Why inception was all a dream

Also read: Actor Vijay worried for stranded son in Canada amid lockdown: Report. Reality matters. The crux? He rushes to hug his kids, leaving the totem behind. In that moment, he no longer cares if his world is real or not. Why should it matter when he is finally with his kids? Maybe our ideas of what is real and what is fake should not be so definitive after all. Follow htshowbiz for more. Filmmaker Christopher Nolan has tried to explain the ending of Inception multiple times.

Do you still feel confused? Share Via. Ad — content continues below. Indeed, the actual star of the film is not so confident about how events played out. And we know this not because Michael Caine is there to greet Cobb at LAX, but because of how Cobb has differentiated his reality from his dreams.

While it originally belonged to Mal, in her dream it spun for eternity. Each time, the spinner stops spinning. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!

But as uncharitable as this is to a filmmaking maestro, it also would ignore how Nolan intentionally shows Cobbs pass through U. Customs while handing the border officer his papers with his left hand. No wedding ring is in sight. Ergo, when Cobb got home, his children were as awakened from a dreary nightmare as him.

While art really is in the eye of the beholder, and you can interpret Inception however you wish, based on the rules established by the film, we can say definitively that Cobb is intended to make it home and not be distracted by a lie. Inception does indeed make the argument that one reality is not necessarily more valid than the other. The whole issue is great and you should definitely pick it up. What's happening in the movie : After the first extraction fails, Cobb spins his top to check if he is in a dream.

It falls over. Nolan's Comment : "This gives Cobb a base-line reality. But he's an untrustworthy narrator. What's happening in the movie : Saito says he'll clear Cobb's name if he takes the job. He asks Cobb to take "a leap of faith.

It's an artifact of Cobb's subconscious. What's happening in the movie : Cobb starts assembling his team and trains Ariadne in dreamweaving. Cobb: director. Ariadne: writer. Eames: art director. Saito: producer. Fischer: audience. Nolan's Comment : "I didn't intend to make a film about film-making, but I gravitated toward the creative process that I know.

What's happening in the movie: Cobb goes to Mombasa to get Eames the forger and Yusuf the chemist. Nolan's Comment: "I wanted to show the potential for the real world to have analogies to the dream world.