Film Theory: The Evil Mastermind You Didn't Know Existed In Interstellar

[@ghosto88]

This theory doesnt make any sense. It doesnt explain why the future humans left the worm hole and guided him into the fabric of space and time. I feel like you missed a lot of the movie in this theory.

[@Whitewolf2x4]

That and the fact that the air on earth was becoming less oxygen rich. Children were dying because they couldn't get enough air. The planet was past saving at this point.

[@brandontart]

Exactly what I was thinking! I don't think this guy watched the movie as often as the film deserves to be watched. Haha.

[@ghosto88]

@@Whitewolf2x4 also a good point

[@ghosto88]

@@brandontart I agree it seems like he missed a lot of the movie.

[@broggii]

I have a theory that the robots left the wormhole, similar to the Foundation series. Perhaps after all or most of humanity died, the robots continued to advance (TARS was able to work on Mann's robot) and eventually got to the point where they could save humanity provided they had some humans who were connected to each other by love (because humans still feel love even after the loved one dies).

[@davidthomas3826]

I remember a scene where crops have failed and people were abandoning their farms during a violent sandstorm. The situation on earth did look very grim for the human race and the impending apocalypse looked very real

[@keithwoodcrest]

Exactly. Not to mention Coop says the population is 6 billion. Our population is currently 7.7 billion. So he's implying over 2 billion people have died as a result of famine and the lung disease the dust storms cause

[@keithwoodcrest]

@Brett Hazelton This just made me laugh out loud for real, I love it 😂

[@lowkoalatee4033]

Brett Hazelton “realer” lmao

[@ryanluckenbach3537]

Human race is nonsensical. Humans are a species. Dont let it go down the memory hole.

[@StoneCoolds]

@Brett Hazelton dont forget nazi illuminatis living under the Antarctica ice sheets

[@wilemelliott]

hard for hunters and gatherers to survive hunting and gathering, when the o2 levels get to sub survival levels. It wasn't just about the crops dying, it was about plant life dying and no longer producing oxygen to breath.

[@2bituser569]

Why would plant 🌱 life be affected by low O2 levels? High CO2 levels should help plants flourish

[@wilemelliott]

@@2bituser569 you are getting cause and effect mixed up. The crops were dying because of the blight, not o2 levels. The blight was effecting other plant life, and instead of putting out CO2 or O2, it off gassed nitrogen. Once your plants died from the blight, it reduces oxygen production, eventually lowering it so far that animal life starts to die

[@bryanl1984]

The Blight was specifically an organism that metabolized nitrogen. This was in the movie. It was eating ALL plants, accumulating the stuff Hunter Gatherers Gather and what they hunt eats... this video is ridiculously stupid tripe masquerading as intellectualism.

[@Y0uKnoWh0]

@Brett Hazelton Bro, it's a movie. The scenario is fictional. Calling a movie about a man diving into a black hole made by future humans in order to solve an equation so larger ships could take off from Earth "unrealistic" is like me insisting to my children that Big Bird isn't an actual animal and that birds can't talk. It's not a revelation, it is in fact so painfully obvious that everybody else also knows too. This is a work of fiction. Chill out. It's not an unrealistic portrayal of reality, because its not a portrayal of reality at all. It's a fictional Earth. FIc. Tional. I.e. not real

[@bryanl1984]

@Brett Hazelton Basically. So, you know, reality.

[@kenncrabtree3100]

The people interviewed were actually dustbowl survivors. It was from a PBS documentary I believe.

[@daltonrodman6027]

I remember seeing that documentary in my Oklahoma history class in Highschool.

[@jbv776]

Stuxnet Cabal movie special features. or you could watch the ken burns series and compare the footage 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@cammywammy420]

This is correct. I also watched it in Oklahoma History

[@rowanmurphy5239]

No wonder it seemed so natural 😯

[@TC-wo4lf]

@Stuxnet Cabal www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2014/11/06/how-ken-burns-surprise-role-in-interstellar-explains-the-movie/

[@xanderellem3646]

That feeling when you think you're clicking on a film theory video but it was a "that film theory" video.

