INCEPTION BREAKDOWN! Ending Explained, Easter Eggs & Deeper Meaning!

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  • Inception Full Movie Rewatch & In-Depth Analysis! Since its release 9 years ago, what hidden details have been revealed from Christopher Nolan's dream heist film that give Inception a whole new meaning? What is the secret message of the Inception ending, and what subtle moments foreshadow this final scene? Erik Voss continues New Rockstars' rewatch series, following breakdowns of The Matrix and Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, with the most-requested film, Inception (2010), for all the subtle Easter Eggs & details you might have overlooked. How is Inception actually a metaphor for Nolan's filmmaking process itself, and each dream level an homage to his favorite films? What secrets did Hans Zimmer hide in the Inception soundtrack? And does the spinning top in the Inception final scene mean that Cobb is still dreaming, or is it all a misdirect by Nolan?
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  • @alisterlemezian6933
    @alisterlemezian6933 Před 3 lety +6541

    Actually the most disturbing thought is that we dont remember the begining of a dream, but we also dont remember the begining of our lives, which again leads to the question - are we dreaming rn

    • @mateo130
      @mateo130 Před 3 lety +586

      Nice relation.
      Unfortunately you can have physical evidence and also doctors who can testify that you were born :D

    • @alisterlemezian6933
      @alisterlemezian6933 Před 3 lety +160

      @@mateo130 unfortunately, yeah 😂😂

    • @brendab.5111
      @brendab.5111 Před 3 lety +85

      @@mateo130 Yes. And actually there are persons that can not only remember back to the beginning, but can also remember pre-birth, as in the womb. There are person’s that can recall pre-existence to this level of being and choosing coming into this life, living it and either returning to their prior existence or going another route. These persons are “The One’s Who Know” the “Old One’s” or Watchers. There are such person’s.

    • @Shadow91507
      @Shadow91507 Před 3 lety +138

      @@mateo130 But how can you ever REALLY know those evidences are real? :0

    • @ankittayal8291
      @ankittayal8291 Před 3 lety +14

      @@brendab.5111 Yes , that's a serious debate

  • @JM_Architecture
    @JM_Architecture Před 4 lety +9707

    The fact that we are still talking about INCEPTION proves why it’s one of the greatest movies EVER...

    • @melwinmj
      @melwinmj Před 4 lety +83

      I agree but
      We also still talk about most of Kubrick's films
      Particularly 2001:a space Odyssey
      Which I think is way ahead of it's time

    • @Watupfranco
      @Watupfranco Před 4 lety +6

      Tbh

    • @GK-qc5ry
      @GK-qc5ry Před 4 lety +59

      It was definitely one of the most ambitious plots to explain.

    • @frankie0187
      @frankie0187 Před 4 lety +51

      Damn wtf lmao I just finished watching it on Netflix that shit was a dope flick

    • @frankie0187
      @frankie0187 Před 4 lety +5

      @@figliodimercurio name them then

  • @Winnifred00
    @Winnifred00 Před 4 lety +5473

    cobb always looks stressed. maybe he’s not getting enough sleep

  • @krishnanandnair6274
    @krishnanandnair6274 Před 4 lety +4416

    Christopher Nolan lives rent-free in our minds

  • @illicit_tv
    @illicit_tv Před 4 lety +3604

    When you realize you only ever got 10% of the movie but liked it anyway

    • @talxaN
      @talxaN Před 4 lety +25

      Wait how little did you get the first time?

    • @markuscraig7945
      @markuscraig7945 Před 4 lety +228

      I got pretty much all of it. It was pretty well explained dont get how many critics didnt understand.

    • @MrBBOTP
      @MrBBOTP Před 4 lety +4

      10!

    • @applemaycruz4009
      @applemaycruz4009 Před 4 lety +75

      @@markuscraig7945 ikr what part was confusing? Everything was pretty well explained...

    • @user-st8ho9zl1k
      @user-st8ho9zl1k Před 4 lety +79

      That’s exactly how I feel. It’s like I know I’m watching an awesome movie but the characters might as well be speaking another language because I don’t understand shit.

  • @SEZZES.
    @SEZZES. Před 5 lety +6029

    Nearly 9 years later and we're still discussing this movie...
    nice, love that movie!

    • @PunxTV123
      @PunxTV123 Před 5 lety +4

      just like batman trilogy

    • @ryanharris7891
      @ryanharris7891 Před 5 lety +16

      I still talk about about T-2 to my friends getting close to 30 years later

    • @PunxTV123
      @PunxTV123 Před 5 lety +22

      movies like avengers are not worth to remember, cause most of them will be forgotten within a month. unlike christopher nolan movies will stays long.

    • @friedasspotatoe3715
      @friedasspotatoe3715 Před 5 lety +3

      How bout shut tf up

    • @bomdia4179
      @bomdia4179 Před 5 lety +31

      @Dawn Moore I think a sequel wouldn't fit this movie. It had a perfect ending so why not just leave it like that

  • @TheRealNabil
    @TheRealNabil Před 4 lety +2604

    I came here after just staring at my turned off tv for 15 minutes straight after watching this movie.

    • @arzy1996
      @arzy1996 Před 4 lety +145

      Just finished it there after putting it off for almost a decade and I'm in a similar enough position

    • @ba6561
      @ba6561 Před 4 lety +7

      Drink tea

    • @gstylez0107
      @gstylez0107 Před 4 lety +22

      Wake up!

    • @handmeadozenbeers8655
      @handmeadozenbeers8655 Před 4 lety +20

      You're profile pic reminds me of the water cups from the 80's

    • @deathpatrol4477
      @deathpatrol4477 Před 4 lety +2

      😂😂😂

  • @j.verden5835
    @j.verden5835 Před 4 lety +3724

    i dont like the fact youtube suggested this after i watched this movie a day ago

    • @soundshape6496
      @soundshape6496 Před 4 lety +120

      j. verden same here. Is CZcams stealing my info from Netflix when I sleepy?

    • @itsSkippy641
      @itsSkippy641 Před 4 lety +218

      It's a dream, the coincidences are the give aways, wake up..

