INCEPTION blew my mind! | MOVIE REACTION | FIRST TIME WATCHING

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[@MrSiriusAB]

This will always be my favorite film. The characters names spell DREAMS: Dom Robert Eames Arthur Mal Saito Other cool fact: The movie is also about movies: Cobb is the director, Arthur is the producer, Ariadne is the production designer, Eames is the actor, Saito is the studio and Fischer is the audience.

[@IveGotAMatch]

Even more than that, they spell: D om R obert E ames A rthur M al S aito P eter (Browning) A riadne Y usuf Which they do, if you're in the business of extracting!

[@Music_Movie_Fan]

​@@IveGotAMatchdamn bro

[@outlavv247]

Nolan said recently that the point of the ending is not whether it is a dream or reality but that Cobb no longer cares. He was focused on trying to figure it out the whole movie and then in the end he was happy with his kids and didn’t even look to see if it fell or not.

[@bboyshotty]

i like that

[@webspec]

That's a good explanation. It just would have been nice it was made more obvious rather than the typical "is it? is it not?" type of shot. But I'm glad to know and have a definitive answer on the matter.

[@mycroft16]

The way I took it until Nolan specified was that it didn't matter... of it's real or a dream, he has what he has worked for. Nolan's is more nuanced.

[@callmeshaggy5166]

Besides that it was Mal's totem, Saito also held it at the beginning. Whether he knows it or not, that's in Saito's mind now. Almost like a trade.

[@TheJrr71]

This is a film that just keeps on giving! The times I've watched it, I was so focused on the top, that I hadn't even noticed Cobb was not even looking at it. Brilliant. Thanks for that bit of Nolan trivia.

[@omrmajeed]

I saw this 3 times in a row in cinemas. With 3 different groups. Each time I saw something new.

[@images_by_geoff]

My favorite concept for a movie and amazing acting that brings all the dreams we have to life in a way that makes us question everything after we watched this film. Are we in a dream? Where do our thoughts and inspirations come from? Do we ever have dreams within our own dreams? Or did we not have dreams within dreams until the idea was inceptioned into our mind via this movie? Loved your reactions to so many parts of this film! Keep up the great work that you do by entertaining us all! Even if you are a dream projection within our subconscious mind. 🙃🧠

[@thejamppa]

Nolan is generally masterful making complex film that you can enjoy even you don't get / understand quite everything. Interstellar, Inception, Prestige. Only Nolan film that has actually given me head ache (literally) every time I tried to watch it was Tenet.

[@stonedmountainunicorn9532]

If you want more Leo watch "Shutter Island" for sure, great movie, new things to discover with every rewatch

[@Yora21]

Short and simple version: Cobb no longer cares to check if being back with his children is a dream or not. Longer and more complicated version: The totem at the end could never tell Cobb if he's awake or dreaming. 1. Mal and Ariadne both know the totem, so he could be in one of their dreams and the totem wouldn't tell him. 2. Since the behavior of the totem depends on what the owner of the dream thinks it should do, it can always only tell you if you're in someone else's dream. If you are in your own dream and your subconscious controls it, then the totem will do and tell you whatever you want it to. If you want your totem to tell you that you are awake, it will tell you you are awake. He could be in his own dream and never know. 3. And regardless of all of that, Cobb's totem can never work because it's made backwards. It needs to behave strange in reality, but behave normally in someone else's dream. In reality it will fall. In someone else's dream it will fall. In your own dream it will fall, if you subconsciously want it to. It will only stay up if the owner of the dream knows about it, and subconsciously wants it to stay up. It's completely useless.

[@alsims2007]

you are the first person I've seen also question Mal's totem. my own head canon is that it's the main contributor to why Mal's accepted Limbo as reality. they did say the totems were Mal's idea so I imagine she created an ineffectual prototype without considering what truly is required to keep a grip on reality.

