INTERSTELLAR: Is It Deep or Dumb? - Wisecrack Edition
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Christopher Nolan's Interstellar elicits mixed reaction. Is it a space masterpiece, or a blackhole of nonsense? In this episode, we'll explore Nolan's themes - of exploration, love and knowledge - and ask the question: is Interstellar deep or dumb?
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Interstellar teaches an important lesson.
Remember when your parents told you that they loved you and your siblings the same? They lied.
I am an only child, get wreckd!! lol
@@macree01 Then you are safe
...or are you?
*ominous music starts playing*
Definitely knew my parents loved me the most! 😂
@@leonardorossi998
*insert Inception trumpet sound here*
*Hey Vsauce. Michael here.*
I always thought that Cooper completely disregarding his son, who arguably was the one character who missed him the most and kept sending him videos even when Murph stopped caring, was a really messed up thing to do.
I honestly forgot about that character. I think Christopher Nolan did as well.
#Tomdeservesmore!
Chris urquhart why? I don’t doubt you I just wonder
Chris urquhart Have you never met Asians? I’m only half joking. In my culture, there’s at least a belief that both parents love and value the sons more. But I don’t think we should generalize. As a girl, I’m my mom’s favorite because she clashes with my brother. It’s different for every family.
Maybe that's part of the mystery of love too. You can't tell someone how or who to love. There are no discernible rules for feeling. However harsh or sentimental a bond or lack thereof is...
I always cry during these scenes:
1. Murph trying to convince her father to STAY.
2. Coop watching 23 years of video messages.
3. Coop screaming "don't let me leave, Murph" in the tesseract.
4. Old Murph saying "Because my dad promised me".
I cry a lot apparently.
I just saw it, I was thinking that watching videos to discover 23 years' worth of your family's life is a terrible idea
Obviously the files were available and I understand Cooper's need to know, but it's no wonder it destroys him psychologically to watch his son's life on fast forward
@@thaddeus3931 But it was something he needed to do. His whole plan was to find a habitable planet to save the people already living on Earth, especially his family. So you could imagine that after losing 23 years, the first thing he wanted to know was if his children were alright. The terribleness of seeing his children grow into adulthood outweighed the torture of not knowing what happened to them.
@@kik0le A "choose your poison" scenario then
@@kik0le my thought was that the best thing to do if this was a real situation would have been not to watch them all in one go, these events take years to process in real-time for a parent
@@kik0le (although of course that wouldn't really fit the pacing of the film)
Cooper crying when he sees his son's after 23 years is heartbreaking. It's raw.
That scene makes me cry every time.
@l p data of whether its habitable i suppose
@l p the only issue with that planet is that it orbits a black hole, but g forces on the planet are acceptable, so with the right conditions a.k.a. less water way more land organics etc. it kinda could
@l p the point was that they wasted time and lost a crew member, it upped the stacks for their next decision.
Always gives me a lump in my throat
TARS is probably my favourite robot ever. He seems like a real cool guy.
Maybe, but Robby gave himself an "oil job".
@@user-yh8gx9ng4u TARS was voiced and puppeted by Bill Irwin
COME ON TARS
D Carnage Might be thinking of GERTY the computer in Moon, a Duncan Jones 2009 movie with Sam Rockwell.
TARS is interesting. I cant remember any AI in movies that handled emotions so rationally as TARS. Seems like he understood them better than the rest of the puppets in the movie.
"we are finally gonna put this question to bed. Is it deep or dumb?"
"well it depends....."
Basically the same answer for every movie.
I feel like that's always the answer here
@Peter Lustig well, that's just your opinion, man. Your inability to really appreciate the concept of exploration and the symbolism behind it and the idea of the unknown doesn't really make it stupid.
@@Gogglesofkrome the love thing is extremely dumb though. It's not that people just aren't "appreciating the concept of exploration," it's that the sacrifice and efforts that the movie wants to make you appreciate are completely undercut by "love transcends logic" bs.
The film acts like love is some kind of magical force (instead of just hormones and etc. for the purpose of social cohesion as Matthew McConaughey's character posits) and basically says "fuck you actual science, the power of love will save us!"
Everything was good up until that point and I literally cringed from how dumb that scene is. I'm a huge Nolan brothers fan and I think they are some of the best filmmakers ever, but that plot point pretty much ruins everything else in the movie.
Imagine if in "The Martian" instead of using ingenuity, science, and the combined efforts of all mankind, Mark Watney manages to survive on Mars because he learns to use the force and uses his magic space powers to get off the planet.
That'd be dumb, and it's just as dumb in Interstellar.
@@GeneralTaco155555a they didn't say that it transcended logic; they were just vague with it, and definitely didn't need to include that soap box scene with it. I'm sure it sounded wholesome in the drawing room, but the implementation of that particular idea didn't really turn out too well. I personally interpreted it as it meaning that 'love was a powerful emotion, to the point that it influenced their actions and lives even from beyond countless light years away through a wormhole,' which made more sense due to the context that relativity, and spacetime overall had on the film. Thankfully, I didn't come to the movie looking for a love story, so it wasn't really much of a take-away for me.
I think there's an element we're missing in the "love" aspect of the story.
There are two scenes where the crew of the _Endurence_ are trying to decide which planet to explore. Both times one member of the crew has an emotional reason for their position - Coop doesn't want to go to Miller's planet first because just visiting it will cost them so much time, and he wants to save his family as quickly as possible, and then Brand wants to go to Wolfe's planet because she was in love with Wolfe. Both times they end up going against the emotional one, specifically _because_ the emotional one has an emotional reason for their choice, and both times it ends in disaster. The message I got wasn't "We can quantify and use love", it was that we shouldn't try to exclude our emotions entirely from our decisions. In attempting to make an 'objective' decision, the team actually ended up making their own emotional decisions, and they were the _wrong_ decisions.
Science is our tool for understanding the universe, but we're still _humans._
quite deep indeed...
They were only the 'wrong' decisions because it was a (dumb) fictional movie.
They did in fact make the correct decision.
Excellent. I took the same message home when i saw this movie. And this is the prime reason that i love this movie so much. No other science movie has caught the essense of "Love" and its power as this one.
Without those disasters Coop would have never fallen into the black hole and Murph would have had no ghost. Though even with that aspect covered, the entire movie is an irreconcilable paradox.
Wow you are really into this movie. I like your thoughts
That moment when he detached from the ship and starts falling towards the black hole (while the music is in full swing) gets me every time
The emotional pull of that sacrifice made me realize why people believe in the whole Jesus thing. Fucking hell the moment anne realized what he was upto got me good.
The guy should have been spaghettified
@@omnipotentazathoth5215 you clearly don't understand the nature of SUPERMASSIVE black holes.
