really interesting story i heard or read but it was about a man who had an accident and woke up from coma only to live his full life and have kids and a wife. when one day he sees a lamp and it looks odd so he watches it. and things began to change.
@@sergeyscherbakov1541 The deal was that Saito would make a phone call to erase Cobb's criminal record if the inception was successful. Of course, he had to make the call before Cobb got to Customs or Cobb would have been arrested.
What’s interesting about those 2 movies is that Interstellar is a father and daughter movie and this is a father and son movie. Except with Interstellar they use the main character (Cooper) to do it. With Inception they use a more minor character (Fischer) to show this relationship.
The totem was shaking at the end and was about to fall. Watch the end just before the credits scene comes up. And it is now confirmed. Also, even if it was a dream, the totem would spin forever. So anyway Cobb would see it spinning non stop when he walks across the house again. And kills himself to continue the task.
I'm a huge fan of Hans Zimmer and many of the other composers, but nothing hits quite like this song. Many people consider Interstellar his best work but nothing hits quite like this. It truly is his masterpiece.
There is a story about this melody. Actually a sad a story was told by hans zimmer.. He began composing Time after what happened.. That what makes time Special
Interstellar's "Docking" scene is one of my favorite in all of cinema and is one of a handful of scenes that I would change genuinely nothing about. The ending scene here is another one that I'd change nothing about. The soundtrack is absolutely INTEGRAL to the success of both. But they can't be directly compared, at least in my opinion. The scene in Interstellar is about the triumph of mankind against adversity ("It's not possible..." "No... it's necessary.") and is bombastic and gets you incredibly fired up. This scene in Inception is about the end of a chapter of life, the feeling that you and those around you have been through so much, the feeling of awakening from a dream that feels as though it stretched on forever- and yet, just as that chapter closes, a new chapter opens: a homecoming, a return to loved ones and family members. "Welcome Home, Mr Cobb."
• Cillan Murphy • leonardo dicaprio • Joseph Gordon-Levitt • Michael Caine The fact Christopher Nolan recasts these actors again and again is so satisfying
Ahmet Selim Karaca The question it raises and the possibile answers it gives. Its more timeless than ahaed of its time to be exact. It will always be up to date, simmilar to 2001 space odysey
Notice this. Every time he was in a dream and his wife was around, he wore his wedding ring. But every time he was not in a dream, the real world, he didnt wore his ring. Look closely to his hand in the end. He isnt wearing a ring, so that means he is in the real world. Gotta love the details.
Notice, in every scene the children are in (while in a dream) they have black shoes; yet, at the end they have different color shoes/style all together.
@@gunhee This is true. For me, the best cinematography... while pretty subjective... is Emmanuel Lubezki's work on the Revenant (also Birdman) or John Toll's work on the Thin Red Line, but they are also among my favourite films lol. I love a good thoughtful epic. Interstellar is another good one - the cinematography is sublime, particularly the scenes going through the wormhole and the black hole.
The fact that Saito has lived an entire life in his dreams and after that woke up young again, it's mind-blowing. Just imagine being old, waiting for death, and suddenly you have the chance to be young again.
@@bf9142ftw Because it was just a dream, those "memories" will fade quickly just like any other dream. Do you ever wake up and feel confused only to quickly come to? He would have just woken up and been quickly recollecting how he got here and what is happening. It would have been enormously relieving and also in his case, blissful.
This movie was one of the best edited and incredibly paced movies ever. The way the tension is created in the third act until the very last scene of Saito picking up the gun, and then when Cobb wakes up, It makes the audience feel like they've themselves woke up from a bad dream. A relief, just like when we wake up from a bad dream. Zimmer's music is one of the main characters in this scene that makes this scene as good as it is. This is movie is truly an all-timer, and one of my absolute favorites.
@@Ghost-qo5of thats part of his arc. He spends most of the film worrying about being stuck in a dream or not, only to come out at the end with the understanding that that doesn’t matter. And as for the ring, yes, obviously Im aware his ring is a token, but I have always interpreted the ring as more of an easter egg than a legitimate tangible part of the story. Cobb clearly prefers his top. The ring exists for the viewer’s assurance that Cobb is finally in the real world, to give the film a happy ending, I dont believe its something where he goes “ok, I’ll spin my top, but I don’t have my ring, so I must not be dreaming”. Tldr; the ring doesn’t really exist, its a head nod from Nolan to the audience about Cobb’s current state and more importantly about his priorities(his wife).
