Inception Stars Talk Sequel And What That Ending Means
On the red carpet of the film's L.A. premiere, MTV News caught up with the stars of Christopher Nolan's latest mindbender to see if they thought the film could support a sequel and to quiz them on their interpretations of the final scene, with one actor offering a very tantalizing clue. Spoilers ahead.
Leonardo DiCaprio had a definite view of whether his character made it back to reality or was still stuck in a subconscious dream, but sadly did not want to share with the rest of the class, saying that "I have my own specific take on that final scene," but wanted to let audiences to interpret the end for themselves.
Cillian Murphy was just as tight-lipped, announcing that he "wouldn't want to give an opinion on that," and refusing to speculate on any chance of a sequel. Clearly, to get any good info, we're gonna have to go to the fourth or fifth leads.
And like manna from heaven, Lukas Haas has given freely of his opinion: "My take? I think it's real," he declared. And with Dom Cobb alive and well and lucid, that leaves the door open to a sequel, a sequel that could easily be made, says Haas.
But it was Dileep Rao, who played Yusef the Chemist, who gave the most fascinating clue and suggested audiences ignore their eyes, if just for a moment. "You know what, I'll just say this: Use your ears not your eyes," he offered.
I'm honestly torn on this -- on the one hand, his kids are still in almost the same position as he saw them last. And, though I can't recall, are they even wearing the same clothes as they were in Cobb's reoccurring visions? But on the other hand -- didn't that top seem like it wobbled just the teeeeeensiest bit right before the movie cut to black?
What do you think? Is it real or is it another dream? Did Cobb make it out alive or is he still stuck in the purgatory of his subconscious?
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The top definitely wobbled, but then righted itself, as real-world tops will do before winding down... but also as Cobb's dream-world perpetual top would do. It then wobbled again just as the screen went black -- in the real world, this would mean it's probably about to topple, but again in the dream world it would do that whenever it passed over a ridge on the rough wooden surface of the table.
Absolute WIN of an ending.
The big difference was that he saw the children's faces. I suppose that doesn't definitively say he wasn't dreaming, but it indicates something, doesn't it?
On the OTHER hand… it IS Mol's top, right? And we're told, in no uncertain terms, by Arthur, that you should NEVER handle someone else's totem. But Cobb always breaks the rules, right? So the question may be, not whether we're still in a dream, but WHOSE dream are we in?
For Dom Cobb, it doesn't matter. He gambled everything on this moment. He refused to look at his children's faces in the dreams, lest he be lost forever. That was his frame of reference.
He's either back with his children or finally lost and succumbed to limbo. To me, that's the point.
None of you are even close. Mol was right, they were all in a dream, and it was probably Dom's.
I actually used my ears during the ending, and yes, I'm so sure that I heard a sound of that totem being dropped. So he must be in real life, for sure
I got hte impression that any time you saw something in slow motion, it was within a dream. Final scenes had lots of slow motion. I think he's in limbo
Lots of interesting thoughts here -- I just don't know. See what they're saying about the movie at the International Association for the Study of Dreams -- http://www.asdreams.org/inception/
The main thing is that he was able to see his kids faces. Something he could never do while he was dreaming. And I thought that that top was starting to wobble.
The movie is all about imagination. Not a real topic is included in it.
Cobb is still in his dream. It was Saito who made the dream seems to be reality. Remember that Saito did see what Cobb's totem is? "The scene where leonardo dropped the totem in the toilet???" It was Saito who makes Cobb believe that he was in the real world.
And also, the children has grown up. Remember the scene where Cobb was on the phone with his children? Where it seems that his daughter has grown older with adult voice?
It is a very good marketing strategy to let his audience to talk about the movie even after it finished. "WHAT A MOUTH TO MOUTH MARKETING" rofl.
Real movie is that which turns our mind to think and that is what the Christopher tries to show us.
Its really a great movie by Nolan ever.
I cannt describe more abt it, as it is ever so great movie at the begin of the century.
Weather it get Oscar or not it will be evergreen Hollywood movie in the history of cinema.
