he saw them. Look on the bright side, it's limbo...he'll snap out of it eventually and be the same age as when he left...probably.
@@mcjthomas80 Nah its reality. Cobb’s wedding ring is basically his way of telling if its a dream or not. You can see when he is dreaming he is wearing the ring, but when he’s not, he isn’t wearing it.
@@mcjthomas80 “When I got the script of Inception, I was a bit puzzled by it,” Michael Caine said. “And I said to [Nolan], ‘I don’t understand where the dream is.’ I said, ‘When is it the dream and when is it reality?’ He said, ‘Well, when you’re in the scene, it’s reality.’ So get that - if I’m in it, it’s reality. If I’m not in it, it’s a dream.”
Here is two reasons why the end is reality: The actor Michael Caine (Cobb's father) was told by Nolan that every scene where his character appears is reality. He is in the last scene, wich makes it reality. Cobb isn't wearing his wedding ring in reality, because Mal is dead. However, he is wearing it in his dreams, because as he says "in my dreams we are still together". Cobb is NOT wearing his wedding ring in the last scene wich makes it reality. Nothing has been confirmed by Christopher Nolan.
There's nothing to say someone can't have multiple totems, in fact, it would be very smart to have at least 2 in case one is ever compromised. If this movie was a real thing, I'd probably have 3 or 4 at any one time, and I'd change one or two out every now and then, and retire the old ones. You cited two reasons that the end is reality, in addition: We see the children's faces, which Cobb claims that he can never see their faces in his dreams. Finally, the top wobbles, and if it was a "perfect" top it would have to just perfectly spin always. As soon as it starts to wobble, you are in reality.
tdvc YT there’s a lot of intricate plot details that happen in thick accents you can’t understand as well as high IQ comprehension. Still a great movie though
The point of the ending is not to ask if its real or a dream. What matters is that Cobb believes that it's real and doesn't wait for his totem to stop spinning to see his kids, overcoming his greatest fear through the story.
Every Nolan's movie has a very deep concept of "time". He's obsessed with it. Time messes with our mind. Time is infinite yet we know we can slow it. Time is a mysterious concept, Inception, Tenet, Memento, Interstellar, Dunkirk, he's using it everwhere to confuse and stress us.
If i may recommend a movie, "Oblivion" with Tom Cruise, it's a highly underrated but amazing scifi action movie, with amazing visual effects and great plot. I won't go in to too much detail about it, just that it's one of my favorite movies and it is unfortunate that there are barely any reaction videos of this movie out there. It deserves so much more credit! Please watch the trailer if you aren't sure about it, thanks for considering anyway!
People don't seem to realize that when it's all over, the "happy ending" that we're all celebrating is that a nice man with a dying father was tricked into liquidating his father's business because another guy didn't like competition.
I watched an interesting video about what the crew actually do to fisher, and it explained the idea that they actually make the kids relationship with his father better in retrospect. They probably made fisher happier in the end
But if u really look at it they are doing it for the all of us If there's only one company in the market they can control the price and and we can't do shit becuz they are the only one doing them we will going to forced to biy them If there's competition there will be innovations and company will start to sell their stuff at cheaper price to make it competitive What do u think the price of iphone will be if other smartphone didn't exist???
... at the end you need to HEAR the spinning, the SOUND tells you that the spinning thing is on the way to stop. This movie is a masterpiece. Applause for Hans Zimmer
One of the best composed scenes in cinema is the one that made you slap your chest - when Mal turns and looks *at the audience* who are intruding on their private moment. This movie is one of my favorites of all time.
Yas been waiting for this. I want every channel who does reactions react to this movie. It’s fun seeing people mind blown and pissed at the ending lol. One of the best movie in my opinion. You should go read theories about this movie and the ending especially, so many things you didn’t recognized. Nolan never failed. Now I want u to react to his other masterpiece, my personal favorite: The Prestige.
I haven’t seen anyone say this, but the point of the ending really is that Cobb isn’t obsessed about his dreams anymore, it’s that he’s happy with where’s he’s finally at right now. Also your reaction to that part was quite comedic.
I think Cobb was incepted by Ariadne, who was hired to do this by Miles, Michael Cain's character. Cobb needed an idea about forgiveness and healing incepted to him. That's what we witness over the length of the movie.
I actually just watched this for the first time as well. I knew absolutely nothing about it except it was a Nolan movie made in 2010 and it’s regarded as being a masterpiece. I’m so glad I knew nothing about this movie before watching it.
@@nicholasppoole The top actually spinning forever would mean that he is probably in his own dream. If it topples normally, no information is given. So yeah, not very useful. I don’t see how you use this to conclude he is awake though.
I think he’s in reality. It’s theorized that Cobb’s actual totem was his wedding ring, because the top was actually Mal’s totem. But they did a good job in the final scene to never show us the hand where his wedding ring is.
The movie itself is a shared dream. We are the subjects, and Nolan is the dreamer (which is why every character basically dresses and looks like him.) The top can't fall in the movie, because that is still in our shared dream. Nolan's a big fan of blending form and content (The Prestige and Memento do the same thing).
Pretty sure the kids are played by older kid actors at the end. Cobb always remembered them in his dreams at the age they were when he left. Also the wedding ring is missing from his finger when he is awake. It also started the wobble at the end before it cut of so in my mind he is awake.