[@ozcanison]

@@alsims2007 except that you've both overlooked something, the spinning top is NOT Cobbs totem, its Mal's. Cobb explicitly tells Ariadne that its Mals. Cobbs totem is his wedding ring.

[@alsims2007]

@@ozcanison read either of our comments again. We are talking about Mal's totem when she was using it. It doesn't work as a totem, Regardless of the user, because it needs to act weird when in someone else's dream but act normal in real life. That's backwards from what a totem should do. It needs to secretly act weird, or have a weird property in real life. That way, in the dream, the person creating the dream has no idea of this weird property and it will instead act normal. This will indicate to the totem's owner that they are dreaming.

[@alsims2007]

@@mrclean29 I'm talking about Mal using her own totem when the only person that knew was Cobb but your explanation is very flawed. If someone can manipulate your totem at will then what can it tell you to verify your not dreaming? If they want you to believe you're dreaming, they keep it spinning. If they want you to believe you're in reality then they let it fall. Cobb knowing is the reason why his inception was successful on her. And bonus correction Ariadne is the architect. She designs all the levels and teaches them to the dreamers. From the moment she learns about the top she never again was the dreamer. She doesn't have control over the shared dream and she originally wasn't meant to be there at all.

[@pduidesign]

It was about to fall over. It was real. His actual totem was his wedding ring. It only appears when he is dreaming. If you watch the movie again you will notice he doesn’t have one in the real world and does in the dream. Remember he said that the topper was Mal’s totem.

[@Unam-et-Solum]

I've always loved the idea of the ending - He was home.

[@alejandrobedolla2106]

I saw this opening night and it took me 13 years to realize what they were saying about “limbo”…Cobb was there, and Saito ends up there, which means that consciousness is shared by everyone.

[@asianck]

The Prestige which is also from Nolan should be on ur to watch list. Amazing movie!

[@leonardodavid4670]

I prefer to think that the ending is open to interpretation.

[@terrylandess6072]

Total Recall asked this question (As did Wizard of OZ :P ) but Nolan has a way of making things his own. While it's easy to get lost in the details, I find the story tragic overall and it's kinda hard to ignore that myself on subsequent viewings.

[@Henchman_Holding_Wrench]

You spotted the ring in the dream world detail so early.

[@vonertz]

My personal opinion is that Mol was right all along and she's not dead, she's awake and waiting for him to wake up, but He no longer cares if it's real or not and is content to be with his kids.

[@havingalaff3112]

i think the best way to figure if he really did wake up is looking at the age of his kids...i think the daughter looks older but the son....

[@barclay1990]

I think Maul was correct when she jumped, and that the entire film is Cobb lost in his own dream

[@chrisnorman1902]

Possibly the best movie adaptation of a Donald Duck comic

[@Zoinkx]

Another great reaction, loved the video! I wish we also got to see you react to the behind the scenes video and theories to the movie, I would have loved to see your reaction to these things as well, since you were so hyped about it!

[@bileskalnz]

Mount Rushmore of movies Movie! Love it.

[@Castaniety]

we need to go deeper

[@STOCKHOLM07]

Now you have to watch Paprika.

[@alejandrosilva1138]

Addie, I love your reactions! All the best for you! Please do a reaction video for Lorenzo's Oil 1992

[@B1GGR4Y]

Have you ever watched Shutter Island?

[@shinjuyoung1]

Fischer: Daddy wanted me to be my own man not just live for him....... I will expand our company to electric cars and internet seaching business.

[@tfpp1]

Yes, yes, yes, one of my top 10 movies of all time, of any genre. I just . . . never tire of watching this work of film art. Also, don't read too much into the ending, it's just clever editing that sparked an entire cultural-wide debate about the movie. He's awake, it's reality.

[@steved1135]

Nice. One of the 5 movies I watch at least twice a year. Easily one of the best films ever.

[@kasperthee]

Memento?

