Inception question

[batman1]

At the end when Leo went to his kids and the object was spinning on the table was it real or he had a dream and had inception put on him?

 

[MrMaooz]

I believe the ending to be real because he isn't wearing a wedding ring.

 

[batman1]

I believe the ending to be real because he isn't wearing a wedding ring.

so the object spinning signified awake?

 

[Breogan]

so the object spinning signified awake?

No, it's been a while since I saw it, but from what I remember if the [the object] the top keeps spinning he's not awake, it's still a dream.
At the end you see it beginning to fall (wobble) - that signifies he is awake.

Although he never comes back to check it, it dosn't matter, in "reality" tops don't right themselves once they begin to wobble, we see it he doesn't.
Point may be he doesn't have to check , reality or dream, he has what he wants. ..the end.
What's real is left open-ended up to the viewer.

Another spin on it The totem isn't even his, the top was Mal's, so it's her dream ending.
His totem might be his ring or something else. - So go rent it again/ buy it, review it and see if you can find his real totem = $

 

[Stringer]

He's awake.

 

[tecnowraith]

I watched the movie again on TNT last night and I noticed/realized that when Cobb went to the Chemist's lab to test the formula, I am beginning to wonder if he truly woke up? Why? cause we never saw the typical "kick" in his dream. An also Cobb never truly checked his totem twice right after, he put it in his pocket.

 

[Erzengel]

In the end, the villain turns out to be his father.

 

[Drizzle]

It was his sled from when he was a kid.

 

[Dr.]

I believe the ending [is] real because he isn't wearing a wedding ring.

If the entire movie is Cobb’s dream, then the “internal rules” about how to tell dreams from reality are - themselves - the product of a dream. The wedding ring might be a symbol from Cobb’s subconscious indicating that a particular dream level should interpreted as reality - even though there is no external reality.

 

[The Shape]

We'll never really know what the last shot of Inception means. That's part of the beauty of it.

 

[KevanG]

Like Moose said there's the idea that his wedding ring is his totem and not the top. If you go by that then in the final scene he's not wearing the ring so he's awake.

 

[batman1]

Ok.

 

[SpideyFan866]

They showed that the top wasn't his totem.

When they showed him planting the idea in Mal's head that her world wasn't real, he used the top (her totem) to do it.