@@subatenome Can you explain it please??
@@johnp.smithasimpleman7281 Small black holes (around the size of 5 solar masses) can spaghettify objects the size of humans. This is because their strong tidal force is much "shorter", meaning that objects slightly closer to small back holes will experience a dramatic increase of gravitational pull compared to objects that are slightly further away, so, if say you're falling feet first into a small black hole your feet experience greater acceleration than your head, essentially stretching you, thus spaghettification. This effect is greatly exaggerated when closer to the singularity. For small black holes, spaghettification often happens before entering the event horizon.
Supermassive black holes (around the size of 100 million solar masses) also have strong tidal forces but only near the singularity. Unlike the event horizon, the singularity doesn't increase in spatial size when adding more mass to it. So the extreme tidal forces remain very close to the singularity, allowing us to safely cross the enlarged event horizon and still be far away from its singularity.
Realistically speaking Cooper could've died in many more different ways. Like the accretion disk, for example, which judging by its size was probably very hot (hotter than the sun) and producing a lot of deadly radiation. Another way could've been the ridiculous velocities at which they were traveling. More speed (in the vacuum of space) means more radiation, which originates from the cosmic microwave background. With increased speed this cosmic microwave background can be blue-shifted into x-ray like radiation and the rise in velocity means you collect more of it in a shorter period of time within your own perspective.
Also we don't know what's inside the event horizon of a black hole, we only have guesses. It is commonly said that conventional physics breakdown inside the event horizon so we are unsure as to whether it's impossible to experience what Cooper did on his journey. Maybe one day we'll know for sure, who knows.
Art and film impact people differently. All I know is when Coop tells Murph "don't let me leave like this Murph" I bawl like an infant
Fucking ninjas
Every time 😭😭
as a 23 year old man I water my eyes at least 2-3 times during that movie. My favourite movie, I fcking love it probably gonna weatch it very soon again
Damn that gargantua scene was crazy, I cried more in that one scene than in all of endgame
Art and film?? film is an art wtf
Interstellar (2014)
The Martian (2015)
Why humanity always has to save Matt Damon?
don't forget Saving Private Ryan
Cuz he is a god damn stellar treasure!
Oh, those two are just the tip of the iceberg.
uk.ign.com/articles/2015/12/28/saving-matt-damon-would-have-cost-over-900-billion
A Jimmy Kimmel fan?
MATT DAMON!
I actually felt that the son deserved some acknowledgement at the end because he was a good son all the way. I, too, almost teared up when his Cooper saw the son all grown up after waking up.
I understand his character as cattle. People that will follow orders without questioning if they even make sense, like in these days people praise politicians for making dumb decisions and stand by them even in the verge of chaos. The most recent example of this is the EU bullshit about clean energy that ultimately led to them being out of energy and having a risk of dying of cold in the winter because of ESG bullcrap. If the son was a person these days, he'd be the one following blindly the bad decisions instead of questioning and seeking for better answers, like the daughter did.
When Cooper sees that 23 years really have gone by, it's so heartbreaking. I've never hurt so badly for someone who isn't real.
I will always remember interstellar because of it soundtracks. To this day I have never heard anything more beautiful
Zooq Pose apparently it was written based on Nolan saying it was about a parent-child relationship. They had no idea it was in space etc.... absolutely brilliant composing.
@@FA_2_Pilot "they" are called hans zimmer and is one guy
@@danileuenberger5620 - I am sure Hans has and had assistants ... so it could still be "they"!
Yes! Yes it is!
Also, It's a kind of magic...
ua-cam.com/video/Zjx56Pc4PDY/v-deo.html
@@drx1xym154 ya.. sure..
Beginning of the Video: "we are finally gonna put this question to bed. Is it deep or dumb?"
20 minutes later: "well it depends....."
"Is it deep or dumb?"
It's both deep AND dumb.
lol
If its deep, I'm shallow
If its dumb, I'd feel much better.
Or how about this; maybe its so deep that most of us quit
following and went up for air.
he just couldn't say that this movie is a money grabbing pile of shit
@@m00nch11d mll
This was the last movie I watched with my daughter before she passed. We had lost her mother a year earlier so this is a very special and melochloly and sadness. To Melissa daughter andvlisa mother and wife I love you both and my life has been forever changed since I lost y’all. I love you both always and forever! 💜🌹💚☮️☮️☮️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹☮️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹☮️🌹y’all are missed and loved. Thank you for loving me. Love ALWAYS
Brad
Very sorry for your lost my mother died 6 mounths before TITANIC movie i wish i could see that masterpiece with her
i pray for you so badly and am so so so sorry. All i wish is for your peace and happiness and know that they have theirs, together, and are watching over you and with you everyday. your love for them was felt and they’d want your love to carry you through all of it, to be given to the world as it was received; as they’re with you and within you through everything you do. i just lost my dad, my best friend,and my hero, to a 5 month battle of Stage 4 lung cancer, with 5 years of turmoil that my family never fully came to peace with. Yet that grief that’s felt so heavy feels as though it’s nothing compared to the bravery and strength you’ve had to continue to believe and follow a path after such a fucked up tragedy. You’ll be in my prayers Brad. Know that youre carried by the love of your angels and your strength is limitless
Brad Rainwater Rest In Peace to your loved ones. Stay strong Brad! A beautiful, moving movie to have been able to watch with her
Jim Cameron I bought the movie the same year my wife and I were married. I lost mine in 77 and got married 97 and lost here 2017. I’m sorry about your mom. She will always be with you. Stay strong and well! MAY PE💜CE B WITH U.
@@bradrainwater8056 Greetings from Germany i am very sorry for your lost too, she died few days after Lady Diana and 2017 died my Dad too, stay at home (i you can) and be strong.
I wish I could watch it for the first time again.
keep watching it..you'll find something new each time.
Me too. Also, The Prestige.
Hell, even Inception...prolly not a coincidence that my top 3 are same director :P
Just watch it stoned it will be just as good
It was mind blowing the first time. I went in surprised it wasn't filmed in 3d., but was glad it wasn't once I'd watched it. I very much kept myself from reading anything about it and went in cold, and absolutely loved it. Swore when it came out on blu ray I'd buy it the first day and I did.
But I made the mistake of watching it on mushrooms. The whole thing fell apart, you can see the actors waiting for their queues all throughout. So I tried it on acid and it was...tepid.
I can't even watch it sober now. The first time in the theatre I remember the kid coughing and saying "it's the dust" and thinking how out of place it was, how cheesy but the rest of the film got me. Now the thin veil, having been lifted, feels thick and impossibly heavy. While I wanted to go back initially I'm unable to return even owning the film.
