The definition of Inception is the creation of something/ the beginning of something/ the beginning of a chain of events. I recently watched the movie "INCEPTION", it has definitely created an inception in Hollywood and by this inception I mean that it is a new idea, a new way way of making films, a new way of thinking and understanding, a new way of perceiving things and a new way of spending 2 hours in the theater. I have always been a fan of movies which have a happy ending or movies which give a positive feeling or provide hope and inspiration. A beautiful mind, Ali, Forrest Gump, Shawshank Redemption, The Pianist are few of my favorites but the movie Inception makes it to the number one spot on my list. Rotten Tomatoes has given this movie a 87% overall rating which is an excellent score but this movie is aw-inspiring as one cannot imagine the story line. Some can argue that it had similiarities to the Matrix trilogy, but no one gave them the idea of another matrix inside a matrix. One of the biggest joys of a programmer is to watch his method work, but my biggest joy is to watch my recursive method work. This movie is an outright example of what is recursion and how it can be used.
I had some doubts regarding the ending of the movie (the spinning top was ambiguous), with the help of a few friends and a genius I finally managed to guess what happens in the end.
There are 2 cases - he is either dreaming or he is in reality.
Case 1 - He is in reality - he has finished the task in hand, the guy makes the phone call, he arrives in LA, visits his family blah. blah. blah..... happy ending.
Case 2 - He is dreaming - now this can be further subdivided into a number of cases.
part (a) - he is in Limbo and he is imagining everything, even the scene in which the Japanese guy tells him that this was an audition ( an infinite loop )
part (b) - he is in some level of dream in which something accordingly didn't take place, maybe the hotel dream as the guy didn't give the kick at the correct time or the safe in the snow mountain scene as the building blew up early or the van scene in which they fell in the water quickly, resulting in them back to the limbo state and since Leonardo Di Caprio is missing his kids really bad, he perceives everything what he wishes for and thats the way he dreams and we are going further into his dreams at one point.
I know part (b) of case 2 sounds complex and you might be laughing at my assumption, but there are a few factors - we don't see his mother ( Di Caprio's mother ), his kids are wearing the same clothes and haven't aged a bit, the top wobbles but someone can say that it is in another layer of dream where something happened ( like shift of gravity ) therefore the top wobbled.
Well one thing is for certain - DARE TO THINK, DARE TO PERCEIVE, DARE TO CONFRONT