[@otabekkadirov2578]

I was annoyed when it didn't start with "Hello internet, welcome to film theory"

[@rockoutmichigan]

Right?

[@ffejpsycho]

I prefer this channels vids far more than matpat's channel's vids, actually.

[@JB-1138]

Maybe just read the title.... 🤔

[@loodlebop]

Yup

[@AlmosTxxx]

I like your content but not every movie needs a villain .

[@eeHMFIC]

But every story does need something to perform the role of the antagonist

[@MuadDiiib]

The villian is time. Tbh haha

[@chewyalba9824]

The fact that you just said that makes you a villain....

[@bahhumbug.6156]

In this case the villain works for the hero...I think

[@Jackson-sh3bs]

@@MuadDiiib exactly what I was thinking

[@ethancroft2560]

"They don't run on public money. They obviously run with the backing of the government." Well which is it?

[@herbertcrawford9634]

So many holes in your theory...not going to waste another 10 minutes of my life pointing them out.

[@lee-leesong5941]

And yet????

[@stephenconnell]

@@lee-leesong5941 Yes??

[@temocv8832]

Ok????

[@StefwI0u]

The movie is called "interstellar", not "how to make money with interstellar travel: a class-conflict thesis",

[@nateward7120]

Brilliant. Well done.

[@Daddybernardo]

I’m glad you had fun with this, but my general feeling is people look way more deeply into plots than Hollywood writers care to create. It’s their job at the end of the day, and they need to get it done on a schedule, leaving holes for anyone with time on their hands to find meaning in.

[@Ekolop]

In a Way the villain is 'time', u cant stop IT, no matter what.

[@Maxumized]

Laura Rivera Deep, very deep analysis there...👍🏻

[@rickybe]

very good

[@SeanAkari]

Love that take. Which is why relativity permitted him to age beyond his daughter’s lifetime.

[@Juice-chan]

@@SeanAkari Basically time took his daughter away from him.

[@SeanAkari]

Foxfire that and the need to advance the greater good for humanity!

[@macielynnishome1253]

Michael Caine is the villain of the movie because he sends Coop off on a mission that he knew would lead to him never seeing his kids again and he also knew he would never solve the problem of gravity.

[@JavaPoweredZombie]

🙄 a stretch that ignores in-film established facts. Silly

[@cristianmedina3333]

I still think the evil mastermind behind all of this was the guy who wrote that love was the most powerful force in the universe.

[@DodaGarcia]

Cristian Medina this. She sheer dumbness of that concept haunts me to this day.

[@AtomiCZlut]

love is transcendent and unquantifiable. it was a little heavy handed but the message is the same you can love something that no longer really exists, you can love an abstract concept or a thing and the feeling towards them is the same. love can motivate you to do things that are illogical but feel right. that was the point.

[@Prometheus7272]

Doda Garcia That was the day I lost half my brain cells, I’m officially mentally retarded to this day XD

[@Prometheus7272]

Shmandeltoid Love is quantifiable, it’s called neurochemistry.

[@cristianmedina3333]

@@Prometheus7272 No it is not. You quantify chemicals, not love. Countable and uncountable nouns.

[@Ender240sxS13]

Probably the worst "theory" I've seen, like what a stretch.

[@Purpleturtlehurtler]

Not really. Makes perfect sense to me.

[@jadeddragoon]

@@Purpleturtlehurtler Global warming being a conspiracy makes a perfect sense to a lot of people too. But that says more about those people than about global warming.

[@Questionthis1]

Yeah it’s weak but TFT did warn that it was out there

[@Purpleturtlehurtler]

@@jadeddragoon people will always capitalize on crises.

[@richf6111]

but you didn’t put people out of work or make billions.....the Hedge Fund and Bankster bosses have.

[@JeweloftheWorld2000]

I think there's an implication that either all plants (not only agricultural ones) are being wiped out or that all wild spaces are gone, probably bulldozed for agricultural purposes. There's nothing left for people to live on.

[@stephenconnell]

what about hydroponics?

[@anmlkvp]

Here I thought you’d go into a metaphysical direction. Ah: “the villain being life itself.” The earth is the enemy; the inevitability of climate crisis spurred on by the intrinsic entropic impetus for expansion. Denouement: Its only a crisis for the species, not the habitat.