Just turn your head to the left.
17:45 "Love, like gravity, is an observable force..."
Also Christopher Nolan: "Madness, is a lot like gravity."
Intertesting allusion to make there.
TalonDarkfire gravity is madness ;)
@Ar Ar its an allusion to dark knight rises "madness is....-joker?"
Gravity is completely different
tan this moviue
So
Love=madness............?
Love doesn't exist
@@bloodknightazodrac9224 strange way to say you’ve never been in a relationship
"This is not about my life or Cooper's life. This is about all mankind. There is a moment.." (suck into the space)
Dr Mann aka. Matt Damon, 2014
Best plot twist in cinema history
That's BLOWN out, Cmdr. Riker.
...To buy an inhabitable piece of land somewhere in Australia.
I will never forget that moment first time i saw it in theatre
Dr. Mann Damon
I think that the "love transcendents everything" line is way too often misunderstood. Nolan wanted to show us that emotionality is not a weakpoint of ourselfes if we embrace it and that even the most rational people (scientists) can't deny that they have that emotional side in them. The film was a lot about rational vs emotional decisions (fly to doctor mans planet or to edmunds) and showed that to make the right decisions you need to balance out those two sides. When she said the line that was her being completely irrational and we all knew including the characters that what she said was dumb. That is what Nolan wanted us to think about. She didn't balance the two sides. The fact that Edmunds planet was the right one in the end has nothing to do with her being in love and was completely random and it would have been completely irresponsible of them to follow her cue to listen blindly to her emotions. Another example about this conflict is the decision Dr. Mann has to make. Note how he is literaly called man (in german). We judge him for putting his emotionality (choosing not to die but endangering humankind) over his rationality(dying and thus saving humankind) so it is not embraced by the movie to blindly put emotionality over rationality. And that is one of the big points of the movie in my opinion.
Jan Wedemeier i fuckkng agree with ya.
That is a good point here Sir (y)
wow.
Really big braing bruh
This is such a well written explanation. When I saw that scene, I doubted that Nolan wouldn’t see the clunkiness in that dialogue about love, but this explains it well.
“Interstellar” genuinely blew my mind and opened up my eyes upon first viewing, it’s one of my top 5 favorite movies and I hope they make more like it because space movies are one of my favorite genres!
What are the other movies?
@Jean-Paul Teitu II
Tenet hasn't been released yet.
@Jean-Paul Teitu II
No spoilers please.
It sort of mirrors 2001 Space Odessy in a way. The future beings are humans that have evolved so far ahead and are leading someone towards that and saving them. Has anyone else made that connection? Just a random thought
I came from the past to say that the movie is good... A little overrated, but good.
This is one of my all time favorite movies, I don’t care what anybody says. Lol
Trash tastes
@@steveypeppers9324 Bruh 🤡
@@steveypeppers9324 what is you favourite movie?
@@steveypeppers9324 yes you do have trash taste
I bet this guy got a 105 on every essay he ever wrote
@@Fabi_87 40 points better than what I averaged xD
Out of all my Teachers, I only ever got a A+++ on 1 of my papers from 1 Teacher haha everything else was between 60 to 90.
I got a D in 10th grade on a subjective written paper.
No explanation, just one missed comma and the D were the only two things written on the paper.
I guess he didnt like my story? :P
Same teacher, last test of the year was objective with right/wrong answers. Nailed it and scored close to 100%
@@Scorch428 Thats how they do you lol it's evil
Yikes, he said that Dunkirk was a WW2 film in the first 30 seconds
The fact he feels the need to ad subtitels to Mathew...^^
When you’re a father to a special little girl you watch this movie from a different perspective
My daughter and I watch this all the time
It’s our favourite movie
My oldest daughter had seen every Chris Nolan films except this one because she said the previews didn't look good till I rented after family dinner and she was in tears through the whole movie!
awe... that's great. so true with me too, being a father just drives the perspective home that much harder!
My daughter is 22 months old in 5 days. I will watch this with her when she is ready, regardless of the fact it will be nearly 10-15 years old. It is Nolan's greatest work (imho) and I believe it will stand the test of time.
@@MrKenpachi28 awesome mark! be sure you do.. and absolutely, this movie is timeless and another reason nolan didn't use cgi
I watched this movie before and after I had a child in with very different opinions about it in my head. The very simple (because it happens all the time) act of having a child changes what this movie means for a lot of people.
SHOUT OUT TO HANS ZIMMER!!!
Yes!! Without his work this movie wouldn't feel the same!
I think you have Murphy's Law wrong. It isn't a pessimistic outlook on life. What it means is that if it is possible for something to go wrong, given enough time, something will go wrong. Murphy's Law is stating that if you do something enough times and it is possible for that thing to go wrong, then it eventually will go wrong.
Coop's representation of Murphy's Law is more accurate to what it actually means that the layman understanding of Murphy's Law. Murphy's Law isn't about pessimism, it is a factual statement about how every possibility will happen given enough iterations.
That is actually very clever of the film to state. I always thought of Murphys Law to mean a pessimistic outlook on the potential outcomes of an action. Thanks.
It's also a warning to prepare. The more prepared the less can go wrong. The more prepared, the more access to opportunity.
Well explained. Thank you. 😌
@@Avenus112, Hector, Malcanth. Smart discussion. Find and friend me on Facebook if you're interested. I welcome thoughtful discussion.
I can’t believe it took me 5 years to finally see this movie. I just saw it last night, and I was absolutely awestruck. Definitely one of my favorite movies
It was seven for me. Just finished it, glad to see likeminded watchers!
The "love transcends time and space" was pretty cringey, but it was just one character's opinion. It happened to lead to the right choice, but that doesnt mean anything - it was 50%-50%. Characters are allowed to have flawed opinions in movies. Nothing was proven. Now if they had PROVED that love transcends time and space, that would have been awful :P
I agree. Cooper clearly didn’t believe in it until the end, at which point it was quite plausibly explained. The movie probably should have communicated better that it was but a broken heart’s wild theory until the end. Just like thanos should have been portrayed crazier than he is shown to be in avengers. The killing half the universe was so dumb that the movie should have really dwelled on the fact that thanos really was crazy instead keep telling us he actually kinda had a point. Interstellar made the same mistake. I think both are forgivable considering the rest of the film.
THANK YOU. That is the only statement that should be used to end this stupid arguing about the love thing. It was clearly said that it was only a suggestion that we could not explain even if it was correct. Also, the fact that in the end it seems like love can actually link people trough space and time, still does not prove anything, because there is no cause-effect explanation given. Love bringing together people through space and time is only an act of faith, an attempt to make sense about something nobody can understand.
