INCEPTION BREAKDOWN! Ending Explained, Easter Eggs & Deeper Meaning!
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2019
- Inception Full Movie Rewatch & In-Depth Analysis! Since its release 9 years ago, what hidden details have been revealed from Christopher Nolan's dream heist film that give Inception a whole new meaning? What is the secret message of the Inception ending, and what subtle moments foreshadow this final scene? Erik Voss continues New Rockstars' rewatch series, following breakdowns of The Matrix and Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, with the most-requested film, Inception (2010), for all the subtle Easter Eggs & details you might have overlooked. How is Inception actually a metaphor for Nolan's filmmaking process itself, and each dream level an homage to his favorite films? What secrets did Hans Zimmer hide in the Inception soundtrack? And does the spinning top in the Inception final scene mean that Cobb is still dreaming, or is it all a misdirect by Nolan?
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Actually the most disturbing thought is that we dont remember the begining of a dream, but we also dont remember the begining of our lives, which again leads to the question - are we dreaming rn
Nice relation.
Unfortunately you can have physical evidence and also doctors who can testify that you were born :D
@@mateo130 unfortunately, yeah 😂😂
@@mateo130 Yes. And actually there are persons that can not only remember back to the beginning, but can also remember pre-birth, as in the womb. There are person’s that can recall pre-existence to this level of being and choosing coming into this life, living it and either returning to their prior existence or going another route. These persons are “The One’s Who Know” the “Old One’s” or Watchers. There are such person’s.
@@mateo130 But how can you ever REALLY know those evidences are real? :0
@@brendab.5111 Yes , that's a serious debate
The fact that we are still talking about INCEPTION proves why it’s one of the greatest movies EVER...
I agree but
We also still talk about most of Kubrick's films
Particularly 2001:a space Odyssey
Which I think is way ahead of it's time
Tbh
It was definitely one of the most ambitious plots to explain.
Damn wtf lmao I just finished watching it on Netflix that shit was a dope flick
@@figliodimercurio name them then
Christopher Nolan lives rent-free in our minds
He gets to eat all the fruits on my counter too. I'm generous I know.
Because DREAMS PAY 😉
free-rent living in my mind 🎶🎶
It’s Free Reel Estate
Copied from Suits!
cobb always looks stressed. maybe he’s not getting enough sleep
Bwa hahaha. You win.
This comment is underated
He’s always getting too much sleep.
Nice
🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
Nearly 9 years later and we're still discussing this movie...
nice, love that movie!
just like batman trilogy
I still talk about about T-2 to my friends getting close to 30 years later
movies like avengers are not worth to remember, cause most of them will be forgotten within a month. unlike christopher nolan movies will stays long.
How bout shut tf up
@Dawn Moore I think a sequel wouldn't fit this movie. It had a perfect ending so why not just leave it like that
When you realize you only ever got 10% of the movie but liked it anyway
Wait how little did you get the first time?
I got pretty much all of it. It was pretty well explained dont get how many critics didnt understand.
10!
@@markuscraig7945 ikr what part was confusing? Everything was pretty well explained...
That’s exactly how I feel. It’s like I know I’m watching an awesome movie but the characters might as well be speaking another language because I don’t understand shit.
i dont like the fact youtube suggested this after i watched this movie a day ago
j. verden same here. Is UA-cam stealing my info from Netflix when I sleepy?
It's a dream, the coincidences are the give aways, wake up..
j. verden i saw it today and it was recommended
Talked about how this is on Netflix now with a friend at work and now it’s it’s in my recommendations
SAME! i watched yesterday on netflix and here it is
"an idea is like a virus, It can define you or destroy you." Leaving the top spinning in the end scene planted the idea into our head questioning Cobbs reality and ours as well
I think we need to redefine virus😂
And this is an idea proposed into our minds which spark smth and now you're reading my idea that put something in your mind getting your gears thinking about it and now the ideas are simply building up, and thus labelled as a so-called " virus ". Let that sink in xD
@PsychoTheRapist 69 what if that was another deception like the recurring ones in the old theme
I have no question. Its a red herring for those who didn’t pay attention.
Curiosity can be good or bad it all depends on how you handle it
I came here after just staring at my turned off tv for 15 minutes straight after watching this movie.
Just finished it there after putting it off for almost a decade and I'm in a similar enough position
Drink tea
Wake up!
