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[*futura*]

I still haven't seen this. Anyone?

[lojay]

I thought the movie had a great storyline that was easy for the viewer to follow.

As for the ending...

I personally think that it isn't a dream even though the totem is still spinning. I consider each dream to be a different level. So there is the planning level (same level as on the airplane), the city level with the bridge, the level in the hotel, the level in Fishcher's mind, and then the level in Cobb/Mal's world together. Now, in the Planning level, the totem wobbles and falls (remember, when he is explaining it to Ariadne). This is the same level as when they were on the plane, as when they got off the plane, and when he went home - all the same level; if the totem fell earlier he can't be dreaming in this level. I really think it is just a cliffhanger meant to think about it and throw you off a little bit. This is the theory I'm kind of sticking with.

I also thought maybe it wasn't actually the same level because when he woke up from the dream on the plane, he wasn't equipped to the dream machine so maybe he went into another level of dream...

And I also thought about how for him to go back and find Saito must have taken a lot of dreams... Because there is the level with Cobb and Mal where Ariadne leaves, so he must have gone into 3 more dreams for Saito to be as old as he was at the end/start. Because... if the first dream is 5 minutes but feels like an hour... the 2nd feels like 10 hours, 3rd a week, 4th a month, 5th a year, 6th 10 years, 7th 100 years? (I don't entirely remember the way it worked) It seems like, if Cobb only went to his world with Mal that is only his 4th level. He needs to go into 3 more levels of dreams before he gets to a dream where Cobb has been in limbo long enough to be that old... But... Then I don't understand why he isn't old either. Clearly that theory is flawed.