In my opinion, this is Christopher Nolan's best film. It has mind-bending
concepts of being in a dream inside a dream inside a dream inside a dream, and
yet the story is never difficult to follow. That is to say, it isn't difficult
to follow until the final scene. When Dom Cobb finally wakes up from his
nested dreams and returns to his children, is he really awake, or is he still
in a dream above all the other dreams?
Dom uses a spinning top to check whether he's in reality or a dream. In dreams
the top spins indefinitely, in reality it stops spinning after a while and
falls over. He spins the top at the end of the film, and the film cuts out
before we see whether it continues spinning or not. Many fans of the film have
asked Christopher Nolan whether the top stops spinning or not. His responses
are always evasive, and rightfully so. If he'd wanted there to be a clear
answer, he'd have put it in the film.
The answer is that it doesn't matter. Dom wants to be back with his children,
and when he's with them it doesn't matter whether it's reality or a dream. All
that matters is that he's happy. But what most viewers don't notice is the way
Dom spins the top. Usually he spins it, then sits and watches the result. This
time is different. He spins the top, then walks away. He doesn't want to see
the result. What the director is saying is that Dom himself doesn't want to
know whether it's a dream or not. If it doesn't matter to him, why should it
matter to us?
Do I personally have an opinion whether he's in reality or a dream? No, I don't. There's
evidence to support both answers. The main evidence for reality is the
complexity of the architecture. Dom flies from one country to another, whereas
the manufactured dream architecture is always a confined area. The main
evidence for a dream is the way his children are dressed. They have the
identical clothes to the ones in his dream, and they're playing in the same
garden. I'm sure that Christopher Nolan planted these contradictory clues to
keep us guessing.
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