You're profile pic reminds me of the water cups from the 80's
😂😂😂
Mal’s totem is the only totem the audience sees in action. That makes it our totem. The deepest metaphor is that the audience is asleep to the subconscious manipulation of our society through the passive and suggestive state our minds are in while being entertained.
that makes a lot of sense actually. Because then, the wedding ring becomes Cobbs, the spinning top in Mal's subconscious becomes our constant thinking of the movie not being real. And the final spinning top isn't for Cobb anymore, it's for us, and the second it falls the movie is ruined and we wake up.
This comment only interested me because of the big words.
@@rednt1357 what big words? I'm curious.
@@electrogonorhea you know...
@@TheNarwhalGal This makes a lot of sense too.
The spinning top leaving us in doubt is giving us a small taste of what Mal and Dom were going through.
I think that’s what Nolan intended
I had a stroke reading that
nolan planted that idea of existentialism just like dom did also dom is supposedly nolans projection of himself!
so its a smooth parallel
There's only two scenarios that make sense on where Cobb is at the end of the film:
-He's back in reality and it's a happy ending
-Or the entire movie was him still dreaming, and he's now stuck in a further dream state in limbo because he believes he made it back to reality. Then when he wakes up for real, he will have lived MANY lifetimes in his head and quite possibly go mad.
It is said in the movie that limbo is not very stable and it seems stable whenever hes home, plus the ring isn't there, also the director it self told to "Alfred" that when he's on screen it's real
Manator thats what I thought too.
It’s reality because Nolan told Caine that every scene he’s in is reality. And because Caine’s character is in the final scene. It’s reality.
With all these complexities it is possible that there is an infinite number of possible endings.
Maybe Leo's wife is in reality and Leo is still in a dream.
It doesn’t matter whether he’s dreaming or not, because Cobb is in HIS chosen reality now.
That the problem... you're not in your REAL world.... but you'll never know
Not true, it's very important to Cob that he finds his real children because his self created projections could never amount to the complexity of true human nature.
I feel like cob would know that he’s in a dream after spinning the totem and not falling down... eventually cob would try to gtfo..., but because he’s in a dream in a dream in a dream... he has enough time to get out of every dream and get out that van that’s under water. It make sense because 5mins in reality is about hour in a dream... in a dream..., 5 mins is 60mins in a second dream..., and 5mins in a second dream would be 60mins in a third dream. So it would make sense that he gets off the plane, his dad comes pick him up..., he goes home and see his kids. Probably only took 2hours for all that to happen in the 3rd dream..., which is 10mins in a second dream which is probably 1 min in the first dream which is literally 1 sec in reality. I solved it.
Moonlight what does the van have to do with it? He already woke up from the van, when he wakes up in the airplane.
Charlie Chap the whole point of the movie is that he’s trying to wake up. So someone is putting the idea in his head that he has to choose to wake up. Why should he choose to live in a dream?
Inception run time: 2hrs 28mins
‘Non, je ne Regretted Rien’ run time: 2mins 28sec
MIND BLOWN
Yeah, but did Nolan cheat a smidge and include the credits in the overall time? 😉
Andie Morgan true
OMG
@@andiemorgan961 yet still it is 2hrs and 28 mins
One of the best Movies EVER. Nolan is a GENIUS, yes, a GENIUS.
I’m glad that this was the first movie I watched of the decade
same here
Wait me too 😂
Omg me too 😭😂
^^^
Me too 😂
Me going to watch Inception for the 139th time after this: Ah shit, here we go again
And then you watch it again in your dream. Oh wait.....
-mikro- don't me mean
Truth. This movie forces you to revisit it after a while.
I'll have a number 9...
Kumar Animesh it’s just so good right?
You ever get into a fight when you’re dreaming. And your arms feel like spaghetti
Holy crap ur sooo right
could it be because you've never actually a fought? and your sub knows this? you have no muscle memory for it?
Nah chief u just dont know how to scrap😂
Guess that's why im always stabbin folk in my dreams lol
Whenever I dream and I get into a fight I'll swing to hit them and as my fist is about to hit everything freezes
I've always felt the point of the ending was that it really doesn't matter if he's still dreaming or not. If Cobb is still dreaming, he accepts the dream and will ride it out forever.
Agreed. However, he'd end up with the doubt in his mind that Mal had.
