The totem was shaking at the end and was about to fall. Watch the end just before the credits scene comes up. And it is now confirmed. Also, even if it was a dream, the totem would spin forever. So anyway Cobb would see it spinning non stop when he walks across the house again. And kills himself to continue the task.
The fact that Saito has lived an entire life in his dreams and after that woke up young again, it's mind-blowing. Just imagine being old, waiting for death, and suddenly you have the chance to be young again.
@@bf9142ftw Because it was just a dream, those "memories" will fade quickly just like any other dream. Do you ever wake up and feel confused only to quickly come to? He would have just woken up and been quickly recollecting how he got here and what is happening. It would have been enormously relieving and also in his case, blissful.
@@sergeyscherbakov1541 The deal was that Saito would make a phone call to erase Cobb's criminal record if the inception was successful. Of course, he had to make the call before Cobb got to Customs or Cobb would have been arrested.
What’s interesting about those 2 movies is that Interstellar is a father and daughter movie and this is a father and son movie. Except with Interstellar they use the main character (Cooper) to do it. With Inception they use a more minor character (Fischer) to show this relationship.
Notice this. Every time he was in a dream and his wife was around, he wore his wedding ring. But every time he was not in a dream, the real world, he didnt wore his ring. Look closely to his hand in the end. He isnt wearing a ring, so that means he is in the real world. Gotta love the details.
Notice, in every scene the children are in (while in a dream) they have black shoes; yet, at the end they have different color shoes/style all together.
@@Ghost-qo5of thats part of his arc. He spends most of the film worrying about being stuck in a dream or not, only to come out at the end with the understanding that that doesn’t matter. And as for the ring, yes, obviously Im aware his ring is a token, but I have always interpreted the ring as more of an easter egg than a legitimate tangible part of the story. Cobb clearly prefers his top. The ring exists for the viewer’s assurance that Cobb is finally in the real world, to give the film a happy ending, I dont believe its something where he goes “ok, I’ll spin my top, but I don’t have my ring, so I must not be dreaming”. Tldr; the ring doesn’t really exist, its a head nod from Nolan to the audience about Cobb’s current state and more importantly about his priorities(his wife).
@@AndrewJ9673 main character has children he cares about, so it matters if he's dreaming or not. From this depend if his children will have a father :)
• Cillan Murphy • leonardo dicaprio • Joseph Gordon-Levitt • Michael Caine The fact Christopher Nolan recasts these actors again and again is so satisfying
Absolutely perfect ending. The caper had been pulled off. He got home. Spinning the top, he saw his children’s faces. After that, he didn’t care if the top stopped spinning or not. This was a reality he could accept.
Ahmet Selim Karaca The question it raises and the possibile answers it gives. Its more timeless than ahaed of its time to be exact. It will always be up to date, simmilar to 2001 space odysey
I watched this movie when I was 11 years old and to this day it is still my favourite movie of all time 1. Inception 2. Infinity War 3. Shawshank Redemption 4. The Wolf Of Wall Street 5. The Departed
This movie was one of the best edited and incredibly paced movies ever. The way the tension is created in the third act until the very last scene of Saito picking up the gun, and then when Cobb wakes up, It makes the audience feel like they've themselves woke up from a bad dream. A relief, just like when we wake up from a bad dream. Zimmer's music is one of the main characters in this scene that makes this scene as good as it is. This is movie is truly an all-timer, and one of my absolute favorites.
I have a question for you all. So how did Cobb know (or Saito, for that matter) that they had succeeded? Wouldn’t Eames have been the only one who knew, since he was the only one who witnessed the inception actually take place?
@@holdengreen2151 they already planned it they just know what will happen in the locker room only problem was how to do it in which they succeeded in the end And one more question They just planted an idea in fchisrer mind they don't know if he decides to do it.
really interesting story i heard or read but it was about a man who had an accident and woke up from coma only to live his full life and have kids and a wife. when one day he sees a lamp and it looks odd so he watches it. and things began to change.
@@daddy_.rome0 I'll admit Interstellar and Inception had extraordinary scores but the Grand Budapest Hotel's was so nuisanced and so original as well as being so well put together in the frame of the movie that it got best score.
To be honest, i don't remember my memories before 4 yrs old, it's weird, my first memory, was me running around my house, and i was already speaking, but don't remember learning, i knew my friends and family, but don't remember meeting them, i remember school, but don't remember my first day... of course our conscience it's yet changing, but it's weird....
Inception and Interstellar are Nolan's masterpieces for me. The harmonious blend of sci-fi action with all the emotional drama was just excellent. The movie scores were both great as well. I really hope he does more sci-fi in the future, because he just knows how to make a great impact with his terrific storytelling on the big screen.
Inception's plot is actually straight-forward and doesn't "lie" about when they are dreaming vs. the real world. What's brilliant about it is it incepts the idea that he isn't in reality at the end (even though he is), by planting the seed of the idea with the spinning top, JUST AS COBB DID WITH HIS WIFE. The audience ends up with the same affliction as she does-questioning the reality of the film, and coming up with elaborate and convoluted theories to support the idea that he's still in a dream. But there is no logical reason to believe he's still dreaming; the spinning top is the only reason we start doubting (if he hasn't spun the top and just went straight outside to see his kids, we wouldn't wonder if it's still a dream). Just like Cobb's wife had no logical reasons to doubt reality, only the nagging idea left behind from the spinning top in their dream. This is the best thing about Inception; Nolan pulled off an inception on the audience, just as Cobb pulled it off on his wife
The craziest thing is that Cobb's wedding ring is his object to decide whether it's real life or a dream. When in his dream he has the ring on, but when he is not dreaming the ring is not on his finger.
Nice theory, but doesnt sit right. He walls away without "knowing" (why else spin the top). He walks away because he doesnt care. Hes so elated to be with his kids his love overcomes care for anything else. Would you want to wake up from the best dream either? Would you want to know that it isnt real?
@@toyski6897 right but everyother time he hadnt dealt with Mal yet. Hes let go of Mal and now she can no longer effect his dreams negatively anymore. Hes free.
Bro the ending part is real nolan himself confirmed that the scene is always real in the movie whenever that old guy in it , first go and research then write something
As a father of 2 kids of same age, I just can not watch this scene every time without crying. Our kids means everything to us. We literally live for them. Do everything for them. They are the meaning of our lives...
3:36 For a split second there, I saw the totem tilted to the side a little more than usual, which means I think the totem eventually stopped spinning. I think he’s really back home with his children. Anyone else agree? Let me know what you think.
@@raydare2002 no that is to create confusion, i would argue,.. observe that a such an object can still spin after tilting.. and often for a long time... doesn't have to be perfect but only has to keep spinning to be in a dream... if they wanted the conclusion that it was reality, they could have just waited 10 more seconds with the tp to show us that it falls
He can see his kids faces, which means he is in reality. Besides they board the plane to LA and then reach LA. That was all reality. That ending was all just to confuse people who can easily get confused. I mean no disrespect.
People often forget the scene where saito wakes up and looks to cobb and immediately honors his actions, allowing him to return to his family with that single phone call he is tiping in that moment. Such a strong and underrated scene.
@@Shane_Stoic When you wake up from a dream, you remember everything in the real world, while you may forget most of what you dreamed about. Its like a big switch.
In that year the film "King's Speech" has won the Oscar for the best film. I have no desire to ever watch King's Speech again, but I could always watch Inception again and again. It's the best movie of all time. Period.
Inception was and is wonderful. All the mythos behind all the jists of dream-inducing manipulation, action and reflecting realities is a no-brainer for great movie-making. But I must say that each of the films you mention, are different of sorts... Inception is what I said. But the King's Speech, in its own right, is magnificent for the struggle of the new King from the controversy of his brother, for his struggle of his defective speech and the shadow of war. But last but not least, Colin Firth in his portrayal. That was a good one!
I remember watching this scene at the cinema, people impatiently waiting for the conclusion, everyone creating their own ending in their minds...half of the people cheered up, half of the people cried, and I felt stuck in a limbo :x
"Welcome home, Mr Cobb." I was bawling my eyes out when I saw this ending for the first time, and I'll be damned if this line alone isn't enough of a good reason for it.
