The Ending To Inception: Dream or Not?

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You guys are arguing over nothing. Nolan himself said he made it so you'll never know if it was a dream or not. Give up. He soprano'd you. Hes a fakkit.

“With this film, though, people really think I’m going to tell, ” he says. “I get a lot of questions like, ‘Okay, did this thing earlier in the film mean that it’s all true, or does this other thing at another point in the film mean that it’s all a dream?’” Nolan says there’s no definitive answer to that question, because then his choice at the end of the movie to cut away from the spinning top — used by lead character Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) to know whether he’s in the real world (the top falls) or the dream world (the top doesn’t) — would have been an error on his part. “There can’t be anything in the film that tells you one way or another because then the ambiguity at the end of the film would just be a mistake,” he says. “It would represent a failure of the film to communicate something. But it’s not a mistake. I put that cut there at the end, imposing an ambiguity from outside the film. That always felt the right ending to me — it always felt like the appropriate ‘kick’ to me….The real point of the scene — and this is what I tell people — is that Cobb isn’t looking at the top. He’s looking at his kids. He’s left it behind. That’s the emotional significance of the thing.”

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Inception - Ending Scene - YouTube


After watching and reading multiple theories:

"Him only wearing his ring in the dreams

The old man (Alford) only appearing in reality

The Totem Not Being His, etc"


And I Still Dont Know :damn:

shyt thats tripping me out tho is how long can a totem spin before it eventually has to drop. That shyt cant spin forever :why:

What yall think?

it was a dream.

also his father in law could have brought his kids to see him. :manny:
 

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The whole thing being a dream also makes sense when you consider that Cobb and Mal were living together in Limbo when they were asleep.
Isn't it established that limbo is in dreams within dreams? How were they in Limbo if they were only in 1 dream?

All the points in this thread and elsewhere for why it's actually a dream are pretty convincing while the counterargument is just usually, "nah i dont think so :flabbynsick:"

:goatshrug:
 

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*parties at expense of nolan fanboys*

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You clowns just dont get it. The writer said, there is no way to know. He wrote it like that on purpose.
 

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Cobb had an Inception done to him. You mean to tell me Alfred was a professor in France and then made it back home to meet his son in the states??? Either the Inception was played on Cobb or it's all a dream. I think for sequels sake Cobb was incepted. The gawd Saito was too much of a G to be a rookie at the Inception shyt. How else do you explain Saito showing up randomly to Africa and all that. Now they can get Cobb to accept reality a and start a bigger mission.
 
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