Here's the real secret, they say the totem has to be unique in the film. The top was MAL'S totem, not Cobb's. Cobb's totem is actually his wedding ring, he only has it on inside the dreams. Not outside. At the end, he doesn't have it. He's awake.
Pete Postlethwaite (scarecrow's father) was indeed sick irl when filming this movie. I believe this was his 2nd to last or last role. He passed on New Years the next year. IIRC.
Fun fact: your not supposed to know if its a dream or not because the top isnt Leo's totum, it's his wedding ring! Whenever they are dreaming, Leo is wearing his wedding ring, in reality he doesn't. And the end scenes of them waking up to him seeing his kids, the camera are purposefully so that you can't see whether his wearing his ring or not!
He didn’t realize that he’s dead wife was the girl in “The Dark Knight Rises” and the other dude was “Bane” but of course how can you know when he wears a mask.
I'm going to be honest. I have come back to this reaction at least 5 separate times just to re-watch your 'You bitch.." at the end of the movie! Has me cracking up every time! love all the reactions!
Whether Cobb is in the real world or in a dream doesn't matter anymore. He made the decision to call out to his kids, which he never did before because he knew he would not be able to leave the world he is in, whether dream or reality. Remember he lived a lifetime with Mal, he could live a lifetime with his kids, watch them grow up, even if he didn't get home. If he isn't home now, he's never going to get home, and this is all that's left to him.
About the ending, think about it. Cobb has spinned that top so many times, he's become good at it. The movie showed that Cobb found Saito. Twice. Who would be the architect to recreate the plane and his home AND create the airport while still in the plane? The closest answer might be Ariadne, but she (or they as of now) would've tried to get him out of there instead.
Here's my interpretation of the final part of the movie and of Cobb's totem: Actually at the end Cobb's not dreaming. He's in real life. But it's a little bit tricky. Actually, Arthur said to Ariadne that if you touch the totem of someone else, its' effect is canceled because a totem is an object that will act weirdly in real world (loaded die) and normally if you are in another's dream. And Cobb said that the top is his wife's totem. On the other hand, the top acts weirdly in a dream, and normally in the real world. That's why i can't consider the top as his real totem. Moreover, Cobb doesn't accept Mal's death, and so i might guess he doesn't have real totem, as he's slowly loosing touch with real world. (the theory that the ring is just some kind of a projection of his regrets makes sense regarding this). Now concerning the final part of the movie, my main argument is that the way the movie ends is infinitely logical and makes sense if they end up in the real world. Actually Saito died in the first dream level, and that's why he died in the deeper levels. Because he was dead in the first level, he went to the limbo, where he built his castle from memories. As the time goes way faster as you go deeper, Saito arrived in the limbo way before Ariadne, Cobb and Fisher arrived. That's why he's older. When Ariadne and Cobb arrived, Fisher was already there for a few time (probably a few hours). When Ariadne and Fisher went back to the snowy bunker, they both used the kick cascade to wak up in the first level, where Saito was dead. Cobb actually drowned in the van, and that's why he woke up a second time in the limbo, and actually near old Saito (That's why he woke up on the beach) Then, when Cobb and Saito killed themselves in the limbo, they've been able to leave the limbo once and for all, straight into the real world, because they are already dead in every other levels. And that's why they both woke up right before the plane's landing too although the other seem to have woken up before Cobb and Saito. Finally, as they left the limbo and they were not sharing any dream together, they were just sleeping, and so the team was able to disconnect the sharing device as everybody was slowly waking up. Thanks if anybody read this 10 months after the video release! ^^
In a news article, Micheal Caine read the script then asked Christopher Nolan about the ending, to which Nolan replied "if you are in the scene, it's real!" or something along those lines! Plus, in my opinion, the top sounds like it's wobbling before the screen goes black, which implies to me that the ending is reality! Either way, it's one very creative way to end this awesome movie! And that soundtrack! Holy cow!!
Hahaha lol that was gold his reaction. Lol he's not in the dream, he wakes up at the end but good story telling has to leave you like that confused where you're still asking the question, is he or is he not? That's the genius of story telling.
It's not a dream.. the spinning top is Mal's totem. Cobbs totem is his wedding ring. When he's dreaming he has his ring on when he's awake he doesn't. At the end he doesn't have his ring on
I never realized until watching this reaction today just how many people are in both Inception and the Dark Knight Rises. Michael Caine (Miles in Inception/Alfred in DKR), Tom Hardy (Eames in Inception/Bane in DKR), Marion Cotillard (Mal in Inception/Miranda in DKR), Joseph Gordon-Leavitt (Arthur in Inception/Blake(Robin) in DKR), and Cillian Murphy (Robert Fischer in Inception/Scarecrow in DKR).
The moment he saw his kids’ faces, the totem doesnt even matter at all. Plus it started to wobble so for me it fell. But good thing they cut it mid spinning be cause he already saw his kids. Hes just “fuck that, im here to savor the moment with my kids”
You should watch the behind the scene of the zero gravity JGL fight scene. Nolan actually made a huge hallway that spun. It's stunning because it's practical. Amazing. That's why Nolan a badass...he does practical not cgi.
The ending is open to interpretation. I personally choose to believe he's still in a dream. My only tip for this theory is around 13:06 in your video. He spins the totem in that scene and fails to see if it actually spins out because it falls into a sink. It's a quick shot so it's easy to miss. My belief is that he's still under the sedative drug and that's the moment he's asleep for the remainder of the film.