Yeah that, and of course, Cooper saying "love is quantifiable" was super cringe too.
Provide proof that love doesn't transcend time and space to back up the inference that the above is a flawed opinion. :P
@@kevinforney5311 Love is natural because we evolved as social animals. This makes it unlikely that mental states like love can be outside of our own mind. Science would certainly have found out if people could communicate telepathically with love.
"Is it deep or is it dumb?"
"Yes"
Just saved you 20 minutes
^
I think what they were trying to say was that it’s mostly deep, but the love part might’ve been a dumb move. That’s the most definitive answer they have.
@@ellw7830 Which ultimately makes the whole thing dumb, because a cake with a turd on top is a turd cake.
10 minutes
Semyon Galtsev
True, but the movie is not about a cake or a turd. This movie is about humanity.
@@biggus6633 You having trouble dealing with the fact that love and attachment are just chemical reactions?
Will thug notes ever come back
It deserves the Alien's Guide treatment
Not really
I was just gonna ask the same thing.
I miss that amd 8 bit philosophy
Should he do random scifi and fantasy books which school will most likely not force you to read?
Watching this for the first time in 70mm Imax was maybe the greatest cinema experience I've ever had.
Nice
im so jealous. need this film to re-rerelease in imax theaters again
My favorite part about this movie is the whole time/relatively aspect and Black holes have always interested me. The fact that you can age only a few hours, when someone who’s further away from the singularity will age years and years just completely blows my mind and it’s even crazier to think that shit like that is realistic! Such a good movie
maybe true but the best part in the movie for me was when Cooper was stuck in that crazy looking dimension between his daughter's book shelf.
I almost thought he might jump out of there and land directly in front of Jessica Chastain for some funny reason.
that really made me crack a smile. like some old-school cartoon show. Looney Tunes.
I find Interstellar to be one of those movies that every time I watch it, I find something new to love.
I cry everytime i watch it
Like lamp... I love lamp...
Everytime I watch, I find a new plot hole that takes me further from “Meh” to “WOW there’s some shitty writing in this”.
you are a fucking dipshit ,and garbage human........interstellar is dumb and infantile , the sci and fi part together equals a fuckin zero in this movie
@@Readmypost same omg
I think it's a film the swung for the fences and struck out in a few places, but I still love the originality and the ideas Nolan tries to convey.
Also the docking scene after Mann blows the airlock is an incredible sequence.
I get if people didn't like it, but I love it personally.
"Justified Dishonesty" is the common Theme among all his Movies.
The thing is they're right to a degree. I love sci-fi and all the space travel stuff, but we would be extinct before we could make it more difficult to rehab earth than it would be to relocate or terraform another planet. A lot of sci-fi seems to be very escapist as opposed to solution oriented. We can't just all blast off to a new home, there isn't one in our solar system and if there is one outside our solar system the best we could (in quite a few decades of technological advances) hope to send is a small colonist ship to start a fledgling population, which does no good for everyone left behind.
Maybe when a movie like Interstellar is controversial, I believe it's because it's themes appeal a lot to the individual in a personal level. Our previous experiences count a lot. Also, the docking scene was thrilling!
Finally someone who understands.
Wow I never caught Nolan’s allusions to heart of darkness!!
They explicitly mention it in the dialogue.
Ok, there is something you ignored when making the video. Matthew Mcconaughey' caracter, Joseph Cooper (JC), as you said, is an anallogy to Jesus Christ (JC); Do you remember what Jesus said about love?: “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
Don't you think that if we really loved one another, leaving evil, envy and selfishness aside, we would advance more as humanity?
Don't you think that if we recognize ourselves within a group, that of being human, and truly love ourselves, without distinctions of races or flags, we will be able to survive in spite of everything?
Maybe Cooper is being guided by the love of his daughter and Amelia is being guided by the love of her lover, but Romilly, Doyle and the other astronauts, who have no family or ties, are being guided by another type of love: love for humanity.
So, Christopher Nolan is making us a statement of the importance of love in the advancement and survival of humanity, an idea that departs from religion. But on the other hand, it clearly shows us another atheistic / agnostic reasoning: Humanity does not need that a God come to solve our problems and save us but that it is we, humanity, who are going to save ourselves.
In conclusion, Christopher Nolan is using religious and non-religious discourses to explain the path that humanity must follow to achieve survival throughout eternity. So yes, I believe that Interstellar is a masterpiece, that it does not have an inch of foolishness and that in fact it is one of the deepest films that have been made.
woah
Holy crap please write my essays
Luis Alberto Calle Parra Nice connection of dots here
Ok add religion to movie
"Don't let me go Murph."
The film in a nutshell as I can see it.
Man, I have always dreamt of Faramir having his own channel on youtube
Aye, he is the best at narrating and telling stories, even though he only has one eye.
😂
"A chance for Faramir, Captain of Gondor, to show his quality."
Actually, the thing that bothered me most about the movie was a genius explaining what a black hole is to a genius.
Cooper obviously had some knowledge of science but he wasn't a physicist, he was a pilot. He may have understood the concepts while missing the deeper nuances.
@@infinitypilot That's what I have to tell myself to keep from spoiling an otherwise brilliant movie. When I first heard that dialogue, I was got this image in my head of a meeting between the studio and Nolan "You need to tell the audience what a black hole is."
"I think anybody interested in the movie already knows."
"OK, but put in an explanation any way if you want funding."
Thus really obvious exposition was created.
I wish they had a flash back to coop being taught about black holes by coop, or present day by the professor before the they goofed and lost 23 years.
@@infinitypilot It wasn't for him, the exposition was for the audience. Nolan seemed to go through a phase of that. There's a lot of smart little pictograms on show so the audience gets the info needed to understand the story arc.
leggallery Yeah you’re right, an easy fix would have been Coop teaching Murph.
TLDR: Have your own opinion and don't blindly listen to critics
Interstellar is underrated the whole concept and whole blackhole and using relativity theory was genius something different. MASTERPIECE. more i grow i appreciate this movie more pretentious movie critic had criticism because it was mainstream but now this movie is something special
It isn't. It wants to be and that is something to admire, because most movies just want to get asses on cinema seats, but it misses the mark by some distance. It's not as thought provoking or as much fun as Inception, for example. It came close, maybe, but Nolan was going to make a dud eventually. I am not his greatest fan, I admit. I love The Prestige and I will always have time for Batman Begins and Inception (I enjoyed Dunkirk too), but Interstellar, nah, it did nothing for me. Great looking, no doubt about it, but it tried far too hard to be 'the next this or the next that'. A little bit 2001, a little 'the Black Hole'. Perhaps Nolan needed a bit of a let down. It must of worked because Dunkirk was enjoyable.
