You can sit there and pretend that you fully understood Inception after watching it for the first time, but we both know that you’d be lying. There’s so much shit going on in that movie that you’d need to sit in the theater with pen and paper so you could draw out a diagram just to keep track of what’s going on, why it’s going on, and who the fuck everyone is.
And that ambiguous spinning top at the end? According to Michael Caine it drops, but according to Christopher Nolan it’s up to interpretation. Shit, I didn’t watch this movie to interpret things high school English class style, I came to watch Leonardo DiCaprio fly around in dreamland. But hey, if you’re like me and aren’t about the whole “let’s sit down and analyze the fuck outta this movie” thing like me, then this video of some dude’s Mom explaining the plot of the movie is for you. Not only does it simplify everything to its most basic points, but she completely omits DiCaprio and throws in Matt Damon.
Same thing, right?
[H/T Death and Taxes]