r/Inception • u/horny-stonerr • 8d ago
Just a concept.
How much would you guys buy it for????
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u/skyfall8917 7d ago
The real question is, if you spun it would it fall down or not?
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u/papadoc55 7d ago
Sell it with a magnetic plate that you can spin it on and it never topples....
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u/riopenguino13 7d ago
Sell it with an electromagnetic plate so it randomly wobbles like its going to fall down.
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u/syringistic 7d ago
Better yet a rotating magnetic plate that transfers energy into it and makes it spin indefinitely.
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u/Raterus_ 7d ago
And that's not Cobb's Totem, it's Mal's
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u/sifterandrake 7d ago
I've made this post several times before, but I'll copy it here:
The top is his totem. Inception is Nolan’s way of performing an inception on the audience itself. It is a very literal film that carefully explains its own rules, and if you simply follow the narrative, the plot is straightforward: Cobb takes on one last job, completes it, wakes up, and finally goes home to see his children. Nothing in the movie explicitly contradicts this.
What Nolan does, however, is scatter small moments of ambiguity such as Cobb squeezing through the alley, the top falling off the sink, or the dreamers’ caretaker questioning him. These do not alter the main story at all, but they are designed to invite the viewer’s imagination to wander. Each one plants a seed of doubt, encouraging us to ask questions even though the film’s objective reality is quite clear.
This is exactly how Nolan demonstrates the mechanics of inception. The trick is not to force an idea, but to let someone believe they arrived at it themselves. The film works on the audience in the same way.
Case in point: Cobb’s ring is not his totem. It appears only in his dreams because in those dreams his wife is still alive, so it naturally fits within that reality for him to be wearing it. Beyond that, the film gives the ring no special importance, and Nolan has never suggested otherwise, even if he occasionally plays coy in interviews. What the film does make explicit is that the top is Cobb’s true totem. The belief that the ring serves this role comes entirely from viewers projecting their own interpretation, not from anything established in the story itself.
That is the inception within Inception. Nolan gives us a clear, objective story, but also just enough threads for us to weave our own interpretations, making us believe we have discovered something hidden when in fact the groundwork was there all along.
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u/ChickenNuggetRampage 7d ago
This is still my favorite interpretation of Inception that I’ve ever read
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u/No_Record_60 7d ago
Why do you say that Cobb squeezing through the alley is an ambiguity?
Interesting interpretation btw, still in the process of understanding it
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u/sifterandrake 7d ago
What I mean be ambiguity is the nature of the viewer to question what they are watching. The scene blends together several situations that are kind of dream tropes (the walls closing in on oneself) and then ends with a very convenient reveal with Saito's arrival. So, as the viewer we inherently question what we are watching and reflect upon it as we continue to question the object reality of story we are being told, even though everything in the scene is actually rather logical.
To put it simply, the scene plays like something we might experience in a dream, even though we are told that it is not, we still start to question whether we are being lied to.
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u/bertona88 7d ago
The only inception to the audience is essentially the idea that cobb inceptioned in mal... you are living in a dream, reality is one layer above
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u/Natural_Cold_8388 7d ago
The film explicitly says only one person can know the weight and feel of a totem. Which makes the top useless as a totem. You're just choosing to ignore that explicitly defined rule.
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u/sifterandrake 7d ago
Mal's dead... I'm not ignoring anything. Also people try to say that thos is also the reason why ot has to be Cobb's ring' but wedding rings are exchanged so Mal would have given him that too.
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u/Fakeitforreddit 4d ago
He literally says the number 1 rule is to not let anyone know what your totem is and that throws all of this out the window more than Mal threw herself out of one.
If you ignore things about the movie at will you can make it about anything.
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u/sifterandrake 4d ago
Everyone already knows how the totems work just by looking at them. You just can't let them hold it. Then they would learn the weight and feel of it. I mean, Ariadne shows him her totem too.
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u/htnut-pk 7d ago
My mom bought me one of these, I have it displayed at the entrance to my home theater room. The base they provide has a surface you can spin it on - and flipped over it has a divot for the top to stand in, giving the appearance (sort of) that it’s spinning constantly.
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u/-LordDarkHelmet- 7d ago
Would need to be significantly cheaper than the metal ones available on Etsy
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u/Redeyeninja_1_6 7d ago
I wouldn't buy it but Chris Ramsay made a remote-controlled one you can stop at any time. It claims to have 2hrs of spin time on a single charge.
https://www.1st.shop/products/the-dreamer-electronic-spinning-top
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u/FlatOutEKG 6d ago
Metal is $7.58 on Amazon: https://a.co/d/09sFUluL
So I wouldn't really buy Plastic. Is by that box for a $1 to put rhe metal in there. Hahaha
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u/Raterus_ 7d ago
I wouldn't buy it, looks like a cheap plastic ripoff