    • @luxkarma4258
      @luxkarma4258 Před 4 lety +19

      j. verden i saw it today and it was recommended

    • @trescallion7963
      @trescallion7963 Před 4 lety +18

      Talked about how this is on Netflix now with a friend at work and now it’s it’s in my recommendations

    • @sat_slaya301
      @sat_slaya301 Před 4 lety +11

      SAME! i watched yesterday on netflix and here it is

  • @raysong7862
    @raysong7862 Před 3 lety +1000

    "an idea is like a virus, It can define you or destroy you." Leaving the top spinning in the end scene planted the idea into our head questioning Cobbs reality and ours as well

    • @ankittayal8291
      @ankittayal8291 Před 3 lety +9

      I think we need to redefine virus😂

    • @meqanity
      @meqanity Před 3 lety +5

      And this is an idea proposed into our minds which spark smth and now you're reading my idea that put something in your mind getting your gears thinking about it and now the ideas are simply building up, and thus labelled as a so-called " virus ". Let that sink in xD

    • @UzairKhan-qd3xu
      @UzairKhan-qd3xu Před 3 lety

      @PsychoTheRapist 69 what if that was another deception like the recurring ones in the old theme

    • @I_Shit_on_your_shit_point
      @I_Shit_on_your_shit_point Před 2 lety

      I have no question. Its a red herring for those who didn’t pay attention.

    • @BerdFly
      @BerdFly Před rokem

      Curiosity can be good or bad it all depends on how you handle it

  • @MyBlueyedea
    @MyBlueyedea Před 3 lety +1414

    Mal’s totem is the only totem the audience sees in action. That makes it our totem. The deepest metaphor is that the audience is asleep to the subconscious manipulation of our society through the passive and suggestive state our minds are in while being entertained.

    • @TheNarwhalGal
      @TheNarwhalGal Před 3 lety +122

      that makes a lot of sense actually. Because then, the wedding ring becomes Cobbs, the spinning top in Mal's subconscious becomes our constant thinking of the movie not being real. And the final spinning top isn't for Cobb anymore, it's for us, and the second it falls the movie is ruined and we wake up.

    • @rednt1357
      @rednt1357 Před 3 lety +34

      This comment only interested me because of the big words.

    • @electrogonorhea
      @electrogonorhea Před 3 lety +7

      @@rednt1357 what big words? I'm curious.

    • @rednt1357
      @rednt1357 Před 3 lety +4

      @@electrogonorhea you know...

    • @bonniehowell4259
      @bonniehowell4259 Před 3 lety +3

      @@TheNarwhalGal This makes a lot of sense too.

  • @AsclepiusDream
    @AsclepiusDream Před 4 lety +712

    The spinning top leaving us in doubt is giving us a small taste of what Mal and Dom were going through.

    • @MrNarwhaI
      @MrNarwhaI Před 3 lety +23

      I think that’s what Nolan intended

    • @russellwestbrookyellingatw9381
      @russellwestbrookyellingatw9381 Před 3 lety +12

      I had a stroke reading that

    • @UzairKhan-qd3xu
      @UzairKhan-qd3xu Před 3 lety +6

      nolan planted that idea of existentialism just like dom did also dom is supposedly nolans projection of himself!
      so its a smooth parallel

  • @manatortv
    @manatortv Před 4 lety +1861

    There's only two scenarios that make sense on where Cobb is at the end of the film:
    -He's back in reality and it's a happy ending
    -Or the entire movie was him still dreaming, and he's now stuck in a further dream state in limbo because he believes he made it back to reality. Then when he wakes up for real, he will have lived MANY lifetimes in his head and quite possibly go mad.

    • @kendarr
      @kendarr Před 4 lety +128

      It is said in the movie that limbo is not very stable and it seems stable whenever hes home, plus the ring isn't there, also the director it self told to "Alfred" that when he's on screen it's real

    • @danjelhysenaj7795
      @danjelhysenaj7795 Před 4 lety +9

      Manator thats what I thought too.

    • @MrNarwhaI
      @MrNarwhaI Před 3 lety +32

      It’s reality because Nolan told Caine that every scene he’s in is reality. And because Caine’s character is in the final scene. It’s reality.

    • @dylanwebber7417
      @dylanwebber7417 Před 3 lety +16

      With all these complexities it is possible that there is an infinite number of possible endings.

    • @shattermaster1273
      @shattermaster1273 Před 3 lety +19

      Maybe Leo's wife is in reality and Leo is still in a dream.

  • @Anautistictherapist
    @Anautistictherapist Před 5 lety +845

    It doesn’t matter whether he’s dreaming or not, because Cobb is in HIS chosen reality now.

    • @g_g...
      @g_g... Před 4 lety +29

      That the problem... you're not in your REAL world.... but you'll never know

    • @NickNCC
      @NickNCC Před 4 lety +98

      Not true, it's very important to Cob that he finds his real children because his self created projections could never amount to the complexity of true human nature.

    • @X_Lee.
      @X_Lee. Před 4 lety +19

      I feel like cob would know that he’s in a dream after spinning the totem and not falling down... eventually cob would try to gtfo..., but because he’s in a dream in a dream in a dream... he has enough time to get out of every dream and get out that van that’s under water. It make sense because 5mins in reality is about hour in a dream... in a dream..., 5 mins is 60mins in a second dream..., and 5mins in a second dream would be 60mins in a third dream. So it would make sense that he gets off the plane, his dad comes pick him up..., he goes home and see his kids. Probably only took 2hours for all that to happen in the 3rd dream..., which is 10mins in a second dream which is probably 1 min in the first dream which is literally 1 sec in reality. I solved it.

    • @FC-ic7gt
      @FC-ic7gt Před 4 lety

      Moonlight what does the van have to do with it? He already woke up from the van, when he wakes up in the airplane.

    • @FC-ic7gt
      @FC-ic7gt Před 4 lety +5

      Charlie Chap the whole point of the movie is that he’s trying to wake up. So someone is putting the idea in his head that he has to choose to wake up. Why should he choose to live in a dream?

