The totem was shaking at the end and was about to fall. Watch the end just before the credits scene comes up. And it is now confirmed. Also, even if it was a dream, the totem would spin forever. So anyway Cobb would see it spinning non stop when he walks across the house again. And kills himself to continue the task.
What’s interesting about those 2 movies is that Interstellar is a father and daughter movie and this is a father and son movie. Except with Interstellar they use the main character (Cooper) to do it. With Inception they use a more minor character (Fischer) to show this relationship.
@@sergeyscherbakov1541 The deal was that Saito would make a phone call to erase Cobb's criminal record if the inception was successful. Of course, he had to make the call before Cobb got to Customs or Cobb would have been arrested.
The fact that Saito has lived an entire life in his dreams and after that woke up young again, it's mind-blowing. Just imagine being old, waiting for death, and suddenly you have the chance to be young again.
@@bf9142ftw Because it was just a dream, those "memories" will fade quickly just like any other dream. Do you ever wake up and feel confused only to quickly come to? He would have just woken up and been quickly recollecting how he got here and what is happening. It would have been enormously relieving and also in his case, blissful.
Notice this. Every time he was in a dream and his wife was around, he wore his wedding ring. But every time he was not in a dream, the real world, he didnt wore his ring. Look closely to his hand in the end. He isnt wearing a ring, so that means he is in the real world. Gotta love the details.
Notice, in every scene the children are in (while in a dream) they have black shoes; yet, at the end they have different color shoes/style all together.
Absolutely perfect ending. The caper had been pulled off. He got home. Spinning the top, he saw his children’s faces. After that, he didn’t care if the top stopped spinning or not. This was a reality he could accept.
really interesting story i heard or read but it was about a man who had an accident and woke up from coma only to live his full life and have kids and a wife. when one day he sees a lamp and it looks odd so he watches it. and things began to change.
Inception's plot is actually straight-forward and doesn't "lie" about when they are dreaming vs. the real world. What's brilliant about it is it incepts the idea that he isn't in reality at the end (even though he is), by planting the seed of the idea with the spinning top, JUST AS COBB DID WITH HIS WIFE. The audience ends up with the same affliction as she does-questioning the reality of the film, and coming up with elaborate and convoluted theories to support the idea that he's still in a dream. But there is no logical reason to believe he's still dreaming; the spinning top is the only reason we start doubting (if he hasn't spun the top and just went straight outside to see his kids, we wouldn't wonder if it's still a dream). Just like Cobb's wife had no logical reasons to doubt reality, only the nagging idea left behind from the spinning top in their dream. This is the best thing about Inception; Nolan pulled off an inception on the audience, just as Cobb pulled it off on his wife
The craziest thing is that Cobb's wedding ring is his object to decide whether it's real life or a dream. When in his dream he has the ring on, but when he is not dreaming the ring is not on his finger.
Nice theory, but doesnt sit right. He walls away without "knowing" (why else spin the top). He walks away because he doesnt care. Hes so elated to be with his kids his love overcomes care for anything else. Would you want to wake up from the best dream either? Would you want to know that it isnt real?
@@toyski6897 right but everyother time he hadnt dealt with Mal yet. Hes let go of Mal and now she can no longer effect his dreams negatively anymore. Hes free.
Bro the ending part is real nolan himself confirmed that the scene is always real in the movie whenever that old guy in it , first go and research then write something
Inception and Interstellar are Nolan's masterpieces for me. The harmonious blend of sci-fi action with all the emotional drama was just excellent. The movie scores were both great as well. I really hope he does more sci-fi in the future, because he just knows how to make a great impact with his terrific storytelling on the big screen.
I have a question for you all. So how did Cobb know (or Saito, for that matter) that they had succeeded? Wouldn’t Eames have been the only one who knew, since he was the only one who witnessed the inception actually take place?
@@holdengreen2151 they already planned it they just know what will happen in the locker room only problem was how to do it in which they succeeded in the end And one more question They just planted an idea in fchisrer mind they don't know if he decides to do it.
The music was the key here for me. All through the movie we hear this theme with atonal, discordant flourishes, implying a state of unreality & unease. Finally, in this last scene it opens out into a beautiful, pure, unaltered, unblemished version of itself, lifting us up as the brass goes soaring out uninterrupted - Leo has made peace with his world. Plus, that spinning top is totally about to fall over. heh.
@@daddy_.rome0 I'll admit Interstellar and Inception had extraordinary scores but the Grand Budapest Hotel's was so nuisanced and so original as well as being so well put together in the frame of the movie that it got best score.
Ahmet Selim Karaca The question it raises and the possibile answers it gives. Its more timeless than ahaed of its time to be exact. It will always be up to date, simmilar to 2001 space odysey
I watched this movie when I was 11 years old and to this day it is still my favourite movie of all time 1. Inception 2. Infinity War 3. Shawshank Redemption 4. The Wolf Of Wall Street 5. The Departed
In that year the film "King's Speech" has won the Oscar for the best film. I have no desire to ever watch King's Speech again, but I could always watch Inception again and again. It's the best movie of all time. Period.
Inception was and is wonderful. All the mythos behind all the jists of dream-inducing manipulation, action and reflecting realities is a no-brainer for great movie-making. But I must say that each of the films you mention, are different of sorts... Inception is what I said. But the King's Speech, in its own right, is magnificent for the struggle of the new King from the controversy of his brother, for his struggle of his defective speech and the shadow of war. But last but not least, Colin Firth in his portrayal. That was a good one!
@@Ghost-qo5of thats part of his arc. He spends most of the film worrying about being stuck in a dream or not, only to come out at the end with the understanding that that doesn’t matter. And as for the ring, yes, obviously Im aware his ring is a token, but I have always interpreted the ring as more of an easter egg than a legitimate tangible part of the story. Cobb clearly prefers his top. The ring exists for the viewer’s assurance that Cobb is finally in the real world, to give the film a happy ending, I dont believe its something where he goes “ok, I’ll spin my top, but I don’t have my ring, so I must not be dreaming”. Tldr; the ring doesn’t really exist, its a head nod from Nolan to the audience about Cobb’s current state and more importantly about his priorities(his wife).
@@AndrewJ9673 main character has children he cares about, so it matters if he's dreaming or not. From this depend if his children will have a father :)
To be honest, i don't remember my memories before 4 yrs old, it's weird, my first memory, was me running around my house, and i was already speaking, but don't remember learning, i knew my friends and family, but don't remember meeting them, i remember school, but don't remember my first day... of course our conscience it's yet changing, but it's weird....
People often forget the scene where saito wakes up and looks to cobb and immediately honors his actions, allowing him to return to his family with that single phone call he is tiping in that moment. Such a strong and underrated scene.
Just watched this film the other day for the first time and it is one of my all time favourites. The first Nolan film I saw outside TDK trilogy and I was mind blown. Only a mastermind like Christopher Nolan can make such films like this.
3:36 For a split second there, I saw the totem tilted to the side a little more than usual, which means I think the totem eventually stopped spinning. I think he’s really back home with his children. Anyone else agree? Let me know what you think.
@@raydare2002 no that is to create confusion, i would argue,.. observe that a such an object can still spin after tilting.. and often for a long time... doesn't have to be perfect but only has to keep spinning to be in a dream... if they wanted the conclusion that it was reality, they could have just waited 10 more seconds with the tp to show us that it falls
He can see his kids faces, which means he is in reality. Besides they board the plane to LA and then reach LA. That was all reality. That ending was all just to confuse people who can easily get confused. I mean no disrespect.
I loved the little pause that Saito has, when he is wondering why Cobb is staring Daggers at him, willing him to fulfil his end of the deal. It suddenly clicks and he still has to pause for a moment, trying to remember who he was meant to call and what the phone number was. Amazing acting.
3:36 For a split second there, I saw the totem tilted to the side a little more than usual, which means I think the totem eventually stopped spinning. I think he’s really back home with his children. Anyone else agree? Let me know what you think.
@@manningup4851 he had so much power and influence that he could get Cobb off of the blacklist to get into the US. I'm guessing that he was calling someone high up in the Federal Government to get his name cleared and to allow him past immigration without being detained.
Whenever I listen to this magnificent score, it feels as though time itself is unraveling before you, urging you to reflect on the past, present, and future simultaneously. It's a powerful piece that stirs the soul and leaves a lasting impression long after the music fades. Long live Hans Zimmer.
12 years later and this scene still gets to me. The idea of living what seemed like living a full life only to wake up and realized it was but a dream. Old souls thrown back into our young bodies.
