Oppenheimer and Inception Have One (Potentially Annoying) Thing in Common, Nolan Says
Nolan's revelation of this detail was just another way for fans to get excited about the new movie.
Do you remember the ending of Christopher Nolan 's Inception? It has been the subject of heated debate for more than 10 years.
The end of the movie left many with mixed feelings and a desire to speculate and think long after the credits rolled.
Nolan promises that Opperheimer is similar to Inception in one thing – the finale:
“It's funny, I think there is an interesting relationship between the endings of Inception and Oppenheimer to be explored. Oppenheimer's got a complicated ending. Complicated feelings.”
One of the key items in Inception is the top. It is the totem of Mal, main character Cobb's wife. At the beginning, the essence of the totem is in a flaw that only its owner knows about. This is an indicator of whether the owner is in someone else's dream. The totem rotates endlessly in a dream.
At the end of the movie, Cobb spinning it to see if he is in the real world.
In numerous discussions about the movie, the topic has been raised again and again – will the top fall? Or does it spin twice as long and is this a hint that it will spin endlessly?
In 2018, actor Michael Caine, who played Miles, revealed a secret. When he first read the script, he asked Nolan if Cobb was asleep in the final scene.
The director replied that Caine's character only appears in scenes with reality. In the movie, Miles met Cobb when he arrived. It means that the top stopped, and Cobb returned to the children.
It would seem that after this explanation everything would be clear. But Nolan never confirmed Caine's words and generally refused to reveal the mystery of the final scene, inviting people to think about it for themselves.
Nolan's new film will tell the story of the life of Robert Oppenheimer, a theoretical physicist who became one of the most important figures in the scientific world of the 20th century.
He created the atomic charges that formed the basis of the first atomic bombs. The invention of this weapon changed history forever.
We'll soon see what other brilliant ending Nolan has come up with when Oppenheimer hits theaters on July 21.
Source: Wired