What did you think about the ending of Inception?

You're right, Cobb made it back to REALITY.

DETAILS & EXPLAINATIONS with dialogues and pictures:

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Inception is awesome! \(^o^)/

The answers lies within the details and the conversations throughout the movie.

Just like in "Sixth Sense", "Memento", and "Fight Club", we have to focus on the clues, but Inception got us tricked with the ending.

At the ending, they cut the movie into black out before the Totem falls to make people wondering and keep talking about it [and watch it again]. (^.^)v

Nolan made the ending seemed "unsolved" coz he wanted to confuse the audience, rather than giving a clear ending, he's giving a "challenge" to think and try figuring out the answer on their own.

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At ending, the Totem wobbles --> REALITY.

In dreams Totem spins constantly & smooth, never wobbles.

If we listen carefully after the black out [not after the credits], there's a SOUND of the Totem WOBBLING n FALL.

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Dileep Rao [Yusuf] interview:

"You know what, I'll just say this: Use your ears not your eyes."

The only people who know the weight & feel of that totem are Mal & Cobb, and since Mal is dead, Cobb is the only one left who knows the totem’s tactile details.

So YES, he could certainly use it as a measure of reality, the totem was not “ruined” by him using it.

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Cobb doesn’t wear a WEDDING RING in reality, but he wears a wedding ring in dreams [in dreams he's still together with Mal]. He doesn't wear it at the end.

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He's not dreaming all along. After his mission to get Saito's secret, Cobb sitting in his hotel room alone, spinning the Top [Mal's Totem] and watching it intently, gun in hand. He's ready to blow his brains out if the top keeps spinning, in order to “wake himself up”.

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THE KIDS looked a bit OLDER in the ending. In the credits there are 2 pair of kids: Philippa (3 yo & 5 yo), James (20 months & 3 yo).

Claire Geare - Phillipa (3 years) & Magnus Nolan - James (20 months)

Taylor Geare - Phillipa (5 years) & Johnathan Geare - James (3 years)

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The kids are wearing very similar outfits to the ones he remembers [in his dreams], but their SHOES are different. In dreams they're wearing BLACK shoes, at the end Philippa wears PINK canvas shoes & James wears WHITE sport shoes.

Philippa also wears a DIFFERENT PINK DRESS, sleeveless with an INNER WHITE SHIRT. In dreams she wears 1 piece of short-sleeves pink dress.

And there are PAINTING TOOLS & BRUSHES on the table.

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Remember, almost all the major of the flick has been taking place in dreams, the MIND WORKS FASTER IN DREAMS. 5 minutes=1 hour; 10 hours=1 week. Dream time is longer than actual time (even longer as they go deeper into the dream, and much longer in Limbo). No reference about exactly HOW LONG Cobb has been away, we can't rely to the age of the kids as an indication that he’s in the real/dream world.

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First time I didn't really notice this. But in the second viewing, I could clearly 'hear' the totem falling. So, he wasn't dreaming after all.

i think that there are 2 endings. one, it is the real world, and Mal was wrong. or two, mal was right when she threw herself out the window, and the ending is just a level someones dream. the movie is actually very complicated, so until we understand everything, we cannot know for sure.

I think Christopher Nolan left the end of Inception open for interpretation and we will argue about it for years.

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well it is basically an open ending where you make the decision whether he makes it out of limbo or not. i believe he does make it out because you can see the top wobble before it goes black

i dont get it