The open-ended ending at the end of the film has many people addicted to it, unable to extricate themselves, and want to find out.

The Inception team wakes up on the plane, Saito also fulfills his promise to call and dismiss the protagonist's lawsuit in the United States, so that the protagonist can enter the customs smoothly, and the protagonist is finally able to go home to see his two children, when the protagonist turns the spinning top that can distinguish between dreams and reality, the film stops, and the spinning top on the table is turned or stopped and is not explained.

As the part with the most room for discussion, does the protagonist Cobb return to reality, or live in a dream? The crew will not be stupid enough to give people a positive ending, and many fans give full play to their imagination space to let the movie go to the ending they want.

The famous film critic Sergio Aguero gave his opinion.

In the first ending, the spinning top, although we didn't watch it stop, it finally stopped... Because at the last moment, the top turned slower and slower, and even shook slightly... According to scientific principles, with the influence of gravity and the restriction of air friction, the spinning top will run slower and slower, and in the dream, the world without gravity and friction, everything is illusory, the spinning top must maintain a uniform rotation, and the slight shaking also proves that the spinning top will eventually stop... And the last subtle sound..."ding", that may be the sound of the top falling!

At the end of the second film, the child's moment can be found to be that the child has grown up a little, but in the dream of the film, the child Cobb sees is still the same as it was, in his memory, in the subconscious, and the child who was separated from him for a few years, the memory and subconscious cannot search for the child's appearance information, so this also proves that he has returned to reality and saw the child who has grown up in reality...

The third detail, the director's skills have been vividly reflected, the ring that has been worn on Cobb's hand is gone, in the film, in those layers of dreams, Cobb wears the ring on his hand, because that is what he remembers, and his wife and children are still together, the ring is impossible to take off... But in the end, when the top was turned, the ring was gone, indicating that Cobb returned to reality, and the reality that his wife was not by his side in life!

It is based on the above judgment that it shows that the protagonist has returned to reality.

Another film critic, Higuain, was not to be outdone.

He also wrote his own analysis

There is such a setting in the movie If Kobe Bryant is in reality, the spinning top will always stop, but if in a dream, the spinning top will never stop spinning, so does this scene at the end of the movie mean that Kobe Bryant is still in a dream?

In fact, it is not, because this beginning is a "trap" deliberately planted by the director for the audience.

The spinning top in Kobe's hand is actually not his real totem at all, in the movie, every dream maker will make a totem for himself, this totem is a tool to prevent the dream maker from being unable to distinguish between dreams and reality. For the sake of peace, everyone doesn't tell others what their totem is, but in the movie, as an experienced dream maker, almost everyone knows that Kobe's totem is a spinning top

When things go wrong, there must be demons, and Kobe's totem is obviously the same, so at the end of the movie, it is natural that you can't judge whether the spinning top stops turning to judge whether he has returned to reality.

So what would Kobe's totem be if it wasn't a spinning top?

There are currently two mainstream views

First, the child's face

In the movie, Kobe Bryant saw his children several times when he entered the dream, but the strange thing is that in these dreams, the two children in the garden did not turn around, and he quickly confirmed that he was in the dream until the end of the movie.

When the top turned, the two children finally turned around and showed their faces for the first time in the movie, and Kobe's performance at this time was to wait for the top to stop to judge whether he was back in reality? Obviously not, before the top stopped, he hugged the two children tightly, as if he was 100% sure that he had returned to reality.

Second, the ring on the hand.

There are many close-ups of Kobe's hands in the movie, when he appears in a dream, a ring will appear on his hand, and when he returns to reality, there is no ring on either hand, which is very hidden, and there are very few people who can find it during the first viewing of the movie.

And at the end of the movie, when Kobe Bryant wakes up from the plane and sets foot on the way home, the camera shows his hand again, this time, he has no ring on his hand, which also means that he has returned to reality instead of being trapped in a dream.

In the end, Higuain also gave Xu Qian a promotion: "Inception" is a classic science fiction masterpiece of Xu Gan, there are countless details worth carefully smacking, if there are still doubts, you might as well watch it a few more times, I believe that not only the ending, but also more interesting details are waiting for people to discover. ”

He called on people to watch "Inception" more, and I have to say that this publicity is very good.

