Inception was AMAZING (spoilers)

[Reasonable]

darthdevidem01 said:

Reasonable said:

Packie said:

I can't believe how much I loved this film. This IS Nolan's best film. Hell, I saw this movie yesterday and I still can't stop thinking about it. Bravo to Nolan!

Question to anyone who understood the film entirely. How the heck did Cobb rescue Saito in the dream? I still didn't get how he was able to reach him in the end.

TBH that's open to interpretation.  For example, what if the whole film is Cobb's dream (possible and doesn't go against anything shown).  In that case there was no rescue.  It was just another part of Cobb's own dream.

But I swear in the ending, when he rolls that thingy on the table before going to finally meet his kids that spinning thing was just about to fall before they just end the movie

so I don't think the whole movie was Cobb's dream...

Check my earlier post.  Note that after he wakes up on the plane Cobb is never shown speaking to anyone, just catching their eye.

The film toys, deliberately, with the idea that when Cobb wakes up on the plane that's the first time he is actually awake, the whole preceeding sequence was a dream, he walks through customs catching the eye of a few of his fellow first class passangers, then greets his kids and goes home.  In which case of course the top would wobble as only that part was real.

Alternatively, I'd note the concept the top will always spin in a dream is false (no reason why it couldn't be dreamt of as ceasing to spin and, more importantly, that Totem was Mal's and Cobb using it is breaking the rule of something only you know over anyone else.

Note that we're never shown nor told what was really Cobb's own Totem before he apparently made Mal's Totem his own.

It's interesting to note that by walking away at the end it implies Cobb may no longer care to see the results of the Totem - finally embracing a false but desirable dream life - or that he's abandoning Mal's Totem and moving on, or both combined.

It could also imlpy his children's faces are his own Totem - which I like as an idea but I think it fails the goal they are uniquely known to him.