[@thomaskilroy4573]

This film’s final scene is real. You can tell because, what so many people fail to realise is that the Spinning Top is NOT Cobb’s Totem, it is his wife Mal’s. Cobb’s Totem is his WEDDING RING. Whenever he is in the REAL WORLD…he does NOT wear it. But whenever he is in a DREAM…he DOES wear it. Because as he says very clearly…”In my dreams, we’re still together.” In the final scene…he isn’t wearing his ring. So he clearly is in the real world.

[@Baiko]

I've often seen that argument that the totem is Mal's and not Cobb's, but that forgets that in the real world, physics would still exist and the spinning top would topple, no matter whose totem it is.

[@jayar7436]

He also said no one is supposed to know your totem, but he shows Adrienne. To me, that meant the spinning top was never his totem.

[@JustinJaymz]

Your reaction to the final shot was perfect! My interpretation, based on what he told Ariadne in the beginning, is that Dom’s homecoming was real, because we see how he got there. We see almost every step from the plane to when he gets home. If it was a dream, he wouldn’t know how he got there. Plus, the kids are older when he gets home than how they appear in his memories.

[@firsealtonberry9712]

Also, the top was never Dom's totem. It is explained that not only is it Mal's totem, but it was also the first, prototype totem. Addie notes that Dom wasn't wearing his wedding ring in the real world early in, in fact - a common theory is that Dom's actual totem is the wedding ring. Dom's trapped by the totem not because it was his proof of dreamstate, but because by manipulating it he managed the inception on Mal and on some level he worries he also trapped himself (notably, Projection Mal taunts Dom by stating he doesn't believe in one reality anymore; she's part of his subconscious, so she would absolutely know that to be true)

[@mnemonic1363]

A lot of people like to say the ending left it open to debate for fans. But the reality (no pun intended) is in the final scene he isn't wearing his wedding ring. You will only see Leo wearing his ring in dream sequences. The final scene of the movie was real life. Leo didn't have his ring on.

[@BrianKoppe]

Right. It's dramatic, but not particularly ambiguous. The wobble, the missing wedding rings, the kids faces, Michael Caine... all signs pointing to real life.

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

Here is a fun thing though: The spinning thing is not HIS token, it's hers

[@genghisgalahad8465]

​@@CyberBeep_kenshi he's in her fantasy?? 👀!!!

[@Yora21]

Cobb's totem doesn't work anyway. It will only keep spinning if he's in his own dream and his subconscious wants the dream to be a dream. In reality it will fall. In someone else's dream it will fall. And even in his own dream it will fall if his subconscious wants it to. It's completely useless.

[@AdamNisbett]

Also, though they did a good job of making it look similar enough to get people questioning, the two kids at the end are different actors (slightly older) and wearing slightly different clothes than the ones he constantly sees on the dream world based on his memory.

[@AceCorban]

The ending is constantly debated, and that was sorta Nolan's intent. It's up to your own interpretation. His main point is that to Cobb, it doesn't really matter anymore. But you picked up on something very early that leads to a popular theory. The top isn't Cobb's totem, it's Mal's. So when you said "was he only wearing a wedding ring in the dream?" A popular theory is that his wedding ring is his totem.

[@centripetal6157]

Thats a common point people like to point out - but his ring doesn't really indicate anything. It was never confirmed in the movie that it was his totem.

[@noah_ncl0223]

Michael Caine recently told when he was in a scene, this is reality. And when he wasn’t, this is dreams.

[@centripetal6157]

That was never confirmed by Nolan himself

[@Yora21]

I think the reason that this movie is so much more accessible than Nolan's other time-wonkey movies is that even if you are lost what's going on with all the rules about the dreams, it's still very easy to follow what the main characters want, feel, and are trying to do in every scene. You might get confused at times where they are and why things happen, but you're barely ever lost about what the characters are feeling or trying to do. Which unfortunately is a problem with many of Nolan's other movies.

[@MaiinaOne]

especially when you can clearly hear the dialogue

[@noah_ncl0223]

This movie explodes our brain until the end. 🤯 But what a masterpiece made by a great director.