@@AndrewJ9673 main character has children he cares about, so it matters if he's dreaming or not. From this depend if his children will have a father :)
Inception and Interstellar are Nolan's masterpieces for me. The harmonious blend of sci-fi action with all the emotional drama was just excellent. The movie scores were both great as well. I really hope he does more sci-fi in the future, because he just knows how to make a great impact with his terrific storytelling on the big screen.
I love two 'looks'. My favorite is the one that Fischer gives Cobb at baggage collection (a look of "I know you from somewhere.. but where?"), and that expectant glare that Cobb shoots Saito once they awaken: "The job is done. Make that fucking phone call right now." 😂
"Welcome home, Mr Cobb." I was bawling my eyes out when I saw this ending for the first time, and I'll be damned if this line alone isn't enough of a good reason for it.
I have a question for you all. So how did Cobb know (or Saito, for that matter) that they had succeeded? Wouldn’t Eames have been the only one who knew, since he was the only one who witnessed the inception actually take place?
@@holdengreen2151 they already planned it they just know what will happen in the locker room only problem was how to do it in which they succeeded in the end And one more question They just planted an idea in fchisrer mind they don't know if he decides to do it.
As a father of 2 kids of same age, I just can not watch this scene every time without crying. Our kids means everything to us. We literally live for them. Do everything for them. They are the meaning of our lives...
@@daddy_.rome0 I'll admit Interstellar and Inception had extraordinary scores but the Grand Budapest Hotel's was so nuisanced and so original as well as being so well put together in the frame of the movie that it got best score.
The ending is what the movie has been saying all along. "But it doesn't matter because you'll be together" For Cobb it didn't matter whether if it was a dream or not. After 12 years it finally clicked, that's a sign of a masterpiece. You get different results after each time you watch it.
@@midgetwars1 The top in dream world seems to almost fall but never does. Forever spinning instead. Cobb sees his kids who are in the EXACT clothes height n weight as years ago when he left. No sane odds of that happening. The kids literally other than faces turning, not a thing changed, that's sus af. His ring disappearing isn't meaning reality, it means he finally (with help of ariadne) made peace with mal and let go of her. But he still chose her totem to check with reality, hence the line "you don't know where the train will take you, but it won't matter, cuz you will be together". He doesn't look at totem, doesn't know if the train took him to reality or still stuck in dream world, but wherever he sees his kids' faces finally is fine by him. His guilt of leaving the kids, is now lifted, cuz of successfully finishing the job that rewards him his life with kids back, Hence his mind simply ALLOWS him to remember his kids faces being seen by him, from the past. Which he wasn't able to see until his guilt was cleared. Meaning he did see the kids faces, just had been a blocked memory, even for his dreams being unable to access. In the dream once, mal tries to tell him how he can indeed see his kids and they're right there, as she was calling out to the kids, but cobb sees them do the usual thing, getting up and running without showing their faces to cobb, he tells mal to "just stop". meaning she was right, she meant he knows what their faces looked like in that exact moment in those exact clothes, he won't let himself past the guilt of leaving them and won't let himself see, the dream world mal knew that and cobb hated how she toyed with him with that. which is why ring doesn't mean it's reality now or that the kids faces mean reality either. watching this movie several times with coffee spikes, let me put this together. i finally can stop the coffee and sleep now. of course, i need to get the coffee again and go rewatch tenet, that movie is insanely good. christopher nolan is a gift that never stops giving.
3:36 For a split second there, I saw the totem tilted to the side a little more than usual, which means I think the totem eventually stopped spinning. I think he’s really back home with his children. Anyone else agree? Let me know what you think.
@@raydare2002 no that is to create confusion, i would argue,.. observe that a such an object can still spin after tilting.. and often for a long time... doesn't have to be perfect but only has to keep spinning to be in a dream... if they wanted the conclusion that it was reality, they could have just waited 10 more seconds with the tp to show us that it falls
He can see his kids faces, which means he is in reality. Besides they board the plane to LA and then reach LA. That was all reality. That ending was all just to confuse people who can easily get confused. I mean no disrespect.
The expression of Leonardo after he wakes up..The last look of Cilian ..Zimmer's heavenly BGM ..and we...we feel like one of the projections in the dream...