Whether the totem topples at the end doesn't matter, at least not for Dom -- it wasn't his totem, remember? The top was Mol's totem. She locked it away, (or so we're told by Dom). This suggest the entire movie is Mol's dream, with her watching him using her totem and finding happiness at the end. His totem may or may not be a gun, as this is the only other thing he had on him when he washed ashore at the beginning of the film. And although it changes shape, he has a gun pretty much throughout the movie. Thinking about the movie is more fun than actually watching it. My head hurts.
He's talking about when he spoke with the kids over the phone at the beginning of the movie. They sound much older than they are in the photographs or in the last scene.
He is the Hollywood Movie Star of All Time.....The movie is great, I am going to watch it again
If he is still in limbo or not is irrelevant, the point is that he left the feelings of guilt and depression behind him and forgave himself. Remember when the architect says who would want to be in a dream for 10 years and the chemist responds "it depends on the dream". For Cobb reality is with his children and as long as he is able to enjoy that then as the man in the chemist basement says "who are you to say different"?
ps he is awake
Even if the totem toppled down, it would only mean that Cobb is not in someone else's dream. He could still be in his dream, and since he knows how it works he can make it topple down subconsciously. Also by this point, Ellen Page's character also knows how Cobb's totem works and could design it to topple down. But why would the children be in the same position, wearing the same clothes?
The end is a dream.
Its all about the kids. The kids on the phone sounded older. When Dom picks them up at the end you can hear that they are not the same kids on the phone.
He's asleep. But he's free to dream again without guilt. My question is if he's asleep, where's Saito then? Isn't he supposed to be sharing this dream world with him? also remember the plane ride is 10hrs. Which is equivalent to 10years in level 3. Its still possible for Dom to reawaken on the plane after he's spent some time with his children. They were forced to speed up the process of their plan because Saito was shot. So the week that they had on level 1 was pushed to one day. or a couple hrs I guess.
So even if he Dom was sleeping on the plane still while everyone awoke. He still has plenty of time to reawaken.
Its all about the kids. The kids on the phone sounded older. When Dom picks them up at the end you can hear that they are not the same kids on the phone.
He's asleep. But he's free to dream again without guilt. My question is if he's asleep, where's Saito then? Isn't he supposed to be sharing this dream world with him? also remember the plane ride is 10hrs. Which is equivalent to 10years in level 3. Its still possible for Dom to reawaken on the plane after he's spent some time with his children. They were forced to speed up the process of their plan because Saito was shot. So the week that they had on level 1 was pushed to one day. or a couple hrs I guess.
So even if he Dom was sleeping on the plane still while everyone awoke. He still has plenty of time to reawaken.
Its all about the kids. The kids on the phone sounded older. When Dom picks them up at the end you can hear that they are not the same kids on the phone.
He's asleep. But he's free to dream again without guilt. My question is if he's asleep, where's Saito then? Isn't he supposed to be sharing this dream world with him? also remember the plane ride is 10hrs. Which is equivalent to 10years in level 3. Its still possible for Dom to reawaken on the plane after he's spent some time with his children. They were forced to speed up the process of their plan because Saito was shot. So the week that they had on level 1 was pushed to one day. or a couple hrs I guess.
So even if he Dom was sleeping on the plane still while everyone awoke. He still has plenty of time to reawaken.
I definitely think Mol was right, that they had to kill themselves again to get to reality. The way they talked about being in limbo made it sound like you had to be more than one layer in. So when Dom and Mol were in limbo, and killed themselves with the train, they have only gotten through one dream layer. And maybe each time she would occur in his dreams and sabotage, maybe she was actually dream sharing with him to try to get him to realize and wake up. And his kids always looked the same...
More importantly, why in the new Movieline design does the sign-in button disappear?
In the middle of the film, I decided all of it was Cobb's dream both because of the older-sounding and same-clothing-wearing children (and how did they know where to call him?), and because Saito made two statements to Cobb that were identical to statements made by Mal (one was that he should "take a leap of faith," and because I'm slightly brain challenged, I can't remember the other one).
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