[@hungryclone]

Greatest ending. I stood and shouted “YES!” in the theater when I saw it. Others were murmuring in disappointment but there was no other way to let that end. So good.

[@d.w.strangeman4963]

Crazy thoery... Cobb was the one being incepted to let go of Mol, but to get inside his mind they had to find a way in which he had to open it via the possibility of incepting someone else which would allow them to follow.🙂

[@dunbardunelm3924]

Nice ☺️

[@maximillianosaben]

This movie is just fantastic! It is also an allegory of filmaking. Them performing Inception is representative of them making a film. Cobb serves as the director. Arthur is the producer. Eames is the actor. Ariadne is the production designer. Robert Fischer is the audience. Saito I suppose would be the studio paying for it. And Yusuf... he just provides necessary drugs to the crew, haha.

[@Yora21]

Yusuf is special effects. That's why he asks if everyone just saw that really cool thing happening, but nobody gives him any credit. Also, projections are the audience. They are okay with it all being fake, but when your movie makes no sense, then they will hate you. And when you tell the audience what the message of the story is (inception), they will reject it. They have to connect the dots themselves to accept what you want to tell them.

[@chrislaustin]

The ending was one of the things that made the movie so great, as you don't know 100% if it's real or a dream. It's just like at the end of "The Thing", was one of the guys the thing, neither one, it leaves you guessing and looking back on what happened and if you may have missed something. For me, I always thought the ending was real life and he made it back to his kids, but if it wasn't, would that have been so bad for him?

[@happyslapsgiving5421]

A lot of "experts" loved to say that this ending was ambiguous. *IT WASN'T.* 😂😂😂 The kids were older (different actors) and we saw their faces. Leo didn't have his ring on. The top started wobbling, which means it would have fallen shortly after the end of the movie... that's how physics work. The top in the dream world never wobbled... it continued with the same speed forever. The spinning top was not his totem, anyway... 😂 And so on...

[@TeamEvil84]

Michael Caine once cleared up the ambiguity surrounding the film’s final scene. In a clip from 2018, which recently resurfaced on Reddit, the British actor is seen introducing a Film 4 screening of the acclaimed Christopher Nolan film. According to Caine, the filmmaker explicitly told him which scenes were real and which were a dream. “When I got the script of Inception, I was a bit puzzled by it and I said to him ‘I don’t understand where the dream is’,” Caine told the crowd. “I said, ‘When is it the dream and when is it reality?’ He said, ‘Well when you’re in the scene it’s reality.’ So get that - if I’m in it, it’s reality. If I’m not in it, it’s a dream.”

[@terrylandess6072]

I hate to lawyer words so what Caine says would be at least partially right. Every scene with him IS in reality but is he IN every scene from reality? That sounds like something Nolan could say to allow the actor resolution during his performance. :)

[@alexo_pog]

@@terrylandess6072nitpicking, he obviously meant "if im not in it, it can be a dream", its a real life sentence not a prewritten official statement

[@terrylandess6072]

@@alexo_pog I hope you feel better now - I simply pointed out an obvious possibility.

[@centripetal6157]

That doesn't prove anything, it could have been a throwaway silly comment to an actor by the director. Nothing was actually confirmed in the movie and several hints show that its still a dream at the end.

[@KatzenbachNYC]

This is in my top 5 movies of all time! Phenominal movie and in a world where Hollywood just puts out remakes and sequels, this is a breath of fresh air and such an original concept. Wish more movies would be like this in terms of originality.

[@Sekaniy]

Yes. It's sad I have no interest in movies anymore. Even superhero movies are being remade over and over.

[@TheDaringPastry1313]

I'm just starting the reaction, but the fact you caught the wedding ring so fast. Nolan took major inspiration on some of the scenes where guys are walking on walls from 2001 A Space Odyssey which you have seen. Built a whole rotating set to film stuff.

[@MegaForrestgump]

Christopher Nolan has made some fantastic movies. This one in particular is epic. It has so much depth. When I get home tonight, I am going to rewatch it.