There are so many movies that should have won him an oscar. I absolutely loved his performance as Frank William Abagnale. He also did a great job in blood diamond. I didn't really like The Departed but he played well there. Inception is, I think, his masterpiece.
Well I think it was obvious even without Caine's confirmation, I mean in last scene where Cobb rotated totem, 3:31 at the end it started shaking, which meant that he was in reality.
Agreed! If you’ve ever had one of those extremely detailed dreams and wake up, you just spend 10 minutes just “coming to” in the morning. The facial expressions capture it greatly.
The architect left level 3 while Cobb and Saito were still stuck in limbo, thus having no way to come back. Plus the children never aged and are always playing in the yard, just like Cobb imagines in his dreams. Cobb and Saito are lost in limbo forever.
The ending is what the movie has been saying all along. "But it doesn't matter because you'll be together" For Cobb it didn't matter whether if it was a dream or not. After 12 years it finally clicked, that's a sign of a masterpiece. You get different results after each time you watch it.
@@midgetwars1 The top in dream world seems to almost fall but never does. Forever spinning instead. Cobb sees his kids who are in the EXACT clothes height n weight as years ago when he left. No sane odds of that happening. The kids literally other than faces turning, not a thing changed, that's sus af. His ring disappearing isn't meaning reality, it means he finally (with help of ariadne) made peace with mal and let go of her. But he still chose her totem to check with reality, hence the line "you don't know where the train will take you, but it won't matter, cuz you will be together". He doesn't look at totem, doesn't know if the train took him to reality or still stuck in dream world, but wherever he sees his kids' faces finally is fine by him. His guilt of leaving the kids, is now lifted, cuz of successfully finishing the job that rewards him his life with kids back, Hence his mind simply ALLOWS him to remember his kids faces being seen by him, from the past. Which he wasn't able to see until his guilt was cleared. Meaning he did see the kids faces, just had been a blocked memory, even for his dreams being unable to access. In the dream once, mal tries to tell him how he can indeed see his kids and they're right there, as she was calling out to the kids, but cobb sees them do the usual thing, getting up and running without showing their faces to cobb, he tells mal to "just stop". meaning she was right, she meant he knows what their faces looked like in that exact moment in those exact clothes, he won't let himself past the guilt of leaving them and won't let himself see, the dream world mal knew that and cobb hated how she toyed with him with that. which is why ring doesn't mean it's reality now or that the kids faces mean reality either. watching this movie several times with coffee spikes, let me put this together. i finally can stop the coffee and sleep now. of course, i need to get the coffee again and go rewatch tenet, that movie is insanely good. christopher nolan is a gift that never stops giving.
if u play top, beyblade or any kind of spinning toys, the second u heard or see the slow wobble, u know it will stop soon. stop interpret it otherwise.
12 years later and this scene still gets to me. The idea of living what seemed like living a full life only to wake up and realized it was but a dream. Old souls thrown back into our young bodies.
@@chrytesol9349 3:36 For a split second there, I saw the totem tilted to the side a little more than usual, which means I think the totem eventually stopped spinning. I think he’s really back home with his children. Anyone else agree? Let me know what you think.
@@tron1176 3:36 For a split second there, I saw the totem tilted to the side a little more than usual, which means I think the totem eventually stopped spinning. I think he’s really back home with his children. Anyone else agree? Let me know what you think.
I'm a huge fan of Hans Zimmer and many of the other composers, but nothing hits quite like this song. Many people consider Interstellar his best work but nothing hits quite like this. It truly is his masterpiece.
There is a story about this melody. Actually a sad a story was told by hans zimmer.. He began composing Time after what happened.. That what makes time Special
Interstellar's "Docking" scene is one of my favorite in all of cinema and is one of a handful of scenes that I would change genuinely nothing about. The ending scene here is another one that I'd change nothing about. The soundtrack is absolutely INTEGRAL to the success of both. But they can't be directly compared, at least in my opinion. The scene in Interstellar is about the triumph of mankind against adversity ("It's not possible..." "No... it's necessary.") and is bombastic and gets you incredibly fired up. This scene in Inception is about the end of a chapter of life, the feeling that you and those around you have been through so much, the feeling of awakening from a dream that feels as though it stretched on forever- and yet, just as that chapter closes, a new chapter opens: a homecoming, a return to loved ones and family members. "Welcome Home, Mr Cobb."
@@Benjamin-bp6qn im sorry. They did win the Oscar but what i mean is Leonardo DiCaprio didn’t win the Oscar. Inception won in four category. You can search it up.
I love the body language of every single person in this scene. It's so brilliant. You hardly hear 8 words, but you can read their thoughts, full of messages.
I'll never forget this part when i saw it in theatres. The audience was literally on the edge of their seat and everyone was waiting for it to fall...then it cuts to credit and everyones like "ahhhhh"
"It doesn't matter" is bullshit? The purpose of the video is to explore the ability to solve the problem of hard solipsism. You _could_ possibly be hooked up to a computer being fed information of what you "believe" is the "real" reality. You _could_ be dreaming right now. You _could_ be hallucinating. You _could_ be in the matrix. Can you prove that you're not? In other words, can you solve the problem of hard solipsism? _Your_ statement is that "it doesn't matter" is bullshit. So if it _does_ matter to you, then you can't live your life without knowing. That's your statement. So let's hear it. What's your solution to the problem of hard solipsism? Because you would be the first and only to have ever really solved it then.
Just noticed the guy checking the passport. He's a good actor as well. Saw him in few TV series and movies. I mean, it just has to be perfect with Nolan.
The look all four give each other on the plane is exactly what happens after you've had a bad trip and wake up with your friends realizing everything is ok and you didn't actually go crazy.
Respectfully have to disagree putting memento first, Shutter Island was astounishing also and deserves a mention. All in all I would argue anybody that inception is Nolan's masterpiece... such a unique storyline executed with incredible acting, legendary score, innovative cinematography and that classic Nolan touch that brought us all to this video at the end of the movie.. Also my theory is top wasn't gonna fall and he didn't care either way. I think that's what Nolan wanted us to conclude from that, either way awesome movie
Just watched this film the other day for the first time and it is one of my all time favourites. The first Nolan film I saw outside TDK trilogy and I was mind blown. Only a mastermind like Christopher Nolan can make such films like this.
I loved the little pause that Saito has, when he is wondering why Cobb is staring Daggers at him, willing him to fulfil his end of the deal. It suddenly clicks and he still has to pause for a moment, trying to remember who he was meant to call and what the phone number was. Amazing acting.
3:36 For a split second there, I saw the totem tilted to the side a little more than usual, which means I think the totem eventually stopped spinning. I think he’s really back home with his children. Anyone else agree? Let me know what you think.
@@manningup4851 he had so much power and influence that he could get Cobb off of the blacklist to get into the US. I'm guessing that he was calling someone high up in the Federal Government to get his name cleared and to allow him past immigration without being detained.
Maybe it’s a cliche, but I always like it when the director sticks his wife, kids, mum in a small role in their movie. The director has to give up so much of his life to make the movies and letting the family play along for a day or two has to be such a feel good moment
And he’s just dreaming of him dreaming with his wife and getting into the dream of a multi millionaire businessman and getting into the dream of his partner in crime to plant an idea in the head of another businessman by getting into his dream, successfully plants it and dreams of waking up but still in his DREAMS ffs imagine being Teddy Daniels
The first time I watched this movie was at home with my son and a few of his friends at a birthday sleepover. It ended about 1am. At 5am I was in bed, still wide awake, staring at the ceiling trying to absorb what I had just seen. Perhaps having children makes this last scene so powerful. What an incredible collaboration of writing, directing, acting, and composing.
as an expert daydreamer who loves "to pretend being in a music video or movie with it's song/soundtrack playing in my ears" u just gave me the greatest idea of all times for the next time i'll fly. (yeah i know i'm weird as hell....)😂😂
I watched it in 2010, didn’t get it. I tired again in 2012 and still didn’t get it. My dad died in 2013 and I watched it again, in 2014. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks
Whenever I listen to this magnificent score, it feels as though time itself is unraveling before you, urging you to reflect on the past, present, and future simultaneously. It's a powerful piece that stirs the soul and leaves a lasting impression long after the music fades. Long live Hans Zimmer.
