*INCEPTION* (movie) **SPOILER THREAD!!!!!**

[SeaSpray]

This will be the SPOILER THREAD for the movie "Inception".

If you have NOT seen this movie yet, and ever plan to, DO NOT READ THIS THREAD!! It's better to go into this movie with no pre-conceived ideas!

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Ok...let's get started!

Right off the bat, I'll say that DH thinks that Dom WAS in a dream at the very end and that the top was never going to fall down; *I* think that it was reality, and that the movie ended JUST as the top was about to fall; and DS22 feels that it's ALL open to interpretation and that you can find arguments for both endings!

DS22 was already a fan of Christopher Nolan. Now that I know that there was no CGI in the film, I'm even more impressed!

So, what do YOU think???

 

[DisMN]

The end had to have been a dream, I'm just not sure who's dream it was...his or his father in laws. LOL
It was a dream because the children were the same age as when he had to leave them...they hadn't aged at all!
(although I was very choked up at the end so I may have missed something. LOL LOL)

I really wish they would have shown the girls chess piece in use at some point. I wasn't sure how she was gonna use it and I'd like to know. She was drilling it hollow wasn't she?

 

[kimblebee]

I too thought that the top was going to fall over just as the screen went to black. I didn't think about the kids being the same age though so maybe he was in a dream. Hmmm

As to the chess piece, I don't think it was supposed to "do" anything. Arthurs totem was a loaded die. He didn't "do" anything with it, he just knew what it was supposed to feel like with the extra weight in it.

 

[DeluxePrincess]

I said the ending was a dream, DH said it was real. The movie just makes me think so much.

If it was a dream, Leo would have been in the limbo state, right? I have a question about the limbo state. What are you doing in reality when your body is in limbo? He said he was in a limbo state with his wife for 50 years, which is not equal to "real time". So were they sleeping and not waking up all that time?

 

[CapeCAD]

The top was spinning....spinning...spinning, then had a wobble, they showed the kid's faces, then it was spinning upright again.

Either it was really bad editing, or that had to be someone's dream.

 

[GoodFairies]

I really liked this movie. The end took my breath away, and left me a little upset. It is open to so many interpretations.

I definitely think Joseph Gordon Levitt was the standout in this movie.

 

[WriteDisney]

I thought it was wobbling over, it even sounded like it to me towards the end. DH thought it was a dream. I think there's arguments on both sides.

I did read somewhere that the ending was very much like the inception in the movie. That it planted that seed of doubt into your mind. I just thought that was cool.

 

[angie@dvcstore]

Love love this movie it keeps you guessing all night, one of the best movies that Christopher Nolan as done

 

[mjaclyn]

I personally hate endings like this. I have no closure!!!! I want the ending to be real and I think it is. If it wasn't, why wouldn't he include his wife in the dream? Also, the kids could have been similar ages because years in a 'dream' are only hours in the 'real world'.

 

[fupresti]

You have to take a leap of faith...

 

[mariolatry]

The end had to have been a dream, I'm just not sure who's dream it was...his or his father in laws. LOL
It was a dream because the children were the same age as when he had to leave

Actually, the credits give the names of two different actresses who play Philippa at 3 years old and at 5 years old. James is listed as 20 months and 4 years.

 

[Belle Ella]

I just got back from seeing it and boy do I need to go back and see it again. I'm torn on the ending. You so despeerately want it to be real but is there any way to know for absolute certain? A big point I keep hearing (other than the top which could potentially keep spinng or maybe not) is that the children didn't seem to age. But how much time are you supposed to think passed between when he left and the ending of the movie? There was no timeline set up that said years had passed and that the children should look older. For all we know he was only 'on the run' and working outside the U.S. for no more than a few months. You wouldn't even need different actors for th children for that to still be possible if everything from Mal killing hereslf to saving Saito from Limbo was less than a year.

The more I think about it, the more I am leaning towards reality for the ending. I soooo need to go back and see this again.

 

[Terry36]

DD and I saw Inception today and it was AWESOME!!! It has us on the edge the entire time. We both believe the end was reality.

 

[rigs32]

I don't understand why everyone is so up in arms about the ending. Reality or not, he got what he wanted, so what difference does it make?

 

[yoopermom]

I've seen it twice, loved it, but am unsure, too. I wonder about the fact that Ken Watanabe's character, when he's "old" in limbo handles the top, and in the beginning Leo said that you should never let anyone else handle your totem or else you can't count on it anymore.

Who knows?

Terri

 

[HeatherH]

I've seen it twice, loved it, but am unsure, too. I wonder about the fact that Ken Watanabe's character, when he's "old" in limbo handles the top, and in the beginning Leo said that you should never let anyone else handle your totem or else you can't count on it anymore.

Who knows?

Terri

Oooooh, good point there, Terri! I was one leaning towards it NOT being reality at the end, because the top was spinning so perfectly when he met the kids...but maybe the fact that it was touched made it unreliable. Good catch!

 

[DisMN]

I don't understand why everyone is so up in arms about the ending. Reality or not, he got what he wanted, so what difference does it make?

True and that was why I was in tears at the end....it didn't really matter if it was real or not, he was able to see and *be with* his children at the end. Anyone else get choked up?

 

[plutolovr]

Didn't anyone notice that the kids also had on the same clothes on that he saw in his dreams. Too much of a coincidence for the ending to be reality. What are the chances those kids would have on those clothes.

 

[TheZue]

I don't think it was real either. There were many things about his reality that made no sense. We never saw him travelling anywhere except when they were on the plane, and he said to the Ellen Page's character "do you remember how you got here?" and used that as indication they were in fact dreaming. Also Michael Cane's character didn't make a lot of sense in many ways....he was teaching in Paris yet had many English speaking American students. Leo's character was dropping off toys for his kids in Paris like their Grandfather saw them a lot; yet they lived in the states with Michael Cane's wife; another odd arrangement that they'd live so far from his work. And at the end he was there in LA picking him up despite having work in Paris. As for the kids two ages listed in the credits, on the phone they sounded much older than they looked either in his visions or at the end.

 

[Heidict]

There are a couple of things that I read to watch for if you are going to see it again.

1- Cobb only wears his wedding ring when he is dreaming. In immigrations he did not have a wedding ring on and we can therefore conclude that what happened after that is reality.

2- Someone said that after the screen goes black you can hear the top fall.

So, if you are going again, watch for these things and let us know what the results are.