@@chrytesol9349 3:36 For a split second there, I saw the totem tilted to the side a little more than usual, which means I think the totem eventually stopped spinning. I think he’s really back home with his children. Anyone else agree? Let me know what you think.
@@tron1176 3:36 For a split second there, I saw the totem tilted to the side a little more than usual, which means I think the totem eventually stopped spinning. I think he’s really back home with his children. Anyone else agree? Let me know what you think.
I remember watching this scene at the cinema, people impatiently waiting for the conclusion, everyone creating their own ending in their minds...half of the people cheered up, half of the people cried, and I felt stuck in a limbo :x
The way saito looks at cobb and that stare from cobb, legendary acting by eyes in that scene alone and then saito honors the actions of cobb. Such a great ending...genius nolan
as an expert daydreamer who loves "to pretend being in a music video or movie with it's song/soundtrack playing in my ears" u just gave me the greatest idea of all times for the next time i'll fly. (yeah i know i'm weird as hell....)😂😂
I'll never forget this part when i saw it in theatres. The audience was literally on the edge of their seat and everyone was waiting for it to fall...then it cuts to credit and everyones like "ahhhhh"
"It doesn't matter" is bullshit? The purpose of the video is to explore the ability to solve the problem of hard solipsism. You _could_ possibly be hooked up to a computer being fed information of what you "believe" is the "real" reality. You _could_ be dreaming right now. You _could_ be hallucinating. You _could_ be in the matrix. Can you prove that you're not? In other words, can you solve the problem of hard solipsism? _Your_ statement is that "it doesn't matter" is bullshit. So if it _does_ matter to you, then you can't live your life without knowing. That's your statement. So let's hear it. What's your solution to the problem of hard solipsism? Because you would be the first and only to have ever really solved it then.
Well I think it was obvious even without Caine's confirmation, I mean in last scene where Cobb rotated totem, 3:31 at the end it started shaking, which meant that he was in reality.
I love the body language of every single person in this scene. It's so brilliant. You hardly hear 8 words, but you can read their thoughts, full of messages.
There are so many movies that should have won him an oscar. I absolutely loved his performance as Frank William Abagnale. He also did a great job in blood diamond. I didn't really like The Departed but he played well there. Inception is, I think, his masterpiece.
Agreed! If you’ve ever had one of those extremely detailed dreams and wake up, you just spend 10 minutes just “coming to” in the morning. The facial expressions capture it greatly.
The architect left level 3 while Cobb and Saito were still stuck in limbo, thus having no way to come back. Plus the children never aged and are always playing in the yard, just like Cobb imagines in his dreams. Cobb and Saito are lost in limbo forever.
Respectfully have to disagree putting memento first, Shutter Island was astounishing also and deserves a mention. All in all I would argue anybody that inception is Nolan's masterpiece... such a unique storyline executed with incredible acting, legendary score, innovative cinematography and that classic Nolan touch that brought us all to this video at the end of the movie.. Also my theory is top wasn't gonna fall and he didn't care either way. I think that's what Nolan wanted us to conclude from that, either way awesome movie
The first time I watched this movie was at home with my son and a few of his friends at a birthday sleepover. It ended about 1am. At 5am I was in bed, still wide awake, staring at the ceiling trying to absorb what I had just seen. Perhaps having children makes this last scene so powerful. What an incredible collaboration of writing, directing, acting, and composing.
I'm a huge fan of Hans Zimmer and many of the other composers, but nothing hits quite like this song. Many people consider Interstellar his best work but nothing hits quite like this. It truly is his masterpiece.
There is a story about this melody. Actually a sad a story was told by hans zimmer.. He began composing Time after what happened.. That what makes time Special
Interstellar's "Docking" scene is one of my favorite in all of cinema and is one of a handful of scenes that I would change genuinely nothing about. The ending scene here is another one that I'd change nothing about. The soundtrack is absolutely INTEGRAL to the success of both. But they can't be directly compared, at least in my opinion. The scene in Interstellar is about the triumph of mankind against adversity ("It's not possible..." "No... it's necessary.") and is bombastic and gets you incredibly fired up. This scene in Inception is about the end of a chapter of life, the feeling that you and those around you have been through so much, the feeling of awakening from a dream that feels as though it stretched on forever- and yet, just as that chapter closes, a new chapter opens: a homecoming, a return to loved ones and family members. "Welcome Home, Mr Cobb."
Just noticed the guy checking the passport. He's a good actor as well. Saw him in few TV series and movies. I mean, it just has to be perfect with Nolan.
@@Shane_Stoic When you wake up from a dream, you remember everything in the real world, while you may forget most of what you dreamed about. Its like a big switch.
I just watched this again today and this part hit me in the heart and I was crying. Imagine being on the run, never feeling safe, not having a real place to call home anymore and then . . . you suddenly realize you are about to go home, the weight of that, the emotional depth of it all. How overwhelmingly that is. I have not been able to return home in decades and I don't feel safe anywhere. The gravity of that is devastating and I watched this feeling and wanting what he had, but oh so far away. 😢
• Cillan Murphy • leonardo dicaprio • Joseph Gordon-Levitt • Michael Caine The fact Christopher Nolan recasts these actors again and again is so satisfying
@@Benjamin-bp6qn im sorry. They did win the Oscar but what i mean is Leonardo DiCaprio didn’t win the Oscar. Inception won in four category. You can search it up.
Maybe it’s a cliche, but I always like it when the director sticks his wife, kids, mum in a small role in their movie. The director has to give up so much of his life to make the movies and letting the family play along for a day or two has to be such a feel good moment
This movie was one of the best edited and incredibly paced movies ever. The way the tension is created in the third act until the very last scene of Saito picking up the gun, and then when Cobb wakes up, It makes the audience feel like they've themselves woke up from a bad dream. A relief, just like when we wake up from a bad dream. Zimmer's music is one of the main characters in this scene that makes this scene as good as it is. This is movie is truly an all-timer, and one of my absolute favorites.
exactly. i remember 14 years ago seeing this movie with my girlfriend, without having seen a trailer or even knowing anything about the story, just because me and her were at the mall and we were looking for something to do. i remember coming out of this movie in shock, flabbergasted like when i had just had an unreal dream, i still think about it sometimes how much this movie made me go through so many emotions. and now, 14 years later, with the same girl and 2 young boys, this movie touches me even more.
After seeing this ending, I was always listening to this tune on repeat on my way back home on planes and airport from business trips and oh man I was in it big time guys.
I watched it in 2010, didn’t get it. I tired again in 2012 and still didn’t get it. My dad died in 2013 and I watched it again, in 2014. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks
The look all four give each other on the plane is exactly what happens after you've had a bad trip and wake up with your friends realizing everything is ok and you didn't actually go crazy.
These actors/actress are sooo fucking good! Their facial expressions, eyes, acted better than dialogues! And that heart-filling music engulfing the audiences within the Inception world….omg…I can never express it in words! ❤❤❤
But it's not It's an incredible movie indeed but the ending is most probably a dream. That means his wife might've been right and killed herself and went to a lower stage of the dream or the reality. Imagine them making the part 2 of Inception..
@@OXIR yes mate. Like I said it 'perfect' in the sense that everyone has its own conclusion about its ending. So it depends on what you think / assume would happen!
And he’s just dreaming of him dreaming with his wife and getting into the dream of a multi millionaire businessman and getting into the dream of his partner in crime to plant an idea in the head of another businessman by getting into his dream, successfully plants it and dreams of waking up but still in his DREAMS ffs imagine being Teddy Daniels
0:06 DiCaprio's ability to convey, with his eyes alone, a person who had experienced an entire lifetime of 80 or 90 years suddenly waking up in a 30 year old's body- KUDOS!!!
I had the luck to enjoy this whole masterpiece when it came out. I still remembered how the whole theatre just went "OHHHHHHH" out loud when the lights went out after Cobb's totem kept spinning but got a bit slower. And how, literally every single person, kept discussing on whether it stopped or not leaving the theatre. Simply one of the greatest movie endings ever and such a golden time to enjoy the cinema before this "Netflix time".
First film that I ever went to see with my (now) wife. Loved every second. This scene is absolutely golden to me, so much so that I got a spinning top tattoo the other day.
I think it’s cool how we all have our memories during the time this movie was out. My memory is that I had my last soda drink while I was watching this in theaters. I’ve been going 12 years strong :)
I think the reason he walked away from the totem is because he does not care if he is dreaming any longer. He just chooses whatever makes him happy and makes that his reality... Maybe...
