Interstellar's Most Confusing Moments Explained

[@Looper]

What did you think of "Interstellar"?

[@krioni86sa]

You upload about it because it is re-instated in Netflix again

[@Torta--is--PLUR]

It looked good but it is mid overall

[@j.a.g.8689]

@@Torta--is--PLUR smh

[@j.a.g.8689]

One of the best modern movies of all time

[@__loafy__]

Imagine selling videos to Looper.

[@kindofanmol]

The only regret I have is not getting to watch this in a theatre. Even on my laptop screen, this movie made me feel every emotion humanly possible. Such a profound masterpiece.

[@grey8607]

me too 😔

[@akshitarora470]

It’s in theaters right now in hyderabad. Just watched it last night!

[@kindofanmol]

@@akshitarora470 Oh WHAT? You're are lucky asf man

[@Jay.Rod23]

I highly recommend watching on a big flat screen TV with great audio. It's not the same as in theaters obviously but still a great experience.

[@mileditrujillo]

AMC is bringing it back

[@vinista256]

8:50 “Even given this, you would think Coop and Murph would each want some more than just 5 minutes.” Actually, it makes perfect sense that Murph, who is now much older than her father, would feel less emotional about their reunion than he does. She went through years of grief and anger over his abandonment, solved the equation when he communicated with her, forgave him, became celebrated for saving humanity, and raised a family of her own, with a husband, children, and grandchildren she has now known much longer than she knew her father. She’s not going to react like a 10-year-old just because she sees him again. One gets the feeling that her main reason for wanting to stay alive until his return was to pass on the information about Brand and then “go gentle into that good night.”

[@qwerty.4450]

Bingo. Even though he is her father, her age far surpasses his and subsequently, so does her maturity. She has all she needs and is at peace. Her last act is to protect her father by not allowing him to see her die.

[@skinbestie65]

Perfect explanation

[@Mama-eu1ss]

👍

[@nowhereman8656]

They are “right” that the “love is quantifiable” part is important, but they’re not right that it makes sense LOL. It’s great fun and I love this film even with knowing I need to help it along at times- that’s the story so for me to immerse in it, I make it work.

[@mohittekchandani4009]

Well said!

[@heartbeatbillionaire]

Perfect example of a parent having a clear favourite. He doesn't even ask about his son when he gets back!

[@krishnakumar-pp8ie]

Yes 😁😁😁😁😁

[@Kupferdrahtful]

Well it’s not unrealistic. Movies don’t have to show perfect heroes

[@frazerwazer2747]

Pretty sure the son would have been 90+

[@MrCabledawg45]

He knew his son was dead already if I'm not mistaken.

[@neilsant1194]

Yes parents have favorites, he might ask bro but not captured by camera😂 (time consuming for movie) the daughter-father has this connection that can even save the humanity literally.

[@Fourthslip]

I'm glad there're some people who still remember this masterpiece and talk about it to this day. ❤️

[@senseiquickbooks4588]

Thank netflix... Its trending on netflix...

[@sirtunacan]

You talk as if this movie came out in the 40s. Why wouldn't ppl talk about it today?

[@colehastings9574]

​@Lashiv b yeh confusing hai, toh Interstellar Hindi me dekhi thi kya.

[@sirtunacan]

@Cole Hastings English please

[@colehastings9574]

@@sirtunacan 🥲 I would like to respond by saying, "yes, I can use English, but read the above statement by Lashiv b. My comment is targeted towards him and I don't think he would understand completely if I will use this language. So, shut your ass.

[@CapeRides]

You know a movie is a masterpiece when 8 years later its still being talked about

[@danielson5182]

I knew this movie was a masterpiece 8 years ago lol

[@kristianpomida8259]

Most of it is it's current availability on netflix

[@MarlboroughBlenheim1]

People still talk about Hitler does that make him a genius?

[@CapeRides]

@MarlboroughBlenheim1 lol that's notoriety. Being famous for something bad

[@gavster023]

Yeah, a modern film I actually like and instantly one of my favourite films of all time, hope Nolan's not done yet 🙏

[@santiastronomo]

“In interstellar, Mann represents the human drive to stay alive.” Huh, never thought about that before, maybe that’s why they called the character “Mann”.

[@dotEXEtv-n1k]

His name is Dr. Hugh Mann. Human.

[@Boujiefoodie901]

😂

[@santiastronomo]

@ That's so cool! Did Christopher Nolan say that or where was it revealed?

[@red2372]

For me personally, the only thing that the movie doesn‘t display well, is the moment when he returns to Murph in the hospital. When he enters the room, all the relatives just leave to give them the moment together. But dude, it‘s your grand grand (grand) parent who saved the world, coming back. Murph even said that she told everyone that he was the one helping her. They all acted like the least favorite cousin entered the thanksgiving dinner. Would have been nice if someone in the room acted shocked and said „oh my god it‘s grandpa coop“…

[@lp1043]

My thoughts exactly

[@theycallmerobb]

They named the space station after her…not him… Murph didn’t tell anyone he sent her the solution. They only knew he went on a mission. Murph took the credit for saving humanity.

[@sdimartino]

@@theycallmerobbnot true. She tells Coop that she tried to tell everyone that it was him that sent her the information, but that no one believed her.

