10 Movies That Were Designed To Mess With Your Head

10. Inception

Contrary to popular belief, Inception isn’t all that confusing. As action movies go, it’s certainly a thinker, but there isn’t really a whole lot to ‘get’ about Christopher Nolan’s dream-hopping epic.

That said, it was absolutely constructed with the intent to screw with your mind. The movie darts back and forth between different dreamscapes, wherein time slows down, Tom Hardy can look like Talulah Riley, and the laws of physics no longer apply. Also, people dream about snow-capped military outposts, as though they’re constantly thinking about the beginning of Tomorrow Never Dies during the day.

Anti-gravity kung-fu and city-warping aside, it’s Inception’s final scene that really knocked us for a loop. All this time we’d figured Cobb was back safe with his children, and was going to live out the rest of his life as a free man. But his totem (the device which acts as an indicator as to whether you’re trapped in a dream) technically never stops spinning, implying that he’s still trapped in a dream to this day.