[@abbasahmedlp]

Wasn't time their main enemy???

[@AlexFarleyMusic]

I don't think you get the movie. There's so many things wrong with the points you made.

[@gregorlandini4328]

Not sure if they saw the movie

[@dishwasherdetergent6144]

The villain of this film shouldn't be a person, people or corporations, but rather time, as the whole movie is centered around the warped constraints of time that the protagonists go against quite literally every second with dire consequences. Time is the unstoppable and omnipotent villain that marches onward and stops for nobody.

[@TransoceanicOutreach]

This is the most nonsensical theory I've ever heard. What drugs were you on when you thought of this?

[@Fugazity]

First of all my main is not English , sorry about any grammar flaws and misspelled words: Always felt bitter at the end of the movie no matter how happy they make it seem to us, because, who were the chosen ones to get on that ship? obviously the families of the scientific dudes, we see cooper daughter and their family, but we didn't see cooper son and his family, in fact we never heard about coopers son after Murphy hug him, like saying her final goodbyes. Correct me if i am wrong, but what i understand in the movie is that the planet was doom to humans because the parasite that was eating all the food breath nitrogen not oxygen, corn was the only plant the bug didn't eat as was genetically made to resist this parasite, and the sand dust was the poop of say bugs. considering the oxygen is produced by plants because photosynthesis , eventually this bug will adapt ant start eating corn, and humans will perish of starvation and later asphyxia as there will be no oxygen to breath on the air. unless the humans evolve to breath nitrogen instead of oxygen i don't see how humans will survive this doomed future. project Nasa did was a what if plan. the plan B was the last resort for humans to extend their existence, was a chance more than anything, don't believe a mega corporation trying to gain something at the end, if they knew they will never see the fruits of that gain in their lifetime, that is how i saw it. I base this on the fact Nasa didn't know ANYTHING about black holes, or gravity stuff, then they was convince plan B was the only plan, only telling this to cooper will make cooper probably choose to die with his family isntead of embarking in a missions that nobody knew for sure will work or not. How i see it, the 5th dimension loop hole was made by humans in the distant future so Cooper could communicate the equation to Murph in this time and ensure human kind survival, there fore what was in danger here was the survival of the human race, not some evil villain trying to gain something at the end. But as i say at the start, think only 10% of all human kind aboard that ship and the rest 90% was left on earth to meet their fate... it's a bitter sweet ending after all.

[@cassidy99ful]

Fugazity. I thought that by Cooper sending the equation back to his daughter Murphy,That they were able to get all humanity off the planet. Since,They were able to solve the problem of gravity. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know but that's what I always thought.

[@Fugazity]

@@cassidy99ful the gravity problem was to lift the ship, think of this ship like a Noa's ark, the Nasa build this gigantic ship but they had not way to put it in orbit, it was only after Cooper send the equation they cold solve the issue of putting this giant ship ark up into space, creating, i guess, a anti gravitational barrier to lift it with no mayor problems up to the stratosphere with the humans already in it, to maybe find a planet suitable for human life; traveling through that worm hole (made by the humans in the distant future to ensure the survival of their kind) to another galaxy with a planet similar to earth. But again, only like 10% of earth population aboard that ship. the rest was left in earth to die...

[@tunatutuncu2221]

When you watch a movie when you're alcoholic and decide to make a theory on it.

[@JB-1138]

Terraforming a new planet always makes less sense than fixing Earth.

[@veganrican606]

The earth doesn't need fixing, we do.

[@prof_hu]

I think doing both makes the most sense. Just like you do need virus protection but also need to keep backups of your important data at the same time.

[@JB-1138]

Both good points.

[@77thNYSV]

Earth doesn't have any problem being the way it is. It's us who don't like temps to go too high or too low for our comfort, or don't like ocean levels to go too high or too low to screw with our beach front property.

[@veganrican606]

@@77thNYSV Well if temps are too high or too low some plants won't grow, life won't thrive.

