Guilt In The Film Inception

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The film( Inception) ends with a close up of the spinning top and then the film ends. Now the meaning of this final scene is to make the movie matter to our the viewers in a way that we will remember after watching the film. When Cobb hugs and embraces his kids he lets go of all the grief and guilt that he was holding in his heart since the death of his wife( Mal). This is shown in all the dreams that Cobb has with his kids in it, because he never sees their faces because of his grief and guilt. All his grief and guilt was gone when he let go of Mal when Ariadne shot Mal. This film shows what grief and guilt does to a person, how Cobb cannot even look his kids in the face. Therefore, at the end of this film Cobb is a changed man because he

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