For those of you who are still scratching your heads over the ambiguous spinning-top ending of this summer’s mind-bender Inception, one of the film’s stars, Sir Read the full post.
Sep 30
2010
06:50 PM ET
Did Michael Caine just explain the ending of 'Inception'? Or did we just dream that he did?
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I don’t think it matters if the DiCaprio character is in a dream or not. The point of the ending is that the DiCaprio character confronts his demons that are driving him mad. If he is dreaming or not is irrelevant.
Perfectly explained for all you idiots that thought it was a dream. Gotta love Michael Caine.
this must have been a dream, everything in the scenario is the same exact way it is in the previous dreams, the children are wearing the same clothing, the weather is exactly the same, everything leads to the dream being the most viable option
At the end of Inception, the top wobbles but does not fall over. I think the continued spinning of the top indicates he is still in the dream world.
However, the top is displayed wobbling before the end of the movie. I believe the wobbling is Leonardos character accepting the dream reality as his own.
The dream world is populated with characters the dreamer has encountered throughout his life. The apperance of Canes character is merely a representation created by the will of the protagonist.
At the beginning the character of Cain was in a region but after it spread all over the world.
What does Michael Caine mean by saying “I’m the guy who invented the dream”
A lot of people here apparently have never seen or used a top irl…tops don’t just start wobbling, then get back into a perpendicular axis, then start wobbling again, then get back etc etc. If it wobbles IT IS FALLING AND IT WILL FALL. That’s gravity for you idiots.
I know this is late in the game, but I wanted to see the DVD to verify what I remembered…the top never stopped spinning, it wobbles a little. So, what that tell me is the director is 1. leaving it up to the minds of the audience to take away what they want from the film, 2. sequel? or 3. the ending was cut or changed from the original filming or test screening.
Personally, I think it may have been Mile’s creation to save the sanity of an exiled son-in-law, but that too is a wild guess, like everyone else’s. Thanks for listening.
His kids are older a bit and are wearing slightly different clothing. As for the top spinning at the end. In dream state the top never faltered as it was starting to at the end. As for Sir Micheal Caine’s comment “I’m the guy who invented the dream” Well could have, Ariadne was his helper to get Cobb back to his kids and to stop his guilt on Mal’s death. He got her to create things for him and also used her to get close to help him. My opinion of course but plausible.
Before the top, what reason do we have to believe that he’s not back in reality? The top plants the idea, the seed of doubt, just like it originally did- so strong though, that it’s inspired countless forums of debate. Especially if we arrive at the conclusion that he was in reality, then why the doubt? He got us good…