Movie Inception: What do you think of the ending of the movie?
By ram_cv
@ram_cv (16513)
India
August 2, 2010 9:50am CST
I checked out the movie Inception over the weekend. I liked the movie, though the plot was rather thin with a dream in a dream in a dream sequence. But the debate started after the movie as to which level of dreams was Di Caprio in when the movie ended!!
Have you seen the movie? What is your take on this?
Cheers!
Ram
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4 responses
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
2 Aug 10
I also saw it last week and I believe DiCaprio was in level 4 because this is what my husband and I discussed Immediately after the movie..Then he saw it again yesterday with our older son he had an interesting point. In the second level where the guy who drove the van stayed in level 2, how come he didn't wake up if the feeling of falling is suppose to bring you out of sleep???
@ram_cv (16513)
• India
3 Aug 10
The last point is easy. He did not wake up in Level 2, because at that point he was not on Level 3. Basically when you get a kick, you can move to one level up, but in this case Di Caprio was still in Level 4 and that is why he did not wake immediately in Level 2. But here's my take why I feel he cannot be in Level 4. If you remember the design of Level 4, it was a snow capped landscape, while Di Caprio is in a perfectly green place at the end of the movie. So for me I think he was either in real world or Level 2.
Cheers!
Ram
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@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
3 Aug 10
Wait a minute, Level 2 or real world??? I think the level he was on was not the real world, but one his wife and him had made. Level 1 was the airplane. Level 2 was with the van and the downpouring rain. Level 3 was the snow capped landscape which brings us to level 4. where Di Caprio and his wife had made their memories.
As for the driver in level 2, when he got that kick, he would have woke up in the plane. Now the others, so when they get a kick up, for example the wounded man on level 3 would have jumped to level 2? Yet it didn't show anyone jumping to another level when the van went off the bridge..
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@manzician (4727)
• India
2 Aug 10
I liked the ending of the movie. Just like Caprio's Shutter Island, it left viewers in dilemma about the truth. Whether he was still in a dream, or reality can't be answered since the totem is still spinning. The movie as a whole, while not path-breaking, was excellent. I have always been a big fan of Nolan and this movie will placed among his masterpieces like Dark Knight, Momento and The prestige...
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@Luwiego (622)
• Israel
2 Aug 10
Hello ram_cv, well i have 2 versions of the ending. My first version is that everything is fine, they wake up, and he finnaly came back to his kids (the reason why i think hes awake because he can see his kids faces). Second version that hes still sleeping, because when he wakes up everything looks to good, he evan leaves that girl, and goes alone. At the end his totem is rotating, rotating and the movie ends. Cheers and happy myLotting !
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@grvdubey11 (1879)
• India
2 Aug 10
Well there was one more level when cobb goes to take saito back , which is also opening of the movie , thats why cobb and saito wake up late in the plane after others, this makes me believe that even of nolan has tried to confuse people that cobb is in real world or limbo ,i strongly believe that he is in real world, saved saito from limbo state and returned , thats why aridane tells to arthur to leave cobb in the van itself when he tried to rescue him in first dream.
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