This. Whether he's still dreaming or not is pretty much irrelevant, Cobb is where he WANTS to be. He chose his happiest reality
Then wasn't Mal right?
Then why didn't he stay with Mal while he was at it?
Notice how the kids are wearing the same clothes in ‘reality’ at the end as they do in cobbs dreams..
Yeah .. it’s so fkd up
@Kiss Kitty actually the dress maker of this movie said that he used slightly different clothes in the last scene.
That's what I thought too.. The clothes are slightly different and the kids are slightly older. I feel like his subconsciousness imagines his kids older but since in all his dreams they wear the same clothes his mind just makes up a 'bigger' Version of the whole scene.
What if he was dreaming for the entire movie and it was actually like 5 hrs then he woke up in the same day?
thats what i thought, i don't know the time frame but in the time that has passed the kids look the same age, are dressed the same, same hairstyle. House also looks the same almost as if everything is just from memory.
To answer your question of whether we think Cobb is still dreaming, I think you summed it up pretty nicely. The question we should ask ourselves is not whether we think Cobb is still dreaming but is "Does it matter if Cobb is dreaming or not?" All Cobb really wants, is to be able to live and grow with his kids. If we are truly able to choose our own reality, then the ending symbolizes that regardless of whether Cobb is dreaming or not, he has chosen the reality that includes life with his kids and father.
16:05 notice how in the tumbling hallway, Arthur stands back up on floor 5, just like his loaded die always lands on 5?
Thank you! Every time we saw this shot I was hoping they would point it out, and they didn't!
@@valerian4486 yes he did point it out? He literally said "see how he always finds his center of gravity? Just like his loaded di"
Was Quite literally about to type this but I figured someone in the comments had make that connection.
@@jordanshumaker4412 Same here.
in addition to Youssif being Joseph who has 12 brothers in the old testament , Youssif also had 12 dreamers in the dream chamber scene
Actually Joseph had 11 brothers. Jacob had 12 sons. I only remember that from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 😂
@@tavadaardendrian319 Jacob then had one more son after Joseph.Benjamin I believe.
Is there any street lamp in this movie that wasn't purposefully put here by Nolan with some double metaphoric meaning? I mean that's amazing. But i really feel like i should stop scrolling down the comments, otherwise i'm gonna start questioning this reality. But what is reality, really?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
"We did grow old together"...blew my mind haha
The King's Speech...I didn't see it, nor do I know anyone who has. Maybe it was epic haha, but Inception is easily in my top 3 all-time. Thanks for the comment
Still blows mine as well, all these years later.
We all know Nolan was actually inspired by High School Musical 3's use of the rotating room
Nicole Llamas only intellectuals understand
Get your head in the game...
and high school musical was inspired by lionel richie's dancing on the ceiling o_o and lionel richie was inspired by breakin' 2 electric boogaloo...which mean inception was inspired by boogaloo shrimp....and there's all that unpacked.
honestly troy is cobbs change my mind
“Dreams pay” haha also an anagram for “A dream spy” which makes more sense
Dreams pay a dream spy. Dramas? Yep!
Cobbs actual totem was his kids, and their faces, during dreams and when he left, he never saw their faces, until he “woke up” So even though the top kept spinning, he did what he couldn’t do in a dream, see the faces of his kids
Damn thats a great explanation
Kinda true. And the top was moving from left to right so it might stop sometime soon. Afterall, have you seen a top like that stop after like 15 seconds?
@@itsm1ha104 nope
That is interesting but I don't think it's true. The kids are wearing the EXACT same clothes and are in the same position. Even if only one day had passed, it wouldn't make sense. I think that's the biggest sign of him still being in a dream, not the totem. Not seeing his kids´ faces is what he convinced himself to be a sign of a dream.
They are building a fortress !
I think that the fact that Cobb walks away from the totem before it falls means he does not care if he is in the real world or not He got what he wanted, to see his children
I think it's not so much he doesn't care, it's that he knows the answer because he saw his children's faces
Okay but he is still stuck in a dream state because he was away with his kids for so long because of his work and yet at the ending his kids never grew up?
how this didn't win Best Picture is the real mystery here...what kind of reality do we exist in???
It was beaten by The Kings Speech right? That was a great movie but was no inception
Good one
they won in MY reality..