@@davidlean1060 it all opinionated but I disagree I fucking love this movie
Gunbuster did it first. Sure, it's an anime for diehard weebs but the concept of time relativity being a factor to space travel was a major plot point and it came out in the 80's.
David Lean i think everyone perceives the “marvel” of space to a different degree. For me, the movie made me think of time, my humble insignificance within this unbelievably huge universe, and the beauty and magnificence of the black hole. It was an experience I never felt before except for maybe Carl Sagans documentaries. I feel like some people feel this strongly and some don’t, and this is a large part of the reason the audience is so split on interstellar
Err, time dilation had already been done in the first Planet of the Apes movie in the 60s and people flying into black holes was done in 2001 Space Odyssey (sort of) and the movie Black Hole. Hans Zimmer's Ost was special, yes, the rest is hust the usual Hollywood recycling ideas and blending them with themes for the casual audience.
Will 8-Bit Philosophy ever come back
I hope for an episode on Kropotkin
8-bit philosophy: deep or dumb?
Patience dear viewer.
The future humans in the tesseract needed Cooper's love for Murph to show them the right moment in time to send her messages that would enable her to solve the gravity equation, like the video says. The gravity equation, in turn, made it possible to lift many (perhaps all) surviving humans into space colonies (I have always assumed that the one we see at the end of the film is NOT the only one. When you have one, you can use it to build another, and then use those to build two more, and so on. The intervening decades would have been time enough to build a LOT of colonies in the solar system, and anti-gravity technology would make it simple to lift the needed materials off Earth, Ceres, or wherever).
But WHY did the future humans need the emotional connection? I figure it's because they needed to use a high-quality memory of the time and place, stored in the patterns of Coop's brain. He and the robot, having fallen into a very large black hole, would exist as patterns of information on the surface of the event horizon, and it is this information that the future humans worked with. The tesseract is simply how HE experienced it. His memories, combined with the needed data about gravity, enabled the sending of a crude message in the dimension we call time, and it may have failed many times (if we subscribe to many-worlds theories of quantum physics) but the survivors would experience the timeline where the message succeeded and future humans existed to send it.
Your comment is as mind-boggling to me as the movie itself!
Exactly!
He died when he went into the blackhole...everything that happened...happened in Coopers death dream...what was real? That Dr. Brand never planned for them to save the people of earth and THEY NEVER DO...the people of earth died and Amelia starts the human race on Edmunds planet...Cooper Died...everything you see on earth is Coopers death dream...all of it.
Mister Sir and your source?
@@mistersir1170 bruh thats like believing qll of ash's adventures from pokemon were all a coma dream.
One interesting look into the love subject may be provided by Jung's psychological theory. Love is the "primordial force", that drives the psyche through life. Jung places love in opposition to fear. Love is the psychological experience that drives a person towards anything in the world, that might be an object, a person or an idea; and fear acts the opposite, driving a person away from something/someone. If we look at the "unknown" as a symbolic representation of the unconscious, love is what lead us to explore it, getting to know what we really are, as a person and as a species. If we fear the unknown, we fear the uncounscious, thus driving us away from getting to know ourselves and remain perceiving reality not as it is, but as our own fantasy.
With the possible exception of the whole love thing, I think interstellar has the best/most accurate depiction of the 5th dimension in any popular media I'm familiar with
Everest Jarvik YES
Well yea, they worked with kip thorne for this movie
Deep or dumb insterstellar is one of my favorite movie ever
@Blue .Barrymore overhyped or not, it still made us feel something. and i think that's enough justification :)
Its also related to dazed and confused . Coop traveled to the past and found a life in Austin Texas
Blue .Barrymore There’s two things i love about this film: 1) The visuals and 2) Hans Zimmers Incredible soundtrack
it's my favourite
On god
I wouldn't say it's dumb, but I also wouldn't go so far as to say it was a masterpiece. It has its moments, but as you've pointed out there are some conceptual flaws
Regardless, I sorely wish Studio films were as ambitious as this film was more often.
Same 😃👍 I love this film, but I also wouldn't say that it's a Masterpiece or its too dumb. It's somewhere in the middle for me.
Exactly, it is perhaps one of my favorite movies ever and is very clever. But yeah, a little dumb
@@TheGeorgeD13 Yes agree.
Good parts, awfull parts. Ambitious, actually made an effort.
Damn never realized he didnt ask about his son after being saved. Thats cold
Well he’s dead
This movie is really deep and has a lot of heartbreaking moments. Probs one of the only movies ever that make the characters show and feel more emotions
Little disappointed you didn't mention Memento when bringing up Nolan's previous smart films.
Seriously. That film is phenomenal.
I agree. Memento is a brilliant film esp. when you get to the end. Guy Pearce was phenomenal in his role. I'd place Memento far ahead of this movie IMO.
memento is a remake . not orignal
@@kabirrishi6288 , oh you mean Gajhni is a remake of memento? Get your facts rights before you assert something.
Kabir Rishi stupid
You see Kubrick was cold & objective, seemingly suggesting that humanity will never change their violent ways. Though he presents just a bit a hope with the Starchild, more or less saying that humanity must transcend their ways. These themes are present in most of his filmography.
Nolan on the other hand went for something more emotional & soulful, spiritual almost. Rather than just telling us to evolve, he offers a clear pathway. He makes it clear that humanity will transcend eventually anyway, plan A or B, humanity would still survive. But how and/or why, because of Love.
In a way Interstellar is a response to 2001 & Kubrick.
Go shit dumbass
@@dontsubscribeme9547 lol 2001 is not as good just vissually.
@@davidlean1060 lol i think you just read too deep into something that is just a mitake lol
@@thewriterforge Not to troll you, but calling yourself 'the writer's society' and then failing to use punctuation and spelling correcly is a bit dumb. Not a troll, just an observation.
I'd agree with most of what you said about Kubrick. However, it'd be unjust to leave out what 2001 gets you to begin thinking about. Will man get past violence? What will man evolve into? Can man rely on technology? And more.
Interstellar does make me feel more because of the human relationships, and that is definitely important. If I can criticize Interstellar, it does come off more "Hollywoody", with its more usual ending.
Both are incredible movies that I'm so happy exist.
16:37 It’s not him literally communicating with love, it’s him knowing what will get her attention, as he knows her. Also, I think the reason he realizes that humanity did this in the future is, that Murph telling the story of her room forward would mean future humanity knowing the significance of it.