I think the reason he walked away from the totem is because he does not care if he is dreaming any longer. He just chooses whatever makes him happy and makes that his reality... Maybe...
But his totem was not that spinning thing, but hia wedding ring, and if hw wears it, he is dreaming, and if not, he is not dreaming.. aaand here we can see, no wedding ring in his left hand.
@@scoper7897 thats the thing, he doesnt care anymore, he is free of the guilty and just want to be with his children, it does not matter if he is lost in the limbo or if is real.
The way saito looks at cobb and that stare from cobb, legendary acting by eyes in that scene alone and then saito honors the actions of cobb. Such a great ending...genius nolan
The airport is so weird. You might spend 10+ hours with someone on a flight and get to know them but then walk away as if you’re strangers. You get to glimpse into someone’s life just by watching them greet their family or friends in the terminals.
Proof that it’s a dream: It’s impossible to go through U.S. customs without being asked 200 questions, explaining where you were and why, reciting the national anthem, apologizing for visiting another country, and promising to never go it again.
Are you depressed,why can't you accept it's a happy ending.And what logic are you using?Will Nolan ruin the classy end by showing a clip of him answering to these questions?How he reached home was shown and he remembers it,that's what the movie wants to show.
0:06 DiCaprio's ability to convey, with his eyes alone, a person who had experienced an entire lifetime of 80 or 90 years suddenly waking up in a 30 year old's body- KUDOS!!!
I just watched this again today and this part hit me in the heart and I was crying. Imagine being on the run, never feeling safe, not having a real place to call home anymore and then . . . you suddenly realize you are about to go home, the weight of that, the emotional depth of it all. How overwhelmingly that is. I have not been able to return home in decades and I don't feel safe anywhere. The gravity of that is devastating and I watched this feeling and wanting what he had, but oh so far away. 😢
I had the luck to enjoy this whole masterpiece when it came out. I still remembered how the whole theatre just went "OHHHHHHH" out loud when the lights went out after Cobb's totem kept spinning but got a bit slower. And how, literally every single person, kept discussing on whether it stopped or not leaving the theatre. Simply one of the greatest movie endings ever and such a golden time to enjoy the cinema before this "Netflix time".
First film that I ever went to see with my (now) wife. Loved every second. This scene is absolutely golden to me, so much so that I got a spinning top tattoo the other day.
I think it’s cool how we all have our memories during the time this movie was out. My memory is that I had my last soda drink while I was watching this in theaters. I’ve been going 12 years strong :)
I think most of you guys didn't get the message of that brilliant ending. Its not about what is real or not. By spinning the circle at 2:47 Cobb asks himself :" Is this real or not". Then he was about to wait for the answer, when he saw the faces at 3:00 ( by the way the first time in the whole movie ). At that moment he just wanted to hug his kids and in the end he didn't care about it anymore. Nolan wanted to give the answer to the question: It does not matter. As long as you are happy, it can be real or not, it simply doesn't matter. What matters is the love to his kids
+Dancinglings I agree... finally somebody got it right. The only reasonable answer to Cobbs' question whether he was in a dream or not was "Who cares?".
But what about the kids? They still don't have a father if he's trapped in lambo. I personally believe he's not dreaming. Regardless, it's still a beautiful ending.
But it's not It's an incredible movie indeed but the ending is most probably a dream. That means his wife might've been right and killed herself and went to a lower stage of the dream or the reality. Imagine them making the part 2 of Inception..
@@OXIR yes mate. Like I said it 'perfect' in the sense that everyone has its own conclusion about its ending. So it depends on what you think / assume would happen!
The music was the key here for me. All through the movie we hear this theme with atonal, discordant flourishes, implying a state of unreality & unease. Finally, in this last scene it opens out into a beautiful, pure, unaltered, unblemished version of itself, lifting us up as the brass goes soaring out uninterrupted - Leo has made peace with his world. Plus, that spinning top is totally about to fall over. heh.
1:37 this sentence just felt so warm. A policemen just doing his job, saying what common, innocent words, has no idea that these simple words meant the whole word to the person right in front of him. Like waking up from a bad lifelong nightmare, literally, and finally coming home.
These actors/actress are sooo fucking good! Their facial expressions, eyes, acted better than dialogues! And that heart-filling music engulfing the audiences within the Inception world….omg…I can never express it in words! ❤❤❤
I remember watching this film in the cinema, I didn't even know what it was gonna be about, just knew it had something to do with dreams. It wasn't until I saw the totem spinning at the end until I realised that I'd literally just watched a masterpiece. I love how Nolan ends this film, it's so perfect. It doesn't matter if he's in a dream or not, he's finally happy.
He trusted his Heart and let go of his mental uncertainty. He trusted the direct experience of love felt in his body, and this was the true indicator of what's real and certain for him.
@@sociobiologist5141 It wasn't a dream anyway. It was obvious for me, from the first time i saw the movie coz the totem was about to fall at the end. Listen closely before the credits scene when the screen goes dark. The totem starts shaking and stuttering. And now, Michael Caine has confirmed it. This was reality.
@@BurninPhoenix That's beside the point. I was responding to the callous suggestion that it didn't matter whether it was reality or not, so long as he was happy. Incidentally, I have read that there is some argument about whether the spinning top was actually his totem. Apparently, the top belonged to his wife, and his totem was his wedding ring.
Nolan once said that it's not important if the top spins forever or not... it´s important that Cobb isn't looking at it anymore.
Nolan is lying! He doesn't even know if it spins forever or not....so had to end the movie!
The totem was shaking at the end and was about to fall. Watch the end just before the credits scene comes up. And it is now confirmed. Also, even if it was a dream, the totem would spin forever. So anyway Cobb would see it spinning non stop when he walks across the house again. And kills himself to continue the task.
It doesn't even matter if it spins forever or not because Cobb is finally happy. That was the ending
@Stellar Interactive it's your opinion
He is finally at peace
it's a tradition to visit the scene once in a while
Yo,what's up...
Wait are you a fan of BALDSKI?
And then watch the whole movie again...is also traditional
Yep it is
@@aruljebaraj1659 i saw it once in theater and since then i watched it couple of times in tv. Where is it available now?
100%
The fact that Saito has lived an entire life in his dreams and after that woke up young again, it's mind-blowing. Just imagine being old, waiting for death, and suddenly you have the chance to be young again.
My question is, how would Saito remember the number to call, after having lived out an entire lifetime?
@Archer Fair point!
this has happen to me a few times i can remember, living a whole life with kids wife divorce deaths and about to die then i wake up
@@bf9142ftw Because it was just a dream, those "memories" will fade quickly just like any other dream. Do you ever wake up and feel confused only to quickly come to? He would have just woken up and been quickly recollecting how he got here and what is happening. It would have been enormously relieving and also in his case, blissful.
Sasha GarVal I think you guys are forgetting that at this point Cobb has basically lived 2 full lifetimes as well.
I love that Saito immediately makes the call - he's a man of his word.
…you don’t!! But I can.
Of what word? What is Saito promised that he had to phone after he woke up???
@@sergeyscherbakov1541 The deal was that Saito would make a phone call to erase Cobb's criminal record if the inception was successful. Of course, he had to make the call before Cobb got to Customs or Cobb would have been arrested.
@@dirdib69 --- Welcome home, Mr. Cobb.
Immediately - after a deadly staring moment of Mr. Cobb
This and Interstellar, are 2 different movies, but they hit the same. Hans Zimmer + Christoper Nolan is a masterclass duo
Interstellar needed a better soundtrack, hated that organ
Morpheus I didn’t like the movie, but I think that the soundtrack was the best part of it!
@Andres 24 the dark knight was a masterpiece but in a different way
What’s interesting about those 2 movies is that Interstellar is a father and daughter movie and this is a father and son movie. Except with Interstellar they use the main character (Cooper) to do it. With Inception they use a more minor character (Fischer) to show this relationship.
So tired of people sleeping on The Prestige, so underrated. Best movie Nolan ever made
Notice this. Every time he was in a dream and his wife was around, he wore his wedding ring. But every time he was not in a dream, the real world, he didnt wore his ring. Look closely to his hand in the end. He isnt wearing a ring, so that means he is in the real world. Gotta love the details.
He always wore the ring on his right hand?