  • @KumarAnimesh935
    @KumarAnimesh935 Před 5 lety +681

    Me going to watch Inception for the 139th time after this: Ah shit, here we go again

  • @chrischris308
    @chrischris308 Před 4 lety +694

    One of the best Movies EVER. Nolan is a GENIUS, yes, a GENIUS.

  • @lewisweekes6211
    @lewisweekes6211 Před 3 lety +487

    Notice how the kids are wearing the same clothes in ‘reality’ at the end as they do in cobbs dreams..

    • @noorzaman3082
      @noorzaman3082 Před 3 lety +23

      Yeah .. it’s so fkd up

    • @amnesiac5429
      @amnesiac5429 Před 3 lety +60

      @Kiss Kitty actually the dress maker of this movie said that he used slightly different clothes in the last scene.

    • @helenahendrikx6681
      @helenahendrikx6681 Před 3 lety +53

      That's what I thought too.. The clothes are slightly different and the kids are slightly older. I feel like his subconsciousness imagines his kids older but since in all his dreams they wear the same clothes his mind just makes up a 'bigger' Version of the whole scene.

    • @rednt1357
      @rednt1357 Před 3 lety +30

      What if he was dreaming for the entire movie and it was actually like 5 hrs then he woke up in the same day?

    • @binneh5593
      @binneh5593 Před 2 lety +2

      thats what i thought, i don't know the time frame but in the time that has passed the kids look the same age, are dressed the same, same hairstyle. House also looks the same almost as if everything is just from memory.

  • @owenthai3172
    @owenthai3172 Před 5 lety +537

    Inception run time: 2hrs 28mins
    ‘Non, je ne Regretted Rien’ run time: 2mins 28sec
    MIND BLOWN

  • @bakiretsu1351
    @bakiretsu1351 Před 4 lety +794

    You ever get into a fight when you’re dreaming. And your arms feel like spaghetti

    • @constantine9268
      @constantine9268 Před 4 lety +15

      Holy crap ur sooo right

    • @RedEyedLeviathan
      @RedEyedLeviathan Před 4 lety +57

      could it be because you've never actually a fought? and your sub knows this? you have no muscle memory for it?

    • @Fkngoya777
      @Fkngoya777 Před 4 lety +21

      Nah chief u just dont know how to scrap😂

    • @BeefJherky
      @BeefJherky Před 4 lety +11

      Guess that's why im always stabbin folk in my dreams lol

    • @bruddalee7685
      @bruddalee7685 Před 4 lety +21

      Whenever I dream and I get into a fight I'll swing to hit them and as my fist is about to hit everything freezes

  • @kickballjedi
    @kickballjedi Před 3 lety +319

    I've always felt the point of the ending was that it really doesn't matter if he's still dreaming or not. If Cobb is still dreaming, he accepts the dream and will ride it out forever.

    • @davidjimenez7556
      @davidjimenez7556 Před 2 lety +4

      Agreed. However, he'd end up with the doubt in his mind that Mal had.

    • @j.d.freivogel6507
      @j.d.freivogel6507 Před rokem +8

      This. Whether he's still dreaming or not is pretty much irrelevant, Cobb is where he WANTS to be. He chose his happiest reality

    • @darksecret965
      @darksecret965 Před rokem +2

      Then wasn't Mal right?

    • @Tony-ee3nm
      @Tony-ee3nm Před rokem +2

      Then why didn't he stay with Mal while he was at it?

  • @SuperWizwiz
    @SuperWizwiz Před 4 lety +332

    in addition to Youssif being Joseph who has 12 brothers in the old testament , Youssif also had 12 dreamers in the dream chamber scene

    • @tavadaardendrian319
      @tavadaardendrian319 Před 4 lety +6

      Actually Joseph had 11 brothers. Jacob had 12 sons. I only remember that from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 😂

    • @stephenmcd1
      @stephenmcd1 Před 4 lety +11

      @@tavadaardendrian319 Jacob then had one more son after Joseph.Benjamin I believe.

    • @semperfi2314
      @semperfi2314 Před 2 lety +2

      Is there any street lamp in this movie that wasn't purposefully put here by Nolan with some double metaphoric meaning? I mean that's amazing. But i really feel like i should stop scrolling down the comments, otherwise i'm gonna start questioning this reality. But what is reality, really?
      AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

  • @VOLTZ1990
    @VOLTZ1990 Před 5 lety +513

    16:05 notice how in the tumbling hallway, Arthur stands back up on floor 5, just like his loaded die always lands on 5?

    • @valerian4486
      @valerian4486 Před 5 lety +39

      Thank you! Every time we saw this shot I was hoping they would point it out, and they didn't!

    • @brandonblackfyre5783
      @brandonblackfyre5783 Před 4 lety +25

      @@valerian4486 yes he did point it out? He literally said "see how he always finds his center of gravity? Just like his loaded di"

    • @jordanshumaker4412
      @jordanshumaker4412 Před 4 lety +1

      Was Quite literally about to type this but I figured someone in the comments had make that connection.

    • @Smileyguy-jy6xm
      @Smileyguy-jy6xm Před 4 lety

      @@jordanshumaker4412 Same here.

  • @saucyg6371
    @saucyg6371 Před 4 lety +709

    I’m glad that this was the first movie I watched of the decade

  • @static_monarch4466
    @static_monarch4466 Před 2 lety +326

    Cobbs actual totem was his kids, and their faces, during dreams and when he left, he never saw their faces, until he “woke up” So even though the top kept spinning, he did what he couldn’t do in a dream, see the faces of his kids

    • @montydonjuan
      @montydonjuan Před 2 lety +26

      Damn thats a great explanation

    • @itsm1ha104
      @itsm1ha104 Před 2 lety +16

      Kinda true. And the top was moving from left to right so it might stop sometime soon. Afterall, have you seen a top like that stop after like 15 seconds?

    • @static_monarch4466
      @static_monarch4466 Před 2 lety

      @@itsm1ha104 nope

    • @ot7biasedmashups
      @ot7biasedmashups Před rokem +23

      That is interesting but I don't think it's true. The kids are wearing the EXACT same clothes and are in the same position. Even if only one day had passed, it wouldn't make sense. I think that's the biggest sign of him still being in a dream, not the totem. Not seeing his kids´ faces is what he convinced himself to be a sign of a dream.

