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Christopher Nolan admitted in an interview that he shot two pairs of children, the second, of course, a little older. So everything ended well for the hero Leo.
I think that for Cobb, DiCaprio's character, it doesn't matter if he's in a dream or in reality, it's important for him that he finally saw his children.
Until now, there are different opinions about the ending of the “Beginning”. However, the director himself, Christopher Nolan, spoke out on this topic with obvious displeasure, noting the audience's interest in this issue. Whether Cobb woke up or not is not important, the director believes. What matters is that Cobb stopped asking himself that question. He didn't wait for the top to fall. He put aside the past, his guilt towards Maul, went back to his children and finally allowed himself to be happy. That was what kept him alive, and what killed Maul was that she couldn't stop asking questions. Maul doubted the reality of her world, but Cobb didn't. For Nolan himself, this is the main thing in the film's finale.
I can't remember exactly where I saw this interpretation, I don't rule out that it was an interview with DiCaprio, but the point is that the hero leaves without waiting for the totem to fall, as if to say that he doesn't care where he is, in a dream or in reality.
In an interview, actor Dileep Rao, who plays Yusuf, told viewers to trust their ears, not their eyes. Right before the credits roll, Cobb's totem is clearly heard falling.
Cobb only wears his wedding ring in his dreams. In the last scene with the kids, he's not wearing a ring.
Actor Michael Caine shared his version of the ending: “At the end of the film, the top falls and I appear. I am real, and therefore it is not a dream. After all, I'm the guy who came up with the dream.”
Not known. Yes, the spinning top starts to stop, but it still doesn't see the faces of its children. Notice that his children looked just like they did in the dream. In the same clothes and half-turn. So, a dream within a dream is possible.
In fact, everything is quite simple and there are two theories about this.
This is the theory that after all, in the last shots, DiCaprio's top began to shake a little, losing its trajectory, from which we can conclude that if it went further, it would soon stop. A wonderful move of the director, not to show the audience the final, leaving us a chance to think for ourselves. And imagine either a wonderful future for DiCaprio's character, or a terrible one, to be buried in a dream forever.
The second theory is more interesting. Its essence is that Nolan left the viewer a completely unobtrusive clue during the film, which few people paid attention to – the wedding ring on DiCaprio's finger. When he is asleep, he has it on his finger; when he is awake, it is absent.
And if the first ending left a chance for the supporters of a bad ending (but the top didn't stop!), then the second one kills all these chances by the fact that in the last scene Leo is without a ring on his finger, and consequently everything is fine with him.
P.S.
There is also a third, more violent version about the plot of the film and where Leo still remained, in a dream or in reality. There is a possibility that in the place where the characters tried the “new product” from the chemist they come to forget themselves in their sleep – Leo already fell asleep there so soundly that all the other actions in the film took place exclusively in his dream, since we were never shown whether the top was spinning or not (DiCaprio was distracted and he himself hit the head).