+pomaleki the whole movie is a dream. Mal was right
no
Yeh but at teh start, He talks to kids, they are like lets say 10, while at the end they didnt age any.
Notice, in every scene the children are in (while in a dream) they have black shoes; yet, at the end they have different color shoes/style all together.
In the end, Cobb realizes, it doesn’t actually matter if he’s dreaming or not. He’s happy.
You know he could've been happy living with his wife in the dream but he explained that he couldn't live with it because it wasn't real
well actually he knows that its reality because the token is his ring and not the spinner
no ring on wedding finger, hes not dreaming.
@@Ghost-qo5of thats part of his arc. He spends most of the film worrying about being stuck in a dream or not, only to come out at the end with the understanding that that doesn’t matter.
And as for the ring, yes, obviously Im aware his ring is a token, but I have always interpreted the ring as more of an easter egg than a legitimate tangible part of the story. Cobb clearly prefers his top. The ring exists for the viewer’s assurance that Cobb is finally in the real world, to give the film a happy ending, I dont believe its something where he goes “ok, I’ll spin my top, but I don’t have my ring, so I must not be dreaming”.
Tldr; the ring doesn’t really exist, its a head nod from Nolan to the audience about Cobb’s current state and more importantly about his priorities(his wife).
@@AndrewJ9673 main character has children he cares about, so it matters if he's dreaming or not. From this depend if his children will have a father :)
• Cillan Murphy
• leonardo dicaprio
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Michael Caine
The fact Christopher Nolan recasts these actors again and again is so satisfying
Not Leo
Not really
Tom Hardy
This is the only Christopher Nolan movie with Leo DiCaprio
Scorsese had him in more movies than Nolan has
Absolutely perfect ending. The caper had been pulled off. He got home. Spinning the top, he saw his children’s faces. After that, he didn’t care if the top stopped spinning or not. This was a reality he could accept.
Yes
well put
Well he's in a fake world
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@@torad_2120 not really, in the dreams he’s got a ring on, in the ending he’s not got a ring, it’s real, plus it’s starting to wobble
i would do anything to erase all my memories of this film, just so i can have the feeling of watching it for the first time again
ф ьепп ф me too. What a masterpiece
Same man, same..
Then wake up.
Oh what an idea. Yes. So true.
Even if i watched it many times, im still amazed everytime i see it and it fucks my mind ecerytime to. A true masterpiece
This movie was so ahead of its time.
JimiThing Still ahead.
Ahmet Selim Karaca The question it raises and the possibile answers it gives.
Its more timeless than ahaed of its time to be exact.
It will always be up to date, simmilar to 2001 space odysey
JimiThing I guess that is why we cherish this movie so much..
Always will be ahead of it's time
I watched this movie when I was 11 years old and to this day it is still my favourite movie of all time
1. Inception
2. Infinity War
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. The Wolf Of Wall Street
5. The Departed
This movie was one of the best edited and incredibly paced movies ever. The way the tension is created in the third act until the very last scene of Saito picking up the gun, and then when Cobb wakes up, It makes the audience feel like they've themselves woke up from a bad dream. A relief, just like when we wake up from a bad dream. Zimmer's music is one of the main characters in this scene that makes this scene as good as it is.
This is movie is truly an all-timer, and one of my absolute favorites.
well said! much love! cinema lives forever
Excellent post.
DiCaprio’s acting is phenomenal. His subtle facial expressions when he wakes up scream “holy shit we did it”
@TheRaellz I think its more like: did I manage it, is it real?
Including the heavy breathing as he waits for confirmation that Saito is going to make the call.
@@lab981 More like his gaze
I have a question for you all. So how did Cobb know (or Saito, for that matter) that they had succeeded? Wouldn’t Eames have been the only one who knew, since he was the only one who witnessed the inception actually take place?
@@holdengreen2151 they already planned it they just know what will happen in the locker room only problem was how to do it in which they succeeded in the end
And one more question
They just planted an idea in fchisrer mind they don't know if he decides to do it.
Imagine living your whole life. Then waking up.
really interesting story i heard or read but it was about a man who had an accident and woke up from coma only to live his full life and have kids and a wife. when one day he sees a lamp and it looks odd so he watches it. and things began to change.
Grand Old Soul I heard about this story. You got any links to a video that describes it more?
Welcome to the real world Neo!
@@ebongjr793 would be interested in that too
@@ebongjr793 shit i don't. im still looking. it was a on a collection of videos on youtube.
Leonardo DiCaprio + Hans Zimmer + Christopher Nolan = Masterpiece 🎵📽️
So good
And tasty
Sad he's not doing soundtrack for tenet
Ues
Hasan Kaiser
Very sad
0:22 "I gonna create my OWN company, I will walk on my own two legs, and I will engineer the world's greatest bomb!"
I'm gonna settle in Birmingham. Run a family owned Mafia. The city will know of Peaky Blinders.
@@adityaunde4134I think pesky blinders is actually in Birmingham
@@naughtaegames234 My bad
And 28 days later I’ll be in London
And maybe if I have some time, I will go to Gotham and wreck havoc because f*** Gotham 😂
Almost 10 years later and this is still one of the best movies I have ever seen!
Hell's yeah!
same
Go back in 10 yrs , you'll be able to say the same thing believe me
Wait till u see joker
@@shazibkhan1733 that shit gonna be trash
I still do not understand how Leonardo Di Caprio didn’t win an Oscar from this, Zimmer too. I actually don’t understand
Cause Grammy always sucks to not mention Leo for Oscar winner. I'm so glad he finally won it
They are rigged
Because the Oscars are fake
Not to mention this didn't win Best Picture.
The Oscars are trash
Christopher Nolan took 10 years to write this masterpiece
He is not a normal human
Where he said that
Google it you will know brother
Yea right! He stole it from anime
@@khagt3826 no, it was original
@@ahmet_10 you would think so but the truth it wasnt original
Hans Zimmer: I had a music idea
Nolan: ok let's make a movie
Vice versa
@@SafiRana786 no shit
Exactly!! 👏👏👏 that was the reason that Instertellar was made, all started with the music…and the rest IS history
This ending scene and music clearly shows the cruelty of Oscars, Zimmer and Caprio should have won, no matter what.
I agree! Without one doubt. They were definitely robbed. No question there.
Lmao no if Inception deserved best score/actor it would've got it
@eating sugar no papa Have u watched the Social Network/listened to the soundtrack? its soundtrack is so cool it could like only work with that movie
@@eddierhino01 did Interstellar got an Oscar. No. Oscars are a joke.
@@daddy_.rome0 I'll admit Interstellar and Inception had extraordinary scores but the Grand Budapest Hotel's was so nuisanced and so original as well as being so well put together in the frame of the movie that it got best score.
''You never really remember the beginning of a dream right... Its only when you wake up that you realise something was actually strange''
Yeah !
To be honest, i don't remember my memories before 4 yrs old, it's weird, my first memory, was me running around my house, and i was already speaking, but don't remember learning, i knew my friends and family, but don't remember meeting them, i remember school, but don't remember my first day... of course our conscience it's yet changing, but it's weird....
@@meunome5867 I have a similar experience I sorta just began to have a conscience around the age of 3
Yes well said, I remember most of mine
@@meunome5867 nobody does
No one, literally no one
Nolan- we are gonna show a guy getting off a plane and going home so epic that it's gonna give goosebumps to people.
I mean if you explain things out of context it's almost always going to sound ridiculous.
I never watched the movie so im very confused but it’s the ending is indeed is awesome
@@snow.flower Watch it, those 2 and half hours would be worth it.
@@KrisDonut yes inception has lack of explanation it have only summary and main story in the movie
I mean if you're unable to enter in your country. But are allowed to enter after 4-5 yrs & meet your kids, it is emotional & epic.
Inception and Interstellar are Nolan's masterpieces for me. The harmonious blend of sci-fi action with all the emotional drama was just excellent. The movie scores were both great as well. I really hope he does more sci-fi in the future, because he just knows how to make a great impact with his terrific storytelling on the big screen.
Tenet is perfection. This dude is a gift to the world that just keeps giving.
Oppenheimer is another top tier movie
And the dark knight.
My favourite Nolan movie is The Prestige, all movies are wholesome but personally The Prestige has hit me harder than others.
