Inception

This movie is like an onion. Once you think you've cut through and understood the whole thing, a new layer forms and you have to learn even more information about something that you may have never even understood in the first place. That's why this movie is great. In other movies, it may be fun to watch, but you don't learn anything from it or are forced to pay attention to understand the plot. With this movie, if you miss 5 minutes, you are completely lost. This keeps people engaged in what they're watching. Also the fact that this movie deals with the mind and everything within the mind, people can relate since each of us has a mind.

And I think that this movie is perfect for English class, especially ours this year. Inception deals with learning from different perspectives and the ideas of other people. In the movie we go through multiple dreams of different people. Also, since this movie is like a puzzle, its a really great example of impressionism. You may not know what he meant by "I hate trains" in the first scene, but by the end of the movie, you understand what he meant by that.

Thinking about the ending, I think that the totem fell. Even though we do not see it fall, it looked like it was wiggling a little bit versus just staying in one position not moving side to side at all. But also, if it were to keep spinning, that would mean you were in someone else's dream or reality. So if that was the case, then Cobb would not be in the real world which means that those wouldn't be his real kids. But, then what would his real world be? However, there is a scene towards the beginning of the movie where they are showing the girl how to share dreams and he spins his totem. The totem falls. That's in the same "reality" as they're in at the end. Since it fell then, it would fall at he end of the movie.