[@Enrique-Garcia]

My theory: Cobb was the target all along, not Fischer. Cobb had somehow convinced himself that he couldn't return to his kids and someone (my guess is Miles) hired Ariadne to be the extractor; this explains why she took to bending dream reality so quickly and easily, she was pretending to be the novice. It's almost always Ariadne making the suggestions and convincing others to follow along. She was hired to implant the idea into Cobb's mind to let Mal go, and she succeeded.

[@TheJrr71]

Awesome! 👏

[@OldPervertedHerbert]

Lame

[@ochjim]

I don't think Nolan has anything to worry about . .

[@StephenRichmond89]

I don't think Nolan wanted there to be one answer but I think this one is actually "correct" as much as anything can be. The totem he uses is Mal's, not his. We literally never see his totem used to check if he's dreaming or not. Then her name being Ariadne, the way that when he's trying to lose the tail the walls seemed to be closing in literally just at the point they would be metaphorically, and then he's saved perfectly conveniently by the guy hiring him who ought to be busy as a CEO, characters sometimes know the wrong things, in the plane the mark doesn't recognise the CEO of his major rival. All of that, once you remember that he never checks if he's dreaming using his own totem, makes it seem like, however much he didn't actually intend to, Nolan accidentally created a pretty compelling argument that the "this is Inception on Cobb to let Mal go" theory is the correct one.

[@austinj3881]

You never had a dream inside a dream. Numerous times I have dreamed that I woke up and was getting ready for work only to have my alarm clock go off and wake me up. Of course I was annoyed I had to get ready for a second time.

[@marximus4]

The Prestige is another excellent Nolan movie. Recommended!

[@novAviator01]

Thank you for the reaction

[@Warlocke000]

I can spin polyhedral dice and they go longer than that, so a well-designed and properly spun top can definitely spin for much longer. Like many a D&D player, I've probably spent more time spinning dice than taking my actual turn.

[@crispy_338]

The Revenant is probably Leo’s best movie. Def worth a watch

[@johnsensebe3153]

You mean not counting _Critters 3,_ of course.

[@crispy_338]

@@johnsensebe3153 Ah yes. The classic masterpiece that is Critters 3. How could I forget.

[@TheLegend-yl6eu]

In dream Cobb wears his rings, in reality he don’t.

[@enlightenmenttv2287]

You caught the slight wobble before the cut 👌🏾. When I first saw this, and noticed that, I felt it was definitely about to topple. So as far as I'm concerned, everything worked out and he made it home to his kids for real. No point in stressing ourselves out, thinking he might still be stuck in a dream 😂. Great reaction Addie, as always. This is still one of the most unique, creative and visually stunning movies I've ever seen. Christopher Nolan doesn't miss....well, Momento still irks me a little bit 🤣

[@dunbardunelm3924]

Which aspect of Momento or just it's overall dragging nature? 😂

[@enlightenmenttv2287]

​@dunbardunelm3924 Well first off, spoiler alert for those who might come across this. I mean it's not a bad movie or anything, I just personally didn't like the ending. It wasn't the resolution I was looking for, if you can even call it that. I finished it feeling just as bad for the guy as I did in the beginning, and I'm like...That's a horrible story...fascinating, but horrible 😂.

[@henryparka3718]

The totem wouldn't have started to wobble if it were a dream. In a dream it spins indefinitely. It's just to tease the audience and end the film with some suspense instead of wrapping everything up in a bow.

[@Gilvad0]

I think narratively the idea that it's actually a dream basically throws away the entire film's development. During Cobb's emotional climax he literally says to Mal that the version of her in his dreams could never be good enough. The same would be true of his children.

