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So does the top stop spinning or not!?

• georgieporgie 15y ago
  Yes. The closing shot shows the top growing unstable and, in the instant before the screen cuts to black, you hear the grinding sound of the top beginning to topple. At every non-reality point in the film where the top is spinning, it does so with no destabilization. Of course, it's possible that someone replaced his top (he wasn't very careful about concealing it and, let's face it, it's not rocket science to realize that it just needs to topple to indicate reality), but that's a different story.
• parfe 15y ago
  Mal either died or kicked up a level. She used the top as a totem, not Cobb, and multiple people knew the properties of it. The top could not measure dream or reality while in Cobb's possession. His own dreams would render that totem useless.
• gadgetdevil 15y ago
  It's a red herring. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ginQNMiRu2w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ginQNMiRu2w