You got your Inception theories at the ready? Well, Christopher Nolan has been shooting some of them down…
As Inception heads for DVD and Blu-ray next week, Mr Christopher Nolan has been talking to the US edition of Wired about some of the theories surround the film's ending (thanks to Collider for the heads up). And he has some interesting things to say about it.
It goes without saying that the spoilers start now. But we'd better say it anyway. So we have.
The key points that Nolan puts across?
Firstly, that Leonardo DiCaprio's character, Cobb, is an "untrustworthy narrator". Most of us had worked that out, to be fair, but this comment was in specific relation to the sound of the top toppling at the end of the film. Thus, not a dream, surely? "This gives Cobb a base-line reality," notes Nolan.
On the spinning top at the end, it is still spinning when the film cuts to the credits. So, what should we read of the character of Cobb into that? "The prop guys just made a top that would spin for a long time," notes Nolan, but adds, "The important thing is that Cobb's not looking at the top. He doesn't care."
The issue of the children at the end was picked up on over the summer, namely that they're wearing different clothes from when we see them at the start. Furthermore, the children have aged when we see them at the end. Nolan confirms this, also saying, "We were working with two sets of kids."
You can read more of Nolan's responses to theories at Collider, here, and in issue 18.12 of Wired magazine (US edition).
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