[@AlexandruCarjan]

The spinning top wasn't his totem, it was his wifes, his real totem was the wedding ring. Everytime he was in a dream he was wearing it. The children at the end have different clothes and in the credits are different kids. Plus whenever Michael Cane is in a scene it's in the real world

[@professormoh]

The important part for me in the ending was, that Leo doesn't have to look anymore at the totem to know if it is reality or not. In his last scene with Mal he has this enlightment of the complexity of reality and he comes to terms with his psychological bagage, so now he is no longer clouded in his mind to distinguish between dream and reality

[@stepht.2190]

" I have unintentionally watched several Leonardo Dicaprio movies recently"

[@markmccreadie6212]

Most people get confused at the end because they think the totem is his, it's not, it's his wife's. His was always the wedding ring, which he only wears in a dream. As for the totem though, they literally can't wobble unless they are about to fall. And as other has pointed out, Caine is in the last scene and he is only in real world scenes not dreams

[@stefanhuddleston6816]

This film is two stories and a meta-level argument all in one. On one level it's like a "heist" film where a team of specialists is hired to do a job. Only they are there to leave, rather than take, something. On the next level, the film is about Ariadne performing Inception on Cobb, to show him the way out of the maze of his guilt for his wife's death (as her namesake did for Theseus). She was likely hired by the Miceal Caine character. Also, the entire film argues that all movies are like shared dreams, where sometimes we end up in places without knowing how we got there, or where odd things happen that we just need to accept if we are into the narrative, and we can share these experiences with anyone who has seen the same film. Finally, in the end, it does not matter if Cobb is awake or dreaming. If he is awake he is home with his kids. Some suggest lack of his wedding ring means he is no longer in the dream because he only has it on when he is in the dream. However, in his dreams, his ring could also be a representation of his guilt over his wife's death and his not having it on in the end could mean he has forgiven himself. If he is in Limbo, because of the way time works there, then he will still get to see his kids grow up, get married, and have a life. That dream world will become his reality and to paraphrase the old man in Mombassa, "Who are we to say otherwise?" Either way, he is "home" with his kids. Sorry, but if you can't tell, this is my favorite film.

[@elizandropedraza1286]

Great movie 👍🍿.

[@wisdomsoptional6357]

She caught the wedding ring on first viewing. Super impressed ! Great reaction!

[@OverWims]

How did they never get a "kick" from the plane? All that movement on a plane, all that turbulence etc, and they didn't wake up? Even if you consider the sedative. The whole point was that falling still wakes you up. They even showed this.

[@BBFilms88]

your face to the literal ending LOL

[@Ender7j]

The top isn’t his totem, which makes its results suspect. He wasn’t wearing his ring which points to the end being real as well as the wobble (which it never did in dreams)…and knowing her as well as he did, I can see the potential weight of the top being enough for him too… This movie is GREAT for conversation…

[@Bavio]

If you like this one, PLEASE watch Shutter Island. Another amazing psychological thriller!

[@RollingWheelTV]

In the end, you have been inception.

[@D-ragon-S]

Addie....are you shore your reactions you have done isn't a part of a level 3 dream ?????? Maybe my message will make you wake up...?? Much Love to you and Ukraine 💙💛💙🌻🌻🌻

[@traydevon]

The last scene is in the real world because Michael Caine said Nolan told him that all of his character’s scenes were in the real world. Nolan has never confirmed that and he’s made it clear that he never will, lol. I believe Michael Caine.

[@CharlesVanNoland]

He's back, in the real world, home with his babies, and the spinning top at the end is to just give the audience a jabberwocky in their dome-pieces for fun. It's a movie, it's not real, and you know C.Nolan wrote it and that end bit was just tacked on, otherwise nothing would've mattered in the first place. The happenings that were written were motivated by the enjoyment we get from observing characters overcoming. They overcame, and whatever the top does after the movie ends is irrelevant. They won only because the movie made us feel like they did, and the top spinning was just a tease, a little "put this in ur pipe" cherry on top.

[@arraymac227]

Interesting connections: 'Je ne regrette rien' the kicker song, made famous by Edith Piaf, played to an Oscar win by the actress playing DiCaprio characters suicidal wife. (also a Nolan regular #TheDarkKnightRises ) a 'jump epiphany' I had.

