INCEPTION - New film from Christopher Nolan - MUST WATCH NOW - SRK APPROVED

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I haven’t had a chance to go over all of the posts, but about the ending:

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[details=Spoiler]I did notice that the top was spinning more wildly at first, in wider circles. And then when they cut back to it later, it seems to have found its balance and is spinning the way we saw it spin before- the axis untilted, spinning continuously. Now, had the shots been in reverse order, I might be inclined to think that maybe DiCaprio’s character had gotten back to reality- the top was spinning perfectly, and then it spun in wider and wider circles. But it was the exact opposite, which, correct me if I’m wrong, I don’t think would actually happen in the real world.

So, on that basis alone I’d believe DiCaprio’s character is still in a dream state of some sort. Though, if you really want to get into it, it wouldn’t be permanent. Firstly, everyone else seems to have gotten out alright, with the exception of him and Watanabe. So everyone else is waiting on the outside world (assuming we accept the outside world as reality). Even if Leo is stuck for days or years like when he went in with is wife, it’s only a matter of hours in the real world. Assuming they don’t have means to wake him, they should all be up and about in less than 10 hours, if not sooner (and I would assume sooner).

Secondly, and more obviously, if that top is going to keep spinning…I’m saying, eventually he’s going to walk back into his fucking kitchen. He’s going to notice that the top he started spinning 3 hours ago is still going strong, and I think that’ll be a clear enough sign. None of this is to say he’ll be sane when/if he awakes, but I don’t believe he’s trapped in a permanent way.

Just to add, I listened pretty fucking hard at the end of the movie, because during the last 5 seconds I was like “Fall, damn you! FALL!!!”, like Megatron in the OG Transformers movie. I didn’t hear the top topple. Maybe Psychic From Drag Me to Hell was talking about an alternate ending? Wouldn’t be hard to believe a movie like this would have one, especially given the high-profile nature of it. Or, at the least, an alternate version of that same scene, which ended up on the cutting room floor.

And, since someone asked, I didn’t see anything after the credits.

Though, if you want to get into it, even if the top fell, one could make the argument that it was DiCaprio’s mind that made it do so, and especially if you consider that it was his wife’s totem in the first place.[/details]

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Good movie, about 30 minutes too long. Way too much white van falling and Siphon Filter level.

Best part was Gordon beating everyone in hacked no grav hotel. I used to think he was a streisand but he rocked the shit in this one.

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Lmao at Syphon filter level, I was in the movies thinkin Shadow moses tho.

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Absolutely loved it, deserves all the praise a certain other movie I won’t mention got, but I can only hope it gets the box office numbers it deserves.

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major plot item

[details=Spoiler]Was I the only one that caught the fact that he never woke up when he was “testing” the sedative… or did I just miss it?? That would explain the top still spinning at the end. Also, remember how they were using multiple levels to dig into someone’s mind and implant a thought or to get at something they are hiding?? Well they did the exact same thing to DiCaprio… anyone else notice towards the end he started admitting to his wife that he implanted the idea, etc etc etc??

Although this could all be just my speculation.[/details]

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Dileep Rao answers a ton of questions. Click only if you’ve seen the movie.

Inception?s Dileep Rao Answers All Your Questions About Inception – Vulture

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So someone else told me some stuff he found on the Internet. I guess some site did some hardcore research on the film and noticed this:

[spoiler=]During Cobb’s dream world, he would always be wearing his wedding ring. During reality, he would not have it on. At the final scene, he has his wedding ring back on. Something to think about, I guess.[/spoiler]

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Newb question: How does one do spoiler tags?

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i think the film was contructed to work at face value but to contain enough ambiguity that nerds could rationalise that the entire film was a dream not neccessarily linked to any of the established facts of dream control or even the characters existing at all. If you take it to the extreme and think about stuff like saito saying lines cobb’s wife said, the ring being worn only in limbo etc the whole thing makes more sense if perceives as one normal dream of cobb imo.

Oh well onto the next good film ffrom Nolan.

i’d like to say i didn’t know hans zimmer did the music to this but throughout the film i was saying to my friends how great the music is. I really feel zimmer is the best in the buziness. the use of bass to create pressure was incredible.

Also one of my main problems with the batmans film was nolans scene geography, its som uch better in this film, and the bar scene and the chase were shot incredibly. i was blown away.

i still think nolan needs a new choreographer as the action is just so average, just like much in the batman films. And this film was too long, the snow dream was boring.

still best film i’ve seen in ages.

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Best movie I’ve seen in a long while, IMO probably on par with Dark Knight if not better. The execution and story in this movie was brilliant.

Edit: LOL @ “Way too much white van falling and Siphon Filter level.”

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Instant fucking Bluray. This movie was absolutely fantastic.

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Also my thought on the whole Cobb theory

[spoiler=]I don’t think Ellen did an inception on him. She was telling him that his shit stank in reality after one visit to his dreams. He obviously had the idea to stop that unhealthy memory prison he made a long time ago, how can you “incept” what’s already there? It was just honest to god friendly advice he finally listened to. I thought so at least.

At the end I heard the top wobble, and Cobb left it there without giving a fuck anyway, he knew. Plus that whole kids not having aged a bit point: we don’t know how long he’s been away from them or how long it’s been since his wife died(unless I missed it).

In any case Nolan is pretty damn good at making this film have such an ambiguous turn of events for his audience to discuss about for a long time. Fucking genius is what he is.[/details]

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This song from the movie is so godlk.

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Inception was great. I’ll definitely watch it again to try and catch things I missed the first time around. The action scenes with Gordon Levitt were some of the best I’ve ever scene. Really creative stuff. :tup:

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EXACTLY. I don’t think there really is a deeper meaning, but if you want there to be one, then go ahead and have at it. The movie is what it is.

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Thanks for the article. He confirmed a lot of things I suspected, but I’ll probably see the movie again just to hear it all on screen. I like really like his answer that uses 9/11 conspiracies as an analogy. Oh and introducing the word “apostatic” to my vocabulary heh.

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If you are Ken Watanabe in a Christopher Nolan movie, you are getting crushed by falling debris in the first act of the movie, that’s just how it is.

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the whole theory behind his kids not aging at the end etc. the fact that he is still taking that shit with mal so hard and the fact that his kids still talk to him(on the phone) as though he hasn’t been gone for tons of years shows that he prolly hasn’t been home for at most a year or two

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BRRRRRMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

[spoiler=] The fact his kid never age and are in the same position proves he either stuck in limbo or a dream.[/spoiler]

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… wow. Fucking wow. Gonna marinate on this one for a while.