STORY:

A young man, exhausted and delirious, washes up on a beach and looks up briefly to see Claire Geare and Magnus Nolan, two young children, playing in the sand before falling unconscious. An outfitted gatekeeper (Tohoru Masamune) finds him and has him brought to a huge, ocean side castle where the owner, an old Japanese man, is recounted the more bizarre's appearance. The main items found on him were a handgun and a metal top. The elderly person permits the more odd section. He is hauled in and given some food which he battles to gobble as the elderly person gets the metal top and says, "You help me to remember someone...a man I met in a half recalled dream. He was filled with some radical ideas." The stranger realizes as the scene shifts... Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner, Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), talk to Saito (Ken Watanabe), a potential client, about the services they provide in an eerie dining room that is very similar to it. specifically safeguards against thieves who are trained to extract valuable information from a subject while they are sleeping. Cobb explains that one's mind is susceptible to attack while asleep, and that he can train Saito's mind to subconsciously defend against extractors in order to safeguard any secrets he may be concealing. He backs up his case by uncovering that he is the most talented extractor there is and realizes every one of the stunts in question. Saito stands to leave, appearing skeptical, and tells Cobb he will think about his proposal. He then leaves the room to join a small party in the main hall.

As the room begins to shake, Arthur glances Cobb in the eye and says, "He knows." Arthur points to a woman nearby and asks Cobb what she's doing here as they walk to an outside balcony where partygoers mix and mingle. Cobb guarantees him that he'll deal with it and to continue with the gig. He knows where Saito's mysteries are; he looked over at a safe the moment Cobb referenced the word.

Cobb comes up to the woman and asks if she's missed him. He answers that he really does yet can't confide in her any longer. They go to a private room, where Cobb throws the rope out the window by tying it to a chair leg. When Mal (Marion Cotillard), the woman, asks him if the children miss her, he tells her to sit down. Cobb stops a second prior to saying, "I can't envision." After that, Mal gets up from her seat and pulls him back out the window to a ledge below, where he nearly falls. As the lights in the room turn on, he breaks into the room below and enters the safe, replacing the manila folder inside with another. With his gun drawn, he turns to see Mal aiming a gun at him, standing next to Saito and Arthur being held by a guard. Cobb slides his gun across the table and asks Saito if "she told him." "That you are here to steal from me, or that we are actually asleep?" Saito responds.

The following is true: them three are connected to a PASIV (Compact Computerized Somnacin IntraVenous) gadget which takes care of them the rest drug Somnacin, keeping them generally snoozing and permitting dream-sharing. Another of Cobb's partners, Nash (Lukas Haas), watches over them. He really takes a look at Saito, resting on a bed, prior to going into one more space to keep an eye on Arthur and Cobb, both snoozing in seats. The water-filled tub above Cobb's chair is his perch. Blasts and yells outside draw nearer as a crowd of agitators drops down the road.

Mal holds her gun to Arthur's head in the dream, but Cobb tells her that the threat is unfounded as he hands Saito the Manila folder because shooting him will only wake him up. As she shoots Arthur in the knee and makes him scream, Mal agrees with her with a smile but asserts that pain is only felt in the mind and is not real. Cobb plunges across the table and recovers his firearm prior to firing Arthur in the head. He then, at that point, runs out of the room under gunfire from Saito's gatekeepers.

Arthur awakens and educates Nash that things are self-destructing however Cobb has the opportunity to follow through with the task before he minds the as yet dozing Saito.

Saito madly opens the manila envelope as the fantasy implodes and yells out of resentment as he tracks down clear pages inside. As the building collapses around him, Cobb manages to escape for a brief moment to examine the contents of the genuine folder he had concealed in his jacket. Saito is squashed by trash and awakens in the loft, concealed to Arthur as he arrives at under his cushion. Arthur advises Nash to wake Cobb by giving him the kick. Cobb's dream is flooded before he wakes up when Nash pushes him backwards into the tub. As Cobb hits the water, huge waves crash through the windows. Saito, having arrived at under his pad for his weapon, gets Arthur however is curbed by Cobb who lets him know that not all the data he really wanted was in the document he took. Saito chuckles and claims that all the data he had was in the record since he knew about Cobb's stratagem from the beginning. Because "your deception was obvious," he let Cobb and Arthur enter his mind as part of an audition that they didn't win.

