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palak   United States. Jul 16 2010 20:33. Posts 4601 | | |
Fucking amazing movie and wanting to get a view of what lp thinks.

Poll: Does the top begin to fall over?
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this will ruin the ending
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A couple things point to him dreaming.
1. He never talks to anyone after they wake up on the plane.
2. When he wakes the japanese guy and him arn't connected to the sleep machine which is needed to keep them in limbo.
3. The children are always wearing the same cloths and the boy is in the same position.
4. The art work around the house (eisle in the background, paint on the tables) is the exact same as it is when they visit his memory with ellen page.
But then he could be awake.
1. The top does appear to slow down IMO compared to how it spun during dreams.
2. He sees his childrens faces which he hadn't done before (but this could just be because he has accepted his guilt for Mals death).
3. If you take away the extreme details it would seem he woke up. Saito did pick up the gun as if to kill them to wake them up from limbo and it seems like he accomplished his mission of finding him.
In conclusion I got mindfucked by an elephant and have no clue if he was dreaming or not
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TalentedTom   Canada. Jul 16 2010 20:38. Posts 20070 | | |
it was clearly slowing down IMO |
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Red9   Canada. Jul 16 2010 20:45. Posts 7447 | | |
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when he saw his children they were in the same positions he always imagined, he was dreaming imo...the only person who truly got out was Mal..but thats one opinion of a sick mindfuck of a movie |
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whamm!   Albania. Jul 16 2010 22:07. Posts 11625 | | |
spoilers are fcuking useless. i cant help but open them  |
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Svenman87   United States. Jul 16 2010 22:34. Posts 4636 | | |
| | On July 16 2010 21:07 whamm! wrote:
spoilers are fcuking useless. i cant help but open them |
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mrpav.com   Canada. Jul 16 2010 23:20. Posts 3069 | | | |
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Currency   New Zealand. Jul 16 2010 23:42. Posts 618 | | |
the movie is made and produced by Christopher Nolan so no wonder its so amazing the guy makes some sick movies |
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Bigbobm   United States. Jul 17 2010 00:08. Posts 5513 | | |
i dont want to vote because i want to watch the movie again. i seemed to miss a lot of what you pointed out in your reasoning, so im unsure of myself. |
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albonycee   United States. Jul 17 2010 00:55. Posts 2749 | | |
i liked the movie although it did not meet my expectations
was expecting a sick ending which was never delivered.
all in all it was a good action movie.
i read something prior which defined it as the matrix meets memento, they were right about the matrix part but its not even close to memento. |
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TheHuHu3   United States. Jul 17 2010 01:11. Posts 5544 | | |
My mind is still full of fuck...
@ Red9, but his children TURNED around so it wasn't a memory because every time they showed the kids in that position, their backs were always turned to him in the dream world.
I need to watch it again to understand it more, I feel I missed so many subtle shit in the movie I can't really appreciate it for what it is. |
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TheHuHu3   United States. Jul 17 2010 01:12. Posts 5544 | | |
By the way...

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[vital]Myth   United States. Jul 17 2010 01:31. Posts 12159 | | |
yeah it is def starting to fall over imo |
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LikeASet   United States. Jul 17 2010 03:00. Posts 2113 | | |
There was no reason for the spinning top ending, so unecessary. Ending reminds me of the Shutter Island ending where it sort of leaves the audience to imagine what the ending really is. The gravity changing fight scenes where fucking sick, better than the Matrix shit imo.
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Grass.nS)   United States. Jul 17 2010 04:36. Posts 400 | | |
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Depends how you think about it because Cobb could have been incepted the entire movie so in that case the top is useless because he's stuck in his own mind. I'm not sure, but I don't believe you ever see the top spinning endlessly unless it's not his. My take is that
everyone in his team is on a mission to incept his mind. Either way, he's definitely stuck in limbo or dreaming since the beginning of the movie.
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hubmaster   United States. Jul 17 2010 05:58. Posts 586 | | |
I have never been so mindfucked in my entire life. |
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JonnyCosMo   United States. Jul 17 2010 14:05. Posts 7292 | | |
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I have never been so mindfucked in my entire life. |
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LikeASet   United States. Jul 17 2010 14:08. Posts 2113 | | |
I think if he was dreaming, the movie would have given some past history of each of the other characters to allow the possibily that each of the other characters can be projections.
But, I don't get how the main char and his wife grew old together in the past dream, and then got to the point where they both commited suicide on the train tracks to wake up. Unless when they grew old together, that's when he died in the 50yr+ dream and then got his brain stuck in limbo and so forth.
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JonnyCosMo   United States. Jul 17 2010 14:42. Posts 7292 | | |
I think they are talking about whether or not he actually wakes up in the end. Not if his mind got stuck in limbo in the 50yr long dream |
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KeanuReaver   United States. Jul 17 2010 14:47. Posts 2022 | | |
i thought the ending was perfect for what the movie was, especially because it really brought to the forefront how important the top was for the whole movie.
i'd have to see it again to see if there actually is a lot of evidence the whole thing was taking place in his mind, but the first thing that struck me was how weird the chase scene was in mumbai (or wherever) like where he almost gets stuck between two walls then saito appears out of nowhere. im not sure why they would have actually went ahead and shown fisher what was behind the steel doors when cobb already went a level deeper though
all in all, it was an amazing movie with some really slick action scenes and a really clever plot |
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