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The ending of 'Inception' is the big hol-up moment. It kind of happy, but we're not getting the answer how real it is.
The ending of 'The Sopranos' is very 'happy-not-happy'. Despite speculations
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did was Tony killed or notI also think that the happy ending of the 'E.T.' not happy at all. Even if federal government would be good to them, how would those children live their normal lives after all those events?
The ending of Makoto Shinkai's 'Weathering with you' is kinda happy but for real is definitely not. The main couple is together but the price of it is Tokyo drowned.
Inception: the end is real. His totem wasn’t the top like we were led to believe, it’s his wedding ring. He’s only wearing it in dreams and doesn’t have it on when he sees his kids.
Wasn't it in the end of Inception that the wheel or whatever wobbles which meant that they're still in a dream? I feel like I remember thinking that the ending isn't real due to it.
It is delibirately left ambiguous/unclear whether it is still a dream I think.
AFAIK it symbolises him choosing to live the dream and surrendering his token, instead of waking up to the harsh reality.
No, if anything the way you can tell you are in a dream is because the top spins forever and never starts wobbling; the way he got his wife to eventually concede that she was in a dream was by setting the top in a perpetual spin so that she stumbled upon it still spinning.
The significance of the ending is not that he is still in a dream but that he is so content with the situation that he stops caring whether he is in a dream or not. (Actually, in fairness that is not quite true either; I've heard that basically the ending is more Nolan trolling the audience than anything of narrative significance.)
Exactly but I think it’s opposite. The top kept spinning, seemingly endlessly, which wouldn’t happen in real life.
I've never heard that take before, cool! I've always loved the final cut in inception, because I felt that I just had to choose to believe that it was a happy ending. I also like the interpretation that by the end he no longer cares whether he is in a dream or not. But I just really want to believe that the top is actually about to fall when the last scene cuts.