But his totem was not that spinning thing, but hia wedding ring, and if hw wears it, he is dreaming, and if not, he is not dreaming.. aaand here we can see, no wedding ring in his left hand.
Proof that it’s a dream: It’s impossible to go through U.S. customs without being asked 200 questions, explaining where you were and why, reciting the national anthem, apologizing for visiting another country, and promising to never go it again.
Are you depressed,why can't you accept it's a happy ending.And what logic are you using?Will Nolan ruin the classy end by showing a clip of him answering to these questions?How he reached home was shown and he remembers it,that's what the movie wants to show.
I love how so many people are coming up with so many different theories and each of them make perfect sense. Shows how much of a masterpiece this movie is and the impact it has left. Truly amazing.
His totem isn't even the top, it's his wedding ring. He wears it in every scene he's dreaming. In this scene, he's not wearing it. The ending is less ambiguous than people think. He's not dreaming; he really makes it home.
A popular theory... but what if the ring simply symbolizes Cobb's guilt he has felt over the death of his wife and how he caused her to believe her life was a dream? And now that he has had closure over it, he may not need the ring anymore, because he has finally accepted what happened: And therefore, he can accept his children without caring for weather it's a dream or not. Maybe, in the end, his illusion of Mal won after all, she caused him to stop caring weather it's all real or not.
This has to be one of the greatest movie ending ever made. Hard to top this one, and the pairing image and music is perfection. Seeing Zimmer playing it live was another level.
This movie is a masterpiece there isn't any sci Fi film that comes close to this one. This ending was just filled with all sorts of emotions, it really got to me.
@@sakisroubas3237 there is one which is as good as this or even better, I'm talking about the other masterpiece of Nolan and Zimmer, Interstellar, I don't know which movie is better I love both.
@@matteogamba3236 I was thinking of typing "except maybe interstellar". You are damn right, these two are the kings of sci-fi for me atleast, I loved Tenet too.
1:37 this sentence just felt so warm. A policemen just doing his job, saying what common, innocent words, has no idea that these simple words meant the whole word to the person right in front of him. Like waking up from a bad lifelong nightmare, literally, and finally coming home.
The airport is so weird. You might spend 10+ hours with someone on a flight and get to know them but then walk away as if you’re strangers. You get to glimpse into someone’s life just by watching them greet their family or friends in the terminals.
@@gunhee This is true. For me, the best cinematography... while pretty subjective... is Emmanuel Lubezki's work on the Revenant (also Birdman) or John Toll's work on the Thin Red Line, but they are also among my favourite films lol. I love a good thoughtful epic. Interstellar is another good one - the cinematography is sublime, particularly the scenes going through the wormhole and the black hole.
I think this Hans Zimmer obsession is ruining movies that forces emotions rather than inspires them. But hey, I don't watch movies anymore so who am I to complain. Hans Zimmer is on John Williams level of composing score for film, and he's a master of his craft - but silence is also something which tells, sometimes even as much as music. Roaring orchestral music does not make a movie, the movie does. If it doesn't work without the music, like, at all, then your film is shit and the score simply saves it. I think this scene would work better with silence, or at least a subdued score, and better convey the emotions felt by the involved characters.
@@lacapone6266 nah it is a valid point... i think in the case of inception there is nothing to worry about because the film is just as good and the score complements it perfectly but generally speaking it's not easy to have a perfectly fitting score that neither overshadows the visuals and words nor being too subtle...
@@gandalf8216 I understand you bro. But I believe Hans pulled off something which really beautifully captures the emotions of Cobb in this score. And as @Kleeblättchen mentioned "in the case of inception there is nothing to worry about because the film is just as good and the score complements it perfectly but generally speaking it's not easy to have a perfectly fitting score that neither overshadows the visuals and words nor being too subtle...". The entire score (how I felt when I watched this movie) was, it perfectly captured the entire transition from Cobbs shock to the reality he comes to terms with. As the suble beginning of the score perfectly captures the shock Cobb is in and trying to come to terms with it trying to absorb the entire sequence and seeing the team he was with all being fine and knowing he would be able to see his family when Saito makes the call, the score holds it tone to make a transition to get him a level off of his shock and comes closer to the counter which is his biggest one to get away from as the visa gets chopped and then as the guitars kick in to sweeten the shock for what he has now started to feel the accomplishment of his actions whilst the shock starting to fade away even more making him much more relaxed and he feels proud of his actions as he walks away from his team and gives the energy to look at Murphy to know he did it as score holds at those notes rising to the most awaited sequence of the movie has he managed to get to his most cherished kids he despertely wanted to see but there still little more left of the shock makes him take the only thing he could verify if he is in reality and the music stops as his heart stops in fear to see if the kids would turn and if he could see their faces and then. . . they do turn and the music kicks to a tone to make us realize his shock is now almost completely gone from him as he managed to be verbal with his kids and the top starts to throttle and give away it's axis as the music abruptly ends on the notes of violin to say that the only string which might have had on that shock has finally got completely now removed off of his mind as the movie title is in full display " I N C E P T I O N " - DAMNNNNN ! SIMPLY DAMN !
2:04 his reaction to seeing Cobb is absolutely brilliant. The way he just stops for a second and thinks "have I seen this guy before..." Great movie and great soundtrack!!
I saw this movie in theatres, I cant remember if it was opening night, but it was pretty close to it so nothing had been spoiled. I remember at the end when the top is spinning, putting my hand over my mouth and leaning in closer. When the top is the only thing in the frame and it cuts to black, there was an audible, collective gasp of everyone in the theater. I'll never forget that. Watching this and remembering that gave me goosebumps. That is what the ending of a movie should do. Perfection...
Same! It was the midnight opening for me but regardless pretty new for most anyway around release. The room literally dropped dead silent and gasped as well. My date couldnt take it and it was a great experience.
Most people did. The point of the cut to black was that it no longer mattered if it was real or not. What mattered was he cared more about being able to experience life with his kids. He was able to find peace.
@@ShimrraJamaane I still dont understand how it couldnt be real, because we see every step he takes to get into another dream and this is the world he started in. Unless this world has been fake the entire movie
@@RobinsMusicy point exact. I guess people get confused too quickly. A morsel of rationality would suggest that he comes back to reality. I guess humans live in their world. Rationality to them is just an afterthought.
it's a tradition to visit the scene once in a while
Yo,what's up...
Wait are you a fan of BALDSKI?
And then watch the whole movie again...is also traditional
Yep it is
@@aruljebaraj1659 i saw it once in theater and since then i watched it couple of times in tv. Where is it available now?
100%
Nolan once said that it's not important if the top spins forever or not... it´s important that Cobb isn't looking at it anymore.
Nolan is lying! He doesn't even know if it spins forever or not....so had to end the movie!
The totem was shaking at the end and was about to fall. Watch the end just before the credits scene comes up. And it is now confirmed. Also, even if it was a dream, the totem would spin forever. So anyway Cobb would see it spinning non stop when he walks across the house again. And kills himself to continue the task.
It doesn't even matter if it spins forever or not because Cobb is finally happy. That was the ending
@Stellar Interactive it's your opinion
He is finally at peace
This and Interstellar, are 2 different movies, but they hit the same. Hans Zimmer + Christoper Nolan is a masterclass duo
Interstellar needed a better soundtrack, hated that organ
Morpheus I didn’t like the movie, but I think that the soundtrack was the best part of it!
@Andres 24 the dark knight was a masterpiece but in a different way
What’s interesting about those 2 movies is that Interstellar is a father and daughter movie and this is a father and son movie. Except with Interstellar they use the main character (Cooper) to do it. With Inception they use a more minor character (Fischer) to show this relationship.
So tired of people sleeping on The Prestige, so underrated. Best movie Nolan ever made
I love that Saito immediately makes the call - he's a man of his word.
…you don’t!! But I can.
Of what word? What is Saito promised that he had to phone after he woke up???
@@sergeyscherbakov1541 The deal was that Saito would make a phone call to erase Cobb's criminal record if the inception was successful. Of course, he had to make the call before Cobb got to Customs or Cobb would have been arrested.
@@dirdib69 --- Welcome home, Mr. Cobb.
Immediately - after a deadly staring moment of Mr. Cobb
The fact that Saito has lived an entire life in his dreams and after that woke up young again, it's mind-blowing. Just imagine being old, waiting for death, and suddenly you have the chance to be young again.
My question is, how would Saito remember the number to call, after having lived out an entire lifetime?