Yea, The Kings Speech was ok but I definitely don’t think about it 10 years later
well inception is an amazing movie so was king's speech but i believe social network should have won Best Picture. But it would have been deserved if Inception won.
Really wasn't expecting this today but THANK YOU!! 👌👌
So glad they are going back to some really great psychological action films!
The gift you didn't know you wanted.
Finished the decade watching this
faaiq kamaldeen crazy I just thought to myself I should do the same
Not even 2min into this video and I’m already lost.
It is confusing at first but it ties back in later and makes sense.
You guys are going to have to do Memento now and complete Nolan's back collection 😍
And Prestige then
@@edmbm00 what a movie 😍
@@edmbm00 Super underrated movie. A shame it's not better known.
And interstellar
Yeeeessss!!! Memento!
Wow, so many layers, so much detail I missed! * mind blown *
Nolan’s movies aren’t movies, it is poetry.
Ugh
Like wiping your ass with silk?
Completely false, action movies
Soon we will be all talking about Tenet
this didn't age well
@@d0mi3000 🤣😂
@@d0mi3000 why not? We're STILL soon will be talking about it))
Going to watch it tomorrow :)
Yupppp phenommm
You'll know a movie is a masterpiece when it's almost a decade and you still can't grasp to fully understand it.
@randomguy8196 Actually, one might actually think that. BUT I didn't. Ever. In my opinion, the ending of Inception was intentionally made to be open for interpretation. And they themselves never really explained what happened in there. That concept is brilliant. Very brilliant.
The top rotates perfectly in the dream world; it never wavers or wobbles and never slows down...
That was all the proof I needed that he's in the "real world" established by the movie...
A proof for fiction...interesting.
Remember the scene in the washroom where Cobb spinned the thing but Saito interrupted him and it fell?
That's it. He never got to know if he's dreaming or not at that moment. The ending dilemma starts from this scene, maybe he's still sleeping there.
Ending scene is 100% a dream. Both kids are wearing the exact same outfit as his last memory of them, in the same position in the same yard doing the same thing, and haven't aged.
I didn’t think abt that
Actually they did age. Because in the credits they got different child actors 2 years older for the last scene. Also he always has on a wedding ring in the dream world, he didn't have one on in the final scene.
He also remembers how he got home, he didn't just apears there. If you can't remember how you arrived somewhere then its a dream. But he remembers taking a plane back, and then arriving.
Investment Guru what if the entire movie was a dream though. We never see him get from point A to point B. They jump from location to location like the movie jumper until it needs to drive the plot forward and provide hidden exposition like the plane or car chases. How did he get to Mumbai, or to see his father. So do we ever really know how he gets places. And also, wasn’t the plane suppose to land somewhere else, because saito didn’t arrange for him to see his kids until after the job. So how did he end up back on in the us with everybody standing around with his dad waiting for him to take him back to see his kids on a beautiful sunny day playing outside in the same spot and condition as his dreams. It just all seems a little too convenient. It’s ALL a little too convenient
@@investmentguru9920 Go for a drive while thinking about this movie. I'll wager when you get to your destination you'll wonder how you got there.
Investment Guru great observation about the wedding ring! I just noticed it today when I te-watched it, 10 years later lol.
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.“
Albert Einstein
ErinM he has spoken!
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Interstellar next! (or sometime in the future plz)
Asif Rahaman agreed
Yess!
agreed
Interstellar was trash
Kenyon Scales
[everyone disliked that]
10 years later and it’s still the best movie ever. Hands down.
Close second to interstellar for me…
@@LaRye- I saw Tenet first then went back to inception
Throughout the movie the characters kept saying “Take a leap of Faith”. So I believe Mal was right, Cobb was stuck his dream.
Thats exactly what i thought once movie ended, almost seems like he wanted to stay in dream because his kids were gone in reality? His wife wanted him back to grow old in the real world
*what a masterpiece of a film.*
definitely my favorite besides shrek 2 of course..
lol
Somebody
@@GreatGrandmasterWang once told me
At 23:34 when you mention that 528491 was a merely random number to drive the narrative forward, on the contrary, Christopher Nolan knows it's significance. This is one of the big secrets Hans Zimmer/Nolan 'hid' on the soundtrack as they even has it as a title as a song on the soundtrack. “528” and “491” have numerological meaning. “528” is the harmonic (Sacred Solfeggio) frequency for the note “mi”. The harmonic scales were developed in monasteries - “mi” is for miracles. 491 is a reference to the "unforgiveable" sin. (The Lord would forgive you 7 times 70 times.)