    • @randomyoutuberr
      @randomyoutuberr Před rokem

      They are building a fortress !

  • @mercutio6623
    @mercutio6623 Před 4 lety +251

    "We did grow old together"...blew my mind haha

    • @mercutio6623
      @mercutio6623 Před 4 lety +3

      The King's Speech...I didn't see it, nor do I know anyone who has. Maybe it was epic haha, but Inception is easily in my top 3 all-time. Thanks for the comment

    • @davidjimenez7556
      @davidjimenez7556 Před 2 lety +1

      Still blows mine as well, all these years later.

  • @nllamas04
    @nllamas04 Před 5 lety +241

    We all know Nolan was actually inspired by High School Musical 3's use of the rotating room

    • @lokikoloki
      @lokikoloki Před 5 lety +18

      Nicole Llamas only intellectuals understand

    • @thomasstunts
      @thomasstunts Před 4 lety +7

      Get your head in the game...

    • @beans301
      @beans301 Před 4 lety +9

      and high school musical was inspired by lionel richie's dancing on the ceiling o_o and lionel richie was inspired by breakin' 2 electric boogaloo...which mean inception was inspired by boogaloo shrimp....and there's all that unpacked.

    • @graysonalder
      @graysonalder Před 4 lety +3

      honestly troy is cobbs change my mind

  • @wesmaly
    @wesmaly Před 4 lety +879

    how this didn't win Best Picture is the real mystery here...what kind of reality do we exist in???

    • @tiarnan97
      @tiarnan97 Před 4 lety +71

      It was beaten by The Kings Speech right? That was a great movie but was no inception

    • @gellentumbudi1805
      @gellentumbudi1805 Před 4 lety +5

      Good one

    • @protaen3481
      @protaen3481 Před 4 lety +75

      they won in MY reality..

    • @Fridate
      @Fridate Před 4 lety +66

      Yea, The Kings Speech was ok but I definitely don’t think about it 10 years later

    • @shreyasray5083
      @shreyasray5083 Před 4 lety +6

      well inception is an amazing movie so was king's speech but i believe social network should have won Best Picture. But it would have been deserved if Inception won.

  • @user-st8ho9zl1k
    @user-st8ho9zl1k Před 4 lety +323

    Not even 2min into this video and I’m already lost.

    • @supermoonwalker8053
      @supermoonwalker8053 Před 3 lety +5

      It is confusing at first but it ties back in later and makes sense.

  • @TheWizardOfEgo
    @TheWizardOfEgo Před 3 lety +113

    I think that the fact that Cobb walks away from the totem before it falls means he does not care if he is in the real world or not He got what he wanted, to see his children

    • @alexhopkinz9871
      @alexhopkinz9871 Před 5 měsíci

      I think it's not so much he doesn't care, it's that he knows the answer because he saw his children's faces

    • @noexcuses5524
      @noexcuses5524 Před 4 měsíci

      Okay but he is still stuck in a dream state because he was away with his kids for so long because of his work and yet at the ending his kids never grew up?

    • @Eriedragonnx
      @Eriedragonnx Před 7 dny

      ​@@noexcuses5524they actually grew up a lil bit and the clothes were slightly different.

    • @noexcuses5524
      @noexcuses5524 Před 6 dny

      @@Eriedragonnx nooo, i mean he was gone for many many years because he got stuck in a dream. Maybe he choose to stay there.
      Have you seen the movie Upgrade?

  • @BoboxKxKnight
    @BoboxKxKnight Před 4 lety +178

    To answer your question of whether we think Cobb is still dreaming, I think you summed it up pretty nicely. The question we should ask ourselves is not whether we think Cobb is still dreaming but is "Does it matter if Cobb is dreaming or not?" All Cobb really wants, is to be able to live and grow with his kids. If we are truly able to choose our own reality, then the ending symbolizes that regardless of whether Cobb is dreaming or not, he has chosen the reality that includes life with his kids and father.

  • @jillesblokker1786
    @jillesblokker1786 Před 5 lety +160

    “Dreams pay” haha also an anagram for “A dream spy” which makes more sense

  • @faaiqkamaldeen4781
    @faaiqkamaldeen4781 Před 4 lety +130

    Finished the decade watching this

    • @tinyt3866
      @tinyt3866 Před 4 lety

      faaiq kamaldeen crazy I just thought to myself I should do the same

  • @williamw2659
    @williamw2659 Před 4 lety +355

    Soon we will be all talking about Tenet

  • @chrisjolley7172
    @chrisjolley7172 Před 5 lety +616

    You guys are going to have to do Memento now and complete Nolan's back collection 😍

  • @hasnainiqbal2596
    @hasnainiqbal2596 Před 5 lety +574

    Really wasn't expecting this today but THANK YOU!! 👌👌

    • @2kooldancin
      @2kooldancin Před 5 lety +5

      So glad they are going back to some really great psychological action films!

    • @SoundBlackRecordings
      @SoundBlackRecordings Před 5 lety +4

      The gift you didn't know you wanted.

  • @nosson2842
    @nosson2842 Před 4 lety +206

    Nolan’s movies aren’t movies, it is poetry.

  • @_sayandas
    @_sayandas Před rokem +16

    Remember the scene in the washroom where Cobb spinned the thing but Saito interrupted him and it fell?
    That's it. He never got to know if he's dreaming or not at that moment. The ending dilemma starts from this scene, maybe he's still sleeping there.

  • @Mimi_Alipio
    @Mimi_Alipio Před 4 lety +212

    You'll know a movie is a masterpiece when it's almost a decade and you still can't grasp to fully understand it.

    • @Mimi_Alipio
      @Mimi_Alipio Před 2 lety +1

      @randomguy8196 Actually, one might actually think that. BUT I didn't. Ever. In my opinion, the ending of Inception was intentionally made to be open for interpretation. And they themselves never really explained what happened in there. That concept is brilliant. Very brilliant.

  • @dammagrilla
    @dammagrilla Před 5 lety +84

    The top rotates perfectly in the dream world; it never wavers or wobbles and never slows down...
    That was all the proof I needed that he's in the "real world" established by the movie...

