Open Endings

·        An open ending is one that leaves the major conflict initiated by the suspense plot unresolved. An open ending leaves an audience with a definite sense that the story is unfinished or may continue after the section of the narrative we have seen. 

Inception is a perfect example of an open ending. The narrative for Inception is about dreams and how they try and extract a piece of intel from someone, but the deeper into the dream they go the harder to tell whether it is reality or not. Christopher Nolan uses the use of this concept to end Inception as Leonardo Dicaprio's character gets his kids back but as his symbol of the spinning top tells him whether he is in a dream or not. The spinning top doesn't stop spinning from what we can see before it is cut to a black screen which can leave the audience in an opening ending and makes them think whether he is in a dream or it is reality.