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New and Improve

What new product or service do you want from EK or you think EK needs? Anything to improve? What would make your stay at EK more memorable and magical? Would it be great to put up like a cafe there?

Hershey’s chocolate is always upside down in every pack. I don’t know why. Do you?

Hershey’s chocolate is always upside down in every pack. I don’t know why. Do you?

Inception’s Clear Ending and Cobb’s Alternate Totem

After watching Inception again very carefully, I found out that Cobb has another totem or a way of telling if he’s in a dream or not - his wedding ring.

In the scene where Ariadne enters Cobb’s dream, Ariadne asks Cobb, “why is it so important to dream?” Cobb answers her, “In my dreams, we’re still together.” That is why when Cobb is dreaming, he has his wedding ring on. [If his wife was still alive, his wedding ring would be his totem. But since his wife is already dead, Cobb is now the only person who knows the weight of his wife’s totem (top). He can now use it as his own totem and that’s what he uses throughout the whole movie.]

Wedding ring on = dream. No ring = reality. Instead of using his wife’s totem, he can just look at his left ring finger to check if he has his wedding ring on or not.

As for the ending, movie ends with Cobb’s totem still spinning. How do we know if Cobb is still dreaming? After a lot of pause-and-plays, there’s only one scene where his left hand can be clearly seen and that’s when he hands over his passport to the airport security personnel.


So there’s the proof that Cobb is not dreaming when the movie ended, aside from the fact that you can clearly hear that the top is about to topple in the end, and also his daughters turned around when their names were called (because Cobb stated that his daughters won’t turn around when he calls them in his dreams).

I hope you enjoyed the result of my boring night, because I can’t sleep, because I have nothing else better to do.

Bacon and pancake brunch for me and Rikki. =D

Bacon and pancake brunch for me and Rikki. =D

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein
Light travels faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.