[@knowledgeseeker4614]

It is true the government is lying about things in order to achieve objectives, but that doesn’t mean one of the key reasons for said objective isn’t false either. The Earth certainly didn’t look like it was in good shape consistently throughout the movie.

[@2bituser569]

Dust storms happen in the western usa 🇺🇸 all the time.

[@coinsilver3]

If they can terroform other planets, they can fix the earth.

[@gp2917]

And save on travel expenses

[@NZXT6]

Terraform*

[@Tim.Stotelmeyer]

They would need to sterilize the earth to get rid of the blight that was killing off all plants.

[@mentalcase4299]

This movie takes place after the events of 2020+..

[@robzilla730]

And...?

[@entitledunfortunately4984]

Romeo Alpha and so we’re fucked

[@robzilla730]

@@entitledunfortunately4984 great rally tonite, Donny!

[@mentalcase4299]

@Dowhat Iwant I never believed the cv or Floyd shit. Back off homie!

[@entitledunfortunately4984]

Dowhat Iwant someone’s a little mad;) bedtime for you mr

[@judgedoomentertainmentnetwork]

Why are they living on space stations if the world was actually okay.

[@Ekolop]

The World wasn't ok, it was dying. The planet was ok, what is our 'world' was being killed by some plague, and crops were going extinct. If u see the ending, they Do go to space colonies, and if it does happen, it's because it was better than staying on earth.

[@lee-leesong5941]

@@lifotheparty6195 Jilted Humans say to Earth, 'Well I'm glad you're doing okay.'

[@towermoss]

Earth may have died, but that doesn't mean humanity did..

[@sowder]

You all clearly missed the point of their question with these responses...

[@AtomiCZlut]

why do rich people live in mansions when a city apartment is actually ok

[@greytroll1632]

No, it wound revert to what happened on Earth. Humans eventually evolve into the beings that created the wormhole.

[@loodlebop]

Nope

[@Juice-chan]

Yes

[@christophercombs7561]

Clearly you didnt watch the movie

[@chrismorris6982]

For some reason, the docking scene in this movie gives me goosebumps every time.

[@YangaNkonki]

This was a waste if time. A lot of basic facts stated in the movie were ignored.

[@ulisesurquia3197]

I can eat a letter soup and crap a better theory/argument than this.

[@changsangma1915]

....but can You?! Ultimately that's what matters!

[@kenncrabtree3100]

Totally. Who has that kind of bowel control?

[@keithwoodcrest]

Also. It's not just that the food supply is dwindling - people are dying from lung conditions because of all the sand in the air. Coop said the population is 6 billion. The population right now is 7.7 billion. Which means almost 2 billion people have died as a result of famine and the lung disease. So it's pretty clear the threat of extinction is very very real.

[@chefdean7257]

As Dr Tyson points out, if you can terraform another world, why not just do so on Terra ?

[@2bituser569]

Good point. Create domes on earth to raise crops and protect it from storms.

[@chefdean7257]

@@2bituser569 Or use terraforming techniques to fix the damage we've done. Thermal induction power plants, atmospheric modification by regulating gasses, increasing/decreasing pressure via Pasqual standards, saline monitoring of North Atlantic Current, etcetera, ad nauseam.

[@hellraiser5118]

OMG !! Conspiracy theories even here... especially no 2!! Interstellar was a great movie without all this load of crap. Even the movie's love theory is better than this. Sorry mate

[@bahaadeenal-ees1488]

That just made think in a different way about Interstellar, Interesting still flawed

[@fatwoul]

* Conspicuous. NOT "conspicious". That's not even a word.

[@kurtlindner]

The space ship at the end isn't shaped like a bubble, it is a long cylinder a la Rendevous with Rama. Seriously, think about a bubble shape, how is that conducive to artificial gravity induced through rotation? Think about it.

[@gicardee6756]

they are the movie's human of the future, they left the wormhole for Cooper to travel into the distant stars to collect the needed data to finish the equation needed for interstellar travel to save humanity. These future humans made the 5 dimensional cube in which Cooper was able to relay subtle messages to her daughter in order to help her fulfill her destiny if you may. They are the invisible force that guides humanity into salvation which in turn guarantees their own survival as well. Like the Terminator series sending a Robot into the past to make sure that the course of history is favorable to the survival of humanity, but instead of a Robot like the series, its in the form of worm holes and 5 dimensional cubes. Its a better sounding theory than a villain.