Cobb throws Saito to the ground and demands that he tell them everything they need to know about his expansion project, claiming that his employer, Cobol Engineering, won't accept failure. With his face squeezed into the floor covering, Saito starts to giggle once more and uncovers that he knows all about the material of the rug; it should be made of fleece rather than polyester. As a result, he concludes that he is still asleep.

Sufficiently sure, Saito, Arthur, Nash, and Cobb are sleeping in the vehicle of a train, watched over by a young fellow named Tadashi (Tai-Li Lee) who screens the time staying on the PASIV gadget. He puts earphones over Nash's ears and plays music as a signal that their there's no time to spare. Nash is able to hear the music in the dream, though it plays only a little bit. Saito praises Cobb for creating a dream within a dream, but is perplexed by his inability to control the dream as the rioting crowd outside gets closer. Nash uncovers that they're not in that frame of mind in his. The crowd gets through the entryway, going after everybody in the room, and Arthur, Nash, and Cobb awaken on the train. Cobb criticizes Nash, the engineer of the fantasy, for planning the rug wrong and tosses Tadashi a chunk of change prior to leaving, telling them 'survival of the fittest'. When Saito finally awakens, he finds himself alone in the car with only Tadashi, who has resumed a laid-back stance and is jokingly smiling to himself. In his condo, Cobb turns his metal top and takes his weapon, pointing it at his sanctuary as the top twists. He releases the gun and lets out a sigh of relief when it falls. His telephone rings and he gets it to hear his two kids, James and Phillipa (Johnathan Geare and Taylor Geare), on the other line with their grandma. He responds that he cannot come home due to work when they inquire about when he will. At the point when James inquires as to whether their mom is with him - a picture of Mal enters his thoughts - Cobb stops and lets him know that 'mother's not here any longer'. Before their grandmother hangs up, he tells them to behave and promises to send them presents with grandpa.

Arthur thumps on the entryway and tells Cobb their ride is on the rooftop. While Arthur claims to be returning "stateside," Cobb makes the decision to fly to Buenos Aires in lieu of their failed Cobol project. Cobb requests that he send his views as they make the way for the helicopter and see Nash, beaten and wounded, and Saito sitting tight for them. Obviously, Nash had attempted to sell out Cobb and Arthur for his own wellbeing yet Saito has different interests. He extends to Cobb an employment opportunity performing 'initiation' for him, something Arthur claims is unimaginable. Cobb, on the other hand, asserts that it is not impossible but extremely challenging due to the fact that it involves instilling an idea rather than extracting one. When Saito asks him if he wants to return to his children in the United States, he turns away and insists that he will resolve the situation with Cobol on his own. He promises Cobb that if he succeeds, the charges against him that prevent him from entering the country will be dropped by simply calling. Frantic, and to Arthur's irritation, Cobb acknowledges.

They board the helicopter with Saito while two hooligans divert Nash to an unsure destiny. On the way, Arthur makes sense of for Saito the idea of beginning, letting him know that basically causing someone to think about a thought doesn't ensure that the thought will take. The subject might just find that the thought isn't theirs and reject it. Despite Cobb's assertions to the contrary, Arthur asserts that true inspiration is impossible. Saito explains to them why he is applying for the position; he wants the President of a contending energy combination to separate his dad's organization, guaranteeing Saito's own Proclus Worldwide complete mastery over the energy creation industry. Cobb accepts the task despite its daunting nature. Saito drops them off at the air terminal and encourages Cobb to carefully pick his group.

Cobb goes to Paris where he gets together with his father by marriage, Miles (Michael Caine), a teacher at a college and the person who showed Cobb and Mal dream-sharing and planning dreams. Cobb requests an engineer, one comparable to he, and Miles directs him toward somebody better. He acquaints Cobb with an alumni understudy of his, Ariadne (Elliot Page) who is quickly scrutinized by Cobb to plan a labyrinth that requires one moment to make and two to settle. In the wake of dazzling Cobb with her abilities, he educates her additional concerning his profession and what is expected of her. Her occupation as draftsman will be to configuration dreams and make virtual labyrinths for the visionaries subliminal to possess while permitting Cobb and his group to work. Cobb tries to convince Ariadne that they are actually in a dream as they talk outside a cafe. Ariadne becomes anxious as a result of the realization, and the dream violently breaks. Ariadne wakes up to discover that Arthur is watching them in Cobb's warehouse workshop. Ariadne shows shock when Arthur says they'd been under just five minutes when it seemed like hours. Cobb says that in a dream, the mind works faster, so time moves slower. Ariadne is given the chance to creatively alter the dream's physics when they go under again. The people in the dream, which are projections of Cobb's subconscious, look for the intruder, Ariadne, like white blood cells are drawn to a virus by her architectural marvels. When Ariadne makes the mistake of building a bridge out of her memories, Cobb notices it, and his subconscious turns into a mob, cutting Ariadne off from Cobb until Mal shows up and stabs her.

