Christopher Nolan Talks ‘Inception’ Ending, Batman and “Chasing Reality” in Princeton Grad Speech1 min read

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Christopher Nolan shared some respectful, realistic graduation advice at Princeton’s commencement ceremony on Monday morning.

“In the great tradition of these speeches, generally someone says something along the lines of ‘Chase your dreams,’ but I don’t want to tell you that because I don’t believe that,” he told the students at Class Day. “I want you to chase your reality.”

“I feel that over time, we started to view reality as the poor cousin to our dreams, in a sense. … I want to make the case to you that our dreams, our virtual realities, these abstractions that we enjoy and surround ourselves with – they are subsets of reality,” he later reflected, apologizing to anyone who hadn’t seen Inception. “The way the end of that film worked, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Cobb – he was off with his kids, he was in his own subjective reality. He didn’t really care anymore, and that makes a statement: perhaps, all levels of reality are valid. The camera moves over the spinning top just before it appears to be wobbling, it was cut to black.”

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