[@theycallmerobb]

@@sdimartino Nope. “although she has always maintained how important you were” is a far cry from giving him the credit he, not she, deserved. In the historical display she says “my dad was a farmer like everyone else back then” not my dad was one of the last pilot astronauts and set out to save the world and he did... When they meet Coop says “you told them I love to farm” she laughs with a sly grin. When she says they didn’t believe me, she said “They didn’t believe me but I knew you would come back..” not I tried to tell them that you discovered a way to manipulate gravity and sent me the equation to solve gravity across space and time… You are taking away from the interaction what you want to believe, not what actually occurred. Many people suffer from confirmation bias. You are not alone in that.

[@pawelpow]

@@sdimartino tbf Cooper coming back from inside a blackhole to act as a ghost and manually tinker with a watch to send data from a black hole doesn't sound believable at all, so there's absolutely no surprise no-one believed her.

[@julesjackson4855]

The Wormhole was discovered in 2019, so 50 years later puts the beginning of the film in 2069. Because Murph is 12 at the start, and 23 years pass after the Miller’s planet visit, both Murph and Cooper are about 35 for most of the film’s duration. Cooper is told at the end that he is 124 years old, so that minus 35 means that he and Amelia both went forward in time by 89 years in the black hole encounter. By adding that 23 and 89 together, we can deduce that the far future that Cooper and Amelia end up in is roughly the year 2181.

[@JuliaTanno]

Very good! Thanks

[@ambesa1]

makes me wonder if the 5th dimension beings are actullay cooper & amerlia on the planet that ameilia landed on for the long sleep.

[@panaderofilms]

They are​@@ambesa1

[@randomsarcasm2022]

@@ambesa1 I think the embryos are the 5th dimensional beings.

[@nextgen4744]

@@ambesa1 holy shit ur right , but r there others ?

[@LukeTheGrayFox]

The movie and soundtrack are absolute masterpieces!

[@dalehazell]

Hans Zimmer

[@kememarzuki7819]

Yep. You know it's from Insterstellar. Listen to The Dark Phoenix too. It's Zimmer's another majestic masterpiece

[@ryant169]

I'm glad I got all these points from watching the movie. It was stated in the movie Murph was kept alive (for longer than her natural biological life) in cryo-sleep in hopes that her father would keep her promise. That's why Coop asked how did you know (he'd come back)? In which she replied "because my dad promised me" reinforcing the theme of love. It was only brief because she even said no father should watch their own child die and that his purpose isn't over. Love this movie!

[@ThirstyCartoon]

You didn't even mention that they say Murphy's been in cryo-sleep for 2 years before reuniting with her dad. Implying that she was near death and requested to be kept asleep until if/when her father returns.

[@raven4k998]

time dilation meh it's confusing since no ones proved any of this so it's all a guess at this point💀💀

[@evanhayes5891]

​@@raven4k998And the skull emojis are for what?

[@brianfowler6659]

For a second there, I thought I crossed over to a parallel universe where Matt Damon played the lead in Interstellar. I was indeed confused. Well played, sir. Well played.

[@Seveneleven44]

The tesseract scene is what I always imagined the “5th dimension” would somewhat be like.

[@god4943]

Well guess u were wrong then😂

[@ankitkumarsingh3883]

Yea you are right....As we live in 3D World but perceive everything in 2D similarly Teserract scene was a 5D world where you can perceive everything 4D proving Time is a 4th dimension, therefore Cooper was able to manipulate gravity in all time events related to that shelf room. Also Gravity transcends through all dimensions which acts as a transmitter to send messages through all dimensions.

[@halokosovo1]

the tesseract is a 4th dimensional install… shouldnt it be the pentaract for it tobe the 5th dimension?

[@SneakyCoyote1019]

🤓🤓🤓

[@zangrygrapes4571]

sure you did buddy

[@EliasAlucard]

Astronomy and astrophysics is a hobby of mine, so I understood the movie all fine when I saw it, and I loved it immediately. If most people understood this film, it would have made several billions in the box office. Instead, it barely made 700 million dollars. Interstellar reflects the interest in astronomy or lack thereof among the general public. Obviously, there are better films than interstellar regardless of film genre, but Interstellar was an epic masterpiece in the science fiction genre. Wish we had more hard science fiction films like it.

[@ZmannR2]

Rofl!! What?? You act like $700M is some worthless box office take. The budget was $165M. I would say the film was a box office success!!!

[@wtf285]

@@ZmannR2 Yet it was a success!!But it definately deserved more

[@Le_Church]

The movie is literally about love. Thinking youre special because you have surface knowledge of some aspects of astrophysics when you didnt even grasp the literal thesis of the movie. Love transcends everything, including space and time. Pleb.

[@keyntankeye]

What are some other good films?

[@ghost_click]

Couldn't agree more! Well said!

[@bonechawneomusic]

Chris Nolan movies make ME solve an equation every time I watch them. Tenet was bonkers

[@ZmannR2]

Tenet was dumb asf

[@SnackAttack77]

Tenet was just not a good movie though

[@kevone-eo6pq]

@@SnackAttack77 it was brilliant. the more you watch it the better it gets.

[@JJ-rm7jw]

I loved Tenet, but it definitely required a lot of suspension of disbelief lol

[@lsurouge]

The family of Murph, and thus the family of Coop, ignoring Coop like he doesn't exist is very very weird.

[@alexandercallahan1781]

This is one of my all time favorite movies. Top 5 undoubtedly. The Martian is certainly up there too

[@SayAhh]

I liked Moon. Not my top 10 all-time but still pretty good.

[@RobinWhistles]

What's your top 5?

[@MaruMaruMaruMaruMaruMaru]

Martian sucked butthole

[@marcosperez3151]

The Martian book was good too.

[@CapitalbeatsOfficial]

Masterpiece by Nolan. Do you know any other good scif movies, mature and not too star wars "ish", but with mature script....

[@Ddam64]

This movie is ahead of its time that 8 years later still we are not ready to understand this masterpiece

[@donsantos8798]

How? Whats confusing about it? This movie makes sense. Just pay attention.

[@RK-bz7hb]

The man charged into the most extreme object in existence with just pure faith that somehow he’ll be able to get back to his daughter, whom he loves so much. He didn’t know what would happen once he entered the black hole, but he still jumped in. Bravo.

[@BRla86]

He was committing suicide to make sure the other astronaut would survive

[@Yoyobrody]

No. He accepted his fate which was death. It’s an important scene because he changes from his ‘selfish’ view of seeing Murph again to knowing the only way she may survive is to give Brand the best shot at continuing, which means stripping weight. He had gone from “I’m going to see her again” to “I need to give everything to her survival, even if it means my own death”

[@nilstoned7593]

No matter how many times I watch this movie, the last father-daughter scene takes my heart ❤️ Definitely one of my top 5 movies of all the time ❤

[@Mojo32]

Do you care to share your other four with us?

[@natajourney9914]

Watched it for the first time today. Gotta say, it blew my mind and that rarely happens with scifi movies.

[@jonathancroft828]

I recommend Arrival if you haven’t seen that.

[@ADVERSE04]

​@@jonathancroft828okay

[@karens2318]

I just watched it for the first time. Jan 2025. I didn't realize that it was so old! It has aged really well. lol.

[@Arbee1000]

I've seen this movie many times despite its many flaws. It's been a while though. Didn't Murphe set fire to the crops to force her brother to give up the farm and bring his son to live at NASA? The final scene between Murphe and Cooper was so jarring. He doesn't need to stay until she dies, but doesn't he want to ask anything about her life? Meet his grandkids? Ask about his own son's life and death? Didn't any of his descendants in the room want to say hello to their famous grandfather who saved humanity?

[@joml2466]

I read in an article sometime years ago that there was actually a scene where Cooper was interacting with Murph’s descendants but they decided to not include it in the final cut. I agree, they must have put more time on the final Murph scene.

[@christianealshut1123]

He does not have to ask all those things, having partly seen them through the tesseract.

[@roberthicks1612]

The thing is, none of them know that he saved humanity. Everyone is taught that it was their mother/grandmother that save humanity. As far as they and everyone else knows, he left on a "useless" and failed mission. The amount of time he had with his daughter was very limited. I am sure he found out about his family from others.

[@jmerv17]

Most of these “flaws” can be explained away very easily and don’t add much to the overall narrative of the film. It pains you to see Coop only get a singular moment with his daughter, but it’s an art as a filmmaker to leave you wanting more and I see that as a positive. Nolan didn’t need to spoon feed the audience every single little thing with the masterpiece that he put forward for us to witness.

[@bigkoat245]

I think she only set fire to the crops to distract his brother so she could take the wife and kid to a safer location, not necessarily to force him to move. I also agree with the final scene of Murph and Cooper. It was upsetting he had no interactions with anyone else, not even his grandchildren.

[@MikeKraze]

Still my #1 favorite film of all time, I've probably seen it over 100x and always find something new to be in awe of. I've laughed and cried watching it. It is truly a masterpiece of this era in film.

[@everythingacoustic6736]

Same dude

[@steelwayne]

Same here.

[@treyreichert4428]

I just saw this movie for the first time 2 days ago and I can’t stop thinking about it. I cried, laughed, held onto my breathe, it just had it all

[@johnkeable5304]

The most confusing part of this movie for me is the way he obviously shows that he loves Murph more than Tom lol

[@steelwayne]

Tom practically inherited the farm and the truck lol. In some cultures, it is usually the favorite child who gets these things when the parents pass away. Let’s not forget that Cooper broke down in tears when he saw his boy become a man and a father within a few hours.

[@SuburbanSodbuster]

I just found Interstellar recently, thanks to my son. It's a great movie - hard not to watch like a book that's hard to put down. But one thing I think didn't make sense (and still don't) is why Mann felt it necessary to hijack the ship and abandon the others, rather than just saying "it turns out this is not a good planet" and leaving with them. I guess that would have been anticlimactic for the movie (and wouldn't have left Brand isolated in the end), but the violence out of desperation didn't seem in character with the respected scientist Mann was purported to be.

[@kurtreber9813]

They wouldnt have come for him in the first place, if he had sent Data saying his planet was inhospitable. His was a potential suicide mission, and he thought he was ready to die to save humanity. But over time he realized he wasn't ready to die and then proceeded to send false data in hopes they would come and enable him to leave.

[@14habibs]

The simple answer would be that he had cracked under the pressure and was clearly not thinking straight. Moreover, though, I think that’s what he actually did intend but when Coop decided to take their one and only ride and go back to Earth he had to come up with a new plan. Thus, he knows he has to kill Coop as the only way to get off that planet and he takes his shot and tried to do it quietly away from the others. No doubt, he would say it was an accident he fell to his death and then try to reason with the others but Coop surviving the attempt then necessitated marooning them as now Romilly has been killed and Brand knows the truth. One last thing, it’s important to note that Mann’s sabotage of KIPP happened before he knew anyone would show up, therefore we see he was already cracked and setting the stage for murder at a point when he couldn’t possibly know he would be rescued.

[@maambe_divya]

He must gave lost his mind during cryo sleep. Also, Brandt and Rom would have continued to search for other worlds and Coop wanted to go back to his kids. Mann must have thought, all of them would resist his will take the ship back home so he must be the commander of the ship.

[@720zone]

Because he had lied to get them there in the first place. He sent a signal saying his planet could support live so that the next team would come and start to set up there, saving him. If his planet was incapable of supporting life he was supposed to not signal, and just stay there and die.

[@steelwayne]

Mann was ashamed of the fact that he was a complete coward and liar. He figured that the Endurance crew would feel utter disgust for him over his scheme to get rescued while the other astronauts made the ultimate sacrifice for the sake of humanity.

[@Major_FaimOfficial]

The burning crop scene was also to force brother to come to the NASA station having no choice now

[@popermen694]

I always wondered if he did that. Did they end up going? Did they survive?

[@theflipper404]

@@popermen694 Bro if murph survived im sure the brother did lol

[@FloridaManMatty]

9:30 - You got that backwards, bud. According to Einstein’s work, time dilation refers to the slowing of time the higher velocity and gravity one experiences. For example: Astronauts in orbit actually age more slowly (by an infinitesimal margin) than people on the surface of Earth. The closer to the speed of light one gets, the more mass increases. As one approaches infinite mass (as black hole singularities are thought to attain), time moves exponentially more slowly.

[@AlphaRaine]

One of the greatest movies ever made. I really hope Nolan returns to make more Sci-Fi

[@johnmoore3504]

It made complete sense to me during the first watch, not bragging as many other movies have confused me to no end... but they explain it fairly well within the movie. The visuals in the black hole/tesseract and the stuff Coop says lets the audience knows what's up. We already know Murph is trying to understand the "ghost" from before. You just need to understand that gravity and time are interconnected which is kind of the whole point. The rest is sci-fi fantasy stuff you shouldn't think too hard about and just enjoy the possibilities of space travel. I actually found the "love" aspect a bit silly, similar to how Neo must be the "one" in the Matrix because Trinity falls in love with him. The love-solves-everything plotline is a bit played out in these type of films, you could almost see this coming a light year away ;) it would have been better (to me) if there was some technology aspect - for example what if TARS was the hero? Sending a computer back thru time makes more sense then a fragile human. The only thing that was stupid was them going to those two planets, one quick look out the window would tell you not to land on either of those nightmare worlds. Ice world? Hard pass. Huge wave world? Ummm no thanks. Send a robot down, have them report back - no reason to risk humans. However without the human angle the whole movie would have boiled down to C3PO visits a black hole - the end.

[@BonafideJas]

Neo wasn't the one because trinity fell in love with him. He MUST be the one because trinity fell in love with him. Her falling in love with him confirmed everything everyone else already believed. Given everything that had happened in the 200 years up to that point that morpheus and trinity were obviously privy to, her falling in love with him would just confirm that everything they've done up to this point is justified by the fact that he MUST be the one. Everything that happens between him and agent Smith goes on to explain this. Agent Smith literally explains that he cannot believe in it himself even but it's evidently true based off of their experience

[@AlejandroLZuvic]

Agree with everything. Talking about Nolan movies, this one is a fairly "easy" one, everything is explained within the movie. Tenet or Memento are miles worse.

[@AlejandroLZuvic]

@@BonafideJas that's what OP said. He "must" be the one because Trinity falls in love with him, not because of it he's the one, but because of it he "must" be the one, like in "now I know he's the one". I agree it was kind of ridiculous.

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

@@BonafideJas The Oracle said everything: “Being the One is like being in love. You just know it, balls to bone”.

[@markrobertbb]

There's also a part in the film where it's explained why humans are sent. Mann said that it's because robots don't have fear and an instinct for survival. So yeah, fully agree, everything was explained in the movie. Personally I like the conclusion about love. But I'm a romantic. Absolute masterpiece of a film!

[@k9qtea]

It's not related to the plot, but I loved the subtle detail included about sound not being a thing in space.

[@Kyle5K]

I got this feeling that she would rather spend her last moments with the family she created, not a father who left her. Great movie, A+ !