[@JulzGein_]

Also Murph was one of the old people reminiscing on the past, they didn’t live to be that old on the planet. They were already on their way to the wormhole.

[@stevenvohl]

I'd think the villain is the blight itself, if it eventually kill off all agriculture, food animals will also die off. Eventually the dust will settle as silt in creeks and rivers choking them off, and eventually running to the oceans. The last meal someone eats might be a fish related product.

[@kennyfordham6208]

Yeah, they can grow crops on a space station, but can't grow them on Earth. 🤔

[@cassidy99ful]

Kenny Fordham. Can't really grow crops when there's no oxygen. Unless you build giant enclosed structures. Just sayin'.

[@2bituser569]

Richard III That’s a good point why if you can build those structures in space can’t do it on earth? Many ways this is like Wall E

[@danielchapter70128]

Neil Degrasse Tyson often reacts with chagrin when he is asked about Terraforming other planets. As many have pointed out here and in other comments, it’s not just linearly many times easier and more efficient... it’s definitely exponentially more efficient in terms of cost and energy, raw materials etc, to FIX any sort of atmospheric curve toward a state of non animal life support, rather than strap into a machine with a half a million moving parts and launch into space to the tune of $18,500 per kilogram.(1970-2000 average cost). Even being at the lower end of that life support curve it would still be so many factors of ten easier to fix the home planet rather than starting over on a new planet. However it’s always sexier to give characters a reason to venture out into space, even if those reasons contain many logical plot holes😬. I still enjoyed this video though! It’s always fun to look at a thought experiment (like this fictional story) from a novel angle.

[@2bituser569]

danielchapter70128 Totally agree. If one was going to terraform wouldn’t you begin with Mars?

[@Tim.Stotelmeyer]

With a space station you can sanitize everything and everyone so the blight can not get on board and kill the crops. Hard to do that on a planet.

[@monst3rjohn915]

The blight was killing all the plants. "The last people to starve will be the first to suffocate"

[@calebrobertson5130]

NASA wasn't privately funded in the movie. They literally specifically discussed why it had to be kept secret because people wouldn't support their money going to space exploration.

[@pablosergiohernandez]

Villain for me was TIME.

[@Axeonfluke]

Same. I always felt that time was the main antagonist .

[@silversteve-o68]

I don't think you can call time the "villain" an antagonist maybe 🤷‍♂️

[@MrVoldross]

The only real villain outside of Matt Damon would have to be the environment. At the beginning they're struggling against the environment of earth, then it's the planet's they come across and finally it's space itself with all the obstacles it presents.

[@ChubbyChecker182]

Michael Caine was the True villain in The Prestige too

[@varanasiwalks1451]

Also Jaws: the Revenge

[@martyg8137]

The villain in the film is the universe itself.

[@storiesofbike]

Not so much a villain. Just merely indifferent.

[@martyg8137]

@@storiesofbike good point, but indifference is sometimes the greatest villain of All :D

[@chuckthebull]

perhaps humans are the villain to the universe.

[@lucassmith4524]

The Villan was obviously the plague that breathes nitrogen.

[@rachelthompson9324]

there is always a villein, be it a person or an antagonistic force. No conflict, no story.

[@jamesp3902]

Theory misses the up front fundamental driver in the movie. Due to the blight, the planet is transitioning from an oxygen environment to a methane environment. This transition is causing a world wide famine. It is in all the farming references. They also have a cut scene in NASA. People do not buy luxury items because the vast majority of the world is starving to death. Thus the line "We didn't run out of tv screens, we ran out of food".

[@WeyounSix]

Love being an interdimensial thing was moreso the theory of that 1 character in the film rather than an explicit statement of the reality in the film.

[@anatomiadahistoria]

I thought it was a pretty cool theory, especially because it resonates with the actual manipulative nature of Nassa

[@415francisco]

Do y'all only do movies? What about tv shows like lost?