@Archer Fair point!
this has happen to me a few times i can remember, living a whole life with kids wife divorce deaths and about to die then i wake up
@@bf9142ftw Because it was just a dream, those "memories" will fade quickly just like any other dream. Do you ever wake up and feel confused only to quickly come to? He would have just woken up and been quickly recollecting how he got here and what is happening. It would have been enormously relieving and also in his case, blissful.
Sasha GarVal I think you guys are forgetting that at this point Cobb has basically lived 2 full lifetimes as well.
Notice this. Every time he was in a dream and his wife was around, he wore his wedding ring. But every time he was not in a dream, the real world, he didnt wore his ring. Look closely to his hand in the end. He isnt wearing a ring, so that means he is in the real world. Gotta love the details.
He always wore the ring on his right hand?
+pomaleki the whole movie is a dream. Mal was right
no
Yeh but at teh start, He talks to kids, they are like lets say 10, while at the end they didnt age any.
Notice, in every scene the children are in (while in a dream) they have black shoes; yet, at the end they have different color shoes/style all together.
Absolutely perfect ending. The caper had been pulled off. He got home. Spinning the top, he saw his children’s faces. After that, he didn’t care if the top stopped spinning or not. This was a reality he could accept.
Yes
well put
Well he's in a fake world
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@@torad_2120 not really, in the dreams he’s got a ring on, in the ending he’s not got a ring, it’s real, plus it’s starting to wobble
Hans Zimmer: I had a music idea
Nolan: ok let's make a movie
Vice versa
@@SafiRana786 no shit
Exactly!! 👏👏👏 that was the reason that Instertellar was made, all started with the music…and the rest IS history
For real.. no joke.. best duo
Almost 10 years later and this is still one of the best movies I have ever seen!
Hell's yeah!
same
Go back in 10 yrs , you'll be able to say the same thing believe me
Wait till u see joker
@@shazibkhan1733 that shit gonna be trash
Imagine living your whole life. Then waking up.
really interesting story i heard or read but it was about a man who had an accident and woke up from coma only to live his full life and have kids and a wife. when one day he sees a lamp and it looks odd so he watches it. and things began to change.
Grand Old Soul I heard about this story. You got any links to a video that describes it more?
Welcome to the real world Neo!
@@ebongjr793 would be interested in that too
@@ebongjr793 shit i don't. im still looking. it was a on a collection of videos on youtube.
Inception's plot is actually straight-forward and doesn't "lie" about when they are dreaming vs. the real world. What's brilliant about it is it incepts the idea that he isn't in reality at the end (even though he is), by planting the seed of the idea with the spinning top, JUST AS COBB DID WITH HIS WIFE. The audience ends up with the same affliction as she does-questioning the reality of the film, and coming up with elaborate and convoluted theories to support the idea that he's still in a dream. But there is no logical reason to believe he's still dreaming; the spinning top is the only reason we start doubting (if he hasn't spun the top and just went straight outside to see his kids, we wouldn't wonder if it's still a dream). Just like Cobb's wife had no logical reasons to doubt reality, only the nagging idea left behind from the spinning top in their dream.
This is the best thing about Inception; Nolan pulled off an inception on the audience, just as Cobb pulled it off on his wife
The craziest thing is that Cobb's wedding ring is his object to decide whether it's real life or a dream. When in his dream he has the ring on, but when he is not dreaming the ring is not on his finger.
Nice theory, but doesnt sit right. He walls away without "knowing" (why else spin the top). He walks away because he doesnt care. Hes so elated to be with his kids his love overcomes care for anything else. Would you want to wake up from the best dream either? Would you want to know that it isnt real?
@@toyski6897 right but everyother time he hadnt dealt with Mal yet. Hes let go of Mal and now she can no longer effect his dreams negatively anymore. Hes free.
It doesn't drop because it is Nolan's dream, in his heroes journey. We are pulled out into another layer of reality again, at the end.
Bro the ending part is real nolan himself confirmed that the scene is always real in the movie whenever that old guy in it , first go and research then write something
Inception and Interstellar are Nolan's masterpieces for me. The harmonious blend of sci-fi action with all the emotional drama was just excellent. The movie scores were both great as well. I really hope he does more sci-fi in the future, because he just knows how to make a great impact with his terrific storytelling on the big screen.
Tenet is perfection. This dude is a gift to the world that just keeps giving.
Oppenheimer is another top tier movie
And the dark knight.
My favourite Nolan movie is The Prestige, all movies are wholesome but personally The Prestige has hit me harder than others.
DiCaprio’s acting is phenomenal. His subtle facial expressions when he wakes up scream “holy shit we did it”
@TheRaellz I think its more like: did I manage it, is it real?
Including the heavy breathing as he waits for confirmation that Saito is going to make the call.
@@lab981 More like his gaze
I have a question for you all. So how did Cobb know (or Saito, for that matter) that they had succeeded? Wouldn’t Eames have been the only one who knew, since he was the only one who witnessed the inception actually take place?
@@holdengreen2151 they already planned it they just know what will happen in the locker room only problem was how to do it in which they succeeded in the end
And one more question
They just planted an idea in fchisrer mind they don't know if he decides to do it.
The music was the key here for me. All through the movie we hear this theme with atonal, discordant flourishes, implying a state of unreality & unease. Finally, in this last scene it opens out into a beautiful, pure, unaltered, unblemished version of itself, lifting us up as the brass goes soaring out uninterrupted - Leo has made peace with his world.
Plus, that spinning top is totally about to fall over. heh.
yeah, but at the cut at the end that spinning top is already spinning for 50 seconds. show me a spinning top that can spin for 50 seconds.
Lucas Lee The one in the dream could spin for 500 seconds if needed, that was the point of it. Check my other comment for more info..
man you guys dont understand what i wanted to say. i wanted to say that he must be in a dream because the spinnig top spins for so long.
music is powerful
It's probably the strongest piece of music, mixed with visuals I have ever seen! Christopher Nolan is quite a director. Always gives me goosebumps!
i would do anything to erase all my memories of this film, just so i can have the feeling of watching it for the first time again
ф ьепп ф me too. What a masterpiece
Same man, same..
Then wake up.
Oh what an idea. Yes. So true.
Even if i watched it many times, im still amazed everytime i see it and it fucks my mind ecerytime to. A true masterpiece
15 yrs ago... still timeless, addictive. What an ending - what music.
*time*less 😃
This ending scene and music clearly shows the cruelty of Oscars, Zimmer and Caprio should have won, no matter what.
I agree! Without one doubt. They were definitely robbed. No question there.
Lmao no if Inception deserved best score/actor it would've got it
@eating sugar no papa Have u watched the Social Network/listened to the soundtrack? its soundtrack is so cool it could like only work with that movie
@@eddierhino01 did Interstellar got an Oscar. No. Oscars are a joke.
@@daddy_.rome0 I'll admit Interstellar and Inception had extraordinary scores but the Grand Budapest Hotel's was so nuisanced and so original as well as being so well put together in the frame of the movie that it got best score.
This movie was so ahead of its time.
JimiThing Still ahead.
Ahmet Selim Karaca The question it raises and the possibile answers it gives.
Its more timeless than ahaed of its time to be exact.
It will always be up to date, simmilar to 2001 space odysey
JimiThing I guess that is why we cherish this movie so much..
Always will be ahead of it's time
I watched this movie when I was 11 years old and to this day it is still my favourite movie of all time
1. Inception
2. Infinity War
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. The Wolf Of Wall Street
5. The Departed
The electric guitar when his passport is stamped makes it so much great. Zimmer knows how to make a scene from the best to the unparalleled....
Zimmer is good at guitars ))) ua-cam.com/video/xdYYN-4ttDg/v-deo.html
The concert in Prague, Hans came out with the guitar and rocks out.
i think its just to show newer instruments cause the song name is time and stuff so its like converting to newer instruments slowly
lmao 🤣🤣 ua-cam.com/users/shortsvfmTE82MlLk?feature=share
That's Hans on the guitar
In that year the film "King's Speech" has won the Oscar for the best film. I have no desire to ever watch King's Speech again, but I could always watch Inception again and again. It's the best movie of all time. Period.
Inception was and is wonderful. All the mythos behind all the jists of dream-inducing manipulation, action and reflecting realities is a no-brainer for great movie-making. But I must say that each of the films you mention, are different of sorts... Inception is what I said. But the King's Speech, in its own right, is magnificent for the struggle of the new King from the controversy of his brother, for his struggle of his defective speech and the shadow of war. But last but not least, Colin Firth in his portrayal. That was a good one!
How long have you been this shallow?
@@shadowdawg04 What?
In the end, Cobb realizes, it doesn’t actually matter if he’s dreaming or not. He’s happy.