[@FatLittleButterfly]

The "NO" from the audience at the very end still rings in my mind till this day xD The ending doesn't matter because he is finally with his kids. Also, the spinning top is his wife's totem and we never got to see his totem.

[@datdudeinred]

You should play a small game called "Inside" that game's story will make your brain melt. It's 100x more insane than inception. Especially after completing the "true"/alternate ending.

[@jimhowe2624]

'Memento' is another MUST watch from Nolan. And on another, unrelated note.. 'Mad Max: Fury Road'.

[@timothyburrows9622]

Michael Caine, the kid's faces, and the lack of a wedding ring mean the ending was real. The top was Mal's totem, not Cobb's.

[@TheRealFizzbin]

This film was amazing. Can remember as I watched it in the premiere. The ending was a mind-f*ck, and the whole audience reaction...wow. And it was the first time I experienced that all people stay sitting in their seats the whole credits

[@yorgle11]

I've seen a lot of people argue that the spinning top at the end doesn't matter because it isn't Cobb's totem. Of course it matters. If I saw a perpetual motion machine on my desk, I'd have to be asleep, even if it's "not my totem". Now if it fell, perhaps that would be inconclusive, because a dream could "fake" that. But if it spins forever Cobb has to be asleep (*). As it happens, the movie leaves it ambiguous whether it would fall or not. It starts to wobble but then stabilizes and then the movie cuts, so we don't know. * = Artsy interpretation: Maybe the story has already ended, and the final appearance of the top is only for us in the audience - to tell us that *we* are dreaming, all these characters are figments of our imagination, because this experience we just had was a movie. And then the "alarm" music plays as the movie ends and it's time for us to wake up. It seems apparent that Cobb relies on the top as his totem. We see him using it as such, including the scene where he's ready to shoot himself until he sees it fall. It's a bad totem because other people know about it - but nevertheless he is using it. It's not the only thing he does that he would tell others not to do. The weight/etc of his wedding ring wouldn't make an effective totem because he doesn't wear it in reality, so he isn't maintaining an IRL frame of reference. Perhaps it's only a totem in the sense that he believes he'll always find himself wearing it when he's asleep - but once he has let go of Mal, that idea ceases to be reliable. Whether Cobb is wearing his wedding ring is an interesting detail, but it doesn't prove anything. Every good movie has a character arc. Cobb has changed by the end of the movie, he has faced his guilt and let Mal go. He might not constantly dream about her and his marriage anymore. And he might not always have the ring in his dreams anymore. The scene with the kids is so perfectly "arranged" and similar to previous scenes that it seems dream-like, but that can also just be the staging of a Hollywood movie, so I can see it either way. Regardless of what somebody said in an interview, there is nothing within the movie to show that Michael Caine can't appear in Cobb's dreams. He knows and trusts the guy, he can certainly dream about him. Maybe the actor was told to play all his scenes like reality, but that just lends to the ambiguity. It doesn't make it impossible for the scene to actually be a dream. The cool thing about a movie like this is that it's open to interpretation.

[@KKDZ-sn3gi]

Great reaction to an incredible movie! You are smart & caught way more details the first time around watching than I did. Thank you!😊

[@mosami5681]

These are some good movies to watch. * In Bruges * History of violence * Grand Budapest hotel * Brooklyns finest * Eastern promises * Manchester by the sea * Peanut butter falcon * The departed * No country for old men

[@arraymac227]

Notice Michael Caine and Cillian Murphy, Christopher Nolan regulars, his 'Jack Nance's' if you will.

[@el-violador]

The theory I have is the whole film is Cobbs Inception on himself (after failing the Saito job) Cobb couldn't work because his guilt made him feel like he didn't deserve to go home. Causing the projection of Mal to sabotage his efforts. He wouldn't let himself go home while that guilt weighed on him. So he; made up the job with Saito, forgave himself for Mal's death which allows him to move on and made up a reality where he could go home (hope that makes sense). I just feel it's a little convenient that he is offered a job by a CEO that for no explainable reason, will get his murder charge dropped

[@pjbarney9580]

Fantastic movie. wonderfully smart and interesting. Top 10 mind game movies!