In order to prove their point, the audience kept rewatching "Inception", which made the box office and popularity of the film climb steadily, and no one could resist it.

Various controversies quickly formed their own supporters, who used the Internet as a carrier to constantly cite various evidence to prove their supported views, and this interpretation and controversy were also manipulated by Warner Bros. to quickly break away from the scope of the Internet and become the focus of major media discussions.

A movie, what I am afraid of is never controversy, but fear of no controversy, the more controversial the topic, the more popular it is by the media, only controversy can bring enough exposure, "Inception" does a very good job in this regard.

In just two days after its release, the phenomenon caused by "Inception" has become one of the most concerned public opinion topics in North American media and the public.

And Xu Qian has also become the most high-profile director because of "Inception", in the period of "Home Alone", he can only be regarded as the first edge, and now as soon as "Inception" comes out, he is really famous and incomparable.

Xu Gan will be secretly photographed by many reporters when he goes out now, and his popularity is not much better than that of those Hollywood stars, those reporters ask these questions, of course Xu Qian will not give them a clear answer.

Xu Qiandao: "After this movie is filmed, it has nothing to do with me, he belongs to the audience." ”

Reporter........

What kind of bullshit answer is this?

"There is no doubt that this movie will be the most brain-burning sci-fi movie in history. ”

Xu Qian boasted to himself.

Reporter........

While most of the media touted it, it was not without voices that questioned the film, with some arguing that the action scenes and special effects dragged down the whole film, believing that they did nothing to deepen the film's theme, and even helped to do it a disservice.

There is some truth in these words, but Xu Qian won't listen to them at all, if the special effects and action plots are removed, then this movie will lose a lot of color, just pretending to be unfathomable, or only literary and artistic, only talking about feelings will only push the audience out.

Movies, movies, in the final analysis, are also commodities, you must first have commercial value, this is the foundation on which you stand, if there is no commercial value, no matter how much you say, it is useless.

Movies that can't sell high box office are failures for Xu Qian.

Since ancient times, movies that have really hit the box office are the most heartbreaking.

For "Inception" Warner is also fighting, the publicity cost alone is close to 100 million US dollars, if you count the investment, the total cost of "Inception" will reach close to 300 million US dollars, this is definitely a super blockbuster.

Bang Bei is in a very bad mood, the "Transforming Robot" series is his cash cow, he has always been famous for the "Transforming Robot" series before, although he himself doesn't like this series very much, thinking that this series is simple to operate and easy to shoot, but who makes the audience like it?

Basically, as soon as the "Transforming Robot" series came out, it was the situation of who was competing with each other, but this time "Transforming Robot 5" was suppressed by "Inception", which was the first time he encountered such a situation.

This also fully shows the horror of "Inception".

You must know that "Transforming Robot 5" has the first four as an audience accumulation, and "Inception" is just an original movie.

It is simply appalling that an original movie has defeated a world-famous series of movies, which also shows that Xu Qian is powerful, Niu Cha.

"This son is terrible. ”

Now Exploding Bei has a new understanding of Xu Qian, this Chinese is really strong, super super strong.

Bang Bei also summarized the reasons for the failure of "Transforming Robot 5", first of all, his own reasons, the failure of "Pearl Harbor" made him unbalanced, and even doubted himself, if you don't have a good mentality to make a movie, then you can't make a good movie.

The second is that he went into battle in a hurry, he now owes a lot of debt, and this shooting of "Transforming Robot 5" is really not his original intention, the script, special effects and nothing have been polished well.

Don't think that this kind of commercial blockbuster looks simple and doesn't need to be carefully crafted, if so, how can there be so few directors of commercial blockbusters in this world?

Another reason is that Paramount's publicity ability is not as strong as Warner's, and among the eight Hollywood majors, only Disney can compete with Warner, or even better than Warner, as for Paramount, it is more than one cut behind Warner, and it is precisely because of this that "Transformer Robot 5" will fall behind when facing "Inception".

But even so, "Morphing Robot 5" can still be a big hit, after all, this is "Morphing Robot 5", even if it is not as good as "Inception", it has swept other films.

"Inception" reached $90 million at the box office in the first week in North America, although it did not break 100 million, but it is still shocking, because according to this trend, in North America alone, the box office of "Inception" can reach 400 million, 500 million, 600 million or even more.

