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Spoiler question concerning Inception?

At the end, does the spinner seem to be spinning indefinitely or does it wobble signifying it would eventually stop. What's your interpetation: Cobb's happy ending a dream or reality??

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    I interpret it as reality. :)

    So many details leading to reality.

    Full answer: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhFTJ...

    At ending, the Top wobbles --> REALITY. In dreams Totem spins constantly & smooth. If we listen carefully after the black out [not after the credits], there's a SOUND of the Totem wobbling n fall. After the black out, the background music plays and we can slightly heard the wobbling sound, the falling sound appears just before the full cast list rolls.

    Dileep Rao [Yusuf] interview: "You know what, I'll just say this: Use your ears not your eyes."

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

    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_buVAhLdEfbg/TQljomldOJI/...

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    The kids are older in the ending, bigger body shape, different hair style, different clothes and shoes too.

    SHOES: In dreams they're wearing black shoes, at the end Philippa wears pink canvas shoes & James wears white sport shoes.

    CLOTHES: In dreams Philippa wears 1 piece of short-sleeves pink dress. Philippa wears a sleeveless pink dress with an inner white shirt at the end.

    In dreams James wears redish-color shirt with wider lines. James wears bluish-color shirt with thinner lines at the end.

    And there are "painting tools & brushes" on the table at the end.

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_buVAhLdEfbg/TQbZANl9I6I/...

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_buVAhLdEfbg/TQbZAkNfRBI/...

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    Michael Caine has revealed the "true" ending of the film, stating that, "The spinning top drops at the end, that's when I come back on. If I'm there it's real, because I'm never in the dream. I'm the guy who invented the dream."

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    Cobb really care whether it's real or not, because he cares for the children, not just for hisown sake to feel happy.

    Cobb (to Ariadne): The moment's passed. Whatever I do I can't change this moment. I'm about to call out to them. They run away. If I'm ever going to see their faces I've gotta get back home. The real world.

    Cobb (to Prof. Miles): Reality... Those kids... your grand children... They are waiting for their father to come back home. That's their reality. And this job, this LAST job, that's how I get there. I would not be standing here if I knew any other ways. I need an Architect who is as good as I was.

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    Saito shot themselves in time when the sedative already runs out.

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_buVAhLdEfbg/TQlb4UQUReI/...

    One way to know you're in a dream is that you couldn't remember how you get there.

    When Cobb wakes up in the plane, he's back to where he was, he's not waking up in some unknown place with no explanation of how he got there.

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_buVAhLdEfbg/TQlb40AGqQI/...

    When Cobb & Saito wakes up on the plane, the sedatives already runs out, Fischer and the other team are already awake.

    Fischer already sits firmly, Eames is wiping face with hot towel, Arthur & Ariadne [secretly] looking at him as if they’re wondering if Cobb would ever wake up.

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_buVAhLdEfbg/TQlb5SRIsxI/...

    Cobb: Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

    ***** ***** *****

    Source(s): Saw Inception 3 times in cinema. (^_^)v Details + PICTURES + Dialogues: >>> http://evakriss-corner.blogspot.com/2010/08/incept... Plot [on going]: >>> http://evakriss-corner.blogspot.com/2010/08/incept...
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