[@batmolthegater1344]

Greetings from France. You should watch Tenet, another Nolan film. ^^

[@jgrado3]

“You’re waiting for a train.” The top to stop spinning. “A train that will take you far away” To the real world “You know where you hope this train will take you” Back to his children “But you can’t know for sure and it doesn’t matter. Now tell me why.” It doesn’t matter if the top falls or not. That’s the reality he’s chosen. That’s where his kids are seen. Real or not, he’s committed to that reality now.

[@Bavio]

If you don't want the mystery of the ending spoiled, stop reading. Michael Caine was told by the director that any scene he is in is real life, and he was in the last scene... so... its real. But the Dom not caring is a way cooler message.

[@kilroy987]

Nolan has a heavy handed style to his movies, and it works for some. But the spy fortress overdid it for me, and his wife as a threat didn't really telegraph to me because I knew it was all in his head. As for whether or not the end was a dream, Michael Caine said on stage once that if he is in the scene, it isn't a dream, because Michael Caine was never in any of his dreams. Nolan wasn't happy that he shared that. But a movie's a movie, take it as you will.

[@lavenderllamamusic]

The movie that put me on to Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer. If I was into superhero movies, it would have been The Dark Knight

[@OrangeApocalypse]

It just occurred to me that even IF he was still in a dream, when he came back inside, the top would still be spinning, right?....so he'd then know he was still in a dream, right? 🤔

[@balerion77]

Whichever scene MICHAEL CAINE is in IT'S REALITY.

[@timothymcnerney3352]

Cons totem was never the top, it’s up to debate if his was his wedding ring (which I think) or his children’s faces….either way this movie is always on the list of best ever, deff in my top 5….this movie was the reason that Nolan took so long between Batman and dark knight

[@Eduardo-yj5cd]

Next reaction: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Thank's!!!

[@TheOff1ceFan]

You oughta watch “The Beach” with Leo. It’s a really underrated movie of his.

[@randomaccessfemale]

For more DiCaprio films, you could check Once upon a time in Hollywood or Revenant.

[@matthewgreganti4838]

Addie five minutes in: "I have so many questions!" Me: Just wait...lol.

[@riveraharper8166]

Amazing how Marion Cotillard can be terrifying. :P

[@chrislaustin]

Rarely can I say a movie was a "master class" in film making, but this epic was one of those times. I saw it 3x when it was at theaters, and I rarely see most movies once, as more often than not, most films just aren't worth my time and for sure not my money. But Inception was the rare situation that proved me wrong, and I was happy to give my funds those three times.

[@madisynissaquah243]

I 100% believe in inception. If u ate a piece of fish and you got really sick. That experience would change your life and would effect choices u made for the rest of your life

[@austinj3881]

I know what Nolan said the ending meant but he did leave it open for interpretation. The fan theories also have some question marks like his ring being his totem but we see him use the top more than once to see if he was awake. If you went by strictly percentages it would be 75% it is still a dream and 25% that he is awake using the top. If the top doesn’t fall it’s obviously still a dream since that would be physically impossible, if the top falls it is 50% chance of still a dream and 50% chance he is awake since the totem is not actually his, which makes it unreliable. That was the rules the movie set as the standard.

[@waltw9818]

:) Addie!!! :) Excellent 'dream sequence' type commercial lol Loved the other one too!

[@gordonwittmann9823]

So, if you're interested in the ending being ambiguous, please ignore the following... in an interview, Michael Caine told a reporter that Nolan informed him that any scenes Caine was in were reality. So, that seems to indicate that Cobb's experience at the end is real and that the top does eventually topple.

[@michaelgustafsson5920]

Suggestions man on fire (Denzel), alita battle angel, arcane, Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles.