Another Nolan Film by my Patrons | INCEPTION | FIRST TIME WATCHING 

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I think the point of the end of the movie is that it doesn't matter if it's still a dream or not. He stopped paying attention to the totem and decided to be with his children. Whether it's a dream or reality he doesn't care at that point.

That ending literally had me tearing up the first time I saw it. My favorite movie of all time

This is the greatest film of all time in my opinion... It has EXTREME rewatch ability. You will notice SO many things you missed now that you know how it ends. Even the end makes more sense after a 2nd or 3rd watch. Awesome reaction🎉

How cool is it be Cillian Murphy? It'd be interesting to know how his professional relationship with Christopher Nolan evolved over the years. Being part of almost every Nolan movie (which are some of the best movies made in the past half century ) is quite a blessing.

So here's how you know the ending is real. His totem was never the spinning top. It was his ring. Everytime he was awake he doesn't have the ring on his finger. Also everytime you see the grandparent he is in the real world (you can see this in the movie itself), at the end his children are wearing different clothes than when he's dreaming. This is from the movie story itself. One last pointer is that the kids at the end are different cast kids, in the credits there are 2 different kids playing the same role, and Michael Caine was told that everytime he is in the scene he is in the real world

Michael Caine said about the end of the movie Inception that it is a reality and not a dream, as Christopher Nolan told him that every scene in which he appears is Michael Caine, so it is a real scene

Excellent reaction! My favourite Nolan movie thus far. I learn something new every time I watch this; whether it's about the story in the movie, or about how to tell a story, about the message, about screenwriting. Honestly, very creative, fantastic, great tension, great characters, everything. Really enjoyed this reaction!! I hope you continue with the Noal reactions and other movies too of course. Thank you!!

Great reaction Stef like always, Christopher Nolan never disapoints hes a genius, some fun facts about this masterpiece Nolan’s attention to detail is second to none in the Level 1 in the dream sequence is the rain-denched street where you see a runaway train smashing through parked cars. To achieve this, Nolan had a train chassis put onto the engine of a tractor trailer. A great touch is that the state motto on all the car license plates says “The Alternate State.” The revolving corridor fight as little CGI it was filmed in two enormous airship sheds in Bedfordshire, England, the revolving set was originally going to be 40 feet long but, as the scene became more and more elaborate, Nolan decided to make it 100 feet long. The set they built rotated a full 360 degrees and they could control the direction it rotated and how fast it rotated. Nolan didn’t want any digital effects if possible, so even the lights were real and rigged up with electricity. Inception is a film about filmmaking When creating Cobb’s team and the roles they play, Nolan relied on the creative team he knows - the filmmaking crew. So, the roles each character plays within the team reflects the roles you would have within a moviemaking team - Cobb is the director - the one with the vision and grand plan. - Arthur is the producer. As the Point Man, he does all the planning and research and pulls everything together to make sure the team can achieve Cobb’s plan. - Ariadne is the production designer. As the Architect, she creates the worlds where everything takes place. - Eames is the actor. As the Forger, he impersonates people and literally puts on an act. - Saito is the studio. The money man who finances everything and is ultimately the boss. - Fischer (Cillian Murphy) is the audience. Everything is created to be observed by him. Keep up the amazing work you should react to TENET is another Nolan masterpiece.

I questioned existence after seeing this in theatres back in the day. I've never had a film leave me speechless for so long after watching it, like I was very slowly waking up from a dream. There was a collective gasp in the cinema when it cut to black with the totem still spinning. Amazing experience.

Glad you’re watching Inception, it’s one of my favorite movies by Christopher Nolan of all time, it’s a masterpiece, and I can’t wait to see your reaction to it. And I also hope you would consider watching Breaking Bad, Game Of Thrones (even with a divisive ending), Stranger Things, The Godfather Trilogy, and The Departed at some point

That last scene caused yells of outrage from the audience I was in back in the day.

I know it's up to interpretation, but I think that Cobb was awake at the end of the film. In every other scene where he saw his kids, he didn't see their faces, but in the final scene he actually sees their faces, & they are wearing slightly different clothes compared to previous scenes. Additionally, someone once pointed out how Cobb actually has 2 ways to see if he's awake or not-his top & his wedding ring-& they explained that if you watch him he'll check his wedding ring to know when he's awake.

The thing about Nolan films are they have happy endings and he makes it quite obvious but people just don't want to accept happiness so they think and project the opposite.

Wow! Another Nolan's film, great! I loooooove this movie and I'm gonna enjoy your reaction to this ❤😊 Can't wait!

25:15 "I understand the gravity of the situation." is a hilariously perfect double entendre.

One of the few movies I saw where everyone in the theatre applauded loudly at the end.

Michael Caine revealed that upon reading the script, he asked Nolan which portions were dreams and which ones were the reality. “When I got the script of Inception, I was a bit puzzled by it, and I said to him, ‘I don’t understand where the dream is.’ I said, ‘When is it the dream and when is it reality?’ He said, ‘Well, when you’re in the scene it’s reality.’ So, get that - if I’m in it, it’s reality. If I’m not in it, it’s a dream.” So the end was reality ;)

This is great film, very clever. Another great and clever film starring Leo is Shutter Island. Highly recommend reacting to this to. Another great performance by Leo and like Inception has a very clever storyline which know you will like. Thanks for reacting to Inception.

In addition to this being a fantastic reaction, it's also wonderfully edited down without awkward cuts or any roughness and I really appreciate that! I love the ending because you could have a strong argument for and against whether it's actually the real world, but in the end it doesn't matter, he found peace with everything. What's real and what matters is up to us.

I guess you didn't realize that Tom Hardy, who also appears here and plays Eames, was Bane the villain in Nolan's third Batman movie.

We wouldn't have heard the totem slowing down and jittery, if it was suppose to be a dream. It would've spun indefinitely. Nice tease with that cut to black regardless.

I remember watching this in theaters and everyone's reaction to that ending. I still love seeing people react to it for the first time

It's okay, he's awake in reality at the end - but it was an incredible if not frustrating ending to leave it hanging like that just as the totem wobbled to topple (or not?). Nolan himself said every scene containing Michael Caine was in the real world, so by that you know he made it out okay 😉 Edit: I remember watching this in the cinema and everyone went "AARGHH!?!?" when it ended haha

I have a top 3 movies: on one end of the spectrum is Airplane, a super silly, spooferific, dad-joke-filled comedy; and the other end of the spectrum is the epic Braveheart. And in between, Inception takes care of all the other genres, it’s a regular drama, regular action film, regular sci-fi, suspense, heist, mystery with plot twists and reveals. It’s like a perfect film.

This script is soo good, whatever you believe bout whats real or whats a dream.. you can prove it right.. 2 people can have opposing views of whats real and a dream.. and both can convince each other of both.. or not Such a great movie

I absolutely love how it ended, with it unclear if he was right or if his wife was. Also, I really love how it blows your mind when it becomes a dream within a dream within a dream and THEN they go into limbo another dream down. Like your mind was already blown and then they go down even deeper

25:14 "I do understand the _gravity_ of the situation" hahaha how dare you

For everyone that loved this movie, and hasn't yet seen this, you may like (I surely do!) Hans Zimmer's powerful tune from Inception LIVE ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-va1oiojnGrA.html

Your analysis of the personal issues and subconscious connection is very insightful. I think you are on the right track.

Christopher Nolan films are the way to go! I highly recommend Memento, The Prestige, Interstellar, and Oppenheimer when you get the chance.

Excellent science fiction rendered in a film. Love this one. Great reaction / review Stef. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.

intersterlla and.. inception.. nolan.. and theory of relativity... perfect movie..

Yay another video from my fav :3 love you Stef

I was working at a AMC when this movie came out and I would watch it every time I had to take a break. For me, he's not dreaming cause Michael Caine's character was there at the end.

you are very smart to realize things in the movie before they are explained.

Amo cuando alguien nuevo reacciona a esta gran obra maestra, es como volverla a ver como la primera vez ❤

Fun fact: the kicker song 'Je ne regrette rien.' made famous by Edith Piaf, played to an Oscar win by the actress playing the wife. (note to self: IMDB her name...)

“Dale, apúrate!” Lol, I absolutely love your reactions, especially when you speak Spanish.

U can feel the stress when she goes "dale! apúrateee!!!" 😭

Me quedo con el "Dale! Apuráte!" 😅👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

"¡Dale! ¡Apúrate!"...no esperaba eso😂

To me, Christopher Nolan can do no wrong in his filmmaking. The stories are just so juicy and satisfying!

According to Nolan, the point of the ending isn't to question whether or not the whole thing was real. Cobb had found his happiness (to finally be able to see his children again), and therefore, it doesn't matter to him any more. He's complete.

For people in the Patreon, are there discussion nights/days on the films? I feel this community would host great convos on the films watched.