The ”love transcends time and space” scene was always pretty clear to me. From everything they know, Mann’s planet seems to be the safer option. Brand knows this, and her monologue is just an attempt to rationalize seeing a loved one again. It’s disregarded by the other characters as it is disregarded by the audience. Adding to this scene, it’s mentioned that the reason Edmund stopped sending messages could be a broken transmitter, but since that seems unlikely, they go to Mann who’s still transmitting. I like how they don’t spell out in the end that Brand either fixed the transmitter or had a new one, which is why Murph knows of Brand’s situation and why humanity is seemingly going to that planet.
Anyway, I feel like everything in this film adds up, it’s emotional, it’s interesting and the visuals are breathtaking. My favorite from Nolan, Memento is just behind.
If I'm honest, I found Inception a tad blander when compared with Interstellar.
Leonardo Datore Objectively I think they’re about the same, but love although dumb at first glance in Interstellar it really gave insight into what is truly not understood, in a universe where we can survive great odds using our imaginations. Whereas implanting an idea is more of a logical attempt at manipulating ones world to change their perceptions of others around them to study in a second dream, and navigate that plane to bring them in Deeper and essentially use that changed perception to have one formulate an idea on their own.
Interstellar is still better though because is shows out humanity not our intelligence and influence over others through our ingenuity
I agree. I like it well enough, but it's long runtime felt bloated and just an excuse for more action scenes; Interstellar actually needed to be that long.
I felt the opposite.
@@aaroncurtis8545 lol interstellar had it's own fair share of scenes that either dragged for too long or werent even neccessary...
I thought the opposite. Interstellar seems a bit unfocused to me, or maybe restrained, as if it was meant to be twice it's run time but had to be smashed in a little box. Inception, on the other way, does everything it proposes to because it's a more simple and grounded story. It bites as much as it can chew.
Interstellar ain’t definitely about Coop’s son...
This movie came out when I was in an astronomy class in college. My professor said the science was fine since it's all theoretical, but she's always so disappointed that space movies never think about the little things like eating or going to the bathroom, etc. while the characters are traveling through space. She had a whole 20 minute rant about that during one of our lectures.
I personally didn't pay too much attention to the whole relationship between father and daughter narrative what did get my emotional side to boil was the masterful use of sound and music (Hans Zimmer is a worldwide treasure) in the film coupled with the theme of boldness, recklessness, sacrifice and never ending hope in the face of potentially insurmontable adversity.
It is for me a perfectly calibrated analogy about how we humans have the capacity to fight against incredible odds even when our rational side pictures it as foolish or hopeless, Cooper is the idealistic dreamer with a somewhat naive courage that manages to triumph over doom like situation with perseverance while being aware of the situation he is in, it's an informed self-conscious gigantic middle finger to cynicism, and in this post-modernist, cynical and nihilistic obsessed age it was truly a beautiful film and message to be reminded of.
"Do not go gentle into that good night" Keep fighting, it's never over until it is.
If you want a scene that encapsulates the whole idea of the movie, rewatch the Cornfield chase scene and the Docking scene and pay close attention to the dialogues (Particularly for the cornfield chase) that's for me the whole message the film is trying to convey, also and of course the music is absolutely magnificent.
Loved it and I wish I could see it again in a cinema.
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I just did lol
That scene when Cooper cries makes me cry... every. single. time. Godamn it's so powerful.
Nolan's films come across as intellectually superficial, where as Kubrick's films tend toward emotional superficiality. In my opinion, their styles are diametrically opposed
Ofc. There's no comparison (unless we're making fun of Nolan and his audiences. :))
Kubrick's films are superior!
@@nostromov7892 yeah bro😝😝😝
Interstellar was the first film that made me cry and stare in awe at the scenes unfolding in front of me on my shitty old monitor... It really left a mark on me back in middle school and fuelled my love for space science; now I'm a senior in high school about to go into engineering with hopes of being an aerospace engineer haha. I still haven't rewatched it, because I'm waiting for the right moment.
This film made me cry too, to my utter surprise.
I didn't cry but oh boy was it an emotional rollercoaster
Yes. This is why it is the greatest movie ever made. Years before the Nolans got involved, Kip Thorne wanted to make a film that would inspire people to learn about science and the universe, hopefully resulting in them making these their life pursuit. If you have decided to try your hand at becoming an aerospace engineer because you saw Interstellar, then it is an undeniable success, despite any complaints the naysayers may have about bookcases and love.
I'm glad it inspired you, but actually it was mediocre at best, except for the visual effects. If you want real mind-blowing space-science stuff, check out Isaac Arthur's UA-cam channel.
I'm glad it inspired you, but actually it was mediocre at best, except for the visual effects. If you want real mind-blowing space-science stuff, check out Isaac Arthur's UA-cam channel.
I too forgot about his son until you mentioned it at the end. It makes sense.
J_ J I think Nolan considered it but ultimately omitted coop asking about him because his son had moved on and the doctor telling him that his daughter was on her way implied that he was no longer alive. It may just me justifying to myself why he didn’t ask about him.
This movie actually helped shaped my future and what I wanted to do. I now make aerospace parts and have a deep love and interest in engineering
I love this movie. The first time I saw it I hated it, but the second time I fell in love. It's not perfect, but man it renews my hope in humanity every time.
OMG the philosophy of Matt Damon!!!!
(Why does he always have to 'get saved' ?)
only twice though!
@@adityasanthosh702 saving pvt ryan, interstellar, the martian
@@quasarulas3968 i forgot the saving private ryan
Guess he's just got that kinda face 😂
The film is great, but stumbles when it comes to the love stuff... instead of that monologue from Hathaway's character, it should have been more subtle.
I think it's a study of humanity. Individually we're just human. As a race we can make things happen.
All the main characters have been broken down to an emotional low at times, until only their primary driving force remains. (While the old doctor has been lying, his primary drive was the survival of the species, while Mann's drive was his own survival). But emotions also make us capable of true greatness and this is at least as important as the science that makes it possible.
I think they wanted to convey that science is not boring; it's at the heart of everything and the human willpower is at the heart of it, and there are no limits to where it can take us. This is a strong and important message.
Bram Weinreder this is exactly what I try to convey to anyone who thinks the movie is dumb, it’s not 100% about the space or the love but what we aspire to be, our faults and how we always get back up despite them.
>"Make the unknown knowable"
>"The 4th dimension is not time, it is love" **waves hands**
btw, love allows you to bend time
@@cabrondemente1 Of course! Bend time, revive people, whatever your bad plot needs. I hated it in the Matrix and i hate it here.
Love is the new Deus Ex Machina...
Love was simbolized by the watch, it made the connection between Cooper and his daughter tangible and accessible. It's pretty obvious and simple really.
He doesn't have to search for the exact moment, just for the watch to send the data.
Love made he give the watch to her (trying to appeal to her scientific curiosity to ease her pain). And even hating what her father did, she would keep and observe it closely because it was her father's parting gift.