Arthur explains that Cobb's subconscious became aware of her as an invasive being and that she was unable to wake up immediately because there was still time on the clock. Cobb rushes to the bathroom as she wakes up. The main way for her to awaken was if she passed on. Cobb sighs as his top falls over as he pulls it out and spins it. Ariadne is enraged as she leaves the warehouse and refuses to talk to Cobb if his subconscious is as tortured as it appears. Cobb comes back to the room and reassures Arthur that she will return, but he needs to go to Mombasa to bring in a former teammate. He tracks down Eames (Tom Tough) betting at a bar and offers him a put in his group as a counterfeiter/imitator. Before telling Cobb that he is being tailed, Eames concurs and points to two men at the bar. Cobb recognizes them as gangsters from Cobol who must be out to collect the reward for the failed Saito job. While Cobb escapes, Eames creates a distraction, leading the gangsters on a chaotic chase through the city streets. Saito arrives in a limousine at the last minute, first picking up Cobb and then Eames. He clarifies that he's been following Cobb for safeguard his speculation.

Eames takes them to a local chemist he knows who uses Somnacin for experiments and could be helpful to their team. Yusuf (Dileep Rao) tunes in as Cobb makes sense of that his occupation might require the utilization of a three-layered dream. Yusuf says that this would be generally incomprehensible, because of the insecurity of dreams the further down you go, notwithstanding a unique arrangement he's composed with a strong narcotic. Yusuf takes them downstairs to demonstrate its effectiveness, where they observe dozens of men sleeping under the watchful eye of an elderly man (Earl Cameron). He informs Cobb that these individuals have come to "wake up"; Their fantasy has become reality. They are able to dream for what feels like years thanks to the sedative, which makes their sleep deep and stable. Cobb attempts the calming himself and is dazzled with its effects, however shaken subsequent to waking from a distinctive dream with Mal. He gets Yusuf on board with his team.

In the mean time, Ariadne gets back to the studio where she lets Arthur know that she intended to remain away yet couldn't avoid the unadulterated creation engaged with structural dreaming. Arthur brings her into a fantasy and presents the idea of making oddities, for example, the Penrose steps. He additionally uncovers that Mal was Cobb's better half and has since died. Arthur tells Ariadne that she was beautiful in real life, despite Mal's evil nature in the dreams, where she is now only a Cobb projection.

The group groups together and concludes that they will make a three-level dream with the third level containing the established thought. The objective as a primary concern is Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy), the President and main beneficiary of Fischer Morrow, whose dad, Maurice (Pete Postlethwaite), is gradually rotting with disease. Eames targets Peter Browning, played by Tom Berenger, Robert's godfather and business partner, to better understand the father-son relationship and make the most of his imitation skills. Because of their complicated relationship and the need to persuade Robert to sell his father's business, the team decides that a positive approach will prevail. I want to be my own man, my father wants that. Saito directs the majority of the plans and, in light of the fact that he needs full confirmation of any achievement or disappointment, concludes that he will go with the group into the fantasies as a 'vacationer'.

As the group gets ready throughout the following couple of weeks, Arthur shows Ariadne the meaning of 'emblems'; little, individual items that empower an individual to separate among dreams and reality. Cobb's top is his totem, which in reality falls over but continues to spin in dreams. Ariadne is instructed by Arthur to make her own loaded die that she can only touch to verify its validity. As her totem, she makes a bishop chess piece that is partially hollow. With Saito's assistance, the team decides to complete the task on a Boeing 747 during a ten-hour international flight from Europe to Los Angeles in order to maximize time for completion. This will give them a week to reach the first stage of their dreams. Saito uncovers that he's purchased the whole aircraft, making the occupation neater and without purchasing out specific areas of the plane for access.

