What Happened at the End of Inception?

Written by Rizoh. Posted in Flicks

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• john q…lol

  this movie opened my mind to many new and exiting ideas, but when the scene is cut short i lost all sence of control and got pissed. so i voted “was awake” just to put my mind at ease

• Dog

  even if he was still dreaming … he is gonna notice the spinning top at some point …. then just kills himself

• Dog

  even if he was still dreaming … he is gonna notice the spinning top at some point …. then just kills himself

• Tehsimpl

  I hopped it was reality, I would hope after all that he would still get to see his real kids…

• Ykang07

  Why are most of you guys who claim he’s dreaming, totally skip over the ending scene between Cobb and Saito. That right there, should tell you he’s awake. Cobb reminds Saito that his world (Limbo) is not real and thus Saito grabs the gun and shoots both him and himself and thats how they get back to reality.

  How do we know you can get out of limbo by killing yourself? Because that is how Cobb and Mal did it. The only problem is, once you are in limbo, you think that you are in reality.

  The movie starts with the very first scene when Saito is in limbo. Everything else is a flashback, so rest of the over analyzing of the movie is pretty irrelevant.

• Talvis Randolph

  he was awake. remember he had to search for Saito in limbo. He made Saito remember the arrangement as when they were saying each other words. Saito pulls out the gun to shot him and Cobb and they wake up inside the plane GOD THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES SO Original THE SOUNDTRACK IS A GOD GIFT

• remy

  Aough i didn’t read all the comments the few i did… yr all wrong.. Milan makes us question things without denying us actual closure… memento anyone? The totem was originally his wifes.. if you noticed they made sure to show us many shots of his left hand throughout the movie.. if you pay attention youll see every time he’s dreaming there’s a wedding ring while its gone every time he’s in reality.. at the end its gone as is mal.. mal died and came back within the dream before so why wouldn’t she be there this time if it was a dream/limbo? ALSO the kids are played by different actors so they are older, its just very subtle (interestingly enough three of the child actors are siblings). The top was a watchamacallit.. a red herring. Well i don’t know if i forgot anything but there you go. Great movie. Great ending. Kinda forces you to see it more then once but once you do if you pay attention youll see a happy ending that’s more interesting then mushy.

• Pcharmed3

  THE TOTEM WASN’T HIS! So, the fast that it fell at the end means nothing. That totem was Mal’s, Not his; using hers defeats the purpose of the totem.

• Farahdaghestani

  At the end of the movie when he walked into the house, just before he saw his kids it showed the totem top thingie was spinning on its side.  A top only does that when its about to stop. Yet after you see the top and after he runs up to his kids you can see it again and it is spinning normally. Sooooo…… i guess the top was going backwards…..maybe…….ok now im going to walk away before my brain explodes. Go ahead. Sh*t bricks.

• Boogiimann

  There was no little sound to symbolize the spinning top(?) [Spinning- whatever] fell. It wobbled, yes- but did not fall (in video or audio). go ahead and amplify the audio and isolate the sound fragment from when the spinning thing wobbles to the music to mark the end. No sound depicting the spinning thing fell.

• mandate

  NOT TRUE, the clothes are the same, but the shoes are different. The costume creator even states this. At the ed of the movie the shoes are different than the entire rest of the movie. He was awake.

• Moyk923

  it wasnt his totem… it served no purpose for him. it never kept spinning for him either way.

• Qiesschen

  how the totem was still spining T T i felt for the film and its miserable.