[@italia649]

Ur so wrong she was not upset with him he literally saved the human race🤣💀

[@siddharthkumar593]

Bro, the "father who left her" literally transmitted the data from inside the black hole to Murph, othwrwise she wouldn't have a family in the first case as it is said in the beginning of the movie that murph's generation is the last generation that will live in earth

[@celenduran5743]

She actually says that no father should have to watch his child die. She sends him away to spare him that pain as well as going to help Brand establish that new colony.

[@eirdonne_]

Did you even watch the movie? Or understand it? Sheesh!

[@siddharthkumar593]

@@celenduran5743 Yeah. She just wanted to spare her father of the pain of losing his child. Not because he left her.

[@samanthareninger4667]

Wait....Murphy sets the crops on fire to get her nephew out also!

[@josephagundez5336]

In the film, I thought it was explained that the reason why NASA went underground was because they refused to develop weapons. When Dr. Brand said that dropping bombs on cities didn't work then the government shut them down in public, but brought them back in secret for the Lazarus missions.

[@theycallmerobb]

It was…the content creators of this channel always seem to get confused and completely overlook obvious dialog or imagery.

[@steelwayne]

They went underground because the government feared there would be huge public outrage if they realized that their tax dollars were being spent to build space stations, as well as to fund the missions across the wormhole. Keep in mind that younger generations were being taught in schools that space explorations were wasteful spending.

[@devinbrita3770]

Top 3 movies of all time for me! So many aspects of this movie left me with a feeling I’ve never experienced while simply watching a movie. Still watch it several times a year, and gets me every time! The ending with him talking to his elderly daughter is so so good.

[@rajmaity1393]

I was about to comment this very comment. It’s such a beautiful movie and unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. I love rewatching this masterpiece.

[@m0xmAn]

No one mentions cooper's love for brand. He connected with her during the tesseract scene. Murph knows this thus pushing coop to follow Brand

[@jaypotzz]

thanks to the cameraman - we're able to see inside blackhole

[@MrEnjoivolcom1]

4:57 If you couldn't catch on that Murph was quite _OBVIOUSLY_ creating a distraction, then you have no business watching the movie in the first place. Lol.

[@11energize]

I never understood that as the reason Murph burned the cornfield. I always understood it as a way of forcing Tom to come with her and Getty and get treatment for their kids because he was in denial about the fact that they would die if the family stayed on the farm.

[@14habibs]

I thought it was clear it was to get Tom away so they could take his wife and kid with them back to NASA but she had to go back to get her stuff. That’s when she remembered the watch.

[@steelwayne]

It was meant as a distraction to keep Tom busy while Murph and Getty took Lois and Coop out of the farm house. They assumed Tom would react violently if his wife and child tried to abandon him.

[@Lorcrono]

This masterpiece will be remembered for all of our time.

[@YoDz-117]

Dr Manns storyline was amazing. I loved that twist. His dialogue and selfishness to stay alive while remaining so calm, you can tell there are times he doubts himself. Then the explosion that cuts him off mid sentence “there’s a moment..” boom

[@jagj6478]

It’s actually funny how Interstellar is relatively one of Nolan’s films that is easier to understand 🤣🤣🤣 GOAT 🐐

[@K.amikazi]

The soundtrack is just a chefs kiss to this masterpiece

[@glolikejaaay]

for it makes me cry

[@krissypyne3783]

This is one of my favorite movies.

[@jeepwj]

Me too

[@nevrsleep1]

Burning her brother’s corn field was COMPLETELY unnecessary! It’s her childhood home, she could’ve just walked back in and said hey I’m grabbing some stuff from MY childhood room to take with me, or even just be straight and say hey brother I gotta feeling I need to go to my old bedroom for a while. What’s Affleck gonna do, say no? Maybe if she would’ve just approached this like an adult, Affleck wouldn’t have had to risk his life putting out her fire. That look on his face when he gets back and sees her and she’s like, “look, i found it, yayyy!” and his eyes are like, “girl wtf that have to do with burning my crops?!”

[@Hoops_Fan]

I recall someone making a video proving with measurements that if the gravity on Miller's planet was so strong that one hour on the planet would equal seven years on earth, then the gravity would be so intense that it would crush the pod and the people in it when they were in the planet's atmosphere. Still love the movie though.

[@reubenkinsey2947]

That's awesome ✌️

[@joml2466]

Hey, no one’s gonna watch a mixed goop in a crushed pod! Love the movie tho

[@Klevzz]

That is correct. But it’s called science FICTION for a reason ;)

[@gunsnrosas2154]

I believe that's incorrect. The time dilation wasn't caused by Miller's gravity, but Gargantua's. Since it orbits so close to the black hole, time passes slower there. What I did think was implausible, however, was for there to be a planet so close to a black hole at all. The immense tidal forces should rip a planet apart.

[@Hoops_Fan]

@@gunsnrosas2154 I thought of amending my quote earlier, but then was reminded of how the planet's own gravity would add to Gargantua's. Even entering the pool of the black hole's gravity would crush them while they were still outside the planet's atmosphere. So I take your point.

[@509ace]

I watch this movie at least twice a year. It’s one of my favorite comfort movies. A true masterpiece

[@joml2466]

Just so timely I was watching this last night for the 3rd time and by that time, everything made sense to me and I was able to focus more on the technical parts of the film. Despite all of the quirks everyone else mentioned, I even liked it more!

[@randomaccount6146]

8:15 "the secret tragedy" Tell this to my two eyes becoming literal waterfalls at this scene.

[@johnguilfoyle3073]

The biggest question and Paradox left unanswered is, "How does Humanity survive to save itself in the past?" Without the Quantum Data, Plan A is destined to fail and all remaining life on earth would eventually die out or diminish to a handful of people that survived mass extinction events. My theory is that Dr. Brand raised the embryos a few at a time until the children were old enough to help raise the next generation and the society that grew out of that Population Bomb was raised within the sphere of influence of Gargantua and developed more quickly than any survivors on Earth. This splinter group of humanity learned how to transcend space and time and built the Tesseract to save the other Humans from eventual destruction in the past.

[@OldManRocketLeague]

SO much this, why isn't this covered in any of the YT vids about this film. It entirely ruins the film for me.

[@abigailsmith6977]

That’s the most sensible theory I’ve read yet! Still, it doesn’t explain another plot hole: why place the wormhole near Saturn--extremely hard to reach? Why not place it closer to earth? And if these 5-dimensional beings have the power to travel through time and bend space-matter to their will, why make the solution for us 3-d beings so extremely difficult to solve and unlikely to occur?

[@freemarley639]

​@@OldManRocketLeague Last ditch effort by some small group to save a long gone humanity on a planet which can no longer support a large population. Could be another whole movie honestly.

[@beatnikbytes]

It is ambitious. I will say that. It really wanted to be a Kubrick type of masterpiece like 2001: A Space Odyssey or even 2010: The Year They Make Contact. Both of which stand head and shoulders above this film. I am a long-time Sci-fi fan and enjoy everything from 1950s films like FORBIDDEN PLANET to TV Shows like RED DWARF. I know my sci-fi. I even worked for genre magazines such as FMOFL in the past, before becoming an A.I. & Deep Learning Engineer. Before I went to college in Cambridge, I saw this film and left feeling let down and a little pissed off that the writer had such little respect for my intellectual capacity to present me with an ending as nonsensical as that. Why this is heralded as a great sci-fi film is simply because there are many people who wish to seem smarter than they really are and so they like to get around people who are not as smart as them so that they can in turn feel smarter. Second hands on analog watches which wouldn't even likely be a thing in this futuristic society? But the unintelligent notion that someone would be in a bookcase and moving a second hand back and forth which causes someone else to take notice and know exactly what is going on? I really enjoyed the BATMAN films. Perhaps you should stick to those comic book gems because a foray into hard sci-fi isn't for you. I mean if all you can come up with is something intellectually insulting such as this then please, by all means either stop making films or stick to comic book movies. You do those really well.

[@dddon513]

Gravity induced time dilation is real, but for it to affect them like that, the gravity itself on that planet would be so strong the planet would be torn apart.

[@luckygreentiger]

well the video also implies it's because it's a heavy gravity planet inside the well of a black hole; because the couple hours on the planet was months to the guy still left on the spaceship, and it was years to the people back on Earth

[@PrashanGan]

You humiliated Kip Thorne 😐

[@MegaJohn334]

@@luckygreentiger 23 years for spaceship guy

[@thatdude4933]

It's the black hole that causes such time dilation and the plant being in close orbit to the black hole. That's why there was waves on the planet they were tidal waves. Why do we have a tide on earth? Gravitational pull from our moon. What holds the Milky way Galaxy together? A super massive black hole. Hard to wrap your brain around but that's normal.

[@williamgoree9259]

The time dilation they experience is due to the planet's proximity to the black hole, not the planet itself, unless that's what you mean.

[@therealmrnoobr0blx]

Tom really got the worst end of the stick. It's like Cooper just forgets him after the "let go" scene.

[@kmik2857]

this movie is truly great, how many years later and it still gets a looper explained video 🙌

[@Boz196]

The only part I don’t understand about this film is why future humanity made the tesseract. It’s said in the film that the tesseract and wormhole were made by future humanity to save humanity but if we already existed in the future why did they have to save us? If humanity never cracked the gravitational equation then we wouldn’t have survived and been able to develop enough to understand the 4th and 5th dimensions. Therefore we never would have been able to create the tesseract which allowed us to solve the equation and save ourselves. But if we did survive long enough to create the tesseract then what was the point of the tesseract saving ourselves if we already survived?

[@MegaJohn334]

That’s the point, there’s paradoxes and multiple timelines

[@TheMorbinMonk]

This video is merely after 1 hour after the release of Interstellar (2014) according to Miller's planet 🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@Calipeach8]

This is one Chris Nolan film that I simply can’t wrap my mind around

[@c.g.ku.9479]

One thing I still don't understand is: if the humans of the future made it possible for Cooper to send the data to Murph in order to ensure their own survival, how did they survive in the first place to make it possible for Cooper to send the data to Murph in order to ensure their own survival? It is like the question of who was there first: the chicken or the egg. Is it perhaps that we are actually watching a time loop?

