<p>So, what do you guys think? Dream or reality at the end?</p>
<p>Someone I know suggested that Cobb's father (Michael Caine) hired Ariadne (ellen page) to incept Cobb from his never-ending guilt. And Fisher would only act as a useful tool to distract Cobb from his own inception. I want to believe it all works out in the end for Cobb, but it's hard to have a definite answer.</p>
<p>All in all, a brilliant film.</p>
<p>the ending was just the beginning pre-Saito…</p>
<p>They leave that up to you. But for Cobb’s sake, I like to think it was reality.</p>
<p>I was hoping that it would fall.</p>
<p>Thus, I’m going with reality.</p>
<p>SIKE!</p>
<p>That is all.</p>
<p>’ Dileep Rao offered further insight, advising viewers to pay attention to the scene in an unusual way. “You know what, I’ll just say this: Use your ears not your eyes.” '</p>
<p>^From an MTV interview. Did anyone catch whether or not you can hear the spinning top fall over after the screen blacks out? </p>
<p>I feel like it has to be more complicated than that, though. Like most of you, I’d like to believe that the ending is reality, but I just can’t until I see it again and really try to understand it all…</p>
<p>Reality because it was kind of wobbly. I mean if it were to keep going in the same speed it would be a different story. I say reality.</p>
<p>I wish it to be reality, and am heart-wise convinced that he chose reality, but… every previous time he spun it, it did that loopy circles and then one circle back thing, not the tight spiral in place. The wobbles are more realistic, yeah, but it’s still not how it was usually. D: I guess I will have to watch it again! :D</p>
<p>Here’s an interesting take on it: [IMDb</a> :: Boards :: Inception (2010) :: What REALLY happened in the movie. (Lo…](<a href=“IMDb: Ratings, Reviews, and Where to Watch the Best Movies & TV Shows”>IMDb: Ratings, Reviews, and Where to Watch the Best Movies & TV Shows)</p>
<p>I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE</p>
<p>^Thanks for the article.</p>
<p>I’ve officially been mind****ed? Well that article makes my brain hurt.</p>
<p>That was the best interpretation I’ve read. Made me love the movie even more.</p>
<p>Ok I re-watched the ending. When the screen goes black, I’m pretty sure I can hear the “thud” from the top falling. idk…</p>
<p>^^Haha yeah, I’ll drink to that (if I had one).</p>
<p>I hoped that it was reality. </p>
<p>But if it was reality- wouldn’t his kids have aged? He’s been gone from the States for a little while, right? </p>
<p>I dno…</p>
<p>^Exactly. He’s probably been gone for a few years and yet they’re in the same clothing and the same age…</p>
<p>^Two different sets of actors were used for the children (one set was older than the other), so I think it’s possible that the kids weren’t the same age. Plus, we don’t really know how long Cobb’s been out of the States. idk about the clothes though. It’s possible that they were just symbolic. ah there are a billion different ways it can be interpreted.</p>
<p>^Really? The kids looked identical lol <em>goes to IMDB…</em></p>
<p>EDIT:
Whoa they totally are different kids. Well now I’m all sorts of confused. Can kids age in a dream? I don’t feel like they can.</p>
<p>The daughter looked much older than I expected her to…</p>
<p>Perhaps we ought to perform an extraction on Christopher Nolan’s dreams to find out what really happened at the end.</p>