[ SECRET POST #2326 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2326 ⌋

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Comments

[comma_chameleon]

I think the only thing that I personally didn't like about the movie (because I love fun dialogue/heisty action/eye candy) was the ending, but I am well aware that 'we're not going to tell you if he's awake/dreaming ha ha ha' or 'choose your own ending' type endings are a personal annoyance of mine, and a lot of people love them.

[writerserenyty]

Oh yeah, I know a lot of people weren't super happy or it frustrated them (I saw it once at my college's movie theater, and the entire audience groaned). But my interpretation is that really it ultimately doesn't matter whether it was real or not, because the real drive of the movie was Cobb's relationship with Mal, and since he was able to move on with his life he really didn't care. So that makes it less frustrating for me. :)

[croik]

No offense to you personally or anything, but I really don't like the "it doesn't matter if it was real or not" interpretation of that ending (which I think Nolan himself has said in interviews). It absolutely matters because Cobb has two real, living children, who will be affected by whether their father comes home or else spends the rest of his life in a limbo coma.

[(Anonymous)]

On the upside, if it isn't real then that means Mal probably made it out when she committed suicide, so at least the kids should have one parent left. Although ... When did Cobb and Mal enter the dream? The first one, I mean. Did they have kids yet? Because if the kids happened after that first shared dream between them, from which it's implied Cobb never actually woke, does he actually have kids at all in the real world?

[(Anonymous)]

Someone's real-life satisfaction with the film's ending on a thematic and stylistic level, treating the film's narrative as fiction, does not have to depend on whether Cobb has two fictional children who will suffer the fictional impact of his fictional coma.

Although I fully support more Mal was right AUs for everybody.

[(Anonymous)]

Well gee, the whole thing is fiction so I guess our satisfaction is dependent on fuck-all of the film.

The fictional children matter because they are loose ends to the story in a "none of this is real" take. Of course it's going to be less satisfying if that's not given any importance at all.