[@jdockii]

I think you over looked that the blight breath nitrogen and that over time the atmosphere would not be breathable in the future

[@jacques42]

It sounds as if the narrator has decided that Nasa is the villain and then started to look for evidence to fit his narrative.

[@Dan-uf2vh]

My own opinion is space colonization is far more expensive than mending our troubles on Earth. A day will come when colonization will scale well but we have a lot more progress to make before that is the case. We will have long colonized the galaxy before the Earth will have any significant issues with its Sun.

[@aesan5934]

You wasted 10 minutes of my life🤬 The Movie explained everything . Seen this movie 4 times . Your Theory are so wrong and clickbaiting ! Who ever is reading please dont waste time you will say the same thing and have a nice day

[@jeffhenry6365]

Thanks.

[@stephenconnell]

I feel you need to calm down and take a stress pill even though your name is not Dave.

[@stormriderx4460]

It wouldn't suit Nasa's interest to trump up that the world is doomed while it is building clandestine spaceships. Interstellar is similar to the 1951 movie when world's collide, which is about a rogue star that will pass by Earth and destroy it. In that movie, the government is building space arks and everyone wants to get on them. Of course, only a finite few will get on the ship. So in this movie, Nasa would want to build their spaceships in secret and not add to fear that the planet is dying.

[@motmotyo-yoandt-shirts6009]

I want my 10 minutes back.

[@whipnchainbarbi]

I kinda liked this theory, but TBH I was hoping you were going to say Matthew Mcconaughey. The way he dotes on his daughter but DGAF about his son always creeped me out. He risks everything to get to her, sees she's old and is like, "mehh I'm good thanks." Ive only watched once, but I'm sure there's a way to turn it into a metaphor about absentee and/or addicted fathers.

[@yourare1864]

bro didnt watch the movir

[@Werrf1]

Sorry, no. The points here don't add up. It ignores key context and pieces of information that blow the theory apart. 6) Commercialism isn't dead because people realised they didn't need high technology any more; it's dead because widespread famine has forced humanity back to a more survival-oriented society. This isn't an enlightened culture choosing a simpler way of life, it's wartime production. There's a line where Cooper points out that his wife died because there were no MRIs available to diagnose the cyst in her brain. An MRI isn't a product of commercialism, it's essential, life-saving technology. 5) NASA is not a corporation; it's a public entity. When Cooper points out the potential danger of using military robots, Brand states that they're "What the government could spare." When they're explaining that they're NASA, they say its "The same NASA you flew for". When discussing funding, "Public opinion won't allow spending on space exploration" - a private corporation wouldn't need to worry about public opinion on spending. 4) No, everyone except NASA is NOT confident about things getting better with time, effort, and the right decisions. Remember the very beginning of the film, when we learn that okra is going extinct? That they've lost crop after crop, until maize is the only crop they can grow any more? That's not a picture of a world getting better with time, effort, and the right decisions. The characters who _are_ optimistic - the teachers - are portrayed as mouth-breathing, conspiracy-believing _idiots._ Gullible fools who'll buy whatever they're told. 3) The earth in the film DOES look like a postapocalyptic wasteland. Throughout the film, we see a steady decline. We start off with the Cooper farm and its acres and acres of maize, but look at the backgrounds. There are no forests, no grasslands; spaces outside the fields are generally brown and dusty. As the film goes on, we see more and more layers of dust, more frequent dust storms. We see that people have to routinely carry survival equipment (masks, goggles) to be able to survive. This is NOT a healthy planet. Remember what's happening on earth. There's a microorganism, called simply Blight, which metabolises nitrogen and eats plants. No matter what they do, the humans cannot stop the blight. It's GOING to take over the world. That's why Plan B is needed - humans HAVE to learn to live somewhere other than earth, because earth is not viable in the long term. 2) The proposed commercial reason for Plan B makes no sense. "Hey, elite super-wealthy people who don't appear to exist any more - we've spent billions of dollars to establish a colony of five thousand children, which will take decades at the very best to be able to support more colonists, and which will never offer anything more than a lifetime of toil and difficulty as we try to terraform this alien planet!" If I was looking for something to sell to a super-wealthy elite, it'd be underground colonies on Mars, or turning the underground base NASA operates from into an enclosed, self-sustaining luxury resort. The screens don't look anything like commercial adverts, they look like what they actually are - old people talking about their experiences growing up in the Dust Bowl. They were taken from a Ken Burns documentary on the subject. They're playing on the screens around the farmhouse because the farmhouse is _a museum!_ That's why there are rope barriers set up in the house, stopping people from just traipsing all over the place. And unfortunately, 1) doesn't make sense if the rest of the theory doesn't - which I think we've shown is the case here.