As it was correctly mentioned by other commenters, the point of the film is no about whether is he dreaming or not, but about the state of his mind finally set free from regrets and suffer. But... Technically, at the end he is still dreaming. ) This scene with the kids indicates this. The thing is, he sees them in every level of his dreams, and they always are in the same close and the same way turned around. This is because it's a picture from his memory, not from the present time. So when he sees them at the end the same way as always it means, that it's a dream too. Only this time he has forgiven himself for his wife's death and now his mind allows him to imagine the faces of his kids turning back to him... It's a sad, but pretty deep, realistic and meaningful scene. And I love this movie for this. )
If the tops keeps spinning it is a dream if it falls he is not. The continuous spin makes you believe he is still dreaming. Inception is preformed by making you doubt this by adding the wobble to top. Thus creating the very idea that what you witnessed might not be true. That is what I got from it anyways.
It’s a movie about making movies. 3 acts taking it further, hiring a script writer followed up by the impersonator (actor). Place Leonardo as Nolan wanting to make a movie and going home to see his kids.
The ending is genius because it’s basically Nolan planting the idea in our brain, that it’s still a dream and not reality . It clearly is not a dream though, proof (the ring etc) was already mentioned by many others. Genius nonetheless
Christopher Nolan once said in an interview that in regards to the ending people need to stop looking at the scene and listen more instead for the totem to fall. After it cuts to black it falls. You hear it more but u will miss it if you are just paying attention to the screen.
Regardless of whether it's still a dream or not, he's found catharsis. But it's not a dream, it's the real world. For one, the top starts to teeter. Michael Caine confirmed the ending was real life, as well as that the scenes with him were all in the real world. And the biggest differentiating detail is that whenever Cobb is dreaming he is wearing his wedding ring. When he is in reality he is not wearing it.
Important about the top: If it spins, he is in his own dream. If it doesn’t, no information is given. This is because the top isn’t actually a totem, since it isn’t unique in reality. Instead, Cobb says that the top is unique in a dream. There is however no way to ensure that the top behaves as you intended in somebody else’s dream.
The director left the ending up to your opinion. The point is that it doesn't matter because Cobb is happy to be with his children. My interpretation is that he is in real life because the top wobbled at the end, basically about to fall.
Tops can spin for quite a while before they wobble and fall, which is a cheeky end, but I think it was reality, but just enough for everyone to second guess themselves if it was or not.
Inception is one of the greatest science fiction movies of all time. It was something new, fresh, unique, inventive, stylish, cool, edgy, hip, and updated such as the concept and themes. The story, performance's, music, images, direction, action sequences, and cinematography was spectacular and phenomenal. It also identifies and analyzes the boundaries of perception and perspective between reality and fiction. It was decent. To this day I still watch it and I consider it a classic. It never gets old. 😍😎👍💯
Ya the funny thing about this film is its directed by Christopher nolan and you can see tons of actors from the batman trilogy for example alfred, Bane, "Robin", ras al ghouls daughter talia, scarecrow.
I think that some of the main theme at the end is that Cobb doesn't wait to confirm if is it real or not, just go for it. For me, is like he doesn't care at that point. But, in the other hand, he said that the spinning thing was Mal's Totem...
There is many scenes in this movie that you would think are CGI but aren't. The rotating hallway is real. They build an entire hallway and made it rotate (2nd dream). They did also build the entire snow fortress (3rd dream). The train in the raining city (1st dream) was real. There are alot of other scenes too. Fun fact: Nolan dislikes CGI.
Anybody notice that after Cobb tried out the powerful sedative in Yusuf's basement, he runs to the restroom washes his face BUT never gets to check if he's dreaming or awake. Anything after could have been a dream, we don't know.
By not showing whether the top fell nor not the movie performs an inception on the audience. From this point on, you won't be able to forget the movie, just as it happened to you here, and the idea of whether or not he was still trapped will grow like a parasite, just like Cobb described an idea would grow.
A lot of things tell you it’s real. His dad is in the scene and he isn’t in the dreams, you remember how it started and that’s wouldn’t be a dream, he sees his kids faces as well. But the most obvious is that the totum (which never wobbles in a dream by the way) isn’t his, it’s his wife’s. He was his wedding ring which he only has on in the dream and it’s not there in the last scene. Clearly no dream.
They say in the credits you can hear the top fall, I don't remember that in theater when I saw it. And I haven't thought about it when I watched it again until just now. Makes me want to rewatch it just to check that part out. (Inception is my favorite movie)
"So when you get killed in a dream you just get woken up?" Well, yeah. This isn't Nightmare on Elm Street. You sound like you would prefer if people died from dreams. That would be terrifying. The whole world would be trying to stay awake all the time.
This video was blocked in my country (Denmark) for some reason, so i didn't know that you had reacted to this movie. I commented on almost every video, and asked you to react to this (again, im so sorry for the spamming), and now, finally, this video isn't blocked anymore. I'm so happy!
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Totem IS NOT the spinning top, it is his wedding ring. The spinning top was his wife’s totem. Whereas his wedding ring is only worn on his finger IN DREAMS, in REALITY he has no ring because his wife is dead. IN THE LAST SCENE HE DOESN’T HAVE ON HIS RING. ITS REAL!
Saw your reaction a year late, but here's the correct answer to the ending: In the Real World, Cobb's wearing his wedding ring whereas in all dream worlds he doesn't. Check it.