Inception's plot is actually straight-forward and doesn't "lie" about when they are dreaming vs. the real world. What's brilliant about it is it incepts the idea that he isn't in reality at the end (even though he is), by planting the seed of the idea with the spinning top, JUST AS COBB DID WITH HIS WIFE. The audience ends up with the same affliction as she does-questioning the reality of the film, and coming up with elaborate and convoluted theories to support the idea that he's still in a dream. But there is no logical reason to believe he's still dreaming; the spinning top is the only reason we start doubting (if he hasn't spun the top and just went straight outside to see his kids, we wouldn't wonder if it's still a dream). Just like Cobb's wife had no logical reasons to doubt reality, only the nagging idea left behind from the spinning top in their dream.
This is the best thing about Inception; Nolan pulled off an inception on the audience, just as Cobb pulled it off on his wife
The craziest thing is that Cobb's wedding ring is his object to decide whether it's real life or a dream. When in his dream he has the ring on, but when he is not dreaming the ring is not on his finger.
Nice theory, but doesnt sit right. He walls away without "knowing" (why else spin the top). He walks away because he doesnt care. Hes so elated to be with his kids his love overcomes care for anything else. Would you want to wake up from the best dream either? Would you want to know that it isnt real?
@@toyski6897 right but everyother time he hadnt dealt with Mal yet. Hes let go of Mal and now she can no longer effect his dreams negatively anymore. Hes free.
It doesn't drop because it is Nolan's dream, in his heroes journey. We are pulled out into another layer of reality again, at the end.
Bro the ending part is real nolan himself confirmed that the scene is always real in the movie whenever that old guy in it , first go and research then write something
The electric guitar when his passport is stamped makes it so much great. Zimmer knows how to make a scene from the best to the unparalleled....
Zimmer is good at guitars ))) ruclips.net/video/xdYYN-4ttDg/видео.html
The concert in Prague, Hans came out with the guitar and rocks out.
i think its just to show newer instruments cause the song name is time and stuff so its like converting to newer instruments slowly
lmao 🤣🤣 ruclips.net/user/shortsvfmTE82MlLk?feature=share
That's Hans on the guitar
This hits different when you finish watching the whole film
@@SvaraAudioforEveryone aaaaah, thank you?
Yeah no shit
For real tho
Why tf would you watch this before the film duh
@@HenzoStar- i mean after the film
As a father of 2 kids of same age, I just can not watch this scene every time without crying. Our kids means everything to us. We literally live for them. Do everything for them. They are the meaning of our lives...
same brother. I've seen this scene at least a dozen times and it gets me without fail, even more so now that I have a child
some parents still ask themselves what's the meaning of life some know it's their children
Wish I had a dad like you. Your kids are lucky my man
bless you
and now imagine a bomb is dropped on your house.
This film took the "it was all a dream" cliche and turned it into one of the best endings in the history of cinema.
3:36 For a split second there, I saw the totem tilted to the side a little more than usual, which means I think the totem eventually stopped spinning. I think he’s really back home with his children. Anyone else agree? Let me know what you think.
@@arcticangel1628 I mean without a doubt, if they wanted us to never know then they wouldnt have left the part where the totem starts to tilt over.
yeah because here the dream has consequences in the real world
@@raydare2002 no that is to create confusion, i would argue,.. observe that a such an object can still spin after tilting.. and often for a long time... doesn't have to be perfect but only has to keep spinning to be in a dream... if they wanted the conclusion that it was reality, they could have just waited 10 more seconds with the tp to show us that it falls
He can see his kids faces, which means he is in reality. Besides they board the plane to LA and then reach LA. That was all reality. That ending was all just to confuse people who can easily get confused. I mean no disrespect.
People often forget the scene where saito wakes up and looks to cobb and immediately honors his actions, allowing him to return to his family with that single phone call he is tiping in that moment. Such a strong and underrated scene.
It was the intensity in Cobbs face that reminded him. Amazing acting!
He was like “ong Nigga u better wake Tf up rn u dead fish lookin mf” or at least that’s what I got from it
@@mememachinefixed5317 BAHAHAHAHA
Underrated scene? LOL
This is one of the most talked about scenes.
But how did they know that it worked? Yes they were successful but what if Fischer just decides to keep his father company running under someone else?
I like how Sato understands immediately what he promised to cobb
Yup!
I still don't really know how you can remember a specific phone number after 40+ years in a dream 😂
In the end Promises matter 😆
@@Shane_Stoic When you wake up from a dream, you remember everything in the real world, while you may forget most of what you dreamed about. Its like a big switch.
@@purrformance thats an interesting point, but I guess we'll never know for sure
In that year the film "King's Speech" has won the Oscar for the best film. I have no desire to ever watch King's Speech again, but I could always watch Inception again and again. It's the best movie of all time. Period.
Inception was and is wonderful. All the mythos behind all the jists of dream-inducing manipulation, action and reflecting realities is a no-brainer for great movie-making. But I must say that each of the films you mention, are different of sorts... Inception is what I said. But the King's Speech, in its own right, is magnificent for the struggle of the new King from the controversy of his brother, for his struggle of his defective speech and the shadow of war. But last but not least, Colin Firth in his portrayal. That was a good one!
How long have you been this shallow?
@@shadowdawg04 What?
I remember watching this scene at the cinema, people impatiently waiting for the conclusion, everyone creating their own ending in their minds...half of the people cheered up, half of the people cried, and I felt stuck in a limbo :x
Ikr I feel like the ending is designed to make the audience experience “inception” in a way
Thats what the director wants lol
and i never cried neither cheered it up and i was neither stuck in a limbo
@@ninjagonish agree
the ending is a reality. according to michael caine, that play the leonardo father, he saids he only appears in scene where the world is reality.
You can never go wrong with Nolan and Zimmer. Their duo is so powerful. Fantastic movie. It's still one of my fav to this day.
and leonardo 😎
Cobb and Saito’s looks at each other… the acting in that scene alone… chills.
Right!!! Cobb with relief but desperation like “please fulfil your promise!!!” Brought tears to my eyes
I also think he was looking at him to see if he was still alive.
Make the f call..men
People are in sleep, Once they die ,they wake up.
Imam Ali peace be upon him
@@zinozee8929 Well it was because he wasn't sure if Saito made it out and was dropped into limbo.
"Welcome home, Mr Cobb."
I was bawling my eyes out when I saw this ending for the first time, and I'll be damned if this line alone isn't enough of a good reason for it.
Cobb : "Thank you sir 😊"
Imagine if Hans Zimmer and Christopher Nolan suddenly disappeared. God bless them both for making these legendary movies with epic soundtracks.
Don't say that. These two keep giving us masterpieces.
And Johnny Marr, look it up
Mandela effect.
Imagine nolan direct doctor strange 2 and zimmer made score
Hans Zimmer compared to John Williams is the Ramones compared to Led Zeppelin.
This movie should have won DiCaprio an Oscar. The Revenant was good too, but this film was exceptional.
scott b What about What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? Or Catch Me If You Can? Or The Departed? Or Wolf Of Wall Street?
you mean inceptional? lol just kidding
@@SentientProgram01 blood diamond is his best performance imo
scott b I super agree
There are so many movies that should have won him an oscar. I absolutely loved his performance as Frank William Abagnale. He also did a great job in blood diamond. I didn't really like The Departed but he played well there. Inception is, I think, his masterpiece.
There’s a half crew of batman
@Dev hell of a casting
@Dev even ken watanabe he was in batman begins
Suffice to say, Nolan’s crew
@Dev Yeah, me too. The coolest line ever: "I bought the airline." Just to make sure the flight would go as planned.
Well the same guy that made batman made this movie so make sense to put them in it
Cilian Murphy: "Wow that was a nice dream. Time to keep running my company." 🙄
Technically he would barely remember any of it, since that's how dreams work.
he doesn’t have to remember the actual dream. what they did was plant an idea
@@EmperorofManchukuo-iz8de ...and ideas are bullet-proof!
Finally! After 71,208 hours of sleepless nights, I can finally conclude that this scene is a reality. Thank you, Michael Caine.
Well I think it was obvious even without Caine's confirmation, I mean in last scene where Cobb rotated totem, 3:31 at the end it started shaking, which meant that he was in reality.