25:14 "I do understand the _gravity_ of the situation but..." Come on now lol

8 oscar nominations, won 4 for cinematography, sound editing, sound mixing, and visual effects, also nominated for best picture, best original screenplay, original music and production design

Ariadne, in Greek mythology, daughter of Pasiphae and the Cretan king Minos. She fell in love with the Athenian hero Theseus and, with a thread or glittering jewels, helped him escape the Labyrinth after he slew the Minotaur. Most of Nolan's films are cautionary, and I believe that Cobb is still dreaming at the end. One on this level of getting in your head is Ex-Machina, a film about AI with Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikanda and Oscar Isaac.

Nolan didn't want to make a third Batman after Heath Ledger died. He only agreed to after the studio promised to fund this film for him. Your theory about retriggering harmful events from the past is one way people are trained to overcome irrational phobias.

Think of it as a movie about movie making. Substitute Leonardo’s character for Nolan himself and the different types of people you need to assemble to make your movie. Meanwhile Nolan himself wants to finish the job so he can be home with his kids.

the moment you said "if that dice keeps rolling..." I Laughed my ass off

She didn't went for the extreme, because when they were sharing a dream for a long time, Mal was convinced that the dream was real. In order for Cobb to take her out of the dream, he had to plant the idea "this world is not real" into her. It worked while they were in the dream, yes. But when she woke up, the idea was still there of course. So unless Cobb extracted or planted a new idea in her mind, wherever she goes, she will ALWAYS think the world isn't real.

Stef is a sharp, gorgeous cookie

The point of not seeing if the totem keeps spinning is a beautiful expression of letting go. Cobb doesn't care if he's awake or asleep anymore. Once he sees his kids he's there to stay. That is the reality he chooses, even if it's not true. I like that as viewers we don't find out for sure. Because it's a beautiful way of saying that once you find happiness, real happiness, does it really matter if it's real?

You really REALLY should watch "Cloud Atlas". Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Bae Doona, Ben Wishaw, Susan Sarandon, Keith David, James Darcy, David Gyasi. All playing multiple roles, throughout time, and absolute epic comparable to this movie and the Green Mile... When Saito spun the top it was utterly stable throughout their whole discussion, same as with Mal's safe. At the end it's not only spinning but also wobbling and BEGINNING to become more and more unstable right at the cut away.

Stefi, viste mi película favorita! Es una volada de bocho, y una obra maestra! En la pandemia me pasó algo muy feo que me hizo replantear mi vida entera, tuve un sueño dentro de otro y me acordé de esta pelicula y... bueno, imaginate mi trauma, jejeje. Si querés puedo decirte si al final Dicaprio estaba despierto o en un sueño, pero arruinaría el suspenso y ese final a libre interpretación, jajaja. Muy enganchado a tus reacciones. Nolan es mi director favorito, también 😄 "Dale, 'purate! xD

There's actually a clip going around of Christian Bale being asked about the ending to the Dark Knight Rises and whether he believes Alfred saw Bruce in a "what if" happy moment or if Bruce was really there with Selena. Bale goes on to say that the film lets you choose the ending and that he believes Alfred and Bruce really saw each other. It's the same with this film. You can choose to believe Cobb made it home to his children or you can decide the top kept spinning. You could ask Nolan himself what he intended and I feel not even he would know what to say. Lovely cinema. Lovely lovely art.

25:13 Underrated pun.

This movie has the best rewatch

Michael Caine and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are darlings of the director, Christopher Nolan. #DarkKnight

“Do you want to take a leap of faith or become an old man filled with regret waiting to die alone” just now noticed the irony in that

in my opinion: at the end he wasn't dreaming anymore. During the entire movie he couldn't see the faces of his 2 children, they never turn to see him. At the end, they turn around and run to him... all good. And in my opinion, on the last frame they show for 0.04 seconds, the object started to wobble

Have you heard of Ariadne's inception theory? So, according to it, Fischer was never the real target of inception but Cobb was, and Ariadne was hired through Saito by his father-in-law to make him forgive himself for killing Mal. If you ever rewatch this movie, remember to pay closer attention to everything she says and does :)

I knw it was supposed to b open ended, but i like to think he never woke up after testing the sedative and was freaking out at the sink cus he never spun it again after that

More Christopher Nolan movies would be amazing! Someone recommend The Prestige. 😤 Ur mind will be blown.

Here’s a good movie that is pretty underrated that I’ve heard of recently, it’s called the book of life. It’s similar to coco.

