Inception

Alright, I know I'm late to see it, but sweet jesus that was such a good movie. Alright now I have to write out some of my crazy thoughts/theories about the film or I'll never sleep tonight. As the last scene came onto the screen I had an idea where the film would end [spoiler] a close up on the top with it spinning, it was if it would fall or not that I was unsure of. I realize that I will NEVER have the answers, but for tonight I need to logically try to figure this shit out.

Before I debate how the movie actually ended...there are certain facts/information revealed during the movie that must be considered truthful in order for these following theories to even be plausible.

1. Cobb was married & had 2 children with his wife(Mal).
2. Totems actually work.
3. Arthur and the gang are real people.
4.Cobb's motivation is to get home.

Alright so let's just say that from the way the film ends that the top is still spinning, when in Reality it should have fallen already. That leads the viewer to conclude that the Homecoming is a Dream. Let's accept that. Dream Homecoming is a dreamworld where the Fischer Mission has been completed and everyone is alive.

• This is where things take a left turn, so let's label this theory DH1[dream homecoming1]. In DH1 the Fischer Mission was Reality, but Cobb being lost in Limbo, while inder in the Fischer Mission, and is unable to get himself back to Reality, creates the Homecoming dream. Okay. Simple enough.
• DH2, while in Limbo with Saito as an old man. Cobb realizes what has happened, but Saito for whatever motivation doesn't want to return to Reality...shots Cobb, there by killing him and sending Cobb, yet further into Limbo. This is somewhat plausible, but the question remains whose dreamworld is that Limbo? When that dream architecture is first seen it's while Saito is under and Cobb & Arthur are under in an outside architect's dreamworld, making Cobb the architect of the dream-within-a-dreamworld. Ahh. Maybe?
• DH3, the Fischer Mission is fake. Is not real. The Fischer Mission was a dream created by Cobb in order for him to create a way for himself to accomplish his ultimate motivation/goal of seeing his childern again, since he finally sees their faces at the end of the film.Reasonible, but then when does Reality end? Does Reality end after the Fischer Inception is first suggested? When Cobb nods to offer is that where the Dream begins...for that you'd have to decide if his nod meant yes or 'I'll think about it".
• Let's say then that DH3 has some merit and all of the happenings after the helicopter is fake, a dream. That would mean that the Arthur shown throughout the rest of the film is Cobb's projection of what Arthur is. This also means that everyone on the "team" is a projection. Prehaps they are projections there to help protect Cobb's mind from Mal? Cobb's own military projection from the guilt of his wife's death. Which would mean what that, Cobb's deepest. darkest secret was that he had performed Inception on his wife and that ultimately had lead to her death?
• Alright last theory for these rules of Reality...the top wobbled at the end...does that mean if Cobb was in a dream that wherever he was having the dream was altering the gravitional pull of the Homecoming...say a plane perchance? Which strengthens the Limbo theory or is dreaming somewhere completely different that the viewer has no previous knowledge of?

Now let's say that when the top was wobbling at the end before the film cut out that it actually fell. That would mean that the Homecoming was Reality. Therefore validating the entire movie and all the dreamworlds as actual events in alternate realities. If that's true then the only question left is how did both Cobb and Saito jolt out of Limbo? Did Cobb shoot Saito or vice versa? Or neither? That one will probably always be unanswerable.

Okay. Now let's say for arguement's sake that the 4 previous rules stated are not truthful and cannot be seen as markers for Reality. Then the entire movie is a dream in which Cobb is constructing. Cobb never actually had a wife or children. Does that seem more plausible then any of the other theories? I feel like at least some part of the film had to have a sliver of Reality in it. I think that the four rules are true and that is what Reality is based on. As for what was a dream in reguards to the Fischer Mission....gahh I can't decide. I'd like to think that the Fischer Mission was apart of Reality and that the only question that remains is: Does Cobb escape Limbo with Saito to be reunited with his family or is the Homecoming the next Limbo for Cobb?