Great movie. The best I have seen in a while. I am one of those people that love to see movies that make you think. This movie had no problem doing that.
The question i find most people asking is.... "Do you think he is awake at the end or in another dream world?"
I wish I had the answer... but instead only pose more questions.
I guess you can always weigh the two options... So lets do exactly that.
TIPS FOR HIM BEING AWAKE
For example, he never saw his kids faces so we cannot easily tell if they had aged much from his memory.
In addition, the movie never defines the amount of time that has passed since Mal had died and Cobb was banned from theU.S.
In addition, the visual duration of the top spinning is never a trustworthy totem at all, since it is a property of the totem others can observe and recreate. If the top is to be trustworthy at all, it is Cobb's knowledge of how it feels to spin it that convinces him he is awake, not the duration of the spinning, which we can presume will end eventually in the final scene.
Visually, there is an obvious difference between the wobbly spinning in the end-scene and the absolutely perfect spin in the safe during limbo, again implying the possibility that the final spin could be natural (though only the feel in Cobb's fingers would know for sure). It is alleged that at the end of the film Cobb's children are wearing different, albeit similar clothing compared to the clothes they wear in Cobb's subconscious. In the opening scene dream, you get a glimpse of Cobb's hand. He's wearing his wedding ring. Now, if you follow the rest of the movie keeping an eye out for this you will notice that he only has the ring on when he's allegedly in a dream. At the end of the movie he isn't wearing the ring. If the ring only appears when he's in a dream and he's not wearing at the end of the film, that could be confirmation that in fact he woke up.
TIPS FOR HIM STILL DREAMING
Cobb took the totem from Mal. Which means he can only know so much about its true feel.
The kids do look the same and are in the same position as his prior memory which suggests a dream.
Cobb spins the totem in the final scene and simply walks away from the totem. This tells us that NO matter what the situation is he is where he wants to be. Which is back with his children. Reality and dream worlds make no difference to him anymore.
A big thing I have not heard one person mention is this. When they go and Yusuf in the trashy basement people are dreaming. Once someone asks the question why would they be doing this for such long periods of time?... they go back and forth and a gentlemen asks Cobb about it. Cobb basically says that dreaming becomes life for these people and it is mentioned that people come here not to dream but to wake up. After all that talk they ask Cobb if he wants to test it. Cobb agrees and they put him under.
.... This is when he dreams for literally a second and "supposibly" wakes up and heads to the bathroom and washes his face. He is a sweating nervous wreck and if you look off to the side you can see the open window that Mal jumped out of. After that Cobb tries to spin his totem and someone walks in causing him to hit it over. WE NEVER GET TO SEE ANOTHER SPIN UNTIL THE END. Is it possible that Yusuf put him under and from there Cobb unknowingly worked himself back into Limbo?
In addition, the movie never defines the amount of time that has passed since Mal had died and Cobb was banned from the
In addition, the visual duration of the top spinning is never a trustworthy totem at all, since it is a property of the totem others can observe and recreate. If the top is to be trustworthy at all, it is Cobb's knowledge of how it feels to spin it that convinces him he is awake, not the duration of the spinning, which we can presume will end eventually in the final scene.
Visually, there is an obvious difference between the wobbly spinning in the end-scene and the absolutely perfect spin in the safe during limbo, again implying the possibility that the final spin could be natural (though only the feel in Cobb's fingers would know for sure). It is alleged that at the end of the film Cobb's children are wearing different, albeit similar clothing compared to the clothes they wear in Cobb's subconscious. In the opening scene dream, you get a glimpse of Cobb's hand. He's wearing his wedding ring. Now, if you follow the rest of the movie keeping an eye out for this you will notice that he only has the ring on when he's allegedly in a dream. At the end of the movie he isn't wearing the ring. If the ring only appears when he's in a dream and he's not wearing at the end of the film, that could be confirmation that in fact he woke up.
TIPS FOR HIM STILL DREAMING
Cobb took the totem from Mal. Which means he can only know so much about its true feel.
The kids do look the same and are in the same position as his prior memory which suggests a dream.
Cobb spins the totem in the final scene and simply walks away from the totem. This tells us that NO matter what the situation is he is where he wants to be. Which is back with his children. Reality and dream worlds make no difference to him anymore.
A big thing I have not heard one person mention is this. When they go and Yusuf in the trashy basement people are dreaming. Once someone asks the question why would they be doing this for such long periods of time?... they go back and forth and a gentlemen asks Cobb about it. Cobb basically says that dreaming becomes life for these people and it is mentioned that people come here not to dream but to wake up. After all that talk they ask Cobb if he wants to test it. Cobb agrees and they put him under.
.... This is when he dreams for literally a second and "supposibly" wakes up and heads to the bathroom and washes his face. He is a sweating nervous wreck and if you look off to the side you can see the open window that Mal jumped out of. After that Cobb tries to spin his totem and someone walks in causing him to hit it over. WE NEVER GET TO SEE ANOTHER SPIN UNTIL THE END. Is it possible that Yusuf put him under and from there Cobb unknowingly worked himself back into Limbo?
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