This is the real commercial manufacturing.

And Xu Qian believes that the box office of "Inception" in China may reach 3 billion, or even 4 billion, which is his own influence.

Now that the cost of a top Hollywood production is often more than 150 million US dollars, and the publicity and distribution cost easily exceeds 100 million, it is simply unrealistic to rely on the North American box office to recover the cost.

Theoretically, a film with a production cost plus publicity cost of $250 million will need at least $500 million at the North American box office to recoup its cost, but there are several films that can reach this figure at the North American box office.

And now "Inception" is possible, plus his overseas box office is even more astronomical, and of course, the peripherals.

Although the North American box office is in full swing, Xu Qian has set his sights on Europe and even Asia.

He will promote these places one by one with the main creative team.

"Le Monde" reported that "Xu Qian descended in Paris, and "Inception" reigned in the world. ”

The British "Independent" reported that "the main creator of "Inception" traveled to London, and the box office of "Inception" soared again. ”

Major European cities have left traces of Xu Gan, Xu Qian has also fought hard for the box office of "Inception", this film will become a milestone for him, and he may not be able to make a movie that exceeds the box office of this movie in the years to come.

"Inception" swept across Europe, although Europe has always been known as the origin of literary films, but in fact, it has already been conquered by Hollywood blockbusters, and ordinary audiences don't care about art or not, they only pay attention to whether it is cool or not, whether it looks good or not.

Therefore, if a place only pays attention to literary films, then there is only one end, that is, it is attacked by Hollywood, becomes a colony of Hollywood, and lets it take what it wants, I have to say that these are very sad things.

The three major film festivals in the world are the Cannes Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival, and the Berlin Film Festival.

The Festival de Cannes has partnered with Hollywood and is constantly seeking new and commercial influences, while the Berlinale and Venice Film Festival have always stuck to their own set and are no longer as influential as they once were.

The tradition of the Venice Film Festival is that it focuses on film experimenters from all over the world, encouraging them to make films with new forms and unique techniques, even if there are some flaws, as long as they are innovative, they can be accepted by the festival. The festival's motto is "Cinema at the service of serious art", and each year it comes up with a different slogan, and the judging criteria are purely artistic. In the sixties and seventies, the Venice Film Festival discovered a large number of emerging European filmmakers. Although the film he chose may not be the director's best work, it has always led the trend of European art cinema.

Only emphasis on artistry?

And then the end is to slowly wither.

If a region only pays attention to literary films, it will end up playing itself to death, such as Treasure Island.

The economic base determines the superstructure.

The economic base is the root of the existence of the superstructure, and it is primary; the superstructure is the political and ideological expression of the economic base, and it is secondary and derivative. The economic base determines the superstructure, and the superstructure reacts on the economic base.

You don't have an economic foundation and want to pursue ideas, you want to pursue art?

You want to talk about love without bread, it's pure hooliganism.

The trip to Europe made Xu Qian more determined in his inner idea, that is, in China, you still have to take the road of commercial and industrialized films, otherwise you will have no way to deal with Hollywood.

Why does China have a film protection month?

Domestic Film Protection Month is a notice issued by the National Film Administration in 2004 from the perspective of supporting domestic films, hoping that all theaters in the country will support domestic films, and the introduction of overseas blockbusters will not be encouraged during the period from June 10 to July 10 (or July to August) every year. This period is known as the "Domestic Film Protection Month" by the media and the industry. The original intention of the existence of Protection Month was to complete the share of the annual box office ratio of national films.

The "Domestic Film Protection Month" is an act of using administrative power to gain advantages for local film companies, which blocks the introduction and release of imported blockbusters for a period of time, and sets up a protective umbrella for domestic films.

At present, although the domestic film market has a considerable volume, the overall format is still extensive. The existence of the Domestic Film Protection Month, on the one hand, allows domestic films to be released together, and on the other hand, it makes imported blockbusters crash in other schedules, which is an unhealthy state.

It can be said that there are great drawbacks to Movie Protection Month.

But why do countries do it anyway?

Because if you don't do this, you won't be able to do Hollywood movies at all, and some movies don't even have the qualifications to be cannon fodder, and Chinese films still have a long way to go.

Xu Qian's next agenda is Asia.

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