Inception's final shot has become an iconic movie moment that has also inspired countless theories over the years.

The top, in Inception, represents Leonardo DiCaprio's totem -- the object he uses to tell if he's still in a dream state, or back in reality. Basically, if the top keeps spinning, Leo's character ...

The spinning top becomes a symbol of the audience's struggle with understanding reality within the film, echoing Cobb's journey throughout the story. Inception ends with a question instead of an ...

With this spinning top, you will never have to answer (or even ask) the question that popped as Chris Nolan’s “Inception” ended: did the top drop or did it continue spinning? In the 2010 ...

Remember how, in Christopher Nolan’s Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Dom Cobb uses a spinning top to work out whether he’s awake or dreaming? If the top spins a few times and then ...

Christopher Nolan said sitting through the ending of "Inception" with audiences was "unique." He told Insider the final shot of a spinning top left crowds with "gasp, groans, frustrations." ...

Never has a spinning top been analysed in more detail, as fans and critics alike debate how 'real' Inception’s final scenes are. Because of reasons explained much later in the film, Cobb is a ...

Empire Magazine dropped a fun Easter egg in the movie, which was a spinning top, and hinted that something big was coming soon, which some fans believed was an announcement of Inception 2.

“It’s not all comprehensible. It’s a bit like asking if I know what happens to the spinning top at the end of Inception.” “Do you know what happens to the spinning top at the end of ...