What about the ring theory?
Thank youuu Michael Caine!!!!
exactly.........
Yup! That's why I m here
The way Saito looks at Cobb after waking up just shows me how the cast really nailed the acting.
thats racist
I like how fischer looks at cobb when leaving the airport
Agreed! If you’ve ever had one of those extremely detailed dreams and wake up, you just spend 10 minutes just “coming to” in the morning. The facial expressions capture it greatly.
@@borris3768 how?
The architect left level 3 while Cobb and Saito were still stuck in limbo, thus having no way to come back. Plus the children never aged and are always playing in the yard, just like Cobb imagines in his dreams. Cobb and Saito are lost in limbo forever.
" A movie by Christopher Nolan "
" Music by Hans Zimmer "
*Perfection*
it's perfception
and acting by Leonardo DiCaprio... now that's perfection
no its Inception :D
and acting by
leo dicaprio
tom hardy
k. murfy
😇
Like you likes❤️
The ending is what the movie has been saying all along. "But it doesn't matter because you'll be together"
For Cobb it didn't matter whether if it was a dream or not.
After 12 years it finally clicked, that's a sign of a masterpiece. You get different results after each time you watch it.
It was real. He didn't have any wedding ring on.
It a dream bcos u could heard his son screaming “we building a house on a cliff”
@@denzelclauded.pagaduan9560 I mean even if we go by the movie's definition, the top is starting to fall so it's real.
@@midgetwars1 The top in dream world seems to almost fall but never does. Forever spinning instead. Cobb sees his kids who are in the EXACT clothes height n weight as years ago when he left. No sane odds of that happening. The kids literally other than faces turning, not a thing changed, that's sus af.
His ring disappearing isn't meaning reality, it means he finally (with help of ariadne) made peace with mal and let go of her.
But he still chose her totem to check with reality, hence the line "you don't know where the train will take you, but it won't matter, cuz you will be together". He doesn't look at totem, doesn't know if the train took him to reality or still stuck in dream world, but wherever he sees his kids' faces finally is fine by him.
His guilt of leaving the kids, is now lifted, cuz of successfully finishing the job that rewards him his life with kids back,
Hence his mind simply ALLOWS him to remember his kids faces being seen by him, from the past. Which he wasn't able to see until his guilt was cleared.
Meaning he did see the kids faces, just had been a blocked memory, even for his dreams being unable to access.
In the dream once, mal tries to tell him how he can indeed see his kids and they're right there, as she was calling out to the kids, but cobb sees them do the usual thing, getting up and running without showing their faces to cobb, he tells mal to "just stop".
meaning she was right, she meant he knows what their faces looked like in that exact moment in those exact clothes, he won't let himself past the guilt of leaving them and won't let himself see, the dream world mal knew that and cobb hated how she toyed with him with that.
which is why ring doesn't mean it's reality now or that the kids faces mean reality either.
watching this movie several times with coffee spikes, let me put this together. i finally can stop the coffee and sleep now.
of course, i need to get the coffee again and go rewatch tenet, that movie is insanely good. christopher nolan is a gift that never stops giving.
if u play top, beyblade or any kind of spinning toys, the second u heard or see the slow wobble, u know it will stop soon.
stop interpret it otherwise.
12 years later and this scene still gets to me. The idea of living what seemed like living a full life only to wake up and realized it was but a dream. Old souls thrown back into our young bodies.
12 years I feel old
You are dreaming! You must accept these true!
@@chrytesol9349 3:36 For a split second there, I saw the totem tilted to the side a little more than usual, which means I think the totem eventually stopped spinning. I think he’s really back home with his children. Anyone else agree? Let me know what you think.
@@tron1176 3:36 For a split second there, I saw the totem tilted to the side a little more than usual, which means I think the totem eventually stopped spinning. I think he’s really back home with his children. Anyone else agree? Let me know what you think.
@@arcticangel1628 yes,i m agree!!! I m sure
*A decade has passed and still- I can't shake that ending!!* 🤯
That's true!
@@hanszimmersmagic6233 Very true. its 2021 and I still revisit it
I understand 💕💕😭😭😭😭 it is so beautiful
We are in a Dream.
You've been Inceptioned :-D
I'm a huge fan of Hans Zimmer and many of the other composers, but nothing hits quite like this song. Many people consider Interstellar his best work but nothing hits quite like this. It truly is his masterpiece.
There is a story about this melody. Actually a sad a story was told by hans zimmer.. He began composing Time after what happened.. That what makes time Special
And the fact that it’s called TIME makes the track more… meaningful in a way
the dune soundtrack he made was solid, finally won his second oscar 🤝🏼
Interstellar's "Docking" scene is one of my favorite in all of cinema and is one of a handful of scenes that I would change genuinely nothing about. The ending scene here is another one that I'd change nothing about. The soundtrack is absolutely INTEGRAL to the success of both.
But they can't be directly compared, at least in my opinion. The scene in Interstellar is about the triumph of mankind against adversity ("It's not possible..." "No... it's necessary.") and is bombastic and gets you incredibly fired up. This scene in Inception is about the end of a chapter of life, the feeling that you and those around you have been through so much, the feeling of awakening from a dream that feels as though it stretched on forever- and yet, just as that chapter closes, a new chapter opens: a homecoming, a return to loved ones and family members. "Welcome Home, Mr Cobb."
Time is forever a masterpiece. Instellar is good but this soundtrack is on repeat.
This music will play in my mind everytime I achieve something in my life
Polish virtuoz😀
This has got to be one of the best movies ever made.
Sadly they don’t win Oscar
@@hasiffitori6784 how who robbed it
@@Benjamin-bp6qn im sorry. They did win the Oscar but what i mean is Leonardo DiCaprio didn’t win the Oscar. Inception won in four category. You can search it up.
@@hasiffitori6784 thank you severus, I will use your knowledge in my next potions class✌
Yee
I love the body language of every single person in this scene. It's so brilliant. You hardly hear 8 words, but you can read their thoughts, full of messages.
I'll never forget this part when i saw it in theatres. The audience was literally on the edge of their seat and everyone was waiting for it to fall...then it cuts to credit and everyones like "ahhhhh"
I agree. He should have just shown it. the whole it doesn't matter bit is bullshit.
"It doesn't matter" is bullshit? The purpose of the video is to explore the ability to solve the problem of hard solipsism. You _could_ possibly be hooked up to a computer being fed information of what you "believe" is the "real" reality. You _could_ be dreaming right now. You _could_ be hallucinating. You _could_ be in the matrix. Can you prove that you're not? In other words, can you solve the problem of hard solipsism? _Your_ statement is that "it doesn't matter" is bullshit. So if it _does_ matter to you, then you can't live your life without knowing. That's your statement. So let's hear it. What's your solution to the problem of hard solipsism? Because you would be the first and only to have ever really solved it then.
Jillum89 Holy shit dude.. calm down.
Jillum89 We both think the same way, only I don't type those thoughts on RUclips because someone will say "Holy shit dude.. calm down".
The totem doesn't matter because it isn't his, its his wife. So it doesn't work for him anyway.
Still one of my favorite movies of all time.
Everyone did such an exceptional job here.
Thank you to everyone for everything.
That moment when Cillian Murphy looks at Leo is always gold.
@rammpeth Culture and then he came In peaky blinder🔥🥵
Cilian Murphy is hugely underrated in this movie
@@imtiyazkhan3464 boom👌🏾🙏🏾
Cillian is Oppenheimer..
Omg broo that scene is great
That 5 stars cast... from main to secondary characters every single one of them was perfect
Just noticed the guy checking the passport. He's a good actor as well. Saw him in few TV series and movies. I mean, it just has to be perfect with Nolan.
@@rajeshsrajeshs he was Leo's boss in "Body of Lies"
Pat McCrotch Oh yeah. Forgot about that movie. You, my friend, gave me a very good suggestion for my Lockdown movies watchlist.
Tom hardy was just good
rajeshs He was in prison break too
The look all four give each other on the plane is exactly what happens after you've had a bad trip and wake up with your friends realizing everything is ok and you didn't actually go crazy.
that Chinese guy must be going mad...he spent what about 30 years down there then wakes up in his chair...what a mind bender that was....
bdProductions | Music For Videos this is so fucking true
@@offmarketinvestments9770 he's actually Japanese
Or did you?