You know he could've been happy living with his wife in the dream but he explained that he couldn't live with it because it wasn't real
well actually he knows that its reality because the token is his ring and not the spinner
no ring on wedding finger, hes not dreaming.
@@Ghost-qo5of thats part of his arc. He spends most of the film worrying about being stuck in a dream or not, only to come out at the end with the understanding that that doesn’t matter.
And as for the ring, yes, obviously Im aware his ring is a token, but I have always interpreted the ring as more of an easter egg than a legitimate tangible part of the story. Cobb clearly prefers his top. The ring exists for the viewer’s assurance that Cobb is finally in the real world, to give the film a happy ending, I dont believe its something where he goes “ok, I’ll spin my top, but I don’t have my ring, so I must not be dreaming”.
Tldr; the ring doesn’t really exist, its a head nod from Nolan to the audience about Cobb’s current state and more importantly about his priorities(his wife).
@@AndrewJ9673 main character has children he cares about, so it matters if he's dreaming or not. From this depend if his children will have a father :)
''You never really remember the beginning of a dream right... Its only when you wake up that you realise something was actually strange''
Yeah !
To be honest, i don't remember my memories before 4 yrs old, it's weird, my first memory, was me running around my house, and i was already speaking, but don't remember learning, i knew my friends and family, but don't remember meeting them, i remember school, but don't remember my first day... of course our conscience it's yet changing, but it's weird....
@@meunome5867 I have a similar experience I sorta just began to have a conscience around the age of 3
Yes well said, I remember most of mine
@@meunome5867 nobody does
Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer.
When the two smartest kids in class do the homework together.
Then they share it to the class
DespacitoDaniel not exactly...
When the two smartest kids in the class make a PowerPoint presentation, which they turn into a movie with Windows Movie Maker (i.e. the film)
That's a good analogy actually
David Fincher, Alan Sorkin and Trent Reznor also would like a word.
0:22 "I gonna create my OWN company, I will walk on my own two legs, and I will engineer the world's greatest bomb!"
I'm gonna settle in Birmingham. Run a family owned Mafia. The city will know of Peaky Blinders.
@@adityaunde4134I think pesky blinders is actually in Birmingham
@@naughtaegames234 My bad
And 28 days later I’ll be in London
And maybe if I have some time, I will go to Gotham and wreck havoc because f*** Gotham 😂
People often forget the scene where saito wakes up and looks to cobb and immediately honors his actions, allowing him to return to his family with that single phone call he is tiping in that moment. Such a strong and underrated scene.
It was the intensity in Cobbs face that reminded him. Amazing acting!
He was like “ong Nigga u better wake Tf up rn u dead fish lookin mf” or at least that’s what I got from it
@@mememachinefixed5317 BAHAHAHAHA
Underrated scene? LOL
This is one of the most talked about scenes.
But how did they know that it worked? Yes they were successful but what if Fischer just decides to keep his father company running under someone else?
I still do not understand how Leonardo Di Caprio didn’t win an Oscar from this, Zimmer too. I actually don’t understand
Cause Grammy always sucks to not mention Leo for Oscar winner. I'm so glad he finally won it
They are rigged
Because the Oscars are fake
Not to mention this didn't win Best Picture.
The Oscars are trash
Leonardo DiCaprio + Hans Zimmer + Christopher Nolan = Masterpiece 🎵📽️
So good
And tasty
Sad he's not doing soundtrack for tenet
Ues
Hasan Kaiser
Very sad
Still one of my favorite movies of all time.
Everyone did such an exceptional job here.
Thank you to everyone for everything.
Imagine if Hans Zimmer and Christopher Nolan suddenly disappeared. God bless them both for making these legendary movies with epic soundtracks.
Don't say that. These two keep giving us masterpieces.
And Johnny Marr, look it up
Mandela effect.
Imagine nolan direct doctor strange 2 and zimmer made score
Hans Zimmer compared to John Williams is the Ramones compared to Led Zeppelin.
" A movie by Christopher Nolan "
" Music by Hans Zimmer "
*Perfection*
it's perfception
and acting by Leonardo DiCaprio... now that's perfection
no its Inception :D
and acting by
leo dicaprio
tom hardy
k. murfy
😇
Like you likes❤️
Cobb and Saito’s looks at each other… the acting in that scene alone… chills.
Right!!! Cobb with relief but desperation like “please fulfil your promise!!!” Brought tears to my eyes
I also think he was looking at him to see if he was still alive.
Make the f call..men
People are in sleep, Once they die ,they wake up.
Imam Ali peace be upon him
@@zinozee8929 Well it was because he wasn't sure if Saito made it out and was dropped into limbo.
Just watched this film the other day for the first time and it is one of my all time favourites. The first Nolan film I saw outside TDK trilogy and I was mind blown. Only a mastermind like Christopher Nolan can make such films like this.
Christopher Nolan took 10 years to write this masterpiece
He is not a normal human
Where he said that
Google it you will know brother
Yea right! He stole it from anime
@@khagt3826 no, it was original
@@ahmet_10 you would think so but the truth it wasnt original
This film took the "it was all a dream" cliche and turned it into one of the best endings in the history of cinema.
3:36 For a split second there, I saw the totem tilted to the side a little more than usual, which means I think the totem eventually stopped spinning. I think he’s really back home with his children. Anyone else agree? Let me know what you think.
@@arcticangel1628 I mean without a doubt, if they wanted us to never know then they wouldnt have left the part where the totem starts to tilt over.
yeah because here the dream has consequences in the real world
@@raydare2002 no that is to create confusion, i would argue,.. observe that a such an object can still spin after tilting.. and often for a long time... doesn't have to be perfect but only has to keep spinning to be in a dream... if they wanted the conclusion that it was reality, they could have just waited 10 more seconds with the tp to show us that it falls
He can see his kids faces, which means he is in reality. Besides they board the plane to LA and then reach LA. That was all reality. That ending was all just to confuse people who can easily get confused. I mean no disrespect.
I loved the little pause that Saito has, when he is wondering why Cobb is staring Daggers at him, willing him to fulfil his end of the deal. It suddenly clicks and he still has to pause for a moment, trying to remember who he was meant to call and what the phone number was. Amazing acting.
3:36 For a split second there, I saw the totem tilted to the side a little more than usual, which means I think the totem eventually stopped spinning. I think he’s really back home with his children. Anyone else agree? Let me know what you think.
@@arcticangel1628 Oh for sure and you can also hear the warbling of the top as it’s about to topple intertwined with the music. Just brilliant
To me, it's him trying to find out if the guy's brain been turned into mush or not.
Who was he meant to call
@@manningup4851 he had so much power and influence that he could get Cobb off of the blacklist to get into the US. I'm guessing that he was calling someone high up in the Federal Government to get his name cleared and to allow him past immigration without being detained.
Whenever I listen to this magnificent score, it feels as though time itself is unraveling before you, urging you to reflect on the past, present, and future simultaneously. It's a powerful piece that stirs the soul and leaves a lasting impression long after the music fades.
Long live Hans Zimmer.
12 years later and this scene still gets to me. The idea of living what seemed like living a full life only to wake up and realized it was but a dream. Old souls thrown back into our young bodies.
12 years I feel old
You are dreaming! You must accept these true!
@@chrytesol9349 3:36 For a split second there, I saw the totem tilted to the side a little more than usual, which means I think the totem eventually stopped spinning. I think he’s really back home with his children. Anyone else agree? Let me know what you think.
@@tron1176 3:36 For a split second there, I saw the totem tilted to the side a little more than usual, which means I think the totem eventually stopped spinning. I think he’s really back home with his children. Anyone else agree? Let me know what you think.
@@arcticangel1628 yes,i m agree!!! I m sure
I remember watching this scene at the cinema, people impatiently waiting for the conclusion, everyone creating their own ending in their minds...half of the people cheered up, half of the people cried, and I felt stuck in a limbo :x
Ikr I feel like the ending is designed to make the audience experience “inception” in a way
Thats what the director wants lol
and i never cried neither cheered it up and i was neither stuck in a limbo
@@ninjagonish agree
the ending is a reality. according to michael caine, that play the leonardo father, he saids he only appears in scene where the world is reality.
You can never go wrong with Nolan and Zimmer. Their duo is so powerful. Fantastic movie. It's still one of my fav to this day.
and leonardo 😎
The way saito looks at cobb and that stare from cobb, legendary acting by eyes in that scene alone and then saito honors the actions of cobb. Such a great ending...genius nolan
No one, literally no one
Nolan- we are gonna show a guy getting off a plane and going home so epic that it's gonna give goosebumps to people.