This is one of the best movies ever made, the acting from each and every one of the actors was spot on and incredible. I don’t know what they could’ve done better.
To be honest, i don't remember my memories before 4 yrs old, it's weird, my first memory, was me running around my house, and i was already speaking, but don't remember learning, i knew my friends and family, but don't remember meeting them, i remember school, but don't remember my first day... of course our conscience it's yet changing, but it's weird....
Absolutely perfect ending. The caper had been pulled off. He got home. Spinning the top, he saw his children’s faces. After that, he didn’t care if the top stopped spinning or not. This was a reality he could accept.
I really can't get over this movie. Each and everything is perfect about it the plot, the soundtrack, the actors, the cinematography nothing can be added to it and nothing can be removed from it. This is Peak.
This scene always hits so hard. It's like the audience wakes up along with them and we all feel like we've been gone for years. An event so monumental that Saito immediately picks up the phone and dials the number!
@@Benjamin-bp6qn im sorry. They did win the Oscar but what i mean is Leonardo DiCaprio didn’t win the Oscar. Inception won in four category. You can search it up.
as an expert daydreamer who loves "to pretend being in a music video or movie with it's song/soundtrack playing in my ears" u just gave me the greatest idea of all times for the next time i'll fly. (yeah i know i'm weird as hell....)😂😂
Just watched this film the other day for the first time and it is one of my all time favourites. The first Nolan film I saw outside TDK trilogy and I was mind blown. Only a mastermind like Christopher Nolan can make such films like this.
The way saito looks at cobb and that stare from cobb, legendary acting by eyes in that scene alone and then saito honors the actions of cobb. Such a great ending...genius nolan
This is THE scene I FELT even before I knew who this composer was and I have to say , one of the pieces of music that speaks volumes to my soul❤ much love
Inception's plot is actually straight-forward and doesn't "lie" about when they are dreaming vs. the real world. What's brilliant about it is it incepts the idea that he isn't in reality at the end (even though he is), by planting the seed of the idea with the spinning top, JUST AS COBB DID WITH HIS WIFE. The audience ends up with the same affliction as she does-questioning the reality of the film, and coming up with elaborate and convoluted theories to support the idea that he's still in a dream. But there is no logical reason to believe he's still dreaming; the spinning top is the only reason we start doubting (if he hasn't spun the top and just went straight outside to see his kids, we wouldn't wonder if it's still a dream). Just like Cobb's wife had no logical reasons to doubt reality, only the nagging idea left behind from the spinning top in their dream. This is the best thing about Inception; Nolan pulled off an inception on the audience, just as Cobb pulled it off on his wife
The craziest thing is that Cobb's wedding ring is his object to decide whether it's real life or a dream. When in his dream he has the ring on, but when he is not dreaming the ring is not on his finger.
Nice theory, but doesnt sit right. He walls away without "knowing" (why else spin the top). He walks away because he doesnt care. Hes so elated to be with his kids his love overcomes care for anything else. Would you want to wake up from the best dream either? Would you want to know that it isnt real?
@@toyski6897 right but everyother time he hadnt dealt with Mal yet. Hes let go of Mal and now she can no longer effect his dreams negatively anymore. Hes free.
Bro the ending part is real nolan himself confirmed that the scene is always real in the movie whenever that old guy in it , first go and research then write something
I rewatched it last night for the first time since I saw it at the theater. It amazed me how complex of a concept they designed for just a one-shot movie idea.
The first time I watched this movie was at home with my son and a few of his friends at a birthday sleepover. It ended about 1am. At 5am I was in bed, still wide awake, staring at the ceiling trying to absorb what I had just seen. Perhaps having children makes this last scene so powerful. What an incredible collaboration of writing, directing, acting, and composing.
@@Shane_Stoic When you wake up from a dream, you remember everything in the real world, while you may forget most of what you dreamed about. Its like a big switch.
People often forget the scene where saito wakes up and looks to cobb and immediately honors his actions, allowing him to return to his family with that single phone call he is tiping in that moment. Such a strong and underrated scene.
There are so many movies that should have won him an oscar. I absolutely loved his performance as Frank William Abagnale. He also did a great job in blood diamond. I didn't really like The Departed but he played well there. Inception is, I think, his masterpiece.
But it's not It's an incredible movie indeed but the ending is most probably a dream. That means his wife might've been right and killed herself and went to a lower stage of the dream or the reality. Imagine them making the part 2 of Inception..