Lmao hell yeah 👌😂
Acting is truly an art form. The plane scene is enough said.
Nolan is such a King
1. Memento (best storyline)
2. Inception (best mindblowing)
3. Interstellar (best concept)
And yea, don't forget The Dark Knight
You forgot the prestige
Inception is the best. NASA IS A HOAX
what about shutter island
Respectfully have to disagree putting memento first, Shutter Island was astounishing also and deserves a mention. All in all I would argue anybody that inception is Nolan's masterpiece... such a unique storyline executed with incredible acting, legendary score, innovative cinematography and that classic Nolan touch that brought us all to this video at the end of the movie..
Also my theory is top wasn't gonna fall and he didn't care either way. I think that's what Nolan wanted us to conclude from that, either way awesome movie
And then there's Dunkirk...
Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer.
When the two smartest kids in class do the homework together.
Then they share it to the class
DespacitoDaniel not exactly...
When the two smartest kids in the class make a PowerPoint presentation, which they turn into a movie with Windows Movie Maker (i.e. the film)
That's a good analogy actually
David Fincher, Alan Sorkin and Trent Reznor also would like a word.
I always hear this theme in my head when I'm picking up my bags at the baggage claim.
Must be EPIC!
Lol
You should listen to it on your phone through headphones as you're at baggage claim - I've done it lol
@@sportcomputerservices6438 Are you sure you were not dreaming? ;)
LMAO me too
Just watched this film the other day for the first time and it is one of my all time favourites. The first Nolan film I saw outside TDK trilogy and I was mind blown. Only a mastermind like Christopher Nolan can make such films like this.
I loved the little pause that Saito has, when he is wondering why Cobb is staring Daggers at him, willing him to fulfil his end of the deal. It suddenly clicks and he still has to pause for a moment, trying to remember who he was meant to call and what the phone number was. Amazing acting.
3:36 For a split second there, I saw the totem tilted to the side a little more than usual, which means I think the totem eventually stopped spinning. I think he’s really back home with his children. Anyone else agree? Let me know what you think.
@@arcticangel1628 Oh for sure and you can also hear the warbling of the top as it’s about to topple intertwined with the music. Just brilliant
To me, it's him trying to find out if the guy's brain been turned into mush or not.
Who was he meant to call
@@manningup4851 he had so much power and influence that he could get Cobb off of the blacklist to get into the US. I'm guessing that he was calling someone high up in the Federal Government to get his name cleared and to allow him past immigration without being detained.
Fun fact: The boy (Cobb's son) is actually Christopher Nolan's (director's) son.
No 😠
@@aakash3752 yes it is. His son Magnus Nolan. Search it up.
@@StarSunYT oh yeah cool thx
@@aakash3752 idiot
Maybe it’s a cliche, but I always like it when the director sticks his wife, kids, mum in a small role in their movie. The director has to give up so much of his life to make the movies and letting the family play along for a day or two has to be such a feel good moment
You know he's actually still on Shutter Island.
😅
And he’s just dreaming of him dreaming with his wife and getting into the dream of a multi millionaire businessman and getting into the dream of his partner in crime to plant an idea in the head of another businessman by getting into his dream, successfully plants it and dreams of waking up but still in his DREAMS ffs imagine being Teddy Daniels
@@Maya-bk4jn 😅Deep
PsyQoBoy 😂
Yeah yes
The first time I watched this movie was at home with my son and a few of his friends at a birthday sleepover. It ended about 1am. At 5am I was in bed, still wide awake, staring at the ceiling trying to absorb what I had just seen. Perhaps having children makes this last scene so powerful. What an incredible collaboration of writing, directing, acting, and composing.
inception and interstellar are one of the best movies ever made. the acting is great, scripting, and especially the music.
Those are my 2 favorite movies
Also TDK, its one of the best.
@@Down915 especially the music
Best movies ever is an exaggeration. Sure they are the best from Nolan.
Music is made by Hans Zimmer for both.
Every time I walk out of airport, this soundtrack plays in my mind.
same lol
Hans zimmer time
@@БильбоБегинс-л1дtrue
as an expert daydreamer who loves "to pretend being in a music video or movie with it's song/soundtrack playing in my ears"
u just gave me the greatest idea of all times for the next time i'll fly. (yeah i know i'm weird as hell....)😂😂
@@lilypowwow9738 You're not weird. This soundtrack should be played in luggage reclaim area in all airports.
Even if you only watch this movie once, you’ll never forget it.
I watched it in 2010, didn’t get it. I tired again in 2012 and still didn’t get it. My dad died in 2013 and I watched it again, in 2014. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks
@@dmcrun3572 Everytime I watch it I get something new out of it.
I forgot I even watched it. Just because a handful of you on RUclips in your echo chamber liked it doesn't mean the majority of the audience liked it.
@@JourneyToTheTruthandTR the majority definitely liked it though. Ofc not everyone, but a majority for sure
I watched it once. I'll never forget it. I had burrito that didn't agree with me once and I'll never forget that either.
Whenever I listen to this magnificent score, it feels as though time itself is unraveling before you, urging you to reflect on the past, present, and future simultaneously. It's a powerful piece that stirs the soul and leaves a lasting impression long after the music fades.
Long live Hans Zimmer.
Not only is this a great ending, but does anyone else find the sequence where they wake up on the plane particularly peaceful and reassuring?
For some reason it makes me think about my childhood when life was simple the music feels very hopeful
Makes you let out that breath you didn't know you were holding throughout the climax.
@@Tran1193 Also something about the idea of being very old men and being able to wake up young again.
Absolutely
Wtf are you talking about
I think the reason he walked away from the totem is because he does not care if he is dreaming any longer. He just chooses whatever makes him happy and makes that his reality... Maybe...
I think so too. That#s the mein reason for me why the ending is so great...
BeastUpp neither does life
Actor who plays his father just confirmed it was reality. Cristopher Nolan told him that every scene he was in was reality
Yes my bad
But his totem was not that spinning thing, but hia wedding ring, and if hw wears it, he is dreaming, and if not, he is not dreaming.. aaand here we can see, no wedding ring in his left hand.
I finally understand the meaning of the end. The perfect life is indistinguishable from a dream.
That’s a great interpretation…
Awesome interpretation I must say.... Never thought it that way.
Damn, seen this film half a dozen times if not more. I never thought of it this way. Great idea!
you didnt get the ending or movie at all did you? He never woke up
@@scoper7897 thats the thing, he doesnt care anymore, he is free of the guilty and just want to be with his children, it does not matter if he is lost in the limbo or if is real.
The way saito looks at cobb and that stare from cobb, legendary acting by eyes in that scene alone and then saito honors the actions of cobb. Such a great ending...genius nolan
What if you could watch your entire life review with this music.
Your life would be underwhelming
I would give myself an oscar
mind blowing idea
I hire Hans Zimmer
Goosebumps
Be honest, you were here to listen to Time.
The version of the film is called "Welcome Home, mr Cobb"
🥰
hahah
My God the soundtrack makes this scene more epic
Thought i was the only one😭😭
Nolan + Zimmer = Legendary Masterpiece
Andrew Hong +Dicarpio= Unstoppable
As well as Interstellar! ^^
Every damn time
Andrew Hong as proven by interstellar
Except dunkirk i think
The airport is so weird. You might spend 10+ hours with someone on a flight and get to know them but then walk away as if you’re strangers. You get to glimpse into someone’s life just by watching them greet their family or friends in the terminals.
Proof that it’s a dream:
It’s impossible to go through U.S. customs without being asked 200 questions, explaining where you were and why, reciting the national anthem, apologizing for visiting another country, and promising to never go it again.
the team bought the entire company...
Are you depressed,why can't you accept it's a happy ending.And what logic are you using?Will Nolan ruin the classy end by showing a clip of him answering to these questions?How he reached home was shown and he remembers it,that's what the movie wants to show.
Anurag Dhole It was a joke, genius.. don’t be so sensitive.
MrSomebunny it’s okay, some people don’t get sarcasm.