[@Juanchoo-jd6ln]

the humans of the future are the embryos of plan b ("they"), these, in the distant future, transcended humanity and created the wormhole in the past for, through Cooper and his daughter (and a time loop ), save humanity from the earth. What happens next with Cooper visiting the doctor? I don't know. imo

[@BasedAnalyst]

I may be recalling it incorrectly, but I thought that at some point Cooper said there are no higher beings doing this, and that it was just them.

[@maambe_divya]

I even dont understand how could Cooper survive the gravity of Gargantua

[@ParkerBG]

@@BasedAnalystbut how did they get there to be able to do it to themselves without them being there to help them? 🤣

[@Brian-yk5kx]

I just made a similar comment. It cannot be a time loop as you would need events to lead up to the loop beginning

[@MisterMandoo]

Always love your yearly interstellar vid

[@TheHomieFedSmoker]

Why she burned the cornfield is one of the most confusing moments of the movie?? Ya if you’re an infant.

[@kibakun5748]

From what I understand, she burn the cornfield to distract her brother away from home to save the kid and his wife because he wouldn't leave the place.

[@luckystone2293]

Yes cause her brother was a knobhead. Would rather see his family die.

[@mrskye08]

Definitely on my list of favorite movies. I read the science of interstellar book after watching, AND I DON'T EVEN READ BOOKS. This movie masterpiece made me do something i normally don't.

[@Donseanovan]

I really like the other script where they sent a drone through the wormhole and it landed on his farm, which started the whole chase. That would have been easier to understand and made just as amazing of a movie.

[@rkornilo]

EIGHT years later and you’re STILL talking about this movie??? GOOD!

[@mashable8759]

Damn i just watched interstellar again and Looper just uploaded this lol nice

[@nicholasnovakowski1431]

This is one of those movies that will live forever

[@faiqalishah1713]

Murph:I knew you'd come back Copper:Why Murph:Cozz my dad promised me This scene just melts my heart everytime

[@luckystone2293]

Most moving line and scene. It had people crying when I watched it at the cinema.

[@turtletea7846]

Why did Cooper only care about Murph, like what about your firstborn (Tom)

[@Cheddah_Spreaddah]

So cool when you said it's humans from the future where sending the message. Didn't even cross my mind. Great movie

[@phanirao2008]

masterpiece for space fans , keep coming back again and again for the scenes

[@majdsaleh_]

I liked the video although I already knew most of those things But I wish you talked about "handshake" that happened in the scene where they were entering the worm hole 🤙🏻

[@Paradox-k5d]

That was excellent commentary. Thank you for your explanation of Edmonds Planet. I took issue with the ending (time dilation and relativity). Dr. Brand tells Cooper that time is relative and can stretch and squeeze, but it can't run backwards. He also says that gravity is the only thing that can move across dimensions, like time. For example, Cooper and his crew spend about 3 hours and 17 minutes on Miller's planet, but 23 years, 4 months, and 8 days pass for Romily. Cooper is left in space for approximately 51 years due to the extreme time dilation near the black hole Gargantua, meaning that while he experiences only a short time, decades pass on Earth. Now, how many years would it take Cooper to find out the brand on Edmonds Planet? 80 years or more? Now if Doctor Brand goes into some sort of cryo sleep. All Cooper has to do is awaken her when he gets there. Murphy on a bedside did comment I believe. Doctor Brand was settling in for the long nap, which probably means a cryo sleep.

[@g-urts5518]

One thing you sort of missed is actually explained better in a deleted scene. Damon's character was in cryo sleep for almost 30 years I believe it was. In the scene its explained that after 30 years in cryo sleep your body starts to cook from the inside. So he was actually very close to dying when they pulled him out.

[@judon4908]

Once I saw such a massive wave in so shallow water I knew I was going to have to turn my brain off and just watch the movie in order to enjoy it.

[@teddyinjapan]

I liked the ones that were “oh the time dilation is like time travel”. Ok, but you still have to travel there. “Oh that’s easy they just use suspended animation”. So if they are suspended in time, what’s the point in going there to skip through time?

[@trohlack5150]

Couple things confused me: - How green corn plants burn? - what were combines doing out and about out in the green corn fields?

[@dannystarkins380]

Great job explaining that of which is not confusing

[@chrisssergio]

Was my first time watching it last night and wow, can’t imagine how it would’ve been in theaters

[@ducknorris233]

Not sure it was “inevitable” that anyone would show up at Mann’s planet but it certainly helped his odds.

[@krisnilsson5044]

I agree. I feel like it made it pretty clear that the cards were stacked against him and he knew that so he decided to bluff knowing his odds were poor. He even mentions it when banging helmets with cooper. “There’s a fifty percent chance you die”, “those are the best odds I’ve had in years”. I think it also explains why he was willing to dock the Endurance so hastily. He had gotten so close even with his terrible odds, what’s one more bad bluff going to hurt?

[@ducknorris233]

@@krisnilsson5044 good analysis

[@ScottyColoradoKid]

I kind of like the theory that Cooper actually died in the teserac after he sent Murph the info and everything after is just his death dream...I mean c'mon he no longer had a spaceship or anything; he just floated back to earth in his spacesuit?

[@14habibs]

But the handshake with Brand in the wormhole happened so not a stretch to think that’s exactly how it happened.