  • @user-dt6bp2zv2m
    @user-dt6bp2zv2m Před 4 lety +113

    10 years later and it’s still the best movie ever. Hands down.

    • @Tyren-versatile
      @Tyren-versatile Před 2 lety +8

      Close second to interstellar for me…

    • @sogron007
      @sogron007 Před 2 lety +2

      @@Tyren-versatile I saw Tenet first then went back to inception

  • @Mike-xy4ik
    @Mike-xy4ik Před 3 lety +57

    Throughout the movie the characters kept saying “Take a leap of Faith”. So I believe Mal was right, Cobb was stuck his dream.

    • @marked4death076
      @marked4death076 Před 2 lety +4

      Thats exactly what i thought once movie ended, almost seems like he wanted to stay in dream because his kids were gone in reality? His wife wanted him back to grow old in the real world

  • @rinn1061
    @rinn1061 Před 5 lety +364

    "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.“
    Albert Einstein

    • @Luke-uy3ze
      @Luke-uy3ze Před 4 lety +1

      ErinM he has spoken!

    • @newyorkyankees81
      @newyorkyankees81 Před 3 lety

      😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚😚

  • @mcrazza
    @mcrazza Před 5 lety +188

    Wow, so many layers, so much detail I missed! * mind blown *

  • @samsonodhiambo4315
    @samsonodhiambo4315 Před 3 lety +79

    Dominic Cobb eventually returned to reality because;
    1. Michael Caine's scenes only take place in reality as per Christopher Nolan's assured guidance to him.
    2. At exactly 2:27:55 in the movie's runtime, as the title "Inception" is displayed for the third time in the end credits, you can faintly hear the totem spin to a stop in the background behind Hans Zimmer's bass score. The top coming to a stop confirms the reality Cobb is in

    • @mp2jimmay
      @mp2jimmay Před 2 lety +2

      But Dom’s children never aged.

    • @mkmllrc
      @mkmllrc Před 2 lety +4

      @@mp2jimmay nope, the children in dreams looked like 4 years old. but at the last scene when he saw his children they looked like 6-8yrs old

    • @mairalucca8605
      @mairalucca8605 Před rokem

      @@mp2jimmay they didnt? so why they got two pair of kids to play Cobb's children?
      Four different actors and the pair that are shown in the last scene are actually older. 😅

    • @mairalucca8605
      @mairalucca8605 Před rokem

      @@mkmllrc yes they are different actors

    • @mp2jimmay
      @mp2jimmay Před rokem +1

      @@mairalucca8605 Good point! I looked up the cast on IMDB and it says there's a 2 year difference in age which mean Cobb was only away from his kids for 2 years.

  • @justingarrett2239
    @justingarrett2239 Před 3 lety +36

    Also, the fact that we feel like we dream of deja vu moments that we later experience in real life is like the opening scene as well

  • @asifrahaman8529
    @asifrahaman8529 Před 5 lety +828

    Interstellar next! (or sometime in the future plz)

  • @asilentkoala
    @asilentkoala Před 4 lety +556

    At 23:34 when you mention that 528491 was a merely random number to drive the narrative forward, on the contrary, Christopher Nolan knows it's significance. This is one of the big secrets Hans Zimmer/Nolan 'hid' on the soundtrack as they even has it as a title as a song on the soundtrack. “528” and “491” have numerological meaning. “528” is the harmonic (Sacred Solfeggio) frequency for the note “mi”. The harmonic scales were developed in monasteries - “mi” is for miracles. 491 is a reference to the "unforgiveable" sin. (The Lord would forgive you 7 times 70 times.)
    (Matthew 18: 21-22) “21 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?
    22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.” Cobb descends into Limbo because of his guilt over the “unforgiveable sin” and he/Fisher rises up through forgiveness due to the “miracle”.

    • @deansolistino
      @deansolistino Před 4 lety +11

      A Silent Koala 🐨 love this analysis

    • @TheHoovman81
      @TheHoovman81 Před 4 lety +3

      I love the way you think!

    • @thailkrider3313
      @thailkrider3313 Před 4 lety +16

      @A Silent Koala You are correct. 491 is about forgiveness (and a Lars Gorling novel) and 528 is about the unstated word. Like saying, "Elephant" the word was deliberately left unsaid in the film. It's most missing in Cobb and Mal's promise.

    • @rachelgooden9981
      @rachelgooden9981 Před 4 lety +19

      A Silent Koala fack 🤯. I’m impressed. WTH do you guys study?

    • @brandonhicks9926
      @brandonhicks9926 Před 4 lety +17

      @@rachelgooden9981 analyzing movies isn't difficult once you get used to it. I actually started by writing things down while I watch a movie. His name is "Cobb". Then later, I'll go and do research on the name Cobb and see what significance it plays. Other times, I know automatically what something means. I love film and I study it some on my own

  • @mossydemon1984
    @mossydemon1984 Před 4 lety +488

    Ending scene is 100% a dream. Both kids are wearing the exact same outfit as his last memory of them, in the same position in the same yard doing the same thing, and haven't aged.

    • @samuelsantana7142
      @samuelsantana7142 Před 4 lety +36

      I didn’t think abt that

    • @investmentguru9920
      @investmentguru9920 Před 4 lety +362

      Actually they did age. Because in the credits they got different child actors 2 years older for the last scene. Also he always has on a wedding ring in the dream world, he didn't have one on in the final scene.
      He also remembers how he got home, he didn't just apears there. If you can't remember how you arrived somewhere then its a dream. But he remembers taking a plane back, and then arriving.

    • @phillipcrews4321
      @phillipcrews4321 Před 4 lety +113

      Investment Guru what if the entire movie was a dream though. We never see him get from point A to point B. They jump from location to location like the movie jumper until it needs to drive the plot forward and provide hidden exposition like the plane or car chases. How did he get to Mumbai, or to see his father. So do we ever really know how he gets places. And also, wasn’t the plane suppose to land somewhere else, because saito didn’t arrange for him to see his kids until after the job. So how did he end up back on in the us with everybody standing around with his dad waiting for him to take him back to see his kids on a beautiful sunny day playing outside in the same spot and condition as his dreams. It just all seems a little too convenient. It’s ALL a little too convenient

    • @hotspur4237
      @hotspur4237 Před 4 lety +41

      @@investmentguru9920 Go for a drive while thinking about this movie. I'll wager when you get to your destination you'll wonder how you got there.

