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In the movie Inception did Cobbs totem ever stop spinning and fall down?
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∙ 13y ago
The movie's ending is deliberately ambiguous. After Cobb spins the totem, it continues to spin and wobbles slightly just as the screen cuts to black. The movie does not make clear whether or not the totem will continue to spin indefinitely or fall, leaving it to the viewer to decide whether he is still dreaming or in reality.
For his part, Cobb does not wait to see whether or not the totem topples over, perhaps suggesting that, free of guilt, it makes no difference whether he is in the waking or dreaming world.
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Let's not forget that the spinning top was not originally Cobbs totem, it was his wifes.. He knew the balance of this totem meaning he could use it but could also be tricked by one person, his wife.
I think Cobbs childrens faces were his totem, when he saw their faces he knew it was reality or didn't really care to detirmine the outcome of his believed totem.
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Cobb is never awake in the entire movie. Even the outer layer, with Aurthur, Eemes, Ariadne, Saito, etc. is all part of his infinite dream. He is always on a permanent loop from the beginning of his dream (unknown) to the end (washed up on shore, visits old-man Saito) UNTIL his subconscious finally gets rid of the old architect (the one that messed up the rug in the beginning of the movie) with the new one, Ariadne. Ariadne and Memory-Mal are both Cobb's representation of the real Mal (the one who "died" [but she actually freed herself from the dream cuz she was right]). When Cobb is explaining why he won't stay with Memory-Mal in Limbo, he says "I can't live with all your perfections (Ariadne) and your imperfections (Memory-Mal). So basically he split Mal into good and bad. Also, Fischer and Eemes are Cobb's representation of himself (not so much Eemes as Fischer, though). Cobb has guilt about his father. That is represented in his subconscious by Fischer, who's father was thought to be dissappointed with his son. Eemes said sentences along the lines of "I just want to go home" several times during the movie, which is all Cobb wants: to go home. We never saw Cobb's totem get spun, fall, and completely stop in one scene; there were always split scenes and cutaways. Ariadne's title is "Architect" and it is because Cobb finally got a new architect for his dream loop, he broke free and got into a new part of his everlasting limbo: his kids and home and stuff. If Cobb never got Ariadne, then the ending with Old-Man-Saito would've been the exact same as the first scene and then it would've looped back to the beginning: the middle age Saito in the hotel/palace. But instead of looping back, the Old-Man-Saito scene at the end was different because Cobb finally convinced him to go back.
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Where are they in the end of the movie inception?
They appear to be in the real world, in the house of the kid's grandparents. When the totem doesn't stop spinning, it is unclear if it is really the real world.
What is the totem meaingin in Inception?
Because each person has their own, unique totem it helps them to determine whether they are in their own dream or not. The actions of the totems confirm whether or not a person is awake. (For example, one of the totems is a spinning top which only falls in reality.)
In the movie 'inception' what does the spinning top symbolize?
It's called a totem. It helps Leo determine whether he is dreaming or his in reality. They stress that sometimes after doing this many times it's hard to tell. If the top spins this means he is in a dreaming state. And if it falls it means he is in the real world.
What happens at the end of Inception?
At the end of Christopher Nolan's Inception we see Dominic Cobb finally reaches his children from which he has parted with for a long time after he was convicted a criminal. It was the longing to see his children that drove him to take on the job of Inception. He spins his Totem (the items each person in the crew that takes on Inception carries to keep track of reality, which is Cobb's case is a spinning top that used to be his wife's) on the table, and then rushes to see his children. We do not get to see whether Cobb is in fact in reality because the film ends before the spinning top comes to a halt. There is dispute whether he is in reality or not, most people think he is, as the spinning top topples slightly suggesting that it would have stopped eventually.
What is the meaning of the totem in Inception?
The totem is a device that Cobb spins in order to tell whether he's in a dream or not. If it spins perpetually, he's in someone's dream. If it spins, but then falls and stops, it's reality.
What does the end of inception mean?
The end of Inception is deliberately meant to be ambiguous and there is no clear answer.Essentially, Christopher Nolan introduced the idea of the Totem with Cobb as a way to determine whether he was dreaming or not. His totem was a top. If he spun it and it fell, he was in reality. If it kept spinning, he was dreaming.Because the film cuts to black before we see the top fall, we are uncertain of whether Cobb meeting his children is still a dream or reality.This comes down to two theories.1) If the totem falls, he is in reality, which means that his team successfully introduced the idea for Maurice Fisher to break up his conglomerate. This would mean that Saito would help remove the murder charge that hangs over Cobb, allowing him to see his children.2) If the totem does not fall, he is still dreaming and his team failed the mission.
What is the theme of the movie inception?
Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) noted earlier in the movie that his totem, the spinning top, would spin forever if he was in a dream. In the real world or his own dream, the top would eventually stop spinning and fall over. The last 5 seconds of the movie should very closely watched. The ending was meant to be ambiguous so that the viewer doesn't know if the top fell over (he was back in Saito's dream, his dream, orthe real world) or if it just kept on spinning (he was still in a dream, and would likely be forever). So far this question has two rival answers. 1) The spinning top keeps spinning, so he is still in a dream and we don't know what happens to the rest of the team as he didn't wake up on the plane but was asleep. This makes some sense because the children and house are identical to his dreams - they haven't grown up yet we have been led to believe that time has passed. Or, 2) some people are saying that the spinning top actually slows and starts to wobble at the very end, showing that he is now in 'his dream, Saito's dream, or reality (as the top was his wife's totem and would only fall in if it was in someone who had touched it's dream or reality).
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