@@OXIR yes mate. Like I said it 'perfect' in the sense that everyone has its own conclusion about its ending. So it depends on what you think / assume would happen!
And he’s just dreaming of him dreaming with his wife and getting into the dream of a multi millionaire businessman and getting into the dream of his partner in crime to plant an idea in the head of another businessman by getting into his dream, successfully plants it and dreams of waking up but still in his DREAMS ffs imagine being Teddy Daniels
Whenever I listen to this magnificent score, it feels as though time itself is unraveling before you, urging you to reflect on the past, present, and future simultaneously. It's a powerful piece that stirs the soul and leaves a lasting impression long after the music fades. Long live Hans Zimmer.
I watched it in 2010, didn’t get it. I tired again in 2012 and still didn’t get it. My dad died in 2013 and I watched it again, in 2014. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks
I'll never forget this part when i saw it in theatres. The audience was literally on the edge of their seat and everyone was waiting for it to fall...then it cuts to credit and everyones like "ahhhhh"
"It doesn't matter" is bullshit? The purpose of the video is to explore the ability to solve the problem of hard solipsism. You _could_ possibly be hooked up to a computer being fed information of what you "believe" is the "real" reality. You _could_ be dreaming right now. You _could_ be hallucinating. You _could_ be in the matrix. Can you prove that you're not? In other words, can you solve the problem of hard solipsism? _Your_ statement is that "it doesn't matter" is bullshit. So if it _does_ matter to you, then you can't live your life without knowing. That's your statement. So let's hear it. What's your solution to the problem of hard solipsism? Because you would be the first and only to have ever really solved it then.
Maybe it’s a cliche, but I always like it when the director sticks his wife, kids, mum in a small role in their movie. The director has to give up so much of his life to make the movies and letting the family play along for a day or two has to be such a feel good moment
I love how so many people are coming up with so many different theories and each of them make perfect sense. Shows how much of a masterpiece this movie is and the impact it has left. Truly amazing.
Agreed! If you’ve ever had one of those extremely detailed dreams and wake up, you just spend 10 minutes just “coming to” in the morning. The facial expressions capture it greatly.
The architect left level 3 while Cobb and Saito were still stuck in limbo, thus having no way to come back. Plus the children never aged and are always playing in the yard, just like Cobb imagines in his dreams. Cobb and Saito are lost in limbo forever.
Just noticed the guy checking the passport. He's a good actor as well. Saw him in few TV series and movies. I mean, it just has to be perfect with Nolan.
That look of determination on Cobb’s face towards Saito, like “We effin did it!” And then Saito dialing his phone, and Cobb realizing “oh shit, I get to go home?” And the final look of relief,… great acting, all in a span of a few seconds of emotions and screen time!
I am 26 years old and watching this movie repeatedly since 2018. I actually watch it after getting high. I watched so many movies and series but can never get out of INCEPTION. This is truly a MASTERPIECE. Maybe when I get old like Saito, I'll come here and listen this music so that I can be young again.
12 years later and this scene still gets to me. The idea of living what seemed like living a full life only to wake up and realized it was but a dream. Old souls thrown back into our young bodies.
@@chrytesol9349 3:36 For a split second there, I saw the totem tilted to the side a little more than usual, which means I think the totem eventually stopped spinning. I think he’s really back home with his children. Anyone else agree? Let me know what you think.
@@tron1176 3:36 For a split second there, I saw the totem tilted to the side a little more than usual, which means I think the totem eventually stopped spinning. I think he’s really back home with his children. Anyone else agree? Let me know what you think.
Well I think it was obvious even without Caine's confirmation, I mean in last scene where Cobb rotated totem, 3:31 at the end it started shaking, which meant that he was in reality.
I remember watching this scene at the cinema, people impatiently waiting for the conclusion, everyone creating their own ending in their minds...half of the people cheered up, half of the people cried, and I felt stuck in a limbo :x
I watch this movie every time I fly international over the Pacific Ocean. Most of the time I get lucky enough and get turbulence when the dream world gets shaky towards the end (especially the Gordon-Levitt floating scene) as they work they way down to plant the idea in Oppenheimer’s mind. Like watching it live lol.
@@scoper7897 thats the thing, he doesnt care anymore, he is free of the guilty and just want to be with his children, it does not matter if he is lost in the limbo or if is real.