(Matthew 18: 21-22) “21 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.” Cobb descends into Limbo because of his guilt over the “unforgiveable sin” and he/Fisher rises up through forgiveness due to the “miracle”.
A Silent Koala 🐨 love this analysis
I love the way you think!
@A Silent Koala You are correct. 491 is about forgiveness (and a Lars Gorling novel) and 528 is about the unstated word. Like saying, "Elephant" the word was deliberately left unsaid in the film. It's most missing in Cobb and Mal's promise.
A Silent Koala fack 🤯. I’m impressed. WTH do you guys study?
@@rachelgooden9981 analyzing movies isn't difficult once you get used to it. I actually started by writing things down while I watch a movie. His name is "Cobb". Then later, I'll go and do research on the name Cobb and see what significance it plays. Other times, I know automatically what something means. I love film and I study it some on my own
Dominic Cobb eventually returned to reality because;
1. Michael Caine's scenes only take place in reality as per Christopher Nolan's assured guidance to him.
2. At exactly 2:27:55 in the movie's runtime, as the title "Inception" is displayed for the third time in the end credits, you can faintly hear the totem spin to a stop in the background behind Hans Zimmer's bass score. The top coming to a stop confirms the reality Cobb is in
But Dom’s children never aged.
@@mp2jimmay nope, the children in dreams looked like 4 years old. but at the last scene when he saw his children they looked like 6-8yrs old
@@mp2jimmay they didnt? so why they got two pair of kids to play Cobb's children?
Four different actors and the pair that are shown in the last scene are actually older. 😅
@@mkmllrc yes they are different actors
@@mairalucca8605 Good point! I looked up the cast on IMDB and it says there's a 2 year difference in age which mean Cobb was only away from his kids for 2 years.
Also, the fact that we feel like we dream of deja vu moments that we later experience in real life is like the opening scene as well
I’m relieved that the dissection and analysis of this movie is just as confusing *as* the movie...
Seriously, though, this is excellent analysis of this classic!
Yep
When you’re talking about Arthur being the 5th member, the floor they were on is FLOOR 5!!!🤯🤯🤯
11 years later and we are still talking about it. One of the greatest movies of the decade
Ok I swear one night I dreamed within a dream but I don’t remember anything about it only that it was a nightmare and when I “woke up” I thought to myself “ugh so glad that was a dream” and then woke up again
Saame, false awakenings
That's rare , try to remember that again , and today will be the same, 3rd level
@@ankittayal8291 it hasn’t happened ever since but I’ve been writing down my dreams
@Mike Studmuffin yea dreaming is so interesting, especially lucid dreaming like what you said. One time in my dream I remember I did something really bad and when my mom was confronting me about it, I really didn’t want to explain what I did, so I said “this isn’t real” and I woke up.
I’ve always thought the ending was still a dream. His children always appear with the same clothes and ages as he remembered from when he left. And those are the same clothes and ages when he saw their faces. Also, repetitions are important in this story, and they’re called when they're playing, looking the other direction. He just stayed in that reality and accepted it.
Because Cobb wasn't "on the run" for very long. Cobb was the inception Target not Robert. Read my other comment for further info..
If I remember correctly, one of the rules of the dream totem is that you can never let someone else touch it -- which we learn in the scene when Ariadne is creating hers (a chess piece). Therefore, when Dom adopts Mal's totem the top's behavior is (presumably) no longer a reliable indicator since it's not his -- it's hers. Mal's real totem is the presence (or absence) of his wedding ring -- though maybe he's not fully aware of this -- and there are a lot of shots in the movie where it's not clear whether he is or is not wearing it. Still a nice walkthrough of a movie with a huge amount of depth.
Okay but he is still stuck in a dream state because he was away with his kids for so long because of his work and yet at the ending his kids never grew up?
12 years and still open to hear about it
Imagine being as brilliant as Nolan and his crew and putting this incredible movie together. (As well as his other great movies)
I remember showing this movie to my friends for the first time and they were almost so confused they didn’t care. I told them going into the movie it’s difficult to understand everything once with the movie. Low and behold the second time I convinced them to watch it they were totally engrossed the entire time the movie was on.
