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Virtual worlds aren't real, but our feelings are
At the end of Inception, the spinning top leaves ambiguity about if Dam Cobb is finally in the real world. It led to plenty of debates about what the ending “meant.” For Brendan Keogh at Unwinnable, the lack of resolution itself was significant. But the whole point of that final scene – or indeed, the whole film – is that we can’t know any kind of objective truth about the world, that we always only know the world subjectively, constructing it with our senses even as we perceive it. When Cobb sees his kids, he doesn’t wait for the spinning top to fall because…