[@danc2014]

The said a ranger crew found him floating by the worm hole.

[@davidwashington4282]

One thing that makes no sense is the planet with extra strong gravity that they escape easily with the spacecraft but couldn't on Earth

[@ed1726]

Personally love this movie. The separation from a loved one and sense of loss as time passes is something any empathetic human can relate to, regardless of the science fiction setting. I am currently experiencing this right now, as I wait for travel restrictions in China to relax (been waiting three years now to see family). The only real flaw for me is the tesseract scene. I think it is a good idea. But the execution left me a little cold. Here is my understanding. - Let us say that there is a reality. And that humans reflect this reality - how could they not. We all understand cause and effect, if you push a rock it moves, otherwise it doesn't. But what about concepts such as altruism, empathy, consciousness or love. It is hard to comprehend that pushing a rock could result in love, but here we are, loving beings. Perhaps (and this is pure sci-fi) love is a property of the universe and through this property we can access (again pure sci-fi) five dimensional space. Some people doubt free will because cause and effect simply doesn't allow it, but this movie is saying free will is real. That we think therefore we are. I think these are deep and interesting concepts, but they would require an entire movie to begin to do, any one of them, justice.

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

The Matt Damon character was well done he has a critical role of being a sabetour and destroying the ship etc. he goes from a tragic sympathetic character to villain without feeling forced or over written

[@ChadFarthouse-h8r]

Except it happens in family court every day to good fathers. It's called parental alienation and believe me there is no empathy.

[@ReportsOnChina]

Hope you got back to China to see your family in the end!

[@ed1726]

@@ReportsOnChina thank you. We did get back last year, everything is more or less back to normal now.

[@micahf5143]

Loopers most confusing moment: having ‘The Martian’ as the thumbnail for a video about ‘Interstellar’

[@scorch1968]

Nope. That’s definitely interstellar. It’s the bit where I shout don’t turn the robot on!

[@natural_supreme3949]

Best movie of all time

[@stupidstoops]

Matt Damon is forever the needing to be saved actor. Saving private Ryan, Intersteller, the Martian. It’s a funny tease at this point haha

[@newares8140]

Love this movie

[@alolkoydesigns]

Sometimes the promise you make to someone is more important than the connection you have with them

[@jaredlyan7037]

The blackhole scene is actually theoretically accurate. It was a spinning blackhole which would theoretically prevent spaghettification

[@crystalbrijaestewart407]

@10:44 Actually Grandpa is a Gen Z baby. If you time estimate theory is true, 50 to 60 years after 2014, he would be born in the early 2000’s at most. And him being GenZ is very on brand for what he is saying about his childhood more than the millennials childhood. Also is little snarly comments and personality is the absolute giveaway that he is Gen Z

[@Kal-El207]

Literally the greatest film ever made.

[@nathanielcarnegie7929]

I’m about to go watch this in IMAX!!! 2024 🎉

[@sichard.rimmons]

I see Interstellar, I click

[@amonrei]

We will never stop talking about Nolan movies and that's great.

[@cityslacker6221]

I’m confused, because not one of these scenes was confusing.

[@maxgeorge_music]

One of my favorite “new” movies. Holds up, all time.

[@Joshua-dx7zn]

The problem with the time dilation is the difference between the time on the planet and the time in the mothership would have been insignificant. The one guy wouldn't have waited 23 years by himself in that ship. The dilation comes from the blackhole not the planet and all three were fairly close to the blackhole.

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

Yep I read that getting close to a Super Black Hole only changes your time to half

[@maambe_divya]

I really felt like this was one major flaw! Was the ship left far behind, away from Gargantua that time dilation affected Rom that he'd to wait for years.

[@edoval1029]

The ship was actually left far away from the planet, it was explained in the film. But it wasn’t stated clearly how far was the Endurance, just that it would have been left at a “safe distance”

[@andrewgura9367]

Plot twist: there were no wormhole and expedition through it. Cooper died at the rocket launch for a regular mission, not related to the research, and his daughter's young mind could not acknowledge his death and move on. As she grew up she believed that father is out there saving world, and since she constantly worked with astrophysics her brain made up story how exactly he could be far far away for so many years and be alive. She solved the equation by herself and saved the world. Right before death she saw her father, being the same age as he left her, and note that no one in a room talked to him: she was the only one who could see him

[@srikanta13]

One of the greatest sci fi piece .........

[@720zone]

My biggest problem with my #1 movie: Miller's (water) planet. Romilly explains: 1 hour there is 7 years. They very specifically show Cooper recklessly racing them down to land as fast as possible. They rush to find the beacon in minutes, are hit from the wave and need (according to Case) "45 to an hour" for engines to drain. They leave a few moments early because the next wave comes. So maybe at max an hour or a bit longer on the planet. 23 years, 4 months for Romilly would be well over 3 hours. How was it 3 hours???

[@loadedfry]

I think it affected the area around the planet also due to it orbiting the black hole, which probably took them a couple more hours to escape from

[@ErfMuck]

Is there a reason you got Matt Damon as your thumbnail instead of McConaughey?

[@bigpicturethinking5620]

Re read the title of the video. Then your comment. Point made.