It doesnt realy matter if its reality or not because he believes it to be reality and he made it home to his kids so he made it to the place he worked so hard to get to
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This is part of the beauty of the movie -- it does such a good job of playing with the 'what is real?' question, but keeps a good balance by showing that humans simply don't exist well without some form of stable reality. So even if nothing is real, we need to commit to some form of reality, or we'll lose our minds.
Did anyone else feel some bizarre deja vu between this movie and Shutter Island? Aside from both starring Leo, they both also dealt with complex relationships with his wives, guilt, remorse, and questionable sanity/reality.
"We share the exact same lifestyle when compared to other countries, and I really don't understand the animosity some people have towards each other. Sometimes I makes me really sad there's so much unfounded hate. Aside from government, Canada and the States are almost mirror countries. "
I think this is the most insightful comment so far. Our similarities far outweigh our differences when compared to the rest of the world. We're like siblings--we squabble about our differences, but in the end we're closely related.
Canada is the younger child trying to walk in the footsteps of our jock older brother. Sometimes we emulate him, sometimes we're embarrassed of him, sometimes we're proud of him. But in the end, we just want to be noticed and accepted for who we are.
" My main point is that I don't feel like Cobb would settle for anything other than the reality was in, now whether or not that is a dream I am still unsure of that. I feel like I am trying to figure out the plot too much now, and thinking about the ideas of the movie, which I think is more important. "
I think you're right that he wouldn't 'consciously' accept the dream as reality. However, an idea I have been playing around with is whether the Inception mentioned in the title is possibly one Cobb is pulling over on himself--and the idea he is trying to trick himself into believing is that he has found Reality. If the ending is part of the dream, what if the entire ploy was an elaborate setup Cobb created to bring himself to the point where he could both defeat/release Mal, and defeat Limbo (by revisiting it and saving Saito), so that he could feel he had earned the right to go home and be with his kids.
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