He's thing kept spinning at the end because the camera cut off... there's a theory that Cobb has he's engagement ring whenever he was dreaming and in reality he doesn't. So he was not in a dream at the end.
Its actually a very easy movie to understand, they explain everything thats happening but at the same time it leaves youre mind imagine its own perception of a dream and reality,, its dooope.
My thoughts about the ending: it’s real. You were looking at the wrong token. In fact, this token was visible throughout the film: water. In every dream scene, either the water was clear or of a single color, usually muted. But in the end scene, there were two glasses of water used to clean paint brushes, and they are colored differently and brightly.
That question has bothered me for years... Was he still dreaming. The other folks woke up early because the caught all the Kicks back up and left Cobb to find Saito.
this is a debate on whether if it is a dream at the end; however, if you listen VERY carefully you can hear the top starting to slow/topple. And you can visually see it wobble. So, to me, he is in reality
You can really boil down inception to fundamentally a story about a couple with drug addiction, the fact they had children in the real world but chose to spend (equivalent) of 50 years in dream tells you just how addictive it would be to get lost in a world of your own choosing. Like you said it wont be too far into the future that we will see people living almost entirely digital lives in vr spaces who will essentially make their own reality but at a high price, it's terrifying what psychological damage this will do to future generations.
this is official, michael caine blew it. nolan quite dissappointed. in one interview, michael caine told that wherever he present. its the real world. so the ending is real. one theory i like the most is the wedding ring theory. the top is mal's totem, cobb really said that in the movie. cobb's totem is his wedding ring. when he is dreaming we can see he is wearing one. but in reality he doesnt. ariadne incept cobb also a pretty fine theory! you are lucky by watching late. now there are many answers in the internet. by the time im watching it, i ponder for so long, nolan intended it to be like that.
All I can say is determination, believe, chase your dreams ! 😂 The ending is what you want it to be. The point of the movie isn’t in the end if he is awake or dreaming. I think it’s more of your reality is what you believe to be reality even if what you believe isn’t true. So whether you think the top fell or not, determines the end. I think this is one of the best endings to a movie I have ever seen and I think he was still dreaming because they didn’t show how they last two got out of limbo.
The real point to the ending isn't whether he's dreaming or not... it's that he doesn't care, he's not even looking at the top. He's forgiven himself for what happened to his wife and is finally allowing himself some happiness by seeing his children, whether they're real or not.
Thank you. ❤️
Well I wouldn't say that's the real point. That's like saying the delusion is more important than reality. If you're right, his kids grow up without a father, because he prefers the lie.
On a side note, sorry but it's limbo. The kids are the same age and in the same clothes, doing the same thing they were doing the last time he saw them.
Look on the bright side, it's limbo...he'll snap out of it eventually and be the same age as when he left...probably.
@@mcjthomas80 Nah its reality.
Cobb’s wedding ring is basically his way of telling if its a dream or not. You can see when he is dreaming he is wearing the ring, but when he’s not, he isn’t wearing it.
@@mcjthomas80 “When I got the script of Inception, I was a bit puzzled by it,” Michael Caine said. “And I said to [Nolan], ‘I don’t understand where the dream is.’ I said, ‘When is it the dream and when is it reality?’ He said, ‘Well, when you’re in the scene, it’s reality.’ So get that - if I’m in it, it’s reality. If I’m not in it, it’s a dream.”
That’s one interpretation! I personally think Nolan made the end of Inception open to viewer interpretation
Here is two reasons why the end is reality:
The actor Michael Caine (Cobb's father) was told by Nolan that every scene where his character appears is reality. He is in the last scene, wich makes it reality.
Cobb isn't wearing his wedding ring in reality, because Mal is dead. However, he is wearing it in his dreams, because as he says "in my dreams we are still together". Cobb is NOT wearing his wedding ring in the last scene wich makes it reality.
Nothing has been confirmed by Christopher Nolan.
Yeah, the ring is Cobb's totem. The top was Mal's totem, not Cobb's.
@@ultimagameboy no, the ring is just a ring. Mal's totem was the top, wich became Cobb's totem when she died
@@nikulus2840 Think about the definition of what a totem is. Then think about what purpose / function Cobb's ring serves. Boom.
@@ultimagameboy i know, but he is using his top as a totem, not the ring.
There's nothing to say someone can't have multiple totems, in fact, it would be very smart to have at least 2 in case one is ever compromised. If this movie was a real thing, I'd probably have 3 or 4 at any one time, and I'd change one or two out every now and then, and retire the old ones.
You cited two reasons that the end is reality, in addition:
We see the children's faces, which Cobb claims that he can never see their faces in his dreams.
Finally, the top wobbles, and if it was a "perfect" top it would have to just perfectly spin always. As soon as it starts to wobble, you are in reality.
Everyone: Inception is very confusing
Nolan: Hold my Tenet
Tenet…ugh 😭
Tenet was too much for my brain
Tenet was a steaming pile of mediocrity
Inception was logical, Tenet was nonsense
Your reaction to the ending had me laughing hysterically.
Lmao
Same, that " you bitch " was too cold😂
Ikr
Bruh that “you bitch” made me get a 6 pack in 3 minutes 😂😂😂😂
"I'm gonna google" - I was like don't even try xD
Confusing? Wait till you see Tenet.