One night, following a day of concocting game plans, Ariadne finds Cobb dreaming alone in the studio. Inquisitive, she attaches herself to his machine and winds up dropping in a lift. She sees Cobb sitting in a lounge room with Mal who rapidly recognizes Ariadne's presence. Cobb gets up and joins Ariadne in the lift, driving her through a portion of the levels that Ariadne finds are every particular recollections; something he initially warned her against doing. Frightened in the wake of seeing Cobb's torture over venturing out from home without expressing goodbye to his kids, Ariadne takes the lift alone to the last level where she sees a lodging, the items in which are flung on the floor. Mal looks up from the couch and asks her what she's doing here after she steps on some broken glass. Ariadne attempts to make sense of that she simply needs to see however Mal becomes guarded and gets a shard of glass. Mal hurries forward and yells at Cobb about how he didn't keep his promise when Cobb arrives and takes Ariadne back to the elevator.

Ariadne and Cobb leave the fantasy and Cobb makes sense of that the explanation he can't return home is a direct result of Mal's demise, since it was felt that he killed her. He expresses gratitude toward Ariadne when she doesn't inquire as to whether he did or not however she cautions him that he's mixed up on the off chance that he wants to confine Mal like that. He wants to deliver his culpability over her passing. Cobb needs someone who understands what he's going through, so Ariadne convinces him to let her accompany the team into the dreams. Robert will be accompanying Maurice Fischer's body to the United States in a few days, Saito and Arthur inform them when they arrive.

Robert and the team board the plane together in a separate first class cabin. Arthur's stolen passport is returned by Cobb as a conversation starter, and he then injects Robert's water before making a toast to his father. Robert falls asleep quickly, and Miranda Nolan, the paid flight attendant, helps set up and activate the PASIV device. All together, the group plunges into, first, Yusuf's fantasy. As team members are picked up, New York City is experiencing heavy rain. As part of the kidnapping ruse, Arthur and Saito take control of a taxi, take Robert, Eames, and then Yusuf, while Saito holds a gun to Robert. Cobb and Ariadne follow in their own car until a train suddenly bursts through the middle of the street, hitting their car and temporarily stalling them. Cobb and Ariadne then continue on. The taxi is then hit by gunfire, forcing the team to immediately take evasive measures. They hide in a warehouse, where they discover Saito has been shot in the chest.

Saito is laid on a table while Robert is taken into a different room. Cobb halts Eames and informs him that, as a result of the sedatives they've taken, they won't wake up if they die. This prevents Eames from shooting him to end his misery and wake him up. They will, instead, be placed in limbo; a shared dream-state of the raw subconscious in which there is almost no time. The group is irritated by this, asking why they've faced such a challenge, as they ponder some solution for the military shutting down in on their area. They discover that the projections attacking them are a part of Robert's subconscious's defense against extraction, which has been trained into him. Due to Saito's deteriorating condition and the imminent defense projections, the team determines that they must complete the task as soon as possible.

Ariadne goes up against Cobb about the control he has over his own psyche and he admits that he can't keep Mal as far away from him as possible. He tells her that they had been trying out dream states to see how far into their subconscious they could go. Due to the remaining time on their PASIV clock, they ended up in limbo together and were unable to leave. They reproduced their lives, going through years worth of building. After so lengthy, they started to see limbo as their existence. After something like 50 years, Cobb and Mal committed suicide on train tracks to take them back to the real world. Mal remained convinced that she was still in a dream and that death was the only way to "wake up," even after returning to the real world; however, she refused to leave without Cobb; she adored him to an extreme. Cobb went to the hotel room they had always stayed in on their wedding anniversary and found it trashed and with the window open. Mal sat outside on the opposite ledge and told Cobb that she had written a letter to their attorney expressing a fear for her life. This effectively set him up for her death and forced him to join her. Cobb tries to convince Mal to stop jumping, but she ignores him and jumps to her death. The remaining evidence against Cobb overrules Cobb's case for his innocence because she was declared legally sane by three psychiatrists. Cobb flees the country with his children and their grandmother because he has no other option.

Ariadne attempts to persuade Cobb that Mal's passing was not his issue and that he wants to zero in on the mission. Eames plans himself as a pantomime of Sautéing while Cobb and Arthur investigate Robert, requesting to know the mix to his dad's protected. They use "Browning" to exert pressure on Robert. Before being brought into the room with Robert to try to make him remember, Eames yells from another room as if he is being beaten. He informs Robert that the safe contains a different version of his father's will that, if Robert chooses, will dissolve the business. Robert hears from Browning that he is loved by his father and that he wants him to build something of his own. Robert reveals that the only word he could decipher from his father's final words was "disappointed" as his defenses approach the warehouse, convincing him that his father did not love him.

