You guys are arguing against Nolan at this point. Nolan has publicly stated that he has a "sincere interpretation" in which the significance of the ending is that Cobb walks away from the spinning top. He has also explicitly stated that the sandcastles on the beach (as distinct from those on the cli...

Vadar182, Nolan condemns both the oppressive aristocratic upper class, as well as the dangerous mob mentality that comes to control Gotham for six months. This thematic focus is shared with one of the primary influences on the film, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, which further aids my argu...

In an interesting review in The Telegraph , Robbie Collins comments that he "spotted riffs on sequences from Lang‘s Metropolis and Eisenstein‘s October and there are extensive borrowings from Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities in the film’s second and third act." I thought the Dickens references were pre...

Cobb lets go of what he cares is real and is satisfied with just being happy with his children. Not true. Cobb refuses to "just be happy" with his children and wife in limbo. He explicitly asserts the existence of an objective reality, and tells Mal she is not real while expressing faith in the exi...

The virus metaphor sets up the idea that faith (the conviction that "life is a dream" and "your world is not real") is a contagious belief with the potential to transform a person's life. It anticipates what we will see happen to Cobb, who changes over the course of the film from a thief into a prop...

No -- water imagery is associated with the subconscious as evidenced by the fact it gets stronger the further the characters travel into their own minds. The first dream starts with a gentle rain. The second features a thunderstorm. The third presents an avalanche, while limbo is a meta dream which ...

The revealing thing about the quote from that Wired interview is the emphasis Nolan places on creation/architecture imagery and the explicit connection he draws between the ocean and the subconscious: There’s a relationship between the sand castle the kids are building on the beach in the beginning ...

Vadar182: You think I'm belittling you because you like Star Wars after I spent fifteen minutes practically writing a mini essay on the symbolic logic of the film? And only doing that because you failed to answer a direct question I asked you? I wrote what I wrote because I couldn't be bothered to l...

This is a waste of my time. You guys are arguing from your own moral beliefs rather than looking at the script. I don't think Crazy Eight or Tykjen know any better, which is presumably why they seem to care about my (unstated and irrelevant) personal beliefs. I suspect the guy who named himself afte...

But the Gungans isn't violent from nature? Nothing in that horrible film suggests that they are a violent race. And the water-planet, Its a place where they create/give-birth to beings, you can easily argue that the water is a symbol of birth here as well. And about the water ballet, one could argu...