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I'm basing my analysis of "Inception" on my view of the movie and on information I've found online. My concepts are not based entirely on my original thinking.
The movie opens without opening credits. We see a man being washed by the surf as he lies on the beach. The camera shows two kids from his point of view. They appear to be building sand castles. If my concept is correct, this man is drowning. He wants to live, to get back to the kids who are I assume his children. However, he is unable to struggle, and he is swept out into the ocean. The waves pound on the shore, receding and taking him with them, tumbling out to the sea. He is soaked, chilled to the bone, and unable to tell which way is up. The sound of the surf is like a freight train followed by the explosion of the wave on the beach.
As he dies, our drowning man's mind plays with reality. He wants to live for his children, and as he dies, his mind constructs another reality to explain what is happening. We see the movie, and that is his hallucination as he dies. The ending scene is when the character we've come to know as Dom Cobb rejoins his children; he spins a top on a wooden table. The camera lingers on the top as it spins. It wobbles, making a couple of sharp dips, then the scene goes black. We hear the top hit the table, and we know at the speed it's spinning the top's momentum will make it jump off the table - the final kick. The drowning man has died.
I want to digress a moment before continuing with "Inception." In ancient Greek theater, sometimes the hero was in such straits that he could not escape on his own....
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I really liked parts of it, but it seemed to me like far too many things were left open primarily because the filmmakers weren't sure exactly what they wanted to do. Then again, maybe I didn't quite get it. Even so, I didn't particularly like any of the characters and I thought there was some poor acting. I'll freely admit, however, that the end was very emotional and well done.