@@MrSomebunny then it's ok
0:06 DiCaprio's ability to convey, with his eyes alone, a person who had experienced an entire lifetime of 80 or 90 years suddenly waking up in a 30 year old's body- KUDOS!!!
he's the goat
🐐
Wait what? What 80-90 years?
@@jinhunterslay1638 well, how long did he spend in the dream?
@@goshaid I checked and it's 50 years with his wife?
This is one of the strongest ending in last decade, or century,
*I think
Clearly never seen 2001 A Space Odyssey, Heat or The Searchers then
@@andrewlockett4569 I watched them, but I think Inception is more beautiful.
Interstellar.
@@JumboRelic and Dark Knight
blood diamond
I just watched this again today and this part hit me in the heart and I was crying. Imagine being on the run, never feeling safe, not having a real place to call home anymore and then . . . you suddenly realize you are about to go home, the weight of that, the emotional depth of it all. How overwhelmingly that is. I have not been able to return home in decades and I don't feel safe anywhere. The gravity of that is devastating and I watched this feeling and wanting what he had, but oh so far away. 😢
I had the luck to enjoy this whole masterpiece when it came out. I still remembered how the whole theatre just went "OHHHHHHH" out loud when the lights went out after Cobb's totem kept spinning but got a bit slower. And how, literally every single person, kept discussing on whether it stopped or not leaving the theatre. Simply one of the greatest movie endings ever and such a golden time to enjoy the cinema before this "Netflix time".
OOOHHHHH
First film that I ever went to see with my (now) wife. Loved every second. This scene is absolutely golden to me, so much so that I got a spinning top tattoo the other day.
I think it’s cool how we all have our memories during the time this movie was out. My memory is that I had my last soda drink while I was watching this in theaters. I’ve been going 12 years strong :)
@@x1bl0odman oh man, now I want a soda! But seriously, stay strong! 💪
Now we morbius as the modern day master piece
RUclips has too much respect to take this down.
@Mihael Keehl usually RUclips strikes these clibs
@@thomasbrockschniedel5427 Just videos with 5 minutes or more.
@@Hrismo I know
Cillian Murhpy's last expression at 2:04 when we see someone and know we have seen or met them in another life💯🔥🔥🔥
You mean Tommy Shelby
@@louizzzzz yeah he foking meant that
Deception 😂
Coming back to this video for the 70th time this year and still get goosebumps
Leo, barely said a word... yet We felt everything !
Hanz Zimmer 🤟
acting + direction = IMPACT
The direction, acting and soundtrack make this so great
God this music is amazing.
Martin Hernandez 1 word Hanz Zimmer
Miguel Filipe thats 2 words bro
Ahahah thats right you got me XD. But still amazing.
Martin Hernandez yea. the musical score shakes you to the core. jesus. its increible
+Martin Hernandez Hans Zimmer turns movies into epic masterpieces
I think most of you guys didn't get the message of that brilliant ending. Its not about what is real or not. By spinning the circle at 2:47 Cobb asks himself :" Is this real or not". Then he was about to wait for the answer, when he saw the faces at 3:00 ( by the way the first time in the whole movie ). At that moment he just wanted to hug his kids and in the end he didn't care about it anymore. Nolan wanted to give the answer to the question: It does not matter. As long as you are happy, it can be real or not, it simply doesn't matter. What matters is the love to his kids
+Dancinglings Finally !!!
+Dancinglings I agree... finally somebody got it right. The only reasonable answer to Cobbs' question whether he was in a dream or not was "Who cares?".
You read it from Wikipedia.
RP no i didn't lol
But what about the kids? They still don't have a father if he's trapped in lambo. I personally believe he's not dreaming. Regardless, it's still a beautiful ending.
Nobody realised 'Time' at the time. An absolute genius soundtrack. Now an endless classic and deserved.
Everybody : *Perfect ending doesn't exist*
Inception :
Final is a dream
🥰
And tdk too
But it's not
It's an incredible movie indeed but the ending is most probably a dream. That means his wife might've been right and killed herself and went to a lower stage of the dream or the reality. Imagine them making the part 2 of Inception..
@@OXIR yes mate. Like I said it 'perfect' in the sense that everyone has its own conclusion about its ending. So it depends on what you think / assume would happen!
The music was the key here for me. All through the movie we hear this theme with atonal, discordant flourishes, implying a state of unreality & unease. Finally, in this last scene it opens out into a beautiful, pure, unaltered, unblemished version of itself, lifting us up as the brass goes soaring out uninterrupted - Leo has made peace with his world.
Plus, that spinning top is totally about to fall over. heh.
yeah, but at the cut at the end that spinning top is already spinning for 50 seconds. show me a spinning top that can spin for 50 seconds.
Lucas Lee The one in the dream could spin for 500 seconds if needed, that was the point of it. Check my other comment for more info..
man you guys dont understand what i wanted to say. i wanted to say that he must be in a dream because the spinnig top spins for so long.
music is powerful
It's probably the strongest piece of music, mixed with visuals I have ever seen! Christopher Nolan is quite a director. Always gives me goosebumps!
1:37 this sentence just felt so warm. A policemen just doing his job, saying what common, innocent words, has no idea that these simple words meant the whole word to the person right in front of him. Like waking up from a bad lifelong nightmare, literally, and finally coming home.
Good idea to put Michael Gaston in that chair. He really did a great acting job. Stern check first, short but sincere welcome after that.
R U C K F I V E N
❤
*Immigration Officer
Gives me chills and bring tears to my eyes when he finally saw his kids face.
the music always makes everything 100x better
As long as its from the one and only HANS ZIMMER :D
No the music here is titled 'Time'
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Rariix make more emotional
rariix for reals man
am i the only one that constantly replays this scene and interstellars ending scene??? love the music makes it soooo much better
I am with you .I started with Green mile ending then to Shawshank , Forest gump , interstellar , finally here
+Chiranth Bs Same here Bro!
SAME
ThePain223 I seen this and interstellar ending about 750,000 times. It's still great.
Darkus Owl
yeah cant stop watching them i love those type of movies man
It should've won Best Picture for this scene alone.
I agree this is one of the most original epic and awesome movies I've ever seen. This movie blows me away every time.
Definitely! It should've won Best Picture PERIOD!!!
This movie is way too fucking epic and intense. I can watch this movie over and over again without getting bored.
Stannis The Mannis I have seen it 10 times
totally.
These actors/actress are sooo fucking good! Their facial expressions, eyes, acted better than dialogues! And that heart-filling music engulfing the audiences within the Inception world….omg…I can never express it in words! ❤❤❤
It took me years to realize one very important point about this ending:
It doesn't matter if the totem falls.
It does, the main point is the reality
It doesn’t because he is happy
it doesn't because the dream isn't a nightmare. the dream is reality.
@Mr Kaneki his kids already knew he wasn’t coming back because he kept delaying over and over
i wonder how many years it's gonna take you till you realize it does matter
I remember watching this film in the cinema, I didn't even know what it was gonna be about, just knew it had something to do with dreams. It wasn't until I saw the totem spinning at the end until I realised that I'd literally just watched a masterpiece. I love how Nolan ends this film, it's so perfect. It doesn't matter if he's in a dream or not, he's finally happy.
DR' ecords same feeling I had at the end of Interstellar
Does this mean happiness is an illusion
I’m sorry I would like your comment but it’s at 420 and I’m not gonna mess it up
He didn't even look at the spinner.
It doesn't matter since he's happy
He didn't look back because when his childrens were looking at him, exectly at that time he realised this is Reality.
And what about his children having to grow-up without a father?
He trusted his Heart and let go of his mental uncertainty. He trusted the direct experience of love felt in his body, and this was the true indicator of what's real and certain for him.
@@sociobiologist5141 It wasn't a dream anyway. It was obvious for me, from the first time i saw the movie coz the totem was about to fall at the end. Listen closely before the credits scene when the screen goes dark. The totem starts shaking and stuttering. And now, Michael Caine has confirmed it. This was reality.
@@BurninPhoenix That's beside the point. I was responding to the callous suggestion that it didn't matter whether it was reality or not, so long as he was happy.
Incidentally, I have read that there is some argument about whether the spinning top was actually his totem. Apparently, the top belonged to his wife, and his totem was his wedding ring.
I remember seeing this in theaters and it immediately went down as my favorite ending scene of all time.