Let's start with fact. In a movie as heady and twisty and esoteric as Inception , we simply must begin with the stone-cold facts. For me, Inception 's final act begins with Cobb Leonardo DiCaprio , Eames Tom Hardy , Ariadne Ellen Page , Saito Ken Watanabe , and Fisher Cillian Murphy making it to the third level of the multi-level dream constructed by their chemist, Yusuf Dileep Rao , to ensure enough time to pull off the inception-possible result of Fisher breaking up his father's business empire for Saito's personal gain.
Fisher, aided by Eames, is so close to completing the mission when the unconscious projection of Cobb's wife, Mal Marion Cotillard , emerges from somewhere a ceiling panel? Who knows! Attempts to revive Fisher fail and Ariadne, the architect of this dream world, convinces Cobb to take her down into limbo — a. A journey into limbo features a harrowing, emotional confrontation between Cobb and Mal as "they" sort out "their" issues.
I use quotes since, as the movie has made plain in previous scenes, Mal is a projection of Cobb's mind, so really, Cobb is having a last-minute therapy sesh with himself. Ariadne successfully retrieves Fisher, Cobb stays behind in limbo to retrieve Saito, whose wounds also plunged him to limb but I really don't have time to tell you about that in full, and the team gets off the hour flight from Australia to Los Angeles.
Cobb's father-in-law, Miles Michael Caine , meets him at baggage claim, a thing made possible by Saito using some likely shady backchannels to clear any arrest warrants which previously kept Cobb from returning to L. Miles and Cobb arrive at home, where Cobb can finally see the faces of his children and hug them. Before he does, though, he is compelled to spin his totem, a top once used by Mal, to see if this is all real.
The top is still spinning as Cobb hugs his children and the camera cuts to black. Here is where we all collectively freaked out back in Was Cobb actually in the real world? Or was this some dream trickery, as indicated by his special totem not abiding the laws of gravity?
So much time and effort has been poured into trying to argue why the top actually topples, even if we don't see it. Among the most recent theories is one which argues Cobb's real totem is his wedding ring , not the top, and elsewhere, the fact he is wearing it in the final shot versus not wearing it in what we believe to be dreams , is definite proof he's in the real world.
As stated, the mark thinks he is still awake, perceives the dream world as real and reinforces that notion by "projecting" his conscious view of the world onto the dream - this is why projection people populate the dream cities, etc.
Because of the extractor's manipulations, the mark goes along with the faux reality of dream, ultimately reaching the point where they either realize it's a dream, or open their mind and reveal their secrets. Projections - Dreams feel real to us when we're dreaming and part of the reason for that is our mind's ability to construct a faux real-world setting for us to interact within dreams. Often, that dream is something like a city or any populated area which has other people walking around it.
In Inception , those people that the unknowing mark populates the dream world with are known as "projections. As is explained in the film, projections are not part of the mark's mind - they are manifestations of the mark's vision of reality. If a mark has been trained to defend themselves against extractors, they have a part of their subconscious which is always on guard against mind-crime in the form of militarized security which attack mind invaders.
In Cobb's case, Mal "the shade" is a projection based on his need to remember his dead wife. Mal wanted Cobb back in limbo - his own subconscious trying to pull him back to a place where he could "be with her.
The Forger - As in "forgery," Eames Tom Hardy is a master of imitating people's handwriting, mannerisms - and in the dream world, even their very appearance. Using Browning's image, Eames subtly suggests things to Fischer that fools Fischer into creating his own subconscious version of Browning seen in dream level 2, the hotel.
The version of Browning Fischer conjures in his subconscious motivates him to run deeper into Cobb's maze dream level 3, the snow fortress in order to find "the cheese" - i. Basically, the Forger fools Fischer into using his own subconscious projections against himself. Mal and her shadow - Mal is the character who acts as a vessel for all the more complex notions and questions about reality the film raises.
Mal not only thought but felt that the world she and Cobb had built in limbo was real - it fed her emotionally and made her happy.
When Cobb planted the idea that "Your world is not real" in her mind, he only meant for it to wake her from limbo. Instead, what he actually did by allowing that idea to take root in her mind was to destroy that sense of fulfillment and connection she once had - and once it was destroyed, it couldn't be repaired. Even with her husband and children all back together, Mal couldn't access that emotional reality that comes with the bond of love and connection to our love ones.
Because of inception, Mal couldn't value love or connection the same way because a fake reality only offered fake connections and emotions - only she and Cobb and their love was real to her anymore.
She needed to keep trying to reach some higher state where the nagging doubt would be cured and she could be happy again. And so, thinking Cobb lost in a faux reality, she arranged the hotel suicide and murder implication in order to force Cobb to follow her. The idea Cobb implanted in her led her to her death seemingly , and the guilt of that act led Cobb to create a shadow of her in his subconscious.
At the climax of the film, Mal throws deep questions at Cobb and the audience asking if having faceless corporations chase somebody around isn't yet another dream state.
She questions the very nature of reality for all of us and certainly whether or not the faux reality of film isn't its own sort of dream state - a place where fantastic things occur - an imagined place we as movie goers share and perceive differently and fill with our own subconscious views and interpretations. Pretty deep meta-thinking stuff. There are a ton of theories being tossed around the Internet about the ending of Inception , the two biggest debates being whether Cobb was still in a dream or did he in fact return to his children in the "real world.
The ending of Inception is meant to leave you thinking and questioning the nature of reality. In truth, the underlying message as we interpret it of the scenes mentioned above is that Cobb is actually still dreaming, and in the end, his dreams are his new home. The job that Ken Watanabe's Saito hires him for is a gigantic exercise in catharsis for his addled mind, using his work and his skills to build himself an ideal reality. By the end of the Saito job, Cobb's dream reality has exorcised his marital issues in a sense that he does find his way home at the end of the film.
The twist is that this "home" is in his mind, neatly wrapped up in a beautifully shot and edited package, similar to the way he's envisioned his children throughout the film.
What does Nolan's shooting script say, with regard to the spinning top? Essentially, what you see on the screen. But taken with all of the analysis of conversations between Cobb, Saito, Mal and the professor, we believe that the top is, in fact, still spinning at the end of Inception because it's all a dream.
The information trimmed from the aforementioned pivotal scenes would have helped audience draw the conclusion that Cobb is, in fact, dreaming -- with the world reaching out to him to come back to reality. Does the movie, itself, back this point up? The movie, on the other hand, is much more open-ended, in general, with what it has to say to its audience about the state that Cobb is in.
Not just in the final scene. That stays true to what is in the script. But as mentioned before, a lot of the dialogue between Cobb DiCaprio and Professor Miles Caine is cut down to the basics, leaving much of Nolan's intention to interpretation.
Gone, for example, are any mentions to Professor Miles' wife, who left him because of his continued friendship with Cobb. Instead, their shared scenes feel more like the set up to bring Ariadne Ellen Page into the plot, which Nolan needed to keep the film going at a fair clip. One scene that is left more intact is the Chemist scene, where the old man in the basement asks Cobb if he still dreams, as well as a cryptic reference to the dream becoming reality to the old men -- as well as to Cobb, himself.
We view this as a deliberate clue to Cobb's state. Why should it matter when he is finally with his kids? Maybe our ideas of what is real and what is fake should not be so definitive after all. Follow htshowbiz for more. Filmmaker Christopher Nolan has tried to explain the ending of Inception multiple times. Do you still feel confused?
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