That movie is amazing
Yeah man
How's Tenet confusing
tdvc YT there’s a lot of intricate plot details that happen in thick accents you can’t understand as well as high IQ comprehension. Still a great movie though
@@ye_ole_nade5299 i watched it with subtitles and it was pretty easy to follow
"Imagine it's still spinning, I'd be pissed..." I haven't laughed so hard in weeks.
Hans Zimmer's score tho
Genius! I'm anxious for Dune.
Hans Zimmer is legendary
Genius.
The point of the ending is not to ask if its real or a dream. What matters is that Cobb believes that it's real and doesn't wait for his totem to stop spinning to see his kids, overcoming his greatest fear through the story.
react to 'shutter island' also with dicaprio for the ultimate mindfuck 🤯🤯🤯
At least it's less ambiguous... But another Mind Eff though lol
That's Nolan films for you. He likes effin our mind up.
Every Nolan's movie has a very deep concept of "time". He's obsessed with it. Time messes with our mind. Time is infinite yet we know we can slow it. Time is a mysterious concept, Inception, Tenet, Memento, Interstellar, Dunkirk, he's using it everwhere to confuse and stress us.
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I remember the audience in my theater, opening night, _screaming_ when that last shot of the top cut to black. It was nuts.
Who ever created the concept of this movie IS GENIUS
If i may recommend a movie, "Oblivion" with Tom Cruise, it's a highly underrated but amazing scifi action movie, with amazing visual effects and great plot. I won't go in to too much detail about it, just that it's one of my favorite movies and it is unfortunate that there are barely any reaction videos of this movie out there. It deserves so much more credit! Please watch the trailer if you aren't sure about it, thanks for considering anyway!
Agree
Watch edge of tommrow instead it's much better
@@OrangeUtan1 He can watch both.
Oblivion is a masterpiece in the realm of "feel-good"!
Yeah, it’s good. But I remember the first mind-f^ck movie I saw was Jacob’s Ladder.
People don't seem to realize that when it's all over, the "happy ending" that we're all celebrating is that a nice man with a dying father was tricked into liquidating his father's business because another guy didn't like competition.
We’re celebrating the dissolution of a global monopoly so the nice man has a chance to build himself up and step out of his father’s shadow.
I watched an interesting video about what the crew actually do to fisher, and it explained the idea that they actually make the kids relationship with his father better in retrospect. They probably made fisher happier in the end
But if u really look at it they are doing it for the all of us
If there's only one company in the market they can control the price and and we can't do shit becuz they are the only one doing them we will going to forced to biy them
If there's competition there will be innovations and company will start to sell their stuff at cheaper price to make it competitive
What do u think the price of iphone will be if other smartphone didn't exist???
We are celebrating a hell of a movie. Good lord
... at the end you need to HEAR the spinning, the SOUND tells you that the spinning thing is on the way to stop. This movie is a masterpiece. Applause for Hans Zimmer
One of the best composed scenes in cinema is the one that made you slap your chest - when Mal turns and looks *at the audience* who are intruding on their private moment.
This movie is one of my favorites of all time.
Yas been waiting for this. I want every channel who does reactions react to this movie. It’s fun seeing people mind blown and pissed at the ending lol. One of the best movie in my opinion. You should go read theories about this movie and the ending especially, so many things you didn’t recognized. Nolan never failed. Now I want u to react to his other masterpiece, my personal favorite: The Prestige.
I haven’t seen anyone say this, but the point of the ending really is that Cobb isn’t obsessed about his dreams anymore, it’s that he’s happy with where’s he’s finally at right now.
Also your reaction to that part was quite comedic.
I think Cobb was incepted by Ariadne, who was hired to do this by Miles, Michael Cain's character. Cobb needed an idea about forgiveness and healing incepted to him. That's what we witness over the length of the movie.
We're the children ever real or just a dream????????? That wobble before the camera cuts lets you take whichever direction you like.
Nah they were fake because it looked like it fell over and there is no way a topper could put itself back upright like that irl
@@ye_ole_nade5299 if you spin it fast enough it can act like that and then stablize before toppling completely a while later.
Christopher Peaden yeah I changed my opinion on it recently. It’s real because Michael Caine said so
I actually just watched this for the first time as well. I knew absolutely nothing about it except it was a Nolan movie made in 2010 and it’s regarded as being a masterpiece. I’m so glad I knew nothing about this movie before watching it.
When someone will react to 300? xD
Nolan likes to use a lot of the same actors, in this is Alfred, Scarecrow, Talia, and Bane from the Batman’s.
His wedding ring is only shown when he is in the real world, so in the end he is indeed not dreaming and actually in the real world.
You don’t actually know that that is a rule. It could just as well be that he wears the ring iff Mal is in the dream.
@@julianw7097 The top was mal's token, not cobbs
@@nicholasppoole It’s possible, but the way Cobb explained the top it isn’t even a totem.
@@julianw7097 in which case the top spinning at the end means nothing, and we're left to assume he's awake
@@nicholasppoole The top actually spinning forever would mean that he is probably in his own dream. If it topples normally, no information is given. So yeah, not very useful. I don’t see how you use this to conclude he is awake though.
I think he’s in reality. It’s theorized that Cobb’s actual totem was his wedding ring, because the top was actually Mal’s totem. But they did a good job in the final scene to never show us the hand where his wedding ring is.
The Director shoots.....and he SCORES! "GOTTEM!"
The movie itself is a shared dream. We are the subjects, and Nolan is the dreamer (which is why every character basically dresses and looks like him.) The top can't fall in the movie, because that is still in our shared dream.