I wish my friends were like that and could appreciate one of the best movies ever made
I have been waiting for this video my whole life.
So u 9
@@andim.8788 so u 9
@@andim.8788 holy frack bruhh
@@BenAri18 u took ur name from riverdale u cant be talking
Be seeing you, john
I watched this in school and when it cuts to black at the end after the top wobbling the bell for class rang perfectly. The whole class started screaming. It was great!
One the best opening scenes in movie history. Hooks you immediately.
And then the twist and the end brings it together
I want to see what you can dig up on Fight Club! There's so much hidden content in that movie, it'll be a treat for many people
Jordan Kwasnycia definitely definitely. I can state at least 30 facts of the movie that would feature in the video. It’s my favourite movie of all time. It’s a masterpiece.
The first rule of Fight Club...
@@Theoryofcatsndogs dont talk about fight club
Lol
2nd rule of fight club?
Great interpretation of that last scene. The point isn't whether or not the top stops spinning, it's that Cobb chooses not to look at it and embrace his children.
This is one of my favorite movies, and this video was a delightful surprise today.
The one thing I love about some of the more recent Nolan films is his love for his kids absolutely pours through them. They are beautiful and immortal tributes to them, and I, too, hope I can one day create such a beautiful tribute to my children.
Unpopular opinion: Nolan >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Tarantino.
And Inception is one of the greatest films of our time. Shit was awesome af
Y E S
its not neccessary to rank artists. each can be appreciated for what they do without comparison
Dalton Bedore I agree. Both are at the very top of their game but make vastly different films
Bruh after watching this episode, I need to watch inception again. I believe in Christopher Nolan
Marcos A. The Dark Knight reference? No? Probably not? 😏😂
The way you used Groot as your totem made me laugh on the bus out loud, got some weird looks and I had to get off 3 stops early. So thanks, for the exercise....I guess.
It’s so amazing how you guys researched these details and educated us of those facts. So enriching 💖 Now Inception is truly given the proper appreciation that completes us fans.
This is one of the best videos I've watched on UA-cam in a long time. Well done and thank you.
The prestige is another one that would be amazing to analyze. 😀
People sleep on that movie
Great finds!
A couple of things:
* The buildings collapsing in limbo were full size recreations of the sand buildings that Cobb and wife built on the beach and partly destroyed.
* The idea that you are suspending logic while watching a movie has been around for a long time - described as "suspension of disbelief" 200 years ago and referenced by Aristotle when describing the principles of theater. His idea was that, when watching a play, you must accept that you are no longer in a theater, but are actually watching a scene in a house, a meadow or a castle. I learned about this concept when taking playwright classes in college back in 1969. Nolan may have had the same kind of education.
And here I was still over-analyzing what happens at the very end
if cobb/the gang are the production team behind all these "movies", would that make them the Dream Team?
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This was beautifully done, I didn't realize there were so many levels to story telling and movie making. BRILLIANT!!!
I really love this film, it's perfect on so many levels. So rewatchable too.
The opening score sort of hints that this whole movie is a dream, no?
the reason why the intro is there is that saito and cobb were in a shared dream in the chronological start of the film. When Saito and Cobb fall into limbo, Saito recreates that very same room because it was something he vaguely remembered from long long ago. That room made Saito and Cobb remember that they are in an arrangement and that they need to "come back" to reality.
MAKEITINAMERICA111 so your saying when the movie starts they have already agreed to planting an idea on that guys head?
Alis Deleon negative. Cobb is trying to work with saito so he has to prove his skills. Saito tells Cobb what the job in tails, and because of past with mal, Cobb says no. Saito says Cobb can see his kids if he takes the job. In the end, he recites back to their previous arrangements via location, where it all started
@@stophoee Yes. The opening scene is a flash forward. They are asleep on the plane.
The part before the movie, where we see the film label, syncopy, before the prologue and the movie is just starting, we hear the first BWAH! that’s Nolan telling us we are “in the dream “ as we agree to enter into the movie. I feel like that is what Erin lim meant
Nolan was such a great director. The fact that he presented 80-pages report envisioning "dream stealers," based on lucid dreaming to Warner Bros is mind-blowing.
Masterfully picked apart a truly amazing movie.
