Why does the totem keep spinning
Nolan, in that context, used Inception to encourage them to chase their reality. The camera moves over the spinning top just before it appears to be wobbling, it was cut to black.
Reality matters. He runs over to hug his kids. It ends on the pan. Although Saito does not have a pre-prepared totem, as he is not an extractor, the carpet in his study acts as one in the Saito extraction job. Categories Dream mechanics. Universal Conquest Wiki. Most members of the team. Manufactured by. Each team member crafts their own. An anchor to remind the subject that they are dreaming. First Appearance. Personally, I did not like Cobb's choice of a top for his totem.
The loaded die was a better one. If no one but the Arthur knew the loading of the die, chances were he would be able to tell if he was in a dream. It would need to always come up with HIS die's loading. The top was too easy for another architect to decipher. Ariadne could see the top, and know that a real one spins down and falls. She might rightly assume that keeping it up is the sign, so to 'fool' Cobb, she would drop it.
Lousy choice for a totem. Exactly my point.. Cobb's totem requires the architect to handle it's non standard behaviour ever-spinning. Which is why I was trying to understand if I had it wrong and it's upto the dreamer to define it's dream behaviour.
The problem is - while all the totems have an un-standard behaviour in the real world eg: uncentered loading , Cobb's top has an un-standard behaviour in dreams. I thought I remember that Cobb was using his wife's totem For sentimental reasons he hung on to it.
But, yes, in several ways a bad totem. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. My question is what keeps Cobb's totem spinning when he's in somebody else's dream then?
How do you know that? It is never shown that Cobb's totem keeps on spinning! Well then that takes us back to what is the key difference in Cobb's totem's behavior if not constantly spinning when he is in somebody else's dream and when he's not? The difference in the behavior of the totem is the key that helps a dreamer identify if he's in someone else's dream or not, eg: the loading of the die in the real world is offset and only Arthur knows what offset exactly.
Also, don't they show an ever-spinning top in Mal's safe? Please see the edit and let me know if you have any more questions. The crux of the question is not about who owns which totem. Cobb surely takes on Mal's totem. I'm looking to understand what causes any totem to behave differently from the totem in the real world. Given that the behaviour of each totem is a secret known only to the owner of the totem, what causes a totem to behave differently in a dream?
Is that the architects doing? Or is it the manifestation of each dreamer? Show 1 more comment. Nathaniel Brown Nathaniel Brown 86 6 6 bronze badges. If that is the case, the architect doesn't know that the top needs to keep spinning forever, yet it does in a dream, who is responsible for that then? To the first part, yes the architect would be responsible for the behavior of the totem.
But to the 2nd part, I am confused again, I have no idea who is responsible for that. It's like a little paradox Nolan seems to have allowed into the otherwise flawless system of the dreams. Yeah, it really is. If it stops and falls over, that means he is back in reality. The final shot shows the top spinning, but it never reveals whether it falls over. Five years after "Inception" was released in theaters and became a box-office smash , this one question still drives fans crazy.
He told a story about when his mind-bender "Memento" premiered at the Venice Film Festival in The press conference was never recorded, so his "Memento" explanation never got out. However, Jonathan Nolan, Christopher's brother, who wrote the short story on which "Memento" was based, advised him against ever explaining the ending of one of his films again.
Christopher Nolan isn't the first filmmaker to be questioned about the ending of something he made years ago.
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