Inception ending thoughts (WARNING: spoilers within)

[mab1376]

So what was everyone's overall feeling of the movie, especially the ending? did the totem start to topple or was it staying continuous?

Personally I though the concept of layered dreams was very intriguing, I though how they got to the different layers was maybe not the most creative way that could've been written for it, but still worked well enough.

[de.das.dude]

may this be the post with fewest replies?

[theJesus]

I thought the movie was awesome and I loved how the ending was left open.

The whole concept of the movie reminded me of Paprika (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika_%282006_film%29). (link contains spoilers)

[Wile E]

Hmmm, reminds you of Paprika? Sounds like I need to see this movie.

[DaMulta]

I just got back from seeing this movie in I-Max.


Were the kids in the same cloths in the end as their were in the dreams?

The thing that got me was that he grew old with the girl inside the dream? There was a flash where the two of them were really old.

[theJesus]

Hmmm, reminds you of Paprika? Sounds like I need to see this movie.
Yeah, without the fucking awesome parade of crazy awesome nonsense, unfortunately.
The thing that got me was that he grew old with the girl inside the dream? There was a flash where the two of them were really old.
A normal dream typically seems to last much longer than the actual amount of time you were dreaming. The idea was that this effect compounds upon itself exponentially if you dream within a dream. Due to the exponential nature of it, when you dream on the "third level," years can pass in the dream during the actual amount of time that you're dreaming. I hope I explained that properly.

[btarunr]

I think the totem was going to spin on (he's stuck). He said that he hadn't seen his kids for a long time. There's no way they're going to be of the same age, wearing the same exact clothes as the day he last saw them. Obviously the kids' faces in his imagination (last scene) are pulled back from his last memory of them, and so it's the logical next step to imagining what the kids would look like after they turn to him (in the older memory). Also, at one part in the airport (ending scenes), people pause for a moment and stare at him (only his projections can do that).

Were the kids in the same cloths in the end as their were in the dreams?

Yes, when he gets back home, the kids come to him in the same exact clothes, doing the same exact things, they were in/doing when he last saw them.

[wtf8269]

You bring up good points about the clothes and age, but my thought was that when they showed the totem in previous dreams it was dead stable, whereas in the end of the movie it started to wobble some.

[DaMulta]

Yeah, without the fucking awesome parade of crazy awesome nonsense, unfortunately.

A normal dream typically seems to last much longer than the actual amount of time you were dreaming. The idea was that this effect compounds upon itself exponentially if you dream within a dream. Due to the exponential nature of it, when you dream on the "third level," years can pass in the dream during the actual amount of time that you're dreaming. I hope I explained that properly.

Yes I understood that, but did he grow old with the girl?

They just showed it for a few secs, and then showed him finding the Asian man that was a lot older than him.

I found it odd when they said lets both go home, and be young again. When leo was already young again, but with a big gash in his face.

[btarunr]

You bring up good points about the clothes and age, but my thought was that when they showed the totem in previous dreams it was dead stable, whereas in the end of the movie it started to wobble some.

But then he walks away from it. So he doesn't care if spins stable or wobbles. It's only since dreamers looking at their totems subconsciously know how a totem should behave that it behaves like that. In real life you'd have no control over the totem (hence it falls over).

"don't think of an elephant". Now you are thinking of one.
But when you're not thinking of an elephant, you don't care how it looks like or behaves. Like that.

[btarunr]

This discussion throws up some interesting points: http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/07/17/%E2%80%98inception-ending/

Aha. Somebody is claiming that you get to hear the sound of the totem toppling at the end of the credits.

[theJesus]

Yes I understood that, but did he grow old with the girl?

They just showed it for a few secs, and then showed him finding the Asian man that was a lot older than him.

I found it odd when they said lets both go home, and be young again. When leo was already young again, but with a big gash in his face.
That was a flashback of when they both tried going that deep into the dream and grew old together.
Aha. Somebody is claiming that you get to hear the sound of the totem toppling at the end of the credits.
I don't remember that.

[ninkobei]

I think the end scene was entirely devised by the old chinese guy, a-la Commander Pike from Star Trek. The old man knew they were both going to be stuck in limbo forever and devised a plan to become the architecht of caprio's dreams. He didnt want to break his promise.

[entropy13]

It's actually just a simulation by aliens involving human brains.

[Steevo]

What? I say what is this bull malarkey?



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