Because of this, Inception is also rife with hints about Cobb, his trustworthiness, and his mental stability as he grapples with the loss of his wife and trying to outrun the law. The real question the Inception ending wants us to answer is not "Did the top fall over?" but rather, "Do I trust Cobb to show me his reality?" Inception look like a team effort but, at its heart, this is Cobb's journey. Ultimately, I think the top, the ring, and any talk of totems is a massive misdirect when trying to unpack the ending. Meanwhile, Nolan, ever the enigma, couldn't give a flip about explaining the ending means or answering whether the top tips over. Among the most recent theories is one which argues Cobb's real totem is his wedding ring, not the top, and elsewhere, the fact he is wearing it in the final shot (versus not wearing it in what we believe to be dreams), is definite proof he's in the real world. Was Cobb actually in the real world? Or was this some dream trickery, as indicated by his special totem not abiding the laws of gravity? So much time and effort has been poured into trying to argue why the top actually topples, even if we don't see it. Here is where we all collectively freaked out back in 2010. The top is still spinning as Cobb hugs his children and the camera cuts to black. Before he does, though, he is compelled to spin his totem, a top once used by Mal, to see if this is all real. Miles and Cobb arrive at home, where Cobb can finally see the faces of his children and hug them.
Cobb's father-in-law, Miles ( Michael Caine), meets him at baggage claim, a thing made possible by Saito using some likely shady backchannels to clear any arrest warrants which previously kept Cobb from returning to L.A.
LIMBO DEFINITION MOVIE
(I use quotes since, as the movie has made plain in previous scenes, Mal is a projection of Cobb's mind, so really, Cobb is having a last-minute therapy sesh with himself.) Ariadne successfully retrieves Fisher, Cobb stays behind in limbo to retrieve Saito, whose wounds also plunged him to limb but I really don't have time to tell you about that in full, and the team gets off the 10-hour flight from Australia to Los Angeles. unconstructed dream space existing within untouched subconscious - to retrieve Fisher, whose consciousness would remained trapped there thanks to the drugs keeping him in this dream heist.Ī journey into limbo features a harrowing, emotional confrontation between Cobb and Mal as "they" sort out "their" issues. Attempts to revive Fisher fail and Ariadne, the architect of this dream world, convinces Cobb to take her down into limbo - a.k.a. Fisher, aided by Eames, is so close to completing the mission when the unconscious projection of Cobb's wife, Mal ( Marion Cotillard), emerges from somewhere (a ceiling panel? an air duct? actual thin air, given the elevation of the mountain setting? Who knows!) and shoots Fisher.
For me, Inception's final act begins with Cobb ( Leonardo DiCaprio), Eames ( Tom Hardy), Ariadne ( Elliot Page), Saito ( Ken Watanabe), and Fisher ( Cillian Murphy) making it to the third level of the multi-level dream constructed by their chemist, Yusuf ( Dileep Rao), to ensure enough time to pull off the inception-possible result of Fisher breaking up his father's business empire for Saito's personal gain. In a movie as heady and twisty and esoteric as Inception, we simply must begin with the stone-cold facts.
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