[@danieladossantosdasilva2643]

The "Villain" is a concept, not a person,, is human nature against the fact that all have to survive insted of just the "self". Cooper fought that and won. But Mann lost that battle so he is the personification of the Villain as a concept. Best content in a single movie ever!

[@TheScienceofnature]

Everone believes they will be the CEO of the company they work for, otherwise no one in their right mind would leave their family up to 12 hours every day to pay bills.

[@BlackRein6]

I have a problem with point 3 (and point 2 which is based on point 3). Just because you don't understand how it's possible that the earth may not sustain humans even though humans were currently still living on it doesn't make it any less true. Sounds like you are unaware of just how close to extinction we came due to CFC use. Their use for approximately 50 years until being banned in the early 80's caused a hold on the ozone layer that won't fully heal until the 2050's. Imagine if the scientists that discovered the damage didn't and we were still using CFC's today? The ozone layer would be gone, UV radiation would kill more and more bacteria and crops with every year. Nothing could stop it and there would be nothing we could do, death is inevitable. Sound familiar?

[@jf4764]

If there's nothing that will grow, then there's no animals to hunt and no nuts and berries to gather. What are you talking about.

[@Therault]

Sounds like the secret space program to me. It's not far off from their fantasy.

[@robertprichard1171]

Dr Mann knew plan b was plan a

[@resoody2]

Brand told Cooper that his daughter’s generation was going to suffocate if they didn’t leave earth soon.

[@mpalfadel2008]

Did you miss the relevant part where the movie explains that life in the planet is unsustainable due to the reduction of oxygen in the atmosphere as well as the infeasibility of growing crops due to the blight? I’m thinking your missing or ignoring that part…

[@Thaistickthai]

Mann wasn't a villain he just had S P A C E M A D N E S S!!! (My fellow ren & stimpy fans get it)

[@RossMalagarie]

I knew i knew it from somewhere.

[@hummakavula3750]

You forgot hairdressers and telephone sanitizers

[@Degenevesting]

You mean the forces that allowed us to go to space will be on other planets and in space? I see this as an absolute win??

[@judeannethecandorchannel2153]

Actually quite persuasive. There are massive plot holes this helps explain. Liked and subscribed.

[@480JD]

How would leaving the Earth fix anything, the Blight would just follow on whatever crops they take. Its easier to fix the planet than to leave it.

[@deplorableacker2848]

The real villain of the movie is humans. They, we, fucked up earth which caused the need for the events in Interstellar.

[@ChrisHolman]

The main antagonist does not have to be a person, for example it can be nature.

[@tedwojtasik8781]

Did this dude watch the same movie as everyone else?

[@VanquishedAgain]

They never implied in the movie that the earth failing was due to humans or capitalism

[@Caliber30k]

Looking at you, Space X

[@holdkingsix]

This is ridiculous. “Brand” can also, and historically, refers to a flaming piece of wood. A torch or spark. Which is what Brand in this film represents; the spark or flame of humanity that becomes the new existence.

[@TheShadowguy64]

Imagine hating capitalism and consumerism so much that you need to completely reimagine and reinterpret a movie to fit your views

[@XavierKatzone]

I thought Inception was a good puzzle, Interstellar was Nolan testing how much pretty nonsense audiences would swallow, and Tenent was the absurdist answer to his question. "Look how much work it takes to BORE me!"

