https://youtu.be/6W6XMvYH0Xs

Edit: it's a concept video and not anything official. It's in the video description - thanks to those that pointed this out.

This has to be my least favorite theme of the film. It's insanely kitschy, sentimental, and far beneath Nolan's powers as a screenwriter. It's as if he directed a film on WWII and had a character say they're going to defeat the Hitler and the Japanese with the power of friendship.

Just really bad writing in an otherwise spectacular film.

In the vastness of the cosmos, Joseph Cooper had been adrift since their mission to find humanity a new home. He had been rescued by Cooper Station, the last remaining remnants of what was once humanity's base.

One day, after months of recovery and rehabilitation, he was informed that signals had been received from a distant galaxy - the new home they had sought. It was confirmation that Dr. Amelia Brand had indeed succeeded.

Determined to reunite with her, Cooper set out on a mission aboard a spacecraft equipped for the journey. As he approached the new planet, he prepared for a long-awaited reunion.

Upon landing, he was greeted by CASE, the trusty robot that had been Dr. Brand's companion. Cooper expressed his gratitude for CASE's assistance and inquired about Amelia's whereabouts.

"Doctor Brand is in the process of setting up the initial colony," CASE informed him. "Follow me, I'll take you to her."

As they made their way to the colony site, Cooper was filled with a mix of emotions - excitement, hope, and a hint of nervousness. He had dreamt of this moment for so long.

Arriving at the colony, he spotted Dr. Amelia Brand, overseeing the construction of their new home. Their eyes met, and a flood of emotions surged through both of them.

"Cooper," Amelia exclaimed, rushing towards him with a smile that mirrored his own. They embraced, a mix of relief and joy washing over them.

"I can't believe we made it," Cooper said, overcome with emotion.

Amelia nodded, tears of happiness in her eyes. "Against all odds, we did. And now, we'll build a new beginning for humanity here."

Together, they stood on the alien soil of the new world they had discovered, ready to face the challenges and embrace the opportunities that lay ahead. Cooper knew that no matter what, as long as they were together, they could overcome anything and build a future for humanity in this distant galaxy.

I've been on psycho meds for 2 years, didn't care about the emotions ever before, just always fascinated by the cool stuff in this movie. Now watching cooper, murph, and the other characters suffering feels worse than imagining suicide. Why am I posting this? What's the point? I don't know; maybe because I'm feeling regret for not feeling this deeply before, and telling everyone this is my favorite movie of all time.

Let the flames begin, maybe.

I think the ending of Interestellar is regularly misread. While there's a lot of things that we don't know about black holes, we do know that the forces at play would not allow a human to exist and remain organically functional. It would kill us.

Matt Damon's character Dr. Mann, who never discusses his own family (who knows if he even has one) talks with Cooper about your children being the last thing that you see before you die. I think this is exactly what happens as Cooper is sucked into Gargantua. Just as he's dying, he imagines a world where he can communicate with the child he left behind and basically orphaned, to save her and others. The reality is that happy endings don't always actually happen, despite what we want.

The only thing that, IMHO, happened, was that Dr. Brand made it to the final world, the one she was trying to get to the entire time, and starts a new colony of humans, which is where Cooper also wishes he could have gone after he realizes that he barely knows the daughter that he orphaned. She has her own life and pushes him to go find the life he knows better.

Cooper is Murph’s ghost from the very beginning. Not a ghost from the future, but in the present. He’s the one sending signals in the room, even before leaving. And in the black hole, he dies.

Cooper is the ghost, and he does it on purpose. Not to change the past, but for Murph. He already knows he’ll have to leave. He knows the separation will be hard. He invents the ghost so she’ll feel like he was chosen for something important. As if a higher force had selected him. Donald, the grandfather, never takes the ghost story seriously. He’s not surprised, he doesn’t ask questions, he doesn’t comment. He just ignores it. As if he knows. Tom, the brother, at some point says: “Dad, ghosts don’t exist. Tell Murph.” No one seems affected by the signals, except Murph and Cooper. And when Cooper starts to believe, no one says anything. As if it was all expected.

The “STAY” message doesn’t come from Cooper in the future. Murph creates it in the present. She uses the books in the library to form that word in Morse code. A desperate and smart move to get her father to stay. But Cooper doesn’t react. He doesn’t take the message seriously. Because he knows it’s not his message. It’s Murph’s. On the other hand, he does take the NASA coordinates message seriously. That one he arranged. To indirectly push her toward the truth.

There are many signs that Cooper already knows what will happen. The first is the most obvious: he’s the best pilot alive and NASA didn’t call him? Clearly everything was already planned. When Tom has to fix the tire, Cooper tells him: “I won’t always be here to help you.” When he arrives at NASA and Amelia Brand says “you do know where you are.” And when Murph suggests that gravity sent the signals, Amelia Brand laughs in a strange way. Not because Murph said something silly or brilliant, but because she’s playing along with Cooper. At that point, everyone at NASA is playing along. They’re helping their best pilot make his daughter accept what’s happening. Even TARS.

Then Cooper leaves. He trusts the professor. He wants to believe plan A is possible. He leaves thinking he can save humanity.

But plan A was never possible. The equation had already been solved, but Professor Brand never told anyone. He only shared it with Mann. We find this out later, when Mann reveals it to Cooper and when the professor confesses it to Murph. The plan A was just a cover to keep hope alive.

Then comes the key moment: the black hole. Cooper detaches, sacrifices himself. And dies. There’s no other explanation. Nolan had been extremely accurate with the physics until that point. No one survives a black hole. Gravitational forces, spaghettification, the destruction of matter. It’s physically impossible. The ship is destroyed. No human could come out of that. And yet, magically, Cooper enters the Tesseract and then “wakes up” floating near Saturn. He’s picked up and taken to Cooper Station.

Everything that happens after the black hole entering is imagined. The Tesseract. The gravity data. The saving of humanity. The reunion with Murph. The mission to Amelia. These are mental projections. Symbols. Elaborate constructions from his mind in his final moments. Cooper imagines that it all meant something. That his sacrifice worked. That Murph saved the earth and became the most important human being on earth.. And that love won. Just as Amelia had said.

When Murph, now elderly, sees him again, she says: “I knew you were my ghost.” That line is for us, the viewers. Nolan puts it there to make us think again, to plant the doubt