    • @Fridate
      @Fridate Před 4 lety +12

      Investment Guru great observation about the wedding ring! I just noticed it today when I te-watched it, 10 years later lol.

  • @malia5744
    @malia5744 Před 4 lety +42

    Ok I swear one night I dreamed within a dream but I don’t remember anything about it only that it was a nightmare and when I “woke up” I thought to myself “ugh so glad that was a dream” and then woke up again

    • @shanaa3697
      @shanaa3697 Před 3 lety +5

      Saame, false awakenings

    • @ankittayal8291
      @ankittayal8291 Před 3 lety +2

      That's rare , try to remember that again , and today will be the same, 3rd level

    • @malia5744
      @malia5744 Před 3 lety +1

      @@ankittayal8291 it hasn’t happened ever since but I’ve been writing down my dreams

    • @malia5744
      @malia5744 Před 3 lety +6

      @Mike Studmuffin yea dreaming is so interesting, especially lucid dreaming like what you said. One time in my dream I remember I did something really bad and when my mom was confronting me about it, I really didn’t want to explain what I did, so I said “this isn’t real” and I woke up.

  • @devaldyjonathan
    @devaldyjonathan Před 5 lety +241

    *what a masterpiece of a film.*
    definitely my favorite besides shrek 2 of course..

  • @cinthiahm1444
    @cinthiahm1444 Před 5 lety +33

    I’ve always thought the ending was still a dream. His children always appear with the same clothes and ages as he remembered from when he left. And those are the same clothes and ages when he saw their faces. Also, repetitions are important in this story, and they’re called when they're playing, looking the other direction. He just stayed in that reality and accepted it.

    • @calculator1841
      @calculator1841 Před 9 měsíci +1

      Because Cobb wasn't "on the run" for very long. Cobb was the inception Target not Robert. Read my other comment for further info..

  • @KinfolkGaming
    @KinfolkGaming Před 3 lety +6

    I watched this in school and when it cuts to black at the end after the top wobbling the bell for class rang perfectly. The whole class started screaming. It was great!

  • @Boy-vb4rz
    @Boy-vb4rz Před 3 lety +19

    11 years later and we are still talking about it. One of the greatest movies of the decade

  • @khooverct
    @khooverct Před 5 lety +32

    If I remember correctly, one of the rules of the dream totem is that you can never let someone else touch it -- which we learn in the scene when Ariadne is creating hers (a chess piece). Therefore, when Dom adopts Mal's totem the top's behavior is (presumably) no longer a reliable indicator since it's not his -- it's hers. Mal's real totem is the presence (or absence) of his wedding ring -- though maybe he's not fully aware of this -- and there are a lot of shots in the movie where it's not clear whether he is or is not wearing it. Still a nice walkthrough of a movie with a huge amount of depth.

    • @noexcuses5524
      @noexcuses5524 Před 4 měsíci

      Okay but he is still stuck in a dream state because he was away with his kids for so long because of his work and yet at the ending his kids never grew up?

  • @mikerisner
    @mikerisner Před 5 lety +80

    I’m relieved that the dissection and analysis of this movie is just as confusing *as* the movie...
    Seriously, though, this is excellent analysis of this classic!

  • @That..Guy..
    @That..Guy.. Před 4 lety +86

    Imagine being as brilliant as Nolan and his crew and putting this incredible movie together. (As well as his other great movies)

  • @bruhlioso2932
    @bruhlioso2932 Před 3 lety +33

    I’m watching this movie on acid it’s been playin for like 6 hours lol

  • @justsaybobby
    @justsaybobby Před 5 lety +47

    When you’re talking about Arthur being the 5th member, the floor they were on is FLOOR 5!!!🤯🤯🤯

  • @ryanlogan7467
    @ryanlogan7467 Před 4 lety +58

    I remember showing this movie to my friends for the first time and they were almost so confused they didn’t care. I told them going into the movie it’s difficult to understand everything once with the movie. Low and behold the second time I convinced them to watch it they were totally engrossed the entire time the movie was on.

    • @oscarwilson9695
      @oscarwilson9695 Před rokem

      I wish my friends were like that and could appreciate one of the best movies ever made

  • @udopiarecords
    @udopiarecords Před 4 lety +44

    Unpopular opinion: Nolan >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Tarantino.
    And Inception is one of the greatest films of our time. Shit was awesome af

    • @jimena.the.swiftie
      @jimena.the.swiftie Před 4 lety +1

      Y E S

    • @daltonbedore8396
      @daltonbedore8396 Před 3 lety +8

      its not neccessary to rank artists. each can be appreciated for what they do without comparison

    • @poopoo5576
      @poopoo5576 Před 3 lety +3

      Dalton Bedore I agree. Both are at the very top of their game but make vastly different films

  • @francisyuweh706
    @francisyuweh706 Před rokem +4

    12 years and still open to hear about it

  • @andrewtaft48
    @andrewtaft48 Před 5 lety +53

    Great interpretation of that last scene. The point isn't whether or not the top stops spinning, it's that Cobb chooses not to look at it and embrace his children.
    This is one of my favorite movies, and this video was a delightful surprise today.

  • @mwheeler22
    @mwheeler22 Před 5 lety +108

    Bruh after watching this episode, I need to watch inception again. I believe in Christopher Nolan

    • @Milewski23
      @Milewski23 Před 4 lety

      Marcos A. The Dark Knight reference? No? Probably not? 😏😂

  • @nigelchoo7792
    @nigelchoo7792 Před 3 lety +30

    if cobb/the gang are the production team behind all these "movies", would that make them the Dream Team?

  • @when_life_gives_you_limes
    @when_life_gives_you_limes Před 4 lety +97

    The opening score sort of hints that this whole movie is a dream, no?