So I disagree about the "love is not defined as well as other things" in the movie.
Love was just the way for Cooper to find a way to send the message against impossible odds. That's what the "aliens" used in their equation to save humanity.
It may be somewhat corny but it works beautifully in the story.
But yeah, as with any other movie or story, it's as deep or dumb as your own expectations and experiences make it to be.
For me the movie is just brilliant, on so many levels that everytime I rewatch it I notice a new little thing. The last one was that their ship, Endurance, is shaped like a clock face.
Thank you! this needed to be said. people are getting way too hung up on the clunky writing of the Anne Hathaway love monologue and totally missing the bigger picture. Sure, they could've articulated that better, but FFS can we appreciate how unbelievably ambitious this film was in every way?
This is how much I love this movie👇🏻
“Intersteller goes to Oscar”
2001 A Space Odyssey is looked at more as a piece of art. Interstellar is going to be remembered as an experience. Literally every aspect of this movie, whether its the acting, direction, cinematography, the editing, the sound design, THE MUSIC, set design, and writing(debatable)...is firing on all cylinders. It represents the peak of filmmaking. It also has 2 scenes that I think will go down in history as some of the greatest scenes put on film; watching his children’s messages scene and the docking sequence.
I remember seeing this movie in IMAX on the first day of release, planned it perfectly to make sure i got there early to get center seats and not too close to the screen. Right after Cooper pleads to Dr. Mann not to dock and then Mann blew himself up, Cooper accelerates towards the Endurance and Dr. Brandt then asks Cooper what he's doing, and he just says..."docking" (Cue Hanz Zimmer's score). I lost my shit in the theater, I got goosebumps and literally leaned forward and audibly said pretty loudly "what...the...fuck!?!". As the scene went on I remember thinking, Nolan... you crazy bastard , you just cranked the intensity up to a 10. Then the music tipped it over to an 11. That moment, that sequence with that music and the sound just blasting. Sensory Overload...I will never forget the experience.
Seriously, if you sat down and really thought about "what" this movie is about, like really thought about all its themes, all its layers of depth and what its trying to say, your gonna come to only one conclusion. Its about Everything.
Kinda rude speaking in the theater
Please do a game of thrones season 8: what went wrong? After the season is done
Absolutely
The Anime got ahead of the Manga.
easy: D&D are two fucking hacks, now it shows
I’ll tell you what went wrong. No character development before important moments. If Dany would’ve had 2 or 3 more episodes to go crazy, then people would’ve accepted it and not seen it as forced. The character development that was already there (Jaime’s arc) and the traits of the characters (Tyrion has always been strategic and smart) are ignored completely. The pseudo realism that was there is completely ignored (Dany taking out all of the scorpions in 5 minutes). Basically if the show had two full final seasons all of these problems could’ve been avoided by allowing characters to finalize their stories and plot lines. Instead we got rushed endings
G.R.R. Martin writes in outlines, broad strokes before meandering through them in depth. So when they hit the end of written material Martin was only able to give them the bones of the ending. So they shot for that ending and events as straight as possible, ignoring character development and expansion to the plot. So it feels rushed and shallow.
Murphy's law was NEVER intended to mean "whatever can go wrong will go wrong" it was always intended the way Cooper said it: "Whatever can happen will happen". The expression was twisted and later applied to different circumstances than it was originally designed for.
i always imagine that anne hathaway says 'how'd you like them apples?' after matt damon is blown out of the airlock
Interstellar was probably one of the most intense movies I’ve watched. I could really feel the emotions Cooper was feeling whenever he saw his kids or cried. Or when Cooper and Brand found out the mission was done for no reason, I could feel their despair. And the concepts in the film were really nice, definitely got me thinking. To top it all off, the music is just so perfect,
As usual another brilliant explanation of film and tv in such detail that I overlook or occassionally misunderstand. Keep up the great work
Arrival was everything I wanted Interstellar to be, except much more concise and an hour shorter.
I loved Arrival as well but I find the comparison to be massively flawed. Both are trying to be something radically different.
@@the_bottomfragger They're both movies about humanity in the grander scheme of the cosmos given perspective through the smaller story of individuals, with time shenanigans that end up centering around the theme of love.
Agreed…Interstellar is a mediocre film with a big budget..a few things:
a. Humor is juvenile
b. Story telling is done by characters telling the audience consistently what is going on scientifically
c. The “dust bowl” earth was not believable
d. Mathew’s acting and lines were histrionic and pedantic
e. The robot was completely impractical..a prop yes, but a functioning useful piece of tech absolutely not
This was an OK movie with a big budget, however poor writers…
alright, alright, alright. That's what I love about these time travel movies, they keep getting older, I stay the same age.
Underrated comment
On the interview, Why you come to the interview?
A answer: i love this job
B answer: i am greed
*As long as it stirs emotions in majority - its purpose is fulfilled*
@Blue .Barrymore Please stop comparing this movie, or people's expressions of feelings it created, to 9/11. Apples and oranges are a more appropriate comparison than yours.
Yeah, my emotion was "disappointment." Does that count?
I remember it was snowing the night this movie came out. My friends and I saw the very last showing of the day. After it finished I stood outside and saw how bright the stars were that winter as we wandered alone in the quiet parking lot. How white the snow was, yet unfettered by the muck from the cars we'd created. Each flake was a kiss from the stars, so small. So insignificant, unique but easily lost, endless but limited, so quick to melt, fade, and be forgotten. I held my hand out to touch these kisses, and realized we were one in the same. I was a giant holding a spark of light. So tiny, fragile, and precious. As we looked at each other, I wondered as I saw my reflection in it's fading puddle if it had ever asked these questions too. We were alone together. Just us... The kiss from the stars and I. The movie definitely did its job.
it's like saying a beer is good if it gets you drunk..
@@seribelz beer and writing/media serve two very different pragmatic functions though. However if you're using either for entertainment, then yeah, if you can get drunk off of the beer it WOULD be good. Depends on what you're using the item for. It's all subjective.
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*Is playing Stellaris at this moment*
I checked out when the supposed astronaut scientist said they should ignore data and go with the fuzzy feelings in her chest because i think love travels through space like gravity.
I first watched this movie massively overtired starting at like 3 AM, so it was deep AF for me.
Also has an amazing soundtrack that helps with the deepness feeling
so very true.. you hit it right on the head!
I kind of wish y'all made a nod to Contact, where McConaughey is a priest and arguing against crazy space travel
I was thinking the same. I wasn't aware of Contact until I saw it a month ago. Absolutely loved the movie..
I completely forgot about that, that's an awesome connection.
I love Interstellar....it is DEEP
Ar Ar 2001 is a joke compared to interstellar
@@kallsin4617 16 year old kid said.
