The original post: /r/movies by /u/BosChac2 on 2025-01-03 20:23:23.
I just watched Interstellar for maybe the 4th time. It's on Netflix now.
Yes it came out 11 years ago, but out of respect for those who have somehow managed to miss it, I'm cover spoilers below.
Feel free to call me stupid, but I think/thought I understood the movie...but that ending got me all turned all upside down like a baseball field on a planet orbiting Saturn.
Here are some questions I have. Please indicate if your response is your opinion/interpretation, or if it was verified by Nolan, etc.
- When Cooper is in the 'behind the bookshelves fifth dimension' he's talking to TARS, but how? I guess I'll easily accept that he was in space and ended up back in time, in a 5th dimension in his daughter's room, but I don't understand how he's talking to the TARS robot like they're still sitting in their shuttle. Is it supposed to be that he was semi-conscious and never left the shuttle or something?
- There are references from the NASA team about a "they" sort of alien or some other force that helped the humans find things or know what do do, etc. I feel like that went over my head. Was it really just the humans and their interstellar space travel bending time and space, etc or is it clear to you from the story that there really is some other alien force at hand?
- How did Murph age beyond the age of her father Cooper? Is it because throughout her life she simply existed on planets with stronger time dilation and gravitational forces at play? I know they tell Coop he's 100-something years old, but he clear looks to be in his 40s. How is it that Murph looks 95? She obviously traveled through space too.
Thank you!