Yet again with the distribution center at risk for being penetrated, the group pressure Robert for a blend. He lets them know a progression of irregular numbers that ring a bell before they load him into a van and medication him to rest. While Yusuf steers the van away from the pursuing projections, they all load up and get ready to enter the second level of the dream.

In Arthur's fantasy, Cobb takes steps to utilize 'Mr. Charles', a strategy where he acquaints the subject with the way that he's dreaming to collect trust. He meets Robert at a bar and informs him that someone is attempting to gain access to his mind and that he is there to protect him. He persuades Robert that he's dreaming by presenting the abnormality of their environmental elements and quiets Robert to control them. He helps Robert recall that he has been kidnapped and takes him to a hotel room where the rest of the team gathers, the first few numbers of which match Robert's original idea for the combination. Saito is in better wellbeing in this level of the fantasy, however before long starts hacking. At the point when Robert's projection on Cooking shows up, Cobb persuades Robert that it was Searing who seized him by inquiring as to whether he saw Sautéing being tormented by the hijackers in his past rest level. Searing admits that he was answerable for the seizing, as the subsequent confirmation left to Robert permitted him to annihilate his dad's realm, which Sautéing couldn't allow him to make it happen. Cobb suggests to Robert that they enter Browning's dreams so that Robert can decide for himself what was actually in the safe. Robert agrees, unknowingly assisting in his own creation, and the team reunites, this time with Arthur remaining behind to keep an eye on them and deliver a coordinated kick when it's appropriate.

As the group goes into the third dream, in fact Robert's, Arthur is compelled to ward off a greater amount of Robert's protective projections while in the principal dream Yusuf keeps on driving the van. In the third dream, Robert's safe is heavily guarded in a mountainside fort by snow-covered mountains. To keep the guards away, the team breaks up. Cobb goes with Ariadne, Eames goes on his own to avoid the guards, and Robert and Saito start climbing a mountainside to get to the fort's blind side.

In the meantime, Yusuf temporarily loses control of the van, causing it to fall down an incline. Arthur's dream depicts the tumbling effect as he fights Robert's projections, spinning as gravity reverses and then returns to normal. As Yusuf keeps driving, he becomes cornered on a raised scaffold with one vehicle loaded with projections stayed with him. Before driving backwards off the bridge, Yusuf plays music through Arthur's headphones to warn him of the upcoming kick. Arthur's dream experiences a loss of gravity as the van plummets into midair and the force sends him flying upon impact. The effect also shows up in the dream's third level. As an avalanche descends upon Saito and Robert, they are forced to cut their lines as they look up the mountainside. Cobb acknowledges they've missed the principal kick, yet they actually possess energy for the second one when the van raises a ruckus around town off the extension.

Van drives off the scaffold: 10 seconds left to influence.

Dream 2: 3 minutes to synchronize the kick. Arthur struggles to find a way to accomplish this without using gravity.

Dream 3: Sixty minutes remain.

With brief period left, Cobb requests to be aware on the off chance that there is one more way into the stronghold and Ariadne yields into confessing to him of a mystery underground entry that Robert and Saito can get to. Cobb send them there, all while Saito's condition break down. Cobb and Ariadne keep a sniper's eye on them as they finally enter the main room with the safe. Capitulating to his wounds, Saito is passed on to set down, hacking blood as Robert moves ahead. However, another person also enters Cobb's view as Robert does. Before Cobb realizes his mistake and shoots her, Mal enters from the ceiling and kills Robert. Cobb and Ariadne rush to the scene as Eames is directed to the room. Cobb declares the mission a failure after discovering Robert's body because he has only left limbo. However, Ariadne persuades him that if they enter limbo, they will have ample time to locate Robert and bring him back. In order to assist Robert while Cobb and Ariadne succumb, Eames agrees to use a defibrillator to restart his heart.

In the meantime, Arthur comes up with a novel strategy in dream level 2. He brings the team into the elevator by tying them together with phone wires. He uses explosives to line the car's exterior and waits until the kick to use explosive force to create gravity and cause the kick.

Cobb and Ariadne travel the deteriorating world he and Mal once built while in limbo. They see old homes and structures before they find the one where Cobb knows Mal should be. Robert will be found if they find Mal, who will want to use something Cobb wants to bring him to her. Mal is waiting for them when they enter the apartment, as it turns out. Cobb reveals a terrible truth, the reason why Mal believed that her dreams were real, after she tries once more to convince Cobb that his place is with her in their real home with their children.