Nolan's a big fan of blending form and content (The Prestige and Memento do the same thing).
Pretty sure the kids are played by older kid actors at the end. Cobb always remembered them in his dreams at the age they were when he left. Also the wedding ring is missing from his finger when he is awake. It also started the wobble at the end before it cut of so in my mind he is awake.
The ending was real
Here's the real secret, they say the totem has to be unique in the film. The top was MAL'S totem, not Cobb's. Cobb's totem is actually his wedding ring, he only has it on inside the dreams. Not outside. At the end, he doesn't have it. He's awake.
Pete Postlethwaite (scarecrow's father) was indeed sick irl when filming this movie. I believe this was his 2nd to last or last role. He passed on New Years the next year. IIRC.
Fun Fact:
The loud horns is just the Edith Piaf song they listen to just slowed down because time moves slower in the dream.
Relax everyone, during the credits you can hear when the totem stops spinning
I think the end is reality because if you see closely you can see the top start to tumble, that would only happen if it was able to stop
Well micheal Caine is in almost every nolan movie because nolan considers him as a lucky charm.
Fun fact: your not supposed to know if its a dream or not because the top isnt Leo's totum, it's his wedding ring! Whenever they are dreaming, Leo is wearing his wedding ring, in reality he doesn't. And the end scenes of them waking up to him seeing his kids, the camera are purposefully so that you can't see whether his wearing his ring or not!
He didn’t realize that he’s dead wife was the girl in “The Dark Knight Rises” and the other dude was “Bane” but of course how can you know when he wears a mask.
I'm going to be honest. I have come back to this reaction at least 5 separate times just to re-watch your 'You bitch.." at the end of the movie! Has me cracking up every time! love all the reactions!
Whether Cobb is in the real world or in a dream doesn't matter anymore. He made the decision to call out to his kids, which he never did before because he knew he would not be able to leave the world he is in, whether dream or reality. Remember he lived a lifetime with Mal, he could live a lifetime with his kids, watch them grow up, even if he didn't get home. If he isn't home now, he's never going to get home, and this is all that's left to him.
About the ending, think about it.
Cobb has spinned that top so many times, he's become good at it.
The movie showed that Cobb found Saito. Twice.
Who would be the architect to recreate the plane and his home AND create the airport while still in the plane? The closest answer might be Ariadne, but she (or they as of now) would've tried to get him out of there instead.
It’s funny when you realize that the majority of the main cast were in at least one of Nolan’s Batman movies.
Here's my interpretation of the final part of the movie and of Cobb's totem:
Actually at the end Cobb's not dreaming. He's in real life. But it's a little bit tricky. Actually, Arthur said to Ariadne that if you touch the totem of someone else, its' effect is canceled because a totem is an object that will act weirdly in real world (loaded die) and normally if you are in another's dream. And Cobb said that the top is his wife's totem. On the other hand, the top acts weirdly in a dream, and normally in the real world. That's why i can't consider the top as his real totem. Moreover, Cobb doesn't accept Mal's death, and so i might guess he doesn't have real totem, as he's slowly loosing touch with real world. (the theory that the ring is just some kind of a projection of his regrets makes sense regarding this).
Now concerning the final part of the movie, my main argument is that the way the movie ends is infinitely logical and makes sense if they end up in the real world.
Actually Saito died in the first dream level, and that's why he died in the deeper levels. Because he was dead in the first level, he went to the limbo, where he built his castle from memories. As the time goes way faster as you go deeper, Saito arrived in the limbo way before Ariadne, Cobb and Fisher arrived. That's why he's older.
When Ariadne and Cobb arrived, Fisher was already there for a few time (probably a few hours). When Ariadne and Fisher went back to the snowy bunker, they both used the kick cascade to wak up in the first level, where Saito was dead. Cobb actually drowned in the van, and that's why he woke up a second time in the limbo, and actually near old Saito (That's why he woke up on the beach) Then, when Cobb and Saito killed themselves in the limbo, they've been able to leave the limbo once and for all, straight into the real world, because they are already dead in every other levels. And that's why they both woke up right before the plane's landing too although the other seem to have woken up before Cobb and Saito.
Finally, as they left the limbo and they were not sharing any dream together, they were just sleeping, and so the team was able to disconnect the sharing device as everybody was slowly waking up.
Thanks if anybody read this 10 months after the video release! ^^
The ending is meant to be ambiguous. It's up to the audience to decide if he's still in a dream or not
It's not ambiguous. He's still dreaming.
In a news article, Micheal Caine read the script then asked Christopher Nolan about the ending, to which Nolan replied "if you are in the scene, it's real!" or something along those lines! Plus, in my opinion, the top sounds like it's wobbling before the screen goes black, which implies to me that the ending is reality! Either way, it's one very creative way to end this awesome movie! And that soundtrack! Holy cow!!
The top is actually Cobs wife's totem. Cobs totem is his ring and its on/off from dream to reality.
react to "Tenet" when that comes out on digital and dvd that movie is amazing
Comes out in December right?
@@themoose4216 i think yeah
Hahaha lol that was gold his reaction. Lol he's not in the dream, he wakes up at the end but good story telling has to leave you like that confused where you're still asking the question, is he or is he not? That's the genius of story telling.