Another great Nolan film you should check out is Prestige. Which is arguably one of his best film along with Inception.

Great reaction! Hope you'll watch The Prestige at some point. 🙂

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el "dale, apurate" sonó bien argentino

I love your reaction videos. Desde hace unos meses utilizo RU-vid para mejorar mi nivel de inglés, descubrí tus videos por casualidad. Saludos desde España

The top was actually Mal’s totem, not Dom’s. His totem is his wedding ring, because in his dreams they’re still together. So when he’s wearing his ring, he’s dreaming. It’s hard to see, but in the final scene, he isn’t wearing his ring. So he isn’t dreaming in the final scene.

Does it matter if the dice does not stop? Nolan the goat

One of Nolan’s finest. It’s between this and Interstellar for my personal favorite. The Prestige is amazing storytelling as well. ✌️

Christopher Nolan is one of the greatest film makers of our time. I also like David Fincher (Seven, Social Network) and Denis Villeneuve (Dune, Prisoners). If he's attached to the project it's a certainty I will be watching it. I noticed you have watched a few of his movies already (Interstellar, Dark Knight Trilogy). You should check out Memento and Dunkirk.

The top was not Dom's totem, it was Mal's.

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Inception is a scifi masterpiece. Cobb was in the real world at the end as Micgael Caines scenes were all real world. Cobbs totem wobbled right at the cut aswell

What people forget about the totem is that they say numerous times, in the film, that no one can use anyone else's totem. The top is not Cobb's, it's his wifes! So think about that for a minute now lol.

It's been made pretty clear that he's not dreaming at the end. Any time Michael Caine is there is reality, the director has said for example. Also Cobb can never see his kids' faces when he's dreaming, but he can at the end. People like to mystery monger though. 😉

Wonder if she noticed this cast, other than Leo and Ellen, all are in the Nolan batman trilogy she just watched.

Their subject,the mission, went through the same thing that Cobb went through with his wife. Lived a whole lifetime then woke up. What a freaking mind bender. Imagine how old and tired a soul would feel after that. And how would you move forward afterwards? This story is phenomenal. Just an opinion 😎

It doesn't matter if the top stopped spinning or not - Cobb can't see his children's faces in dreams, so when they turned around that's all he needed to see.

'I just wanna know...' ...good luck with that ;)

Hey, another great movie pick by your Patreon friends. One thing I didn't like was the new format with your face in a bubble. I have seen other creators who do commentary/reactions do this too, but it is never as good as the room/full person with the smaller floating rectangle displaying the movie (in my opinion of course). As we (the audience) have seen the movie already, we want to see the commentary/reactions mostly. If I could suggest some great TV Shows coming to Netflix on September 15: - Band of Brothers. - The Pacific. It might not be something you would watch on your own, but it is always great to see people expand their experiences and taste through masterpieces (like Lord of The Rings, Gladiator, Interstellar, etc). As always your videos have excellent content due to your curiosity, empathy and humor. Anyways, this is the second time I write this because my last comment didn't go through somehow. Have a good one.

It's a cool movie. The travel and shifting of different perspectives made it confusing. That scene of her falling was most anti climatic way to involve a tragedy. The dialog before she leaps incredible. Would keep this in 7 or 8 of Chris N films.

All the scenes with Michael Caine are the reality

Dom’s totem is his wedding ring. The top is Mal’s.

If you thought this movie was confusing, tenet is on a whole different level. But seriously, I love this movie

Mind-blowing.

Tom Hardy, also known as Bane from Batman. 12:52

Se que no es una opinión popular pero a mi me encanta el final ambiguo de esta película.

This is my favorite movie, I think it's the best movie ever made. Loved your reaction to it, it made you tear up just as it does me. Please react to the film 12 Monkeys, if you haven't already, it's a bit off the wall and not one many other people have done yet I think. You are v beautiful and have a beautiful soul to go with it.🥰

Great reaction from You. There is no denying that Inception is one of the best movies of recent years. After Inception and Interstellar, I'd love to see Your reactions to another Nolan movie, Tenet. It may not be as emotional, but it's still a good movie. If You liked Inception and Interstellar, so will Tenet.

You understand the gravity of the situation, but do you understand the 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺 of the situation?

'I do understand the gravity of the situation.' #WellSaidBothWays

It was not his totem. It was the totem of his wife. Cobbs totem was his wedding ring.

Hi beautiful!! i love the content and reactions!!

dont worry. Its not his totum, its Mals. Cobbs is his wedding ring.

Dale! Apurate! jajaja