Mal had hidden a truth that she no longer wanted to believe while they were in limbo; her side-up, immobile totem, which was kept in her safe; advising her that the limbo, her dream, had become reality. Cobb broke into her safe and spun the top in an effort to persuade her that this world was not real. However, he was unaware that she would continue to hold that belief once they actually woke up. He knew this was how inception would work; because he first did it to Mal, and he's been struggling ever since with guilt over her death. He tells Mal that he will remain with her in an in-between state assuming she lets him know where Robert is and she uncovers he's on the yard. As an improvised kick, Ariadne finds him there and pushes him away.

Robert reawakens in dream level 3 with Eames' guide and opens his own protected, finding inside a picture of his bed-stricken dad murmuring his final word. Robert recognizes that his dad was disheartened that he was unable to be him, yet Maurice says, "No...no. Your attempt disappointed me. Robert finds the will and a paper fan that his father once made for him in a cabinet that Maurice points to. Mournfully, Robert admires see his dad has passed and separates as the van raises a ruckus around town.

Dream 2, Arthur raises a ruckus around town and the explosives force the lift down, making fake gravity in the group.

Dream 3, a progression of blasts set by Eames rock the post, imploding the fundamental floor.

In an in-between state, the synchronization of kicks pulls on Ariadne and she calls for Cobb to join her. Cobb declares that he will not remain with Mal. Saito has passed away and entered limbo by this point as well. Cobb has to find him, but he says he will come back. Ariadne jumps off the building's side and bounces back to dream 1 on the kicks. Robert awakens in the van and uses the name "Browning" to get out of the submerged vehicle. Before they leave Cobb in the van, Arthur and Ariadne share an oxygen tank with Yusuf.

When Robert and "Browning" reach the shore, Robert reveals that his father really did want him to be his own man and plans to liquidate his father's business. Realizing the mission is a triumph, Eames drops the Sautéing cover.

Cobb washes ashore while in limbo, where the armed guard discovers him. He is brought to the ocean side royal residence where the older Japanese man perceives his metal top. Cobb calls Saito to remind him of what he was doing there and asks him to come back with him to honor their arrangement. The older Saito goes after Cobb's weapon.

Cobb awakens on the plane and glances around, frightened, to see Arthur and Ariadne grinning at him. He looks at Saito, who is now awake, and he remembers and picks up his phone to make a call. When the plane lands in Los Angeles, Cobb goes through customs with apprehension, where security checks his passport but allows him to pass and says hello to his new home. Cobb strolls past the remainder of the group and Robert, who stops a second as though reviewing a half-recalled dream. In front of him, Cobb sees Miles bringing him over. Together, they drive home, and Cobb hesitates before removing his brass top. As his kids approach the back door, he spins it on the kitchen table. He hurries to them, thrilled to see their countenances again as the top keeps on turning, wobbles a bit...and the screen goes to dark.

The film's final scene is a little more complicated than the current synopsis (see above) suggests: "... The fact that the top continues to spin and sway indicates Cobb's return to reality. The real content, by Christopher Nolan, varies from this. The script ends with the spinning top still spinning on the table behind him. And we disappeared.

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I think the author wanted us to see Cobb as failing, which is in line with the rest of the movie, in which everyone dies or suffers; nothing sure, truly, aside from Cobb's expectations. However, I also believe that the director or producer wanted to keep the ending a mystery so that optimists would see a positive one and pessimists would see something more negative. ----------- The depiction of the film's end above doesn't completely make sense of the last scene. Then, at that point, it seems somebody altered it by adding their abstract *interpretation* of the closure. To be clear, the following is what occurs (objectively, without regard to interpretation): As his children approach the back door, Cobb enters his house and spins the top on the kitchen table. The kids start telling him stories about what he missed while he was gone, and he responds in the manner of good parents by demonstrating that he is enthusiastic and completely focused on them. At this point, they all begin to leave (from the top). We keep on hearing their prattle behind the scenes as the video and sound spotlight in on the turning top. It keeps on turning. It wobbles only a tad - barely enough to leave the watcher puzzling over regardless of whether continuing spinning is going. End of movie. My own personal interpretation: it's passed on to the watcher to conclude whether it continues to turn or it falls. In any case, the genuine point is that Cobb no longer cares.]