It's not a dream.. the spinning top is Mal's totem. Cobbs totem is his wedding ring. When he's dreaming he has his ring on when he's awake he doesn't. At the end he doesn't have his ring on
Lol never realized that. Thanks finaly after 8 yeas of suffering i know the ending 👍
or its a fake totem she planted
I never realized until watching this reaction today just how many people are in both Inception and the Dark Knight Rises. Michael Caine (Miles in Inception/Alfred in DKR), Tom Hardy (Eames in Inception/Bane in DKR), Marion Cotillard (Mal in Inception/Miranda in DKR), Joseph Gordon-Leavitt (Arthur in Inception/Blake(Robin) in DKR), and Cillian Murphy (Robert Fischer in Inception/Scarecrow in DKR).
The moment he saw his kids’ faces, the totem doesnt even matter at all. Plus it started to wobble so for me it fell. But good thing they cut it mid spinning be cause he already saw his kids. Hes just “fuck that, im here to savor the moment with my kids”
You should watch the behind the scene of the zero gravity JGL fight scene. Nolan actually made a huge hallway that spun. It's stunning because it's practical. Amazing. That's why Nolan a badass...he does practical not cgi.
The ending is open to interpretation. I personally choose to believe he's still in a dream. My only tip for this theory is around 13:06 in your video. He spins the totem in that scene and fails to see if it actually spins out because it falls into a sink. It's a quick shot so it's easy to miss. My belief is that he's still under the sedative drug and that's the moment he's asleep for the remainder of the film.
As it was correctly mentioned by other commenters, the point of the film is no about whether is he dreaming or not, but about the state of his mind finally set free from regrets and suffer. But...
Technically, at the end he is still dreaming. )
This scene with the kids indicates this. The thing is, he sees them in every level of his dreams, and they always are in the same close and the same way turned around. This is because it's a picture from his memory, not from the present time. So when he sees them at the end the same way as always it means, that it's a dream too. Only this time he has forgiven himself for his wife's death and now his mind allows him to imagine the faces of his kids turning back to him...
It's a sad, but pretty deep, realistic and meaningful scene. And I love this movie for this. )
If the tops keeps spinning it is a dream if it falls he is not. The continuous spin makes you believe he is still dreaming. Inception is preformed by making you doubt this by adding the wobble to top. Thus creating the very idea that what you witnessed might not be true.
That is what I got from it anyways.
It’s a movie about making movies. 3 acts taking it further, hiring a script writer followed up by the impersonator (actor). Place Leonardo as Nolan wanting to make a movie and going home to see his kids.
The ending is genius because it’s basically Nolan planting the idea in our brain, that it’s still a dream and not reality . It clearly is not a dream though, proof (the ring etc) was already mentioned by many others.
Genius nonetheless
Christopher Nolan once said in an interview that in regards to the ending people need to stop looking at the scene and listen more instead for the totem to fall. After it cuts to black it falls. You hear it more but u will miss it if you are just paying attention to the screen.
Regardless of whether it's still a dream or not, he's found catharsis. But it's not a dream, it's the real world. For one, the top starts to teeter. Michael Caine confirmed the ending was real life, as well as that the scenes with him were all in the real world. And the biggest differentiating detail is that whenever Cobb is dreaming he is wearing his wedding ring. When he is in reality he is not wearing it.
Important about the top: If it spins, he is in his own dream. If it doesn’t, no information is given. This is because the top isn’t actually a totem, since it isn’t unique in reality. Instead, Cobb says that the top is unique in a dream. There is however no way to ensure that the top behaves as you intended in somebody else’s dream.
The director left the ending up to your opinion. The point is that it doesn't matter because Cobb is happy to be with his children. My interpretation is that he is in real life because the top wobbled at the end, basically about to fall.
Tops can spin for quite a while before they wobble and fall, which is a cheeky end, but I think it was reality, but just enough for everyone to second guess themselves if it was or not.
Inception is one of the greatest science fiction movies of all time. It was something new, fresh, unique, inventive, stylish, cool, edgy, hip, and updated such as the concept and themes. The story, performance's, music, images, direction, action sequences, and cinematography was spectacular and phenomenal. It also identifies and analyzes the boundaries of perception and perspective between reality and fiction. It was decent. To this day I still watch it and I consider it a classic. It never gets old. 😍😎👍💯
Ya the funny thing about this film is its directed by Christopher nolan and you can see tons of actors from the batman trilogy for example alfred, Bane, "Robin", ras al ghouls daughter talia, scarecrow.
“Imagine it’s still spinning”
*literally .002 seconds later...*
cough, this movie is overrated. interstellar smothered it.
@@alexsclewis bro. I literally never mentioned my thoughts on Inception or Interstellar. I just make a funny.
@@JB00GIE22 yep
@@alexsclewis you good bro?
@@JB00GIE22 yeah. my point is that the movie is pretty predictable, and the twist isnt much of a twist.
I think that some of the main theme at the end is that Cobb doesn't wait to confirm if is it real or not, just go for it. For me, is like he doesn't care at that point.
But, in the other hand, he said that the spinning thing was Mal's Totem...
nolan told michael c. that every scene he is in is real
Keep in mind that the spinning top was originally Mal's totem, not Cobb's. Cobb's totem is his wedding ring, which he stopped wearing after Mal died.
There is many scenes in this movie that you would think are CGI but aren't. The rotating hallway is real. They build an entire hallway and made it rotate (2nd dream). They did also build the entire snow fortress (3rd dream). The train in the raining city (1st dream) was real. There are alot of other scenes too.
Fun fact: Nolan dislikes CGI.
