So the only way Cobb could have continued his search for Saito was by arriving in limbo again. So Cobb is still in limbo with a stab in his chest.ĭo note that he just can't continue his search for Saito with that fatal stab (because if he did so, he would die before finding Saito and return back to the reality WITHOUT Saito). So Ariadne jumps off the building and ultimately wakes up in level 1 due to all the synchronised kicks. Cobb stops her and tells her to leave him behind. Then Ariadne pushes Fischer off the building, and tries to shoot Cobb too. Let's begin from the point where Mal stabs Cobb:Īs soon as Mal stabs Cobb, she is shot at by Ariadne. It isn't very convincing, but then no other answer really is. “He was in his own subjective reality.After wasting much time in finding the answer to this question, I think I've got one.

“The way the end of the film worked, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Cobb - he was off with his kids,” Nolan explained to The Guardian in 2015. “I actually do get involved, but when it came to Chris Nolan and his mind, and how that would piece together, everyone was trying to constantly piece the puzzle together.” He finally added that the ending “depends on the eye of the beholder, I guess.” “Sometimes you’re just focused on your character, man,” DiCaprio told his fellow actor. If I’m not in it, it’s a dream!” That would be a simple way of concluding Cobb really did awaken alongside businessman Saito (Ken Watanabe) from their subconscious limbo experiences - a tall feat when it would’ve seemed like they lived decades and lifetimes in an abyss - and Cobb really got to see his children again.ĭiCaprio told Marc Maron on his WTF podcast that he doesn’t know what happened at the end of the picture. “He said, ‘Well, when you’re in the scene, it’s reality.’ So get that - if I’m in it, it’s reality. “I said to, ‘I don’t understand where the dream is,’” Caine told Film 4’s Summer Screen. Michael Caine, who played Mal’s father in the film, admitted he didn’t understand the script but was assured that it must take place in reality if he's on-screen. Ariadne is the Architect who’s supposed to design the whole dream, Eames(Tom Hardy), who’s the forger whose ability is to impersonate anyone in the dreams and lastly Yusuf(Dileep Rao), who is the team’s chemist. While Cobb plans and provides the direction of each job, Arthur’s task focuses on the execution of the job, which includes researching the details behind upcoming missions and ensuring that all team members know their roles. Starting with the best extractor, Cobb himself. In return, Saito offers Cobb a chance at redemption, which will facilitate him to go back to his hometown and reunite with his kids.įor this, he creates a team of people who are the absolute best in their respective fields. When Saito(Ken Watanabe) offers Cobb a task to plant an idea into the brain of Robert Fischer(Cillian Murphy), his rival’s heir, Cobb assembles a team of members to pull off this grand heist, something called Inception. His skill has made him a hot commodity in the world of corporate espionage but has also cost him everything he loves. How It All Startedĭom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a thief with the rare ability to enter people’s dream and steal their secrets from their subconscious. The introduction scene of the film is really significant as it conveys a lot more in such a short period of time, and the remaining details are given to the audience as Cobb instructs Ariadne(Elliot Page) for, wait for it, the Inception. There are majorly two ways to introduce the audience to a certain phenomenon one can be to tell them verbally, which can be done through a conversation between two characters, having a narrator narrate the events that are taking place or, you can show the audience what the process is like without briefing them and having them figure things out on their own. The film starts with Cobb(Leonardo DiCaprio) and Arthur(Joseph Gordon-Levitt) in a dream trying to extract an idea from someone, and the audience is introduced to the whole world of dreams and what this whole process is all about.

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