We should really talk about what happened at the end of Inception …

[Editor's Note: Check out the CL review of Christopher Nolan's Inception here.]

Dark Knight-helmer Christopher Nolan delivered to cinema screens the most extraordinary of mind jobs this past weekend with Inception. The irony of course is that The Rabid One actually dreams about Hollywood making quality pictures in his slumber, and low and behold, this generation's Kubrick (yeah, I said it) produced an amazing film about dreams. And during the summer movie season, no less.

But questions linger for the millions of film goers who took in Nolan's world of the seductive subconscious. One major one, actually: "What the hell just happened???" I took on Inception twice this mind-bending weekend, and have scoured the depths of the Internet to answer that one quandary. Obviously, I'm going into detail about the ending of this year's smartest blockbuster, so be warned:

SPOILERS lie ahead!

This article appears in Jul 15-21, 2010.