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What are some happy endings that really wasn't all that happy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by hal_5700X@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mad Max Fury Road. They defeat the tyrant, and get the control of the water valves. Then they open the valves and seemingly keep them open. One problem, how long is the water reservoir gonna last now?

Logan's Run. The city dwellers are freed from the computer's iron-fisted rule, and Carrousel. But their city is in ruins, and thinks to the computer providing everything. They don't know how to live without it. The city dwellers are going to start dying off real fast.

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[–] AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz 9 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Wasn't it in the end of Inception that the wheel or whatever wobbles which meant that they're still in a dream? I feel like I remember thinking that the ending isn't real due to it.

[–] nonagonOrc@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

It is delibirately left ambiguous/unclear whether it is still a dream I think.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

AFAIK it symbolises him choosing to live the dream and surrendering his token, instead of waking up to the harsh reality.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

No, if anything the way you can tell you are in a dream is because the top spins forever and never starts wobbling; the way he got his wife to eventually concede that she was in a dream was by setting the top in a perpetual spin so that she stumbled upon it still spinning.

The significance of the ending is not that he is still in a dream but that he is so content with the situation that he stops caring whether he is in a dream or not. (Actually, in fairness that is not quite true either; I've heard that basically the ending is more Nolan trolling the audience than anything of narrative significance.)

[–] alcyoneous@midwest.social 1 points 11 months ago

Exactly but I think it’s opposite. The top kept spinning, seemingly endlessly, which wouldn’t happen in real life.

[–] CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I've never heard that take before, cool! I've always loved the final cut in inception, because I felt that I just had to choose to believe that it was a happy ending. I also like the interpretation that by the end he no longer cares whether he is in a dream or not. But I just really want to believe that the top is actually about to fall when the last scene cuts.