I mean if you explain things out of context it's almost always going to sound ridiculous.
I never watched the movie so im very confused but it’s the ending is indeed is awesome
@@snow.flower Watch it, those 2 and half hours would be worth it.
@@KrisDonut yes inception has lack of explanation it have only summary and main story in the movie
I mean if you're unable to enter in your country. But are allowed to enter after 4-5 yrs & meet your kids, it is emotional & epic.
Every time I walk out of airport, this soundtrack plays in my mind.
same lol
Hans zimmer time
@@БильбоБегинс-л1дtrue
as an expert daydreamer who loves "to pretend being in a music video or movie with it's song/soundtrack playing in my ears"
u just gave me the greatest idea of all times for the next time i'll fly. (yeah i know i'm weird as hell....)😂😂
@@MoonCow2078 You're not weird. This soundtrack should be played in luggage reclaim area in all airports.
I'll never forget this part when i saw it in theatres. The audience was literally on the edge of their seat and everyone was waiting for it to fall...then it cuts to credit and everyones like "ahhhhh"
I agree. He should have just shown it. the whole it doesn't matter bit is bullshit.
"It doesn't matter" is bullshit? The purpose of the video is to explore the ability to solve the problem of hard solipsism. You _could_ possibly be hooked up to a computer being fed information of what you "believe" is the "real" reality. You _could_ be dreaming right now. You _could_ be hallucinating. You _could_ be in the matrix. Can you prove that you're not? In other words, can you solve the problem of hard solipsism? _Your_ statement is that "it doesn't matter" is bullshit. So if it _does_ matter to you, then you can't live your life without knowing. That's your statement. So let's hear it. What's your solution to the problem of hard solipsism? Because you would be the first and only to have ever really solved it then.
Jillum89 Holy shit dude.. calm down.
Jillum89 We both think the same way, only I don't type those thoughts on UA-cam because someone will say "Holy shit dude.. calm down".
The totem doesn't matter because it isn't his, its his wife. So it doesn't work for him anyway.
Acting is truly an art form. The plane scene is enough said.
Finally! After 71,208 hours of sleepless nights, I can finally conclude that this scene is a reality. Thank you, Michael Caine.
Well I think it was obvious even without Caine's confirmation, I mean in last scene where Cobb rotated totem, 3:31 at the end it started shaking, which meant that he was in reality.
What about the ring theory?
Thank youuu Michael Caine!!!!
exactly.........
Yup! That's why I m here
I love the body language of every single person in this scene. It's so brilliant. You hardly hear 8 words, but you can read their thoughts, full of messages.
This movie should have won DiCaprio an Oscar. The Revenant was good too, but this film was exceptional.
scott b What about What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? Or Catch Me If You Can? Or The Departed? Or Wolf Of Wall Street?
you mean inceptional? lol just kidding
@@SentientProgram01 blood diamond is his best performance imo
scott b I super agree
There are so many movies that should have won him an oscar. I absolutely loved his performance as Frank William Abagnale. He also did a great job in blood diamond. I didn't really like The Departed but he played well there. Inception is, I think, his masterpiece.
Coming back to this video for the 70th time this year and still get goosebumps
The way Saito looks at Cobb after waking up just shows me how the cast really nailed the acting.
thats racist
I like how fischer looks at cobb when leaving the airport
Agreed! If you’ve ever had one of those extremely detailed dreams and wake up, you just spend 10 minutes just “coming to” in the morning. The facial expressions capture it greatly.
@@borris3768 how?
The architect left level 3 while Cobb and Saito were still stuck in limbo, thus having no way to come back. Plus the children never aged and are always playing in the yard, just like Cobb imagines in his dreams. Cobb and Saito are lost in limbo forever.
Nolan is such a King
1. Memento (best storyline)
2. Inception (best mindblowing)
3. Interstellar (best concept)
And yea, don't forget The Dark Knight
You forgot the prestige
Inception is the best. NASA IS A HOAX
what about shutter island
Respectfully have to disagree putting memento first, Shutter Island was astounishing also and deserves a mention. All in all I would argue anybody that inception is Nolan's masterpiece... such a unique storyline executed with incredible acting, legendary score, innovative cinematography and that classic Nolan touch that brought us all to this video at the end of the movie..
Also my theory is top wasn't gonna fall and he didn't care either way. I think that's what Nolan wanted us to conclude from that, either way awesome movie
And then there's Dunkirk...
*A decade has passed and still- I can't shake that ending!!* 🤯
That's true!
@@hanszimmersmagic6233 Very true. its 2021 and I still revisit it
I understand 💕💕😭😭😭😭 it is so beautiful
We are in a Dream.
You've been Inceptioned :-D
The first time I watched this movie was at home with my son and a few of his friends at a birthday sleepover. It ended about 1am. At 5am I was in bed, still wide awake, staring at the ceiling trying to absorb what I had just seen. Perhaps having children makes this last scene so powerful. What an incredible collaboration of writing, directing, acting, and composing.
inception and interstellar are one of the best movies ever made. the acting is great, scripting, and especially the music.
Those are my 2 favorite movies
Also TDK, its one of the best.
@@Down915 especially the music
Best movies ever is an exaggeration. Sure they are the best from Nolan.
Music is made by Hans Zimmer for both.
I'm a huge fan of Hans Zimmer and many of the other composers, but nothing hits quite like this song. Many people consider Interstellar his best work but nothing hits quite like this. It truly is his masterpiece.
There is a story about this melody. Actually a sad a story was told by hans zimmer.. He began composing Time after what happened.. That what makes time Special
And the fact that it’s called TIME makes the track more… meaningful in a way
the dune soundtrack he made was solid, finally won his second oscar 🤝🏼
Interstellar's "Docking" scene is one of my favorite in all of cinema and is one of a handful of scenes that I would change genuinely nothing about. The ending scene here is another one that I'd change nothing about. The soundtrack is absolutely INTEGRAL to the success of both.
But they can't be directly compared, at least in my opinion. The scene in Interstellar is about the triumph of mankind against adversity ("It's not possible..." "No... it's necessary.") and is bombastic and gets you incredibly fired up. This scene in Inception is about the end of a chapter of life, the feeling that you and those around you have been through so much, the feeling of awakening from a dream that feels as though it stretched on forever- and yet, just as that chapter closes, a new chapter opens: a homecoming, a return to loved ones and family members. "Welcome Home, Mr Cobb."
Time is forever a masterpiece. Instellar is good but this soundtrack is on repeat.
That 5 stars cast... from main to secondary characters every single one of them was perfect
Just noticed the guy checking the passport. He's a good actor as well. Saw him in few TV series and movies. I mean, it just has to be perfect with Nolan.
@@rajeshsrajeshs he was Leo's boss in "Body of Lies"
Pat McCrotch Oh yeah. Forgot about that movie. You, my friend, gave me a very good suggestion for my Lockdown movies watchlist.
Tom hardy was just good
rajeshs He was in prison break too
Nobody realised 'Time' at the time. An absolute genius soundtrack. Now an endless classic and deserved.
I like how Sato understands immediately what he promised to cobb
Yup!
I still don't really know how you can remember a specific phone number after 40+ years in a dream 😂
In the end Promises matter 😆
@@Shane_Stoic When you wake up from a dream, you remember everything in the real world, while you may forget most of what you dreamed about. Its like a big switch.
@@purrformance thats an interesting point, but I guess we'll never know for sure
I always hear this theme in my head when I'm picking up my bags at the baggage claim.
Must be EPIC!
Lol
You should listen to it on your phone through headphones as you're at baggage claim - I've done it lol
@@sportcomputerservices6438 Are you sure you were not dreaming? ;)
LMAO me too
That moment when Cillian Murphy looks at Leo is always gold.
@rammpeth Culture and then he came In peaky blinder🔥🥵
Cilian Murphy is hugely underrated in this movie
@@imtiyazkhan3464 boom👌🏾🙏🏾
Cillian is Oppenheimer..
Omg broo that scene is great
I just watched this again today and this part hit me in the heart and I was crying. Imagine being on the run, never feeling safe, not having a real place to call home anymore and then . . . you suddenly realize you are about to go home, the weight of that, the emotional depth of it all. How overwhelmingly that is. I have not been able to return home in decades and I don't feel safe anywhere. The gravity of that is devastating and I watched this feeling and wanting what he had, but oh so far away. 😢
This hits different when you finish watching the whole film
@@SvaraAudioforEveryone aaaaah, thank you?