    • @MAKEITINAMERICA111
      @MAKEITINAMERICA111 Před 4 lety +53

      the reason why the intro is there is that saito and cobb were in a shared dream in the chronological start of the film. When Saito and Cobb fall into limbo, Saito recreates that very same room because it was something he vaguely remembered from long long ago. That room made Saito and Cobb remember that they are in an arrangement and that they need to "come back" to reality.

    • @stophoee
      @stophoee Před 4 lety +3

      MAKEITINAMERICA111 so your saying when the movie starts they have already agreed to planting an idea on that guys head?

    • @phillipcrews4321
      @phillipcrews4321 Před 4 lety +10

      Alis Deleon negative. Cobb is trying to work with saito so he has to prove his skills. Saito tells Cobb what the job in tails, and because of past with mal, Cobb says no. Saito says Cobb can see his kids if he takes the job. In the end, he recites back to their previous arrangements via location, where it all started

    • @ronaldp.vincent8226
      @ronaldp.vincent8226 Před 4 lety +4

      @@stophoee Yes. The opening scene is a flash forward. They are asleep on the plane.

    • @matthewshroba1511
      @matthewshroba1511 Před 4 lety +1

      The part before the movie, where we see the film label, syncopy, before the prologue and the movie is just starting, we hear the first BWAH! that’s Nolan telling us we are “in the dream “ as we agree to enter into the movie. I feel like that is what Erin lim meant

  • @PersonPlaceThing1
    @PersonPlaceThing1 Před 5 lety +301

    I want to see what you can dig up on Fight Club! There's so much hidden content in that movie, it'll be a treat for many people

    • @DiamondBackProject
      @DiamondBackProject Před 5 lety +5

      Jordan Kwasnycia definitely definitely. I can state at least 30 facts of the movie that would feature in the video. It’s my favourite movie of all time. It’s a masterpiece.

    • @Theoryofcatsndogs
      @Theoryofcatsndogs Před 5 lety +2

      The first rule of Fight Club...

    • @EVENSAMV
      @EVENSAMV Před 5 lety +1

      @@Theoryofcatsndogs dont talk about fight club

    • @matthewgranados5125
      @matthewgranados5125 Před 5 lety

      Lol

    • @franciscabaltera129
      @franciscabaltera129 Před 5 lety +1

      2nd rule of fight club?

  • @TrialByFire12
    @TrialByFire12 Před 5 lety +91

    The way you used Groot as your totem made me laugh on the bus out loud, got some weird looks and I had to get off 3 stops early. So thanks, for the exercise....I guess.

  • @a.j_lifetimea.j6494
    @a.j_lifetimea.j6494 Před 4 lety +87

    And amazingly the kids still have the same clothes that he remembered them as from his last memory from seeing them.

    • @eortiz1401
      @eortiz1401 Před 4 lety +9

      No they dont

    • @ARBLACKx
      @ARBLACKx Před 3 lety +8

      they dont have the same clothes its just really similar. You can search up comparison photos on google. You can see that the kids are older and wearing slightly different clothes.

  • @babremmerkamp
    @babremmerkamp Před 2 lety +3

    The one thing I love about some of the more recent Nolan films is his love for his kids absolutely pours through them. They are beautiful and immortal tributes to them, and I, too, hope I can one day create such a beautiful tribute to my children.

  • @MrBanko8
    @MrBanko8 Před 5 lety +230

    The prestige is another one that would be amazing to analyze. 😀

    • @MrDtgreen
      @MrDtgreen Před 5 lety +11

      People sleep on that movie

  • @col8376
    @col8376 Před 5 lety +256

    I have been waiting for this video my whole life.

    • @andim.8788
      @andim.8788 Před 5 lety +5

      So u 9

    • @BenAri18
      @BenAri18 Před 5 lety +3

      @@andim.8788 so u 9

    • @BenAri18
      @BenAri18 Před 5 lety +2

      @@andim.8788 holy frack bruhh

    • @col8376
      @col8376 Před 5 lety

      @@BenAri18 u took ur name from riverdale u cant be talking

    • @user-yd9go3pd3w
      @user-yd9go3pd3w Před 5 lety +3

      Be seeing you, john

  • @MyPenguins71
    @MyPenguins71 Před 4 lety +17

    The hotel scene takes place on floor 5 too. Arthur’s loaded dye. I’m here all week

  • @mattsmith1137
    @mattsmith1137 Před 3 lety +73

    One the best opening scenes in movie history. Hooks you immediately.

    • @twilson3133
      @twilson3133 Před 2 lety

      And then the twist and the end brings it together

  • @Tomas.Malina
    @Tomas.Malina Před 5 lety +23

    You can do a vote for which movies to break down next, like google form poll you did when you asked what content changes to do.

  • @may.k_me
    @may.k_me Před 5 lety +32

    When the explanation is just as confusing as the film

  • @warrenh8709
    @warrenh8709 Před 4 lety +27

    And here I was still over-analyzing what happens at the very end

  • @kejarbola5168
    @kejarbola5168 Před 2 lety +5

    Nolan was such a great director. The fact that he presented 80-pages report envisioning "dream stealers," based on lucid dreaming to Warner Bros is mind-blowing.

  • @josescg4736
    @josescg4736 Před 5 lety +127

    After watching this I'd say do Fight Club!

  • @buzbuz33-99
    @buzbuz33-99 Před 4 lety +11

    Great finds!
    A couple of things:
    * The buildings collapsing in limbo were full size recreations of the sand buildings that Cobb and wife built on the beach and partly destroyed.
    * The idea that you are suspending logic while watching a movie has been around for a long time - described as "suspension of disbelief" 200 years ago and referenced by Aristotle when describing the principles of theater. His idea was that, when watching a play, you must accept that you are no longer in a theater, but are actually watching a scene in a house, a meadow or a castle. I learned about this concept when taking playwright classes in college back in 1969. Nolan may have had the same kind of education.

