Inception's Ending, What Really Happen?

[caption id="attachment_199144" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Inception Poster"][/caption] Do you notice the labyrinth on that poster? what if you are in that labyrinth and can't find a way out? What do you feel? That's what happen to my mind right now, I feel like I'm lost in a labyrinth!! I'm sure many of you know why do I became puzzled. Yep, it's because the last scene of Inception. No, not only the last scene, almost the entire movie, but yeah, of course mainly about the last scene. By the way, I give you a very big SPOILER ALERT at this article. So for those who haven't seen Inception yet, I'm suggesting you to close this article right away and go watch it because it's definitely a "very worth seeing in theater" movie. And yeah, as you can guess, I'm going to talk about that d*mn last scene when we were waiting what happen to the spinning top. As you already know, at the last scene, the top (Cobb's totem,originally Mal's) was still spinning and suddenly the screen went black, which only mean the movie was f*cking over. That scene really made me wanna shout "What the h*ll??!!" so bad. What a pain in the *ss, not just made our forehead and our brain "wrinkle" all the time, Nolan also gave us a very "Grrrrrrrr..." ending. It was really disturbing me, even until the third day after I watched the movie I still can't stop thinking about it. And since last night I've been trying to write down and made a list of the possible theory of what really happen on that last scene in case there wasn't that black screen at the end. Here they are : 1. Saito did shoot Cobb in limbo, the top was finally stop spinning, which means Cobb is in a real world. He finally meet his children again since I don't know when. And yeah, this is the most happy ending possibility. 2. Saito didn't shoot Cobb, the top was still spinning. Which only means Cobb is still in Limbo, trapped inside his own subconsciousness. Did you notice his children? do you realize that they wore the same clothes as they used in Cobb's memory? can you recall what kind of clothes did they wear on the beach and the day Cobb left them? I think they were the same. And come on, how come they didn't grow older at all? 3. All the scenes after Cobb's sedation test is just a dream. Come think of it, recall all those scenes after that test again and fokus on the totem. Do you think the top ever stop spinning? think carefully! 4. It was Cobb's dream all movie long, so all the characters in that movie other than Cobb is not real, his teammates, his wife, his children, his father in law, Fischer, all of them are not real. why? remember the beach? Nolan started the movie from the middle scene didn't he? we don't know how it really began. "You never know how a dream begins." 5. Mal is real and she was right, she didn't die. She actually came back to her reality and Cobb was still in his dream. And who knows that they actually didn't have any kid? how if those kids were just imaginary kids that they made in their dream? I have a few additional points but i will only tell you this one, why did Saito become old and Cobb didn't? He's still young even though both of them were in limbo. Yeah, maybe this point can be a support theory for almost all the possibilities, except the first one. All those were just some of many other possibilities that might also crossed in your mind. About the last scene, I personally prefer to think that it doesn't matter for Cobb whether is it reality or not because all that he wants is to waste away the guilt that he has, the guilt that showed up because he didn't see his children's face right before he left them. That's why Cobb left the top keep spinning on the table and didn't see whether it will stop spinning or not, because he doesn't care anymore. What's important for him is that he can see his children's face again, that is what matter most, and because at that time he finally can see them, he decided that it was his reality, no matter what the truth is, no matter whether is it dream or not. Those are the main possibilities that I've been thinking. All I can say is that Nolan really made a very nice story line which can be interpreted by the audience in many ways, it's like we are facing a one shape of puzzle that can be reshape to another shapes. :) Ok, I think that's all and for the conclusion at least i got two facts from this movie : First, Nolan successfully accomplished his mission to do an Inception to us, he planted an idea that sticks in our brain. He made us questioning the reality we were seeing and made us asking "is it real?" Second, when you watched it did you feel that you are part of the movie? I did, and guess what, that's because the movie is our dream, and that ending, that last scene was our "kick" back to our reality, or is it? this is our reality right? or this is not? :)

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