Yeah no shit
For real tho
Why tf would you watch this before the film duh
@@HenzoStar- i mean after the film
• Cillan Murphy
• leonardo dicaprio
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Michael Caine
The fact Christopher Nolan recasts these actors again and again is so satisfying
Not Leo
Not really
Tom Hardy
This is the only Christopher Nolan movie with Leo DiCaprio
Scorsese had him in more movies than Nolan has
This has got to be one of the best movies ever made.
Sadly they don’t win Oscar
@@hasiffitori6784 how who robbed it
@@Benjamin-bp6qn im sorry. They did win the Oscar but what i mean is Leonardo DiCaprio didn’t win the Oscar. Inception won in four category. You can search it up.
@@hasiffitori6784 thank you severus, I will use your knowledge in my next potions class✌
Yee
Cilian Murphy: "Wow that was a nice dream. Time to keep running my company." 🙄
Technically he would barely remember any of it, since that's how dreams work.
he doesn’t have to remember the actual dream. what they did was plant an idea
@@EmperorofManchukuo-iz8de ...and ideas are bullet-proof!
Fun fact: The boy (Cobb's son) is actually Christopher Nolan's (director's) son.
No 😠
@@aakash3752 yes it is. His son Magnus Nolan. Search it up.
@@StarSunYT oh yeah cool thx
@@aakash3752 idiot
Maybe it’s a cliche, but I always like it when the director sticks his wife, kids, mum in a small role in their movie. The director has to give up so much of his life to make the movies and letting the family play along for a day or two has to be such a feel good moment
This movie was one of the best edited and incredibly paced movies ever. The way the tension is created in the third act until the very last scene of Saito picking up the gun, and then when Cobb wakes up, It makes the audience feel like they've themselves woke up from a bad dream. A relief, just like when we wake up from a bad dream. Zimmer's music is one of the main characters in this scene that makes this scene as good as it is.
This is movie is truly an all-timer, and one of my absolute favorites.
well said! much love! cinema lives forever
Excellent post.
@@midnightcruiser6129 I have doubt why people staring at him in plane
exactly. i remember 14 years ago seeing this movie with my girlfriend, without having seen a trailer or even knowing anything about the story, just because me and her were at the mall and we were looking for something to do. i remember coming out of this movie in shock, flabbergasted like when i had just had an unreal dream, i still think about it sometimes how much this movie made me go through so many emotions. and now, 14 years later, with the same girl and 2 young boys, this movie touches me even more.
Nolan + Zimmer = Legendary Masterpiece
Andrew Hong +Dicarpio= Unstoppable
As well as Interstellar! ^^
Every damn time
Andrew Hong as proven by interstellar
Except dunkirk i think
After seeing this ending, I was always listening to this tune on repeat on my way back home on planes and airport from business trips and oh man I was in it big time guys.
Hey Jeff, this is very relatable to me, great movie!
Not only is this a great ending, but does anyone else find the sequence where they wake up on the plane particularly peaceful and reassuring?
For some reason it makes me think about my childhood when life was simple the music feels very hopeful
Makes you let out that breath you didn't know you were holding throughout the climax.
@@Tran1193 Also something about the idea of being very old men and being able to wake up young again.
Absolutely
Wtf are you talking about
Even if you only watch this movie once, you’ll never forget it.
I watched it in 2010, didn’t get it. I tired again in 2012 and still didn’t get it. My dad died in 2013 and I watched it again, in 2014. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks
@@dmcrun3572 Everytime I watch it I get something new out of it.
I forgot I even watched it. Just because a handful of you on UA-cam in your echo chamber liked it doesn't mean the majority of the audience liked it.
@@JourneyToTheTruthandTR the majority definitely liked it though. Ofc not everyone, but a majority for sure
I watched it once. I'll never forget it. I had burrito that didn't agree with me once and I'll never forget that either.
The look all four give each other on the plane is exactly what happens after you've had a bad trip and wake up with your friends realizing everything is ok and you didn't actually go crazy.
that Chinese guy must be going mad...he spent what about 30 years down there then wakes up in his chair...what a mind bender that was....
bdProductions | Music For Videos this is so fucking true
@@offmarketinvestments9770 he's actually Japanese
Or did you?
Lmao hell yeah 👌😂
These actors/actress are sooo fucking good! Their facial expressions, eyes, acted better than dialogues! And that heart-filling music engulfing the audiences within the Inception world….omg…I can never express it in words! ❤❤❤
Everybody : *Perfect ending doesn't exist*
Inception :
Final is a dream
🥰
And tdk too
But it's not
It's an incredible movie indeed but the ending is most probably a dream. That means his wife might've been right and killed herself and went to a lower stage of the dream or the reality. Imagine them making the part 2 of Inception..
@@OXIR yes mate. Like I said it 'perfect' in the sense that everyone has its own conclusion about its ending. So it depends on what you think / assume would happen!
You know he's actually still on Shutter Island.
😅
And he’s just dreaming of him dreaming with his wife and getting into the dream of a multi millionaire businessman and getting into the dream of his partner in crime to plant an idea in the head of another businessman by getting into his dream, successfully plants it and dreams of waking up but still in his DREAMS ffs imagine being Teddy Daniels
@@Maya-bk4jn 😅Deep
PsyQoBoy 😂
Yeah yes
0:06 DiCaprio's ability to convey, with his eyes alone, a person who had experienced an entire lifetime of 80 or 90 years suddenly waking up in a 30 year old's body- KUDOS!!!
he's the goat
🐐
Wait what? What 80-90 years?
@@jinhunterslay1638 well, how long did he spend in the dream?
@@goshaid I checked and it's 50 years with his wife?
I remember seeing this in theaters and it immediately went down as my favorite ending scene of all time.
I had the luck to enjoy this whole masterpiece when it came out. I still remembered how the whole theatre just went "OHHHHHHH" out loud when the lights went out after Cobb's totem kept spinning but got a bit slower. And how, literally every single person, kept discussing on whether it stopped or not leaving the theatre. Simply one of the greatest movie endings ever and such a golden time to enjoy the cinema before this "Netflix time".
OOOHHHHH
First film that I ever went to see with my (now) wife. Loved every second. This scene is absolutely golden to me, so much so that I got a spinning top tattoo the other day.
I think it’s cool how we all have our memories during the time this movie was out. My memory is that I had my last soda drink while I was watching this in theaters. I’ve been going 12 years strong :)
@@x1bl0odman oh man, now I want a soda! But seriously, stay strong! 💪
Now we morbius as the modern day master piece
God this music is amazing.
Martin Hernandez 1 word Hanz Zimmer
Miguel Filipe thats 2 words bro
Ahahah thats right you got me XD. But still amazing.
Martin Hernandez yea. the musical score shakes you to the core. jesus. its increible
+Martin Hernandez Hans Zimmer turns movies into epic masterpieces
I think the reason he walked away from the totem is because he does not care if he is dreaming any longer. He just chooses whatever makes him happy and makes that his reality... Maybe...
I think so too. That#s the mein reason for me why the ending is so great...
BeastUpp neither does life
Actor who plays his father just confirmed it was reality. Cristopher Nolan told him that every scene he was in was reality
Yes my bad
But his totem was not that spinning thing, but hia wedding ring, and if hw wears it, he is dreaming, and if not, he is not dreaming.. aaand here we can see, no wedding ring in his left hand.
This scene has lived rent free in my head since the moment I first watched this film.
am i the only one that constantly replays this scene and interstellars ending scene??? love the music makes it soooo much better
I am with you .I started with Green mile ending then to Shawshank , Forest gump , interstellar , finally here
+Chiranth Bs Same here Bro!
SAME
ThePain223 I seen this and interstellar ending about 750,000 times. It's still great.
Darkus Owl
yeah cant stop watching them i love those type of movies man
Proof that it’s a dream:
It’s impossible to go through U.S. customs without being asked 200 questions, explaining where you were and why, reciting the national anthem, apologizing for visiting another country, and promising to never go it again.
the team bought the entire company...
Are you depressed,why can't you accept it's a happy ending.And what logic are you using?Will Nolan ruin the classy end by showing a clip of him answering to these questions?How he reached home was shown and he remembers it,that's what the movie wants to show.
Anurag Dhole It was a joke, genius.. don’t be so sensitive.
MrSomebunny it’s okay, some people don’t get sarcasm.
@@MrSomebunny then it's ok
Leo, barely said a word... yet We felt everything !
