Reality in Inception

Reality and illusion in the movie inception is a theme that is being debated a lot today. But what is reality and illusion anyway. Well reality is the state of what actually exists and has existed. On the other hand illusion is everything that does not exist but seems to exist. An example of an illusion is dreaming. When people dream it seems like everything they see is real but in reality it is just a hallucination. In the movie inception there have been a lot of debates on whether the last scene was a dream or not? Some say that is not a dream because the totem moves and that implies that it will fall in the near future. On the other hand some say that it is still an illusion because his kids are wearing the same close and playing in the same garden as in his memory. The last scene in the inception is not a dream because Cobb was not wearing his ring, he saw his kids and how he arrived home.

In the movie when Mal first introduced the idea of inception and going into people’s dreams. Mal and Cobb had to find a way to determine whether they were in a dream or in reality. So Mal suggested that each person would have an object they called the totem. Mal totem was the spinning object it would keep spinning if they were in a dream and would fall or stop spinning if they were in reality. Cobb on the other hand chooses his ring after Mal died, they were only married in his dreams. This shows that if Cobb was dreaming then his ring was visible to the audience. When he was in reality the ring was not visible and the director made sure it was not there. In the last scene in the movie inception Cobb is not wearing his ring which proves it happened in reality and it was not a dream. . The last scene in the inception is not a dream because Cobb was not wearing his ring. This verifies that seeing his kids happened in reality.

In Inception Cobb clearly states that he cannot see his kids except if he is in reality. When Cobb and Ariadne are in the elevator and Cobb shows