[@ClipSnacks]

You skipped over the whole fact that crops would be defective because they were genetically engineered meaning nothing could grow on earth

[@Musiclover6404]

I feel that was pretty accurate

[@DawnShepardME3]

Imo, the story intentionally is not about the history of a flawed unsustainable economic system an emerging interstellar species has to deal with, but about some intentionally vague mass extinction event that will unravel human civilization & cause its extinction from the universe in short order. NASA is not evil nor ill-intent & deceptive out of greed in this movie. NASA is executing a last resort plan to save the species with the use of the discovered wormhole & all that it implied in the movie.

[@e.m.francis6946]

This, right here. The thing is, in the film, mono-crops are the primary source of food for most people, and mono-crops are extremely vulnerable to agricultural disease. In the reality of the film, those mono-crops are a result of profit-driven mass-farming, which erodes soil (the dust storms) and takes up vast amounts of land, cleared by deforestation. The blight naturally hits, because of mass mono-cropping, and suddenly the world is dying from increasing nitrogen from the blight. And no one ever stops and asks if maybe we should stop commodifying food for profits and mass producing vulnerable mono-crops and wasting half of the crops because they can't be sold for profit.

[@jbv776]

it wasnt just that agriculture was failing, it was that there was an increasing amount of nitrogen and a decreasing amount of oxygen, meaning people would suffocate. so plan b was more about saving the human species, as opposed to saving humans. i agree that NASA wasnt exactly good. i didnt find them villainous though. i think anyone with knowledge of the plan a lie was just making a moral calculation, considering the circumstances. interesting video though!

[@CrystalModderz]

At minute 7:45 did he just say human civilization needs KZbin presenters to function 🤔

[@hankkim1745]

Humans won’t die from starvation. As stated humans will die from affixation as the blight consumes N2 which humans don’t breathe but plants do and plants provide O2.

[@TylerAnselmo11]

Doesnt michael cain say the last of us to starve will be the first to suffocate. They made it seem like the c02 levels were rising

[@Yggdrasil42]

I interpreted that as the dust storms scouring the land the more agricultural land is lost. Suffocation by dust storm.

[@dexdrako]

the "blight" that was killing crops was a fungus(?) that lived off nitrogen not oxygen. it was killing off all planet life and that was making O2 to fall.

[@sharpe227]

I thought the blight was giving off nitrogen.killing crops.

[@dexdrako]

​@@sharpe227 the one scene with the soy bean goes against that idea. his crop was infected and needed to be burned to stop the spread of the blight. the way i looked at it is what ever the blight is it feeds on plants jumping form one species to another. the end was all planets would be killed off.

[@eleksisjohnson9736]

This is kind of stupid. Like the whole premise was that the blight would eventually kill all the plants, collapsing the food chain, people would starve. Thats why people had to leave, the public didnt know how bad it was

[@chickenbonelives]

Holy shit a lot of people butt hurt that a guy made a fan theory video. They keep saying our planet will be uninhabitable soon now and nobody believes or cares about that.

[@ryanblack6064]

What if we have already destroyed another’s planet, we started as embryos here with no parents to guide us

[@cyber00prophet]

what I enjoyed about this film was that they needed no villain. sometimes we shoot and miss. start watching old movies. pre 60s

[@cyber00prophet]

then you villainized hope. cool beans

[@cyber00prophet]

probably unsubscribe after this one. too many misses

[@jonadams8305]

The people that think 'today's technology has went to far, we need to use tech like in XXXX date'. Like okay, well there is someone else that believes your set date of tech is too advanced, and so on. These people effectively want to push us into another 'dark age'. Technology Advancement is a good thing and what allows humans to push further, sure we will get some things wrong but that doesn't mean advancement is bad.

[@stephenconnell]

I think Josef Mengle and Surgeon General Shirō Ishii would probably agree with you.

[@beedoobee1]

Ok, but hear me out. This theory, but in the real world. Say the rich left a dying planet, but post-apocalypse some survived. Some rich returned and claimed their technologically advanced godhood. Then we as a species grew from smaller groups spread about the earth.

[@colincomber8027]

NASA - the organisation who have placed armed guards around the ice wall at the edge of the ice wall around the edge of our flat Earth

[@chasethecringewolf2195]

Calling it before it happens. Its the Matt Daemon robot is it?

[@bookeblade]

The villain in interstellar is probably time.