Inception Meaning
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anonymous Mar 4th 2011, 19:18 report
Its an amazing movie that is so completley epicly well put together. They made the right choice when it comes to actors and Christopher Nolan, he is an awesome director and of course he did a extrorinary work of art. My interpretation is.. i mean the movie says it all! If you watch it and understand it, if you follow the movie you will love it! I was astonished by Mr. Nolan! Who would ever come up with something this amazing and twisted storyline! I just loved how you got so IN so draged into the movie! A dream within a dream! Im mean.. DAMN! I applaued him! TERRIFIC WORK! DESERVED AND OSCAR FOR SURE!
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anonymous Mar 9th 2011, 02:46 report
I can't believe some people have talked down this movie, I assume it's because of that pre-programmed prejudice some people have for successful product. Anyway, it's a great movie and an even better visual experience. Interpret the movie and its ending the way you want whether being positive or negative, but you can't escape the fact that the film is a visual phenomenon and deservedly won best cinematography at the Oscars.
I can understand how people get angry at the film and tell everyone how bad it is just because they didn't get(or didn't listen to) the concept that is/was Inception. I won't even bother going into my interpretation of how the movie works(i say interpretation because I am not Christopher Nolan and I don't like to seem like a know-it-all and TELL you that this is how it is etc.), I will just share my interpretation of the ending.
Normally, the question people ask about the ending is whether it is reality or not. My opinion is that Cobb does not care where he is to be honest, he believes it to be real and his kids are there and that's good enough for him. His ordeal is over and he is convinced he is home so he'll take what he can get after his past. We see this through the fact that he spins the top, sees his kids, gets distracted and runs straight over to them, instead of checking to see whether it fell or not. It shows us the presence of his children, which mean so much to him, outweighs the importance of whether he is still in a dream or not. You can argue that when he sees the kids throughout the movie he doesn't show as much affection, but throughout the movie he had a job to do and had to keep going.
Just for arguments sake, when he spins the top is spun in the dream, it stays completely still and never wobbles. Every other time he spins it to check whether he is out of a dream or not, it always sways or wobbles before it topples, which was just like the ending. Of course, I can't tell you that it DID topple at the end, but I assume from the evidence that it does, but again I stress my real opinion as I stated above. -
anonymous Aug 15th 2011, 09:02 report
These tokens were used to see wether one was in his own dream or controlled by someone else (that person would not know the unique qualities of the tokens). So Cobbs token would fall in reality or a dream controlled by someone else, so there's no telling wether it's real or not.
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anonymous Sep 29th 2011, 01:28 report
In line with what anonymous from Mar 9th was getting at, I think the storyline and especially the end of the movie poses the question of whether knowing what is reality is more important than experiencing happiness. That this is a question posed to each viewer of the movie is evident from the ambiguity of the last scene. Yes, the top wobbles a bit which suggests Cobb is in reality, not dreaming. However, when Cobb looks out the door he see's the same scene of his kids in the yard facing away from him that he had visions of several times previously when he was dreaming. So it's a value judgment the viewer is asked to make.
Maybe there's a deeper level of meaning, one not so philosophical but rather practical, having to do with whether (say) american culture is just a pharmaceutical-induced, oil-fed, television-pacified veneer of happiness that covers up a ugly reality of exploitation, emptiness, and lethargy. But that's not so obvious, from the film at least. -
anonymous Mar 15th, 19:15 report
They use tokens to tell the difference from reality and a dream. The rule was yours had to be touched by no one and be unique. The problem is Diacaprio character's token was his wife so he has therefore lost all sense of reality. Also the Asian dude says take a leap of FAITH. The same thing his wife said before she died. So he was getting inception put into him therefor the whole movie is a dream!
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