As did Nolan. Think about it--if I am correct, then there is an entire additional level of complexity that everyone missed, and yet everyone had to miss it for it to make sense. The movie becomes a metafictional paradox; Nolan becomes the Godel of filmmakers. This would make it the deepest movie eve...

tl;dr version: The meaning of the movie is revealed by acrostics in the character's names. Others discovered the acrostic "dreams pay" in the main character names: Dom Robert Eames Arthur Mal Saito Peter Ariadne Yusuf No one else found this one, however: Philippa Rod Green James Charles Tadashi Nash...