Explain the plot/ending of.....

[WhatInTheWorld76]

There are some films that have very confusing plots. Or, the plots are fine but the ending leaves you going "Eh?" Or in extreme cases "WTAF?!!!" So I wanted to start a thread for all of us who were left scratching our heads or chins.

I will start off with some of mine - Inception. Dream within a dream within a what? AND the coin - was the final one real or a dream?

Vanilla Sky/skies? - same sorta shit. Dream - real or not real?

The Matrix - utterly incomprehensible.

Fight Club. Was he schizophrenic and was Marla even real? Was any of it real?

Please feel free to answer and / or share your own.

It's ends with Bradley Cooper being able to continue taking the drug with no ill effects.

They made a TV series of it where he did cameos and he could inject people with a drug to stop them getting side effects. Think he was a high up politician in it.

Ah thanks about the limitless ending and the cabin in the woods but was it supposed to be scary?

Thanks popcorn.

I pretty much had it then. My mind just boggles that he is his own father and mother. It takes the "what came first the chicken or the egg" thing to new levels!

NotDavidTenant : it's a truly shit cliffhanger. Both DH and I were just irritated.

I don't get how Inception was an open ending, surely if it was real life his kids would be older than they were in his dream/memory but they appear to be exactly the same?

Either they are his kids and he is where he should be, or he is dreaming, but he doesn't care it's a dream - that's why the top spinning is the last shot, we don't know and nor does he.

And I really should watch more films not just the 'top 10 ...'

@mrsRosaPimento
Whaaaaaat?! I only ever saw Life on Mars, never got into Ashes to Ashes. Had NO idea that the ending explained everything like that!

Just watched Inception twice this week and found this thread.

i loved it - had to watch it a second time to understand it properly though (well.. sort of properly!).

Cillian Murphy just does not age.