Blog 30 - Inception Discussion -- MAJOR SPOILERS

I'm surprised with myself -- I can't believe how much I've written about Inception but at the same time I've barely written a fraction of the things I've thought about for this movie. Another example of how this movie really affected me and all of the audience that has watched the movie. Anyway, here are some great sites I found about Inception. Great explanations, and very helpful in explaining the facts that went on if you were confused when you watched the movie:

http://screenrant.com/inception-spoilers-discussion-kofi-68330/
http://techland.com/2010/07/19/the-great-inception-debate-alive-dead-both/?cp=2#comments


Some facts to refresh our memories:

Since I just wrote blog 28 and I'm on a roll with the greatness that is Inception, I figure I might as well write this blog now. Now, there are two very popular endings for inception (both arguments are really dumbed down to the basics as for now):


1. Cobb is really in limbo. The whole thing is a dream.
2. Cobb makes it back to reality and is finally reunited with his children.


Me? I'm a little torn, and I bet everyone is to some extent since both endings are so possible. Keep in mind that the last scene of Inception is the top spinning, but the clip is cut to a black screen as soon as you see the top quivering, possibly about to fall. The two times I watched it the whole audience moaned "AWW!!" when this happened. Quite the reaction! So why don't we discuss it some? 


The whole thing is a dream

• When Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is teaching Ariadne (Ellen Page) about being an architect and creating dream worlds, he tells her something along the lines that people don't ever really remember how a dream starts, they just remember what happens and usually how it ends. Similarly, the movie starts with Cobb washed up onto a shore. We don't know how he got there, why he's there, or what happened prior to that event. 
• Cobb's children look like they're the same age, wearing possibly the same clothes. Then again, we don't know how long he's been away from home.
• We never see the top actually fall. So, it's still a dream, right?

Cobb makes it back to reality

• In limbo Cobb is never able to see the faces of his children, but now he can. He can even embrace  and interact with them.
• All of the members of the team wake up on the plane, they all acknowledge each other confirming the success of the mission.
• The top was about to fall...right?

Of course, the very, very, VERY few things I've listed are just some of the arguments for both sides of the story. There are other theories out there too, so for anyone that would like to bring those up please do! Discussion about Inception is always fun, challenging, and exciting. By all means negate every single thing I've just said. 

Nolan very intricately lays out the storyline, and does it so mindblowingly. He successfully taught the audience all of the rules of the dream world in great detail but at the same time carefully left loopholes for us to not notice until the final "conclusion" of the movie. Talking about Inception really makes me want to go watch it for the third time. The union is going to be packed, but I'm determined to get back there and watch it again. Did I also mention that Inception is still in theaters? Amazing. 

Whatever you decide, you can't deny the genius of Christopher Nolan. The best part of the whole movie is the fact that the whole audience experienced inception themselves -- Nolan plants the idea of the whole concept and movie into us. You got me Nolan, you got me.