Arguably inception is one of the most beautiful films ever made in cinema history. Without any doubt, this is the masterpiece of Nolan's work. I know there is plenty of arguments, debates, explanations, and analysis of the movie. But I want to extract some ideas with some logical interpretations in this post. Many people asked me whether the final scene is the real world or not. And the internet world also focuses the same point of the argument.But it does not make any sense for the plot. The film is heavily focussed on the subjective reality so that question is definitely wrong in my point of view. The movie shows that totem is the only factor to find the reality, additionally, it is used to find whether they are in someone's dream or not. You really don't need totem in your own dream because you know it was a dream.So my point is reality is subjective, dreams may be someone's reality, the whole film wants to convey the same concept, here are some ideas about the unreliability of the totem.
1) Firstly, if you believe the dream as a real world, totems are wastes.The point is if you inceptioned by someone that the dream is a real world, top(totem) will fall itself. We can see this in a limbo life, Arthur tells that only if you ever prisoned in limbo in the past, you may return to the reality. So totem's work only depends on the owner's mindset. So totem may fall even in limbo.
2)And if you inceptioned by someone that this real world is a dream, you will not trust totems. We can see this in mal's case, cobb inceptioned herself as this world is the dream, even the totem fall itself, she didn't trust it.So totem didn't work in this case.
3)Thirdly you should not give your totem to anyone, but Cobb kept his wife's.(many argues that it is not his wife's) This statement was given by Arthur, so the characters also don't have the proper knowledge of totems.
The movie always wants to show the strong interpretations of the unreliability of the totem. So they are partially untrustful. And the movie conveys some characteristics of reality and dreams. In one scene the old man in Yusuf's lab said that the dreams became their reality. The world ultimately is what we say it is.And it shows the subjective nature of reality and dreams. The subjective nature idea also applied to Nolan's previous film Memento. In that film, it stands between facts and make-ups. Teddy tells that "you make your own truth". The same idea is shown in inception.
So everyone's reality is created by their interpretations of their individual data, and we often pick and choose what to believe. To given illustrations of this idea, let me tell Plato's cave men story. It is about the group of men, who spends their major part of life inside the cave with the one-dimensional approach, but when they come to real world, they didn't believe as their real world. So the "reality" is what you "believe". The same concept of Yusuf's Oldman touched it again. Inception is the only process that changes the beliefs of one's reality.By those subjective-nature ideas, totems are simply neglectable for decides your own reality. And our whole life may be a dream or coma-stage without our knowledge.
In nowadays many philosophers denies the lucid dreaming ideas. Because you can only realize the dream after you came back to reality. They tell that you can't acknowledge it as a dream in your dream. It will collapse. Nolan doesn't want to cheat the audience by writing the story about lucid dreaming. He also wants to convey that point. In fact, the climax is not to create ambiguous ending or confusing the audience, it is more than the ending.We see cobb completely abandons the totem because he does not care anymore, the totem may fall or may not be. But that will be his reality. It hiddenly shows the choosability of director. Because Nolan cannot decide it as a dream or reality. It is given to the cobb's hand and audience's knowledge.
1) Firstly, if you believe the dream as a real world, totems are wastes.The point is if you inceptioned by someone that the dream is a real world, top(totem) will fall itself. We can see this in a limbo life, Arthur tells that only if you ever prisoned in limbo in the past, you may return to the reality. So totem's work only depends on the owner's mindset. So totem may fall even in limbo.
2)And if you inceptioned by someone that this real world is a dream, you will not trust totems. We can see this in mal's case, cobb inceptioned herself as this world is the dream, even the totem fall itself, she didn't trust it.So totem didn't work in this case.
3)Thirdly you should not give your totem to anyone, but Cobb kept his wife's.(many argues that it is not his wife's) This statement was given by Arthur, so the characters also don't have the proper knowledge of totems.
So everyone's reality is created by their interpretations of their individual data, and we often pick and choose what to believe. To given illustrations of this idea, let me tell Plato's cave men story. It is about the group of men, who spends their major part of life inside the cave with the one-dimensional approach, but when they come to real world, they didn't believe as their real world. So the "reality" is what you "believe". The same concept of Yusuf's Oldman touched it again. Inception is the only process that changes the beliefs of one's reality.By those subjective-nature ideas, totems are simply neglectable for decides your own reality. And our whole life may be a dream or coma-stage without our knowledge.
In nowadays many philosophers denies the lucid dreaming ideas. Because you can only realize the dream after you came back to reality. They tell that you can't acknowledge it as a dream in your dream. It will collapse. Nolan doesn't want to cheat the audience by writing the story about lucid dreaming. He also wants to convey that point. In fact, the climax is not to create ambiguous ending or confusing the audience, it is more than the ending.We see cobb completely abandons the totem because he does not care anymore, the totem may fall or may not be. But that will be his reality. It hiddenly shows the choosability of director. Because Nolan cannot decide it as a dream or reality. It is given to the cobb's hand and audience's knowledge.
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