Hello everyone, I'm Pippi Man.
When you see the title, you will be very surprised, but please recall, Cobb has never said what his totem is, the gyroscope is her wife's totem, so I deduced this Easter egg after various verifications, Cobb's ring is his totem.
Everyone has been discussing whether Cobb has returned to reality at the end, and has the gyro stopped at the end of the film?
The answer is, stop and go back to reality.
I'll analyze it in detail next.
It makes sense to speculate directly from the gyroscope, and a more obscure but logical way to look at the ring on Cobb's hand.
All the dream scenes (including a memory), Cobb has a ring on his hand, and in all real-life scenes, Cobb doesn't have a ring on his hand.
Start with the image above:
1. At the beginning of the movie, go to a deep dream to awaken Saito, the picture is from the bottom up, and there is a close-up of the hand.
2. Quest 1 When stealing saito's dream on the second floor, there is a ring.
Dream in a dream, when the first layer, there are also rings.
3. Mission one fails Back to reality, on the train, without a ring (Cobb is the hand above).
4. Prepare for Mission Two, on a realistic aircraft. Lots of hand close-ups (or hints, because you'll be wearing a ring in a little while).
5. As soon as the picture turns, to the first layer of the dream, there is a ring on the hand holding the steering wheel.
6. The second layer of dreams, when posing as Fisher-Price security guards, also has a ring.
7. In the third layer of dreams, when in the snowy mountains, most of the time wearing gloves, only a zip-like shot shows the ring.
(Seems to be a deliberately set action to hint at the ring)
8. Enter the Reiwa to find Fisher and Saito, and show the ring on your hand before entering the elevator (or deliberately designing an action).
9. Go back to reality, ready to go home through customs, without a ring on your hand.
Cobb came home without a ring on his hand, so it was known that he was back in reality and the gyro would stop.
10. Close-up of the ring on the hand of the customs officer (hint reminder)
11. Add that in Jasmine's memories before her death (reality), Cobb also wears a ring.
It seems that this is a big easter egg for this movie:
Only the ring is the totem that judges whether Cobb dreams or not.
It shows that Nolan's god brain-burning movie still needs to be carefully tasted.