  • @zmod3045
    @zmod3045 Před 3 lety +7

    I agree that Nolan is sub-narratively saying that Cob is now in the real world (for the same reasons the video mentions):
    1) The top wobbles, whereas the top in Mal's safe shows no sign of spinning out.
    2) The absence of the wedding ring.
    3) The appearance of his father in law.
    This is definitely Nolan's intended effect here, but because he did such an amazing job of building the rules of Inception, he has actually written a movie whose ending CANNOT be solved, even with these previous clues. For example:
    1) The top wobbling could simply be Cob's subconscious doubting whether or not this is really a dream, as each time the top wobbles (representing Cob's desire to believe that this is real), it snaps back to an upright position (representing his inner fear that this world is a dream). All in all, the top could just be a dream-element that moves with his subconscious just as we see the other dream environments parallel the dreamer's subconscious in the heist.
    2) Though the catch of the wedding ring being Cob's true totem is a keen take by NewRockstars, this doesn't necessarily mean that this is the REAL world. It simply means that it is A world, which keeps its continuity through the absence of Cob's ring, because Mal killed herself in this world. This could just be another layer of the dream that Mal had the foresight to ascend from when Cob didn't.
    3) The appearance of Cob's father-in-law as another sort of totem isn't an established fact within the movie but is rather a personal preference of meaning taken by Nolan and some of the cast. It does not create a rock-solid piece of evidence for the the real-ness of the world.
    I'm not saying that these definitely mean that the whole movie was itself a dream. The original clues spotted by NewRockstars have that touch of Nolan-esque mystery to them that he purposefully plants in his movies for the dedicated (nerdy) moviegoer. To Nolan, these were meant to establish that Cob is truly in the real world, but because Nolan went to such great lengths to establish the movie's rules, he has seemingly written himself into a corner with this ending. Inception truly cannot be solved. Not even by it's creator.

    • @filmecke2618
      @filmecke2618 Před 3 lety +1

      The beauty of an idea becoming poison kinda bc we don’t know we just can speculate

  • @PaulMurphyMusic
    @PaulMurphyMusic Před 4 lety +29

    Nolan is an architect himself, I see this movie more as an intricately created world than just a movie.

  • @giltyascharged
    @giltyascharged Před 5 lety +30

    I think if they are going to make a Matrix 4.. Nolan should write and direct it

  • @shadowhawk22
    @shadowhawk22 Před 5 lety +6

    Masterfully picked apart a truly amazing movie.
    My take of the ending is that Cobb learned that life is literally a dream, where your imagined potentials become your future. He keeps finding more and more of his dreams in reality, to the point that it doesn't matter anymore if either his dreams created his reality, or his dreams are his reality.
    Reflect on yourself as the viewer, don't we all feel like dreams became more of a power in our lives after viewing this movie? That's why I put this on my top ten, it's so deep and enjoyable to mull over.

  • @johnispurple
    @johnispurple Před 4 lety +22

    Thanos: Reality is often disappointing

  • @clarissacuartero9636
    @clarissacuartero9636 Před 4 lety +6

    It’s so amazing how you guys researched these details and educated us of those facts. So enriching 💖 Now Inception is truly given the proper appreciation that completes us fans.

  • @tarikfretes5970
    @tarikfretes5970 Před 4 lety +6

    best movie ever made. cant believe that nolan worked 10 years on the script but this is a pure masterpiece

  • @richardbritton4675
    @richardbritton4675 Před 4 lety +42

    You can hear the top fall over during the credits

    • @brendab.5111
      @brendab.5111 Před 3 lety +4

      There are many sayings and songs that clue us in. There is an old beautiful song called “Life Is But A Dream.” There is the old nursery rhyme “Row, Row, Row Your Boat.” Clues all along the way. We have to listen...

    • @euronico7949
      @euronico7949 Před 3 lety +1

      @Mike Studmuffin Its BEFORE the screen goes black and to the credit..

  • @insomniacspillowfortarmy5776

    One of my favorite movies. Watched it when sick but fell asleep due to cough syrup. And woke up during the credits when they were playing the kick song! I was like holy shit it actually works, I just woke up from the kick! Lol

  • @whifling
    @whifling Před 3 lety

    This is one of the best videos I've watched on CZcams in a long time. Well done and thank you.

  • @LudicrouslyLiam
    @LudicrouslyLiam Před 5 lety +11

    I really love this film, it's perfect on so many levels. So rewatchable too.

  • @BrandonWyrsch
    @BrandonWyrsch Před 4 lety +4

    This was beautifully done, I didn't realize there were so many levels to story telling and movie making. BRILLIANT!!!

  • @hannahsha333
    @hannahsha333 Před 3 lety +10

    This CZcams video is even more mind blowing than Inception itself.

  • @NotJenOrJane
    @NotJenOrJane Před 3 lety +19

    the real question is, "Does Groot stop dancing at the end?"

  • @ulmwxr
    @ulmwxr Před 5 lety +89

    Seriously do the OG Tron. I think you guys would find some pretty cool things

  • @AdityaMishra-pm3xw
    @AdityaMishra-pm3xw Před 5 lety +36

    waited for a VERY LONG TIME. who else

  • @VannessaVA
    @VannessaVA Před 4 lety +8

    Your video is my totem. Whenever the video freezes at 4:56 that's how I know I'm dreaming.

  • @bethanylong5302
    @bethanylong5302 Před rokem +3

    This movie is so beautifully constructed that it left me sobbing due to it being so overwhelming at the end.

  • @johantino
    @johantino Před 5 lety +8

    Amazing work. Really really impressive! Much gratitude

  • @frankf4765
    @frankf4765 Před 5 lety +5

    Ok,ok, I already LOVE this movie and this channel. However, this video has made me love them both even more!

  • @DakotaHarvey62
    @DakotaHarvey62 Před 3 lety +36

    "One of the crazy meta coincidences in this movie." It's Christopher Nolan, nothing is coincidence

    • @shetah8039
      @shetah8039 Před 3 lety

      "There are no coincidences." - Master Oogway.

  • @quentinbates4717
    @quentinbates4717 Před 3 lety +8

    Cobb is back in reality. Erik, you said it yourself "He's awake when he doesn't have his ring on". The entire final scene, from the time he wakes up, he has not ring on.

    • @kettiregina8751
      @kettiregina8751 Před rokem

      The problem here is that when they where discussing how to get fisher sedated and Saito said he bought all the air line , Cobb was wearing his ring ,