Attention fans of Inception! It seems that these long debates about the ending of this great film which was released in 2010 are finally going to be put to rest.
This is about that memorable ending in the film when Dominick Cobb who is played by Leonardo DiCaprio returns to meet his family, but we had doubts as to whether or not it was reality or just another simple dream because the scene cuts off just before we can see what happens with the totem.
This for years has generated various theories, but finally we have Michael Caine clarifying the matter.
The renowned 85-year-old actor who plays Professor Stephen Miles in the film was recently at the Film4 Summer Screen festival in London where the movie was shown and he shared what the director Christopher Nolan told him about the real and fictional moments in Inception ( via Esquire ).
Below are his words which resolve the suspenseful ending:
“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,’” Caine explained. “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 this tells us that the scene where Cobb meets with his children is part of reality, which undoubtedly is a happy ending.
In the past Nolan had left us with doubts suggesting that everyone could interpret it as they wanted, but now we have a much clearer theory about this great film which also has great performances from Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe and Marion Cotillard.