Hanz Zimmer 🤟
acting + direction = IMPACT
The direction, acting and soundtrack make this so great
I love how so many people are coming up with so many different theories and each of them make perfect sense. Shows how much of a masterpiece this movie is and the impact it has left. Truly amazing.
His totem isn't even the top, it's his wedding ring. He wears it in every scene he's dreaming. In this scene, he's not wearing it. The ending is less ambiguous than people think. He's not dreaming; he really makes it home.
I do agree with you, Mr. White.
Bs, this shattered my view of the film. WOKE
Sorry
@@archiej6386 "Because in my dreams, we're still together"
A popular theory... but what if the ring simply symbolizes Cobb's guilt he has felt over the death of his wife and how he caused her to believe her life was a dream? And now that he has had closure over it, he may not need the ring anymore, because he has finally accepted what happened:
And therefore, he can accept his children without caring for weather it's a dream or not. Maybe, in the end, his illusion of Mal won after all, she caused him to stop caring weather it's all real or not.
This has to be one of the greatest movie ending ever made. Hard to top this one, and the pairing image and music is perfection. Seeing Zimmer playing it live was another level.
This movie is a masterpiece there isn't any sci Fi film that comes close to this one. This ending was just filled with all sorts of emotions, it really got to me.
I guess you could say it's hard to "top" eh, :D
@@sakisroubas3237 there is one which is as good as this or even better, I'm talking about the other masterpiece of Nolan and Zimmer, Interstellar, I don't know which movie is better I love both.
@@matteogamba3236 I was thinking of typing "except maybe interstellar". You are damn right, these two are the kings of sci-fi for me atleast, I loved Tenet too.
The Dark Knight Rises 😏😏😏.
Be honest, you were here to listen to Time.
The version of the film is called "Welcome Home, mr Cobb"
🥰
hahah
My God the soundtrack makes this scene more epic
Thought i was the only one😭😭
You dont understand how significant this message was...very few have lived another life and then have been able to see it ...
1:37 this sentence just felt so warm. A policemen just doing his job, saying what common, innocent words, has no idea that these simple words meant the whole word to the person right in front of him. Like waking up from a bad lifelong nightmare, literally, and finally coming home.
Good idea to put Michael Gaston in that chair. He really did a great acting job. Stern check first, short but sincere welcome after that.
R U C K F I V E N
❤
*Immigration Officer
What if you could watch your entire life review with this music.
Your life would be underwhelming
I would give myself an oscar
mind blowing idea
I hire Hans Zimmer
Goosebumps
the music always makes everything 100x better
As long as its from the one and only HANS ZIMMER :D
No the music here is titled 'Time'
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Rariix make more emotional
rariix for reals man
The airport is so weird. You might spend 10+ hours with someone on a flight and get to know them but then walk away as if you’re strangers. You get to glimpse into someone’s life just by watching them greet their family or friends in the terminals.
There’s a half crew of batman
@Dev hell of a casting
@Dev even ken watanabe he was in batman begins
Suffice to say, Nolan’s crew
@Dev Yeah, me too. The coolest line ever: "I bought the airline." Just to make sure the flight would go as planned.
Well the same guy that made batman made this movie so make sense to put them in it
Just finished this movie an hour ago, this is the best cinematic masterpiece I have ever seen
watched everything everywhere all at once?
@@gunhee The key phrase here is: "I have ever seen"
@@mashek331 Yeah, I meant if he watched Everything everywhere, he's best picture will not be Inception.
@@gunhee This is true. For me, the best cinematography... while pretty subjective... is Emmanuel Lubezki's work on the Revenant (also Birdman) or John Toll's work on the Thin Red Line, but they are also among my favourite films lol. I love a good thoughtful epic.
Interstellar is another good one - the cinematography is sublime, particularly the scenes going through the wormhole and the black hole.
same.
It's crazy to think how important amazing sound tracks are for films. Imagine this scene with no music! It wouldn't be half as good
True
I think this Hans Zimmer obsession is ruining movies that forces emotions rather than inspires them. But hey, I don't watch movies anymore so who am I to complain. Hans Zimmer is on John Williams level of composing score for film, and he's a master of his craft - but silence is also something which tells, sometimes even as much as music. Roaring orchestral music does not make a movie, the movie does. If it doesn't work without the music, like, at all, then your film is shit and the score simply saves it. I think this scene would work better with silence, or at least a subdued score, and better convey the emotions felt by the involved characters.
@@gandalf8216 thank god u didn’t make this movie
@@lacapone6266 nah it is a valid point... i think in the case of inception there is nothing to worry about because the film is just as good and the score complements it perfectly but generally speaking it's not easy to have a perfectly fitting score that neither overshadows the visuals and words nor being too subtle...
@@gandalf8216
I understand you bro.
But I believe Hans pulled off something which really beautifully captures the emotions of Cobb in this score.
And as @Kleeblättchen mentioned "in the case of inception there is nothing to worry about because the film is just as good and the score complements it perfectly but generally speaking it's not easy to have a perfectly fitting score that neither overshadows the visuals and words nor being too subtle...".
The entire score (how I felt when I watched this movie) was, it perfectly captured the entire transition from Cobbs shock to the reality he comes to terms with.
As the suble beginning of the score perfectly captures the shock Cobb is in and trying to come to terms with it trying to absorb the entire sequence and seeing the team he was with all being fine and knowing he would be able to see his family when Saito makes the call, the score holds it tone to make a transition to get him a level off of his shock and comes closer to the counter which is his biggest one to get away from as the visa gets chopped and then as the guitars kick in to sweeten the shock for what he has now started to feel the accomplishment of his actions whilst the shock starting to fade away even more making him much more relaxed and he feels proud of his actions as he walks away from his team and gives the energy to look at Murphy to know he did it as score holds at those notes rising to the most awaited sequence of the movie has he managed to get to his most cherished kids he despertely wanted to see but there still little more left of the shock makes him take the only thing he could verify if he is in reality and the music stops as his heart stops in fear to see if the kids would turn and if he could see their faces and then. . . they do turn and the music kicks to a tone to make us realize his shock is now almost completely gone from him as he managed to be verbal with his kids and the top starts to throttle and give away it's axis as the music abruptly ends on the notes of violin to say that the only string which might have had on that shock has finally got completely now removed off of his mind as the movie title is in full display " I N C E P T I O N " - DAMNNNNN ! SIMPLY DAMN !
日本では今、インターステラーが再上映されています。私はIMAXレーザーGTで1週間のうちにそれを3回見ました。
改めて、ノーランが作る世界観、そしてそこに見事にマッチするハンス・ジマーの音楽に感動しました。
しかし私はやはり、インセプションのラストシーンがノーランの最高傑作だと思わざるをえません。
2:04 his reaction to seeing Cobb is absolutely brilliant. The way he just stops for a second and thinks "have I seen this guy before..."
Great movie and great soundtrack!!
Because he have had, they made real contact in the plane, not just by dreaming...
A half remembered dream
RickWithCK lol
YEAH
dejá vu
Best Soundtrack in the history of filmaking. Adds so much emotion to the scene, always gives me goosebumps
You need to watch more films- not even the best soundtrack from a Christopher Nolan movie
+quiksix25 Interstellar and Inception are tied in terms of sound track greatness and dark knight is the best imo
Zilla dark knight by far the best in terms of soundtrack
Oldboy's soundtrack was at least 2 times better lul
Tarkan
I saw this movie in theatres, I cant remember if it was opening night, but it was pretty close to it so nothing had been spoiled. I remember at the end when the top is spinning, putting my hand over my mouth and leaning in closer. When the top is the only thing in the frame and it cuts to black, there was an audible, collective gasp of everyone in the theater. I'll never forget that. Watching this and remembering that gave me goosebumps. That is what the ending of a movie should do. Perfection...
Same! It was the midnight opening for me but regardless pretty new for most anyway around release. The room literally dropped dead silent and gasped as well. My date couldnt take it and it was a great experience.
BS, I bet noone understood the ending and was wondering what the heck just happened :)
Most people did. The point of the cut to black was that it no longer mattered if it was real or not. What mattered was he cared more about being able to experience life with his kids. He was able to find peace.
@@ShimrraJamaane I still dont understand how it couldnt be real, because we see every step he takes to get into another dream and this is the world he started in. Unless this world has been fake the entire movie
@@RobinsMusicy point exact. I guess people get confused too quickly. A morsel of rationality would suggest that he comes back to reality. I guess humans live in their world. Rationality to them is just an afterthought.
One of the most epic climaxes ever.... you have Dicaprio's emoting, Nolan's directing, and then Hans Zimmer composing.....🗿🗿🗿