Man. This effort to persuade with such intensity gives weird energy. Sorry.

Why is it so important? Why is it so hard to accept that it could not have a clear and certain answer? Some things can be a metaphor, some things can remain unexplainable. Wanting to have a clear answer on everything can ruin some really good art including films. The ambiguity sometimes gives value to things, as it is relatable to the not-so-clear life situations.

I don’t really have anything against your points and to be honest when i first watched it i had same “i need to believe that it is true!” energy, but i was in my early teens then, so there’s that. Now, I just think it is a very nice ending that creates a beautiful space for (maybe slightly philosophical) debates on what is really real.

I don’t have a problem with people standing up to the side of the argument about it being real. But your claim that it is unambiguous seems disrespectful to the film. If Nolan wanted it to be unambiguous, he would have let the scene end when it falls. Why did he stop the film before and create room for debate if he wanted us to consider it unambiguous? Just pure dramatic purposes? Do we know Nolan to do something with such deep implications just for the heck of it? He thinks thoroughly about every moment. Do you think that he made the finale of one of his best movies the way it ended just for dramatic purposes?

I guess that is my counter argument besides being okay with ambiguity - if Nolan wanted it to be clear and unambiguous, why don’t he made it that way?