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[Cutty Flam]

I only watched it once, about 4-5 months ago for the very first time

It was so fascinating and complex that I found myself rapidly trying to keep up while also pondering what had just been said all the movie through

But I couldn’t help but think and feel deeply nervous at the thought that Leo fucked up somehow. On the plane, something felt wrong to me, even though the music that was playing and some of the reactions he had been given on the plane were insinuating triumph, I couldn’t help but think he missed one...

That entire movie is extremely thought provoking, I actually felt the need to study dreams, to fully grasp what the film intended to give to us

 

[triplestation]

its been confirmed already the my cocaine scenes are in reality

the spinner at the end i thought was a little signature from the director, or like a final statement thats separate from the actual plot that speaks directly to the viewer and its purpose is to say like "yo you sure your shit is real right now? like what if its not like i mean dreams realities like i mean who knows"

 

[DKehoe]

That the point is he doesn't care anymore. He's able to accept what he has and enjoy that and finally move on. He's able to walk away from the spinning top.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

I thought the part where Alfred sees Patrick Bateman at a small-town cafe and smiles removed any ambiguity. He obviously survived the nuke.

 

[Steve.1981]

Think about what the film told you about totems. Is his wife's spinning top actually important? What was the actual focus of the ending?

its been confirmed already the my cocaine scenes are in reality

This is great

 

[Cutty Flam]

That the point is he doesn't care anymore. He's able to accept what he has and enjoy that and finally move on. He's able to walk away from the spinning top.

That’s a great post, very thought provoking. But I think he always did care bro, his intention was to get back I’m almost certain of it despite only watching it once and having a difficult time trying to keep up and interpret all that’s given in the film. Leo did care because he faced his guilt head on and knew he had children to get back to. Wasn’t that the entire plot of the film, to fix the crime against his name to return to his life and family? It’s all so confusing for just one go. I’ll definitely have to watch it again

Probably the toughest film to follow

 

[DKehoe]

That’s a great post, very thought provoking. But I think he always did care bro, his intention was to get back I’m almost certain of it despite only watching it once and having a difficult time trying to keep up and interpret all that’s given in the film. Leo did care because he faced his guilt head on and knew he had children to get back to. Wasn’t that the entire plot of the film, to fix the crime against his name to return to his life and family? It’s all so confusing for just one go. I’ll definitely have to watch it again

Probably the toughest film to follow

I mean in the sense that he had this paranoia that he couldn't quite be sure he was in the real world. And at the end decides to accept the good thing he has and that's what's important.

 

[Vengrim]

The obvious and probably correct answer is that there is no answer. It is purposely ambiguous to inspire conversations just like this one.

My personal opinion, and mind you it has been a long time since I saw the movie so I might not be recalling it clearly, is that he is still dreaming. The movie talks about how the dream world is mazelike, it has the nameless enforcers and you don't remember the beginning of the dream. In one part of the movie, the gang is just in Mombasa without showing them getting there. They are attacked by some unknown goons and as Cobb runs away the alleys get increasingly mazelike so as to obscure that it is not the real Mombasa. All that indicating everything that is happening is a dream.