My take of the ending is that Cobb learned that life is literally a dream, where your imagined potentials become your future. He keeps finding more and more of his dreams in reality, to the point that it doesn't matter anymore if either his dreams created his reality, or his dreams are his reality.
Reflect on yourself as the viewer, don't we all feel like dreams became more of a power in our lives after viewing this movie? That's why I put this on my top ten, it's so deep and enjoyable to mull over.
Ok,ok, I already LOVE this movie and this channel. However, this video has made me love them both even more!
The hotel scene takes place on floor 5 too. Arthur’s loaded dye. I’m here all week
I agree that Nolan is sub-narratively saying that Cob is now in the real world (for the same reasons the video mentions):
1) The top wobbles, whereas the top in Mal's safe shows no sign of spinning out.
2) The absence of the wedding ring.
3) The appearance of his father in law.
This is definitely Nolan's intended effect here, but because he did such an amazing job of building the rules of Inception, he has actually written a movie whose ending CANNOT be solved, even with these previous clues. For example:
1) The top wobbling could simply be Cob's subconscious doubting whether or not this is really a dream, as each time the top wobbles (representing Cob's desire to believe that this is real), it snaps back to an upright position (representing his inner fear that this world is a dream). All in all, the top could just be a dream-element that moves with his subconscious just as we see the other dream environments parallel the dreamer's subconscious in the heist.
2) Though the catch of the wedding ring being Cob's true totem is a keen take by NewRockstars, this doesn't necessarily mean that this is the REAL world. It simply means that it is A world, which keeps its continuity through the absence of Cob's ring, because Mal killed herself in this world. This could just be another layer of the dream that Mal had the foresight to ascend from when Cob didn't.
3) The appearance of Cob's father-in-law as another sort of totem isn't an established fact within the movie but is rather a personal preference of meaning taken by Nolan and some of the cast. It does not create a rock-solid piece of evidence for the the real-ness of the world.
I'm not saying that these definitely mean that the whole movie was itself a dream. The original clues spotted by NewRockstars have that touch of Nolan-esque mystery to them that he purposefully plants in his movies for the dedicated (nerdy) moviegoer. To Nolan, these were meant to establish that Cob is truly in the real world, but because Nolan went to such great lengths to establish the movie's rules, he has seemingly written himself into a corner with this ending. Inception truly cannot be solved. Not even by it's creator.
The beauty of an idea becoming poison kinda bc we don’t know we just can speculate
Amazing work. Really really impressive! Much gratitude
One of the best videos Ive ever seen on UA-cam 👌🏿
I’m watching this movie on acid it’s been playin for like 6 hours lol
Your video is my totem. Whenever the video freezes at 4:56 that's how I know I'm dreaming.
I just rewatched the movie today after wanting to do so since I saw it in 2011. This a legendary movie that can never be metabolized in one watching and your analysis was fantastic!
You can hear the top fall over during the credits
There are many sayings and songs that clue us in. There is an old beautiful song called “Life Is But A Dream.” There is the old nursery rhyme “Row, Row, Row Your Boat.” Clues all along the way. We have to listen...
@Mike Studmuffin Its BEFORE the screen goes black and to the credit..
The level of research and detail you have put into this is staggering.
This was deep and well done sir. Great job.
After watching this I'd say do Fight Club!
Yesss fkg do fight club
FIGHT CLUB!!
I think if they are going to make a Matrix 4.. Nolan should write and direct it
I love your content of analysis! Keep it up!
If it's this channel I know that it's going to be a beautiful experience. I was the only one in my group who'd noticed the ring, and I didn't share it at the time because they had so much fun trying to decide if it was real or not at the end.
best movie ever made. cant believe that nolan worked 10 years on the script but this is a pure masterpiece
At literally any level that you look at this movie its still EXTRMELY meta
i love it
And amazingly the kids still have the same clothes that he remembered them as from his last memory from seeing them.
No they dont
they dont have the same clothes its just really similar. You can search up comparison photos on google. You can see that the kids are older and wearing slightly different clothes.
Nolan is an architect himself, I see this movie more as an intricately created world than just a movie.
I HAVE NEEDED THIS SINCE THE MOVIE ENDED IN THE DAMN THEATRE..
Ok sorry I am just so thankful
You heard my request. Thank you!!
What an amazing video, great work!
This video was great! My mind is still if not more blown then the first time watching this movie!