Christopher Nolan Answers 'Inception' Questions, Plus an Unused Poster

If you haven't seen Inception, consider this your spoiler alert. I'll leave what Christopher Nolan says about the movie until after the click, so stray eyes won't accidently read what's ahead. But if you have seen the movie, you know there's a ton of unanswered questions that have sparked several debates. Also, there's an unused poster I get to share with everyone. It follows the same theme as the other ones, but I dig the curved city.

If you want to know what the film maker himself has to say, do continue.

In a recent Q&A, Mr. Nolan actually answered the following questions about Inception. Let the debates begin again!

Question: Is the movie about film-making? Cobb is the director, Ariadne is the writer, Eames is the art director, Saito is the producer and Fischer is the audience.
Answer: I didn't intend to make a film about film-making, but I gravitated toward the creative process that I know.

Question: Are Cobb's kids at the end still part of the dream?
Answer: The kids are not wearing the same clothes at the end. And they do age. We were working with two sets of kids.

Question: Does the top keep spinning at the end of the movie?
Answer: The important thing is that Cobb is not looking at the top. He doesn't care.

Question: Do you use ambiguity as a storytelling tool to make sure the film has more than one answer?
Answer: Oh no, I've got an answer.

I like the answer about the kids. Everyone I know got hung up on never seeing their faces in previous visions, but no one seemed to notice their age difference or the different clothes. I saw the movie a good four times and I didn't notice (but that doesn't say much, watch the fireworks when I don't notice a girl's new shirt or something). And the answer to the third question supports my belief that inception was performed on both Fischer and Cobb at the same time. But to each their own.

Hopefully what Nolan said answers some questions for you. Or made you question your own theories about the movie. Or just makes you angry that he actually spoke up about it.

Comments

[Patrick Fancher]

Didn't Michael Caine say that the top stopped spinning? I thought someone wrote about it on here.

[Josh Baldwin]

He did, but he based it off of the sound it was making (sounded more like a wobble), not that it actually fell.

[JoeMe]

Cobb 100% got Incepted. He's lost in his world of work and Mol, and won't come home, until Saito plants the seed of having a way back to his kids by pulling the job on Cillian Murphy. The whole thing is Cobbs Inception.