Anybody notice that after Cobb tried out the powerful sedative in Yusuf's basement, he runs to the restroom washes his face BUT never gets to check if he's dreaming or awake. Anything after could have been a dream, we don't know.
Cobbs dreams have become his reality that’s why he’s still dreaming
It’s not a dream…it was about to fall but Chris left just enough before it did to keep people questioning a bit
By not showing whether the top fell nor not the movie performs an inception on the audience. From this point on, you won't be able to forget the movie, just as it happened to you here, and the idea of whether or not he was still trapped will grow like a parasite, just like Cobb described an idea would grow.
A lot of things tell you it’s real. His dad is in the scene and he isn’t in the dreams, you remember how it started and that’s wouldn’t be a dream, he sees his kids faces as well. But the most obvious is that the totum (which never wobbles in a dream by the way) isn’t his, it’s his wife’s. He was his wedding ring which he only has on in the dream and it’s not there in the last scene. Clearly no dream.
They say in the credits you can hear the top fall, I don't remember that in theater when I saw it. And I haven't thought about it when I watched it again until just now. Makes me want to rewatch it just to check that part out. (Inception is my favorite movie)
Inception is actually a allegory/metaphor of filmmaking
"So when you get killed in a dream you just get woken up?"
Well, yeah. This isn't Nightmare on Elm Street. You sound like you would prefer if people died from dreams. That would be terrifying. The whole world would be trying to stay awake all the time.
Your "Chase your dreams!" slogan on your wall is befitting for this movie.
This video was blocked in my country (Denmark) for some reason, so i didn't know that you had reacted to this movie. I commented on almost every video, and asked you to react to this (again, im so sorry for the spamming), and now, finally, this video isn't blocked anymore. I'm so happy!
:)
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Totem IS NOT the spinning top, it is his wedding ring. The spinning top was his wife’s totem. Whereas his wedding ring is only worn on his finger IN DREAMS, in REALITY he has no ring because his wife is dead.
IN THE LAST SCENE HE DOESN’T HAVE ON HIS RING.
ITS REAL!
It was leaning like it was falling but we never know
Just enjoy the mystery! (Like the ending of "The Thing. Is Childs infected? MacCreedy? Both or none)
14:06 This movie was originally pitched to be a horror movie.
In the end Cobb is in the real world; the top isn't HIS totem, its his wifes. If you watch the movie, his totem is his wedding ring,
its not a dream. It was an artistic choice made by the director. It started to teater at the end and it cut right before it was gonna fall.
Saw your reaction a year late, but here's the correct answer to the ending:
In the Real World, Cobb's wearing his wedding ring whereas in all dream worlds he doesn't.
Check it.
Chris Nolan re-used actors from the batman movies talia, alfred, bruce/batman, scarecrow and bane are in this which i found rather interesting.
Nolan made the movie ending this way to leave it up to the viewer
He's thing kept spinning at the end because the camera cut off... there's a theory that Cobb has he's engagement ring whenever he was dreaming and in reality he doesn't. So he was not in a dream at the end.
Its actually a very easy movie to understand, they explain everything thats happening but at the same time it leaves youre mind imagine its own perception of a dream and reality,, its dooope.
20:25 What was the point of the staircase? Where were they exactly?
I laughed SO hard at that last reaction
"You bitch!"
My thoughts about the ending: it’s real. You were looking at the wrong token. In fact, this token was visible throughout the film: water. In every dream scene, either the water was clear or of a single color, usually muted. But in the end scene, there were two glasses of water used to clean paint brushes, and they are colored differently and brightly.
Isn't that the dude who plays Alfred in batman? Yes! you say that in every movie he's in! lmao
Lol
That question has bothered me for years... Was he still dreaming. The other folks woke up early because the caught all the Kicks back up and left Cobb to find Saito.
Its left ambiguous so that people can have their own ending cause the thing was about to topple and it cut off right when it started shaking.
this is a debate on whether if it is a dream at the end; however, if you listen VERY carefully you can hear the top starting to slow/topple. And you can visually see it wobble. So, to me, he is in reality
You can really boil down inception to fundamentally a story about a couple with drug addiction, the fact they had children in the real world but chose to spend (equivalent) of 50 years in dream tells you just how addictive it would be to get lost in a world of your own choosing. Like you said it wont be too far into the future that we will see people living almost entirely digital lives in vr spaces who will essentially make their own reality but at a high price, it's terrifying what psychological damage this will do to future generations.
The director confirmed it’s real, any scene with Micheal Caine in it is real.
this is official, michael caine blew it. nolan quite dissappointed. in one interview, michael caine told that wherever he present. its the real world. so the ending is real.
one theory i like the most is the wedding ring theory. the top is mal's totem, cobb really said that in the movie. cobb's totem is his wedding ring. when he is dreaming we can see he is wearing one. but in reality he doesnt.
ariadne incept cobb also a pretty fine theory!
you are lucky by watching late. now there are many answers in the internet. by the time im watching it, i ponder for so long, nolan intended it to be like that.
All I can say is determination, believe, chase your dreams ! 😂
The ending is what you want it to be. The point of the movie isn’t in the end if he is awake or dreaming. I think it’s more of your reality is what you believe to be reality even if what you believe isn’t true. So whether you think the top fell or not, determines the end. I think this is one of the best endings to a movie I have ever seen and I think he was still dreaming because they didn’t show how they last two got out of limbo.