Ali Caramba you like watching 25 minutes of no dialogue? Be my guest
Lol if you unironically think Interstellar is deep you should probably watch more movies
@儿儿 and what makes 2001 a space oddessy any different? I argue that interstellar has a better message than 2001
I've just watched the movie. And that leads to this brilliant analysis and synopsis...
Excellent thinking wisecrack...keep it up... you've made not only my day...but this made me more hopeful!!! 🥰
Ya'll gotta be honest, the soundtrack was absolutely beautiful!
- How honest are you?
- I'd say not totally honest but all around... mostly honest.
Soooo, is it really 90%?
in most moba type games, there's this mechanism called random number generator (RNG) made specifically for percentage base calculation, let say you got 25% chance to bash when hitting another hero, that doesn't mean, every time you hit you got 1 in 4 chance of bashing, but instead it started pretty low (usually 8% or so), and ramping up every time you didn't bash, since the percentage keep going up you will eventually hit a bash and the countdown restarted to the lowest number again. On average the ramping up percentage average to around 25%
Now back to TARS, when it said it didn't lie 90% of the time, it probably means that every time it didn't lie, it percentage goes up until inevitably it would lie, they could simply add variables like the impact of the lie toward the receiver to control the amount of percentage. That way on average TARS only lie 10% of the time.
sorry for me babbling like an idiot, I am procrastinating here.
@@MrWillypanda88 No, that's fascinating!
@@MrWillypanda88 Pretty sure in this scenario, TARS just assess the situation and makes a decision on whether to lie or not. By 90% it probably means he's going to be truthful when necessary and try his best to lie the 10% of the time where the telling the truth might be a bad idea. That's why he said being honest every time with emotional beings that might act selfishly or abandon the mission isn't a great idea. You need that 10% to make sure that everybody sticks to their path and doesn't just act out.
If it were RNG, he'd just randomly lie. Like when you tell it to check something and it just slacks off due to its 90% honesty parameter.
@@Redomic but by using RNG TARS can make actually make judgement about whether it should lie. I don't really know how to program judgements into an AI btw. But by giving it conditions that can affect its' percentage to lie, then it could simulate a judgement based on the merit of the lie. By using RNG it can also simulate the weight of the lie itself, or to make more difficult to constantly lie, if by luck, even with 90% chance of telling the truth TARS somehow managed to lie 3 times in a row, then it will be forced to tell the truth because the RNG is against it. Of course those were on the assumption of NASA wanted to make TARS humanlike....
I found it deep and inspiring in every aspect.
That movie was absolutely amazing
It's incredible that this movie is still being talked about years after release. I've gone back and watched this about 3 times and each time I feel the emotion for the scientific, for the space travel, for the aspect of love, and they all are done so well. I am not a religious person so hearing that was a focus in the movie was nice. I've had friends tell me that they did not like the science, or they did not get the same message of love from this and all I can say is that I wish they would watch the movie again. I loved hearing more about Murphy's Law, Dylan Thomas's poem, the Heart of Darkness movie, and the understanding of love. In science they have been trying to find single unifying theory of fundamental forces (I think this is what Murph solved) and how the exploration for it was lost as everyone became farmers. This story is bringing it back to being explorers and figuring out that there is another force involved, and it is the very force that can make a father go through this amazing journey. One of my favourite movies of all time!
Not often a Welshman gets a mention but I'm proud to see Dylan Thomas best poem mentioned in one of your videos ☺️
I have a problem with the "love is the answer" and "future humans" thing. Just because some character said it doesn't mean you should accept it at face value. I think the tesseract scene goes waaay beyond "because love". I think the point being made is that our minds transcend spacetime. When Cooper goes into Gargantua, instead of simply dying, his mind stays alive and latches on to Murph because that's all he could think of, so the tesseract is just a representation of spacetime made by Coop's mind. Since the mind transcends spacetime, Coop can wield gravity from inside a blackhole, to affect multiple things in different time periods. He sent himself the coordinates to NASA, he sent Murph the data and he opened the wormhole. It is a paradox, sure, but there is no need for "future humans" or a mystical interpretation of love as a higher force. In the end, love was just the tool that made Coop's mind focused enough to wield gravity and transcend spacetime.
The "future humans" thing solely put in the film is to push atheism at the audience in the most absurd and ridiculous way that it ironically and unintentionally becomes more ridiculous and absurd and illogical and dogmatic than any real life religion. I believe that the intended message behind the film is stop following supposed dogmatic religions and be an atheist and follow the science. But it seems that the film unintentionally shows atheism is actually more tin foilery than any religion. There is certainly an atheistic agenda behind the film that is apparent.
When Mann says "Truth is, I never really considered the possibility that my planet wasn't the one" it is not a "statement of arrogance". Other scientists were sent to other planets. He was sent to this planet. It's easiest to differentiate by stating it this way than stating the scientific planet name.
Murphy worked for NASA during the Apollo (and probably other) projects. The statement is meant as a warning to make sure nothing remains that can go wrong, not resignation to failure. In reality it's sad that people invoke his name when something goes wrong because his whole life was dedicated to avoiding problems.
I'm in tech, so when something goes wrong we often say, sarcastically, "thanks Murphy." I should start saying (when my stuff breaks) "sorry Murphy."
Interstellar is a piece of art that depends on the viewer to filter it through their own lens. Depending on your life experiences, ideas and understanding, you will see this film through that lens and come away with a different understanding. Some will look at this analytically and say the science is stupid and wrong, some will look at the emotional beats and not find value in them and others will just not understand anything about it at all because maybe its too high concept. In my mind, Nolan is making a film about the human condition and love, and the science aspects are just a vehicle to propel that story forward. Some will think differently, but I count Interstellar among my favorite films of all time and see it as beautiful piece of art. Great breakdown.
Wish I could like this more than once. I'll give my experience. I'm a devout Christian and through my experiences, I see this film as having a strong Christian message. Once he finishes transmitting the message to Murph, he simply says "what happens now?". He knew his duty was completed and he was ready for whatever would come next. That, through my experience, mirrors what Jesus said right before he died on the cross, "it is finished".
Thank you for the insightful comment.
I have a _Deep or Dumb_ request: Under the Silver Lake. STEEPED in symbolism, a surrealist neo-noir film that has an extremely polarizing effect. I'm curious as to your take. (It went direct to VOD on amazon because the studio didn't know what to do with it, if you're not sure where to watch).
It’s fucking deep. This movie is so fucking amazing
The only flaw in Interstellar is that they go to Miller's planet first. They should have gone to Miller's planet last.
If not for that flaw, the movie would have been up to the same standard as Inception and Dark Knight.