I just went to see Inception, and it was fantastic :D
Disclaimer: Not mine.
What is reality?
It was his prison, but at the same time it was his escape. The last hold on whatever shred of reality he had left. The only thing that kept him going.
The memories were all he had left of her. So he captured them, imprisoned them in the recesses of his subconscious like a bird trapped in a cage. The memories of her last moments with him, before she had taken a leap of faith, into the reality that he had planted into her mind.
She haunted him, begged him to wake up, to realise that this life was not the reality they had known and loved. She wanted nothing more than to be with him forever.
Yet as the totem continued to spin, he couldn't help but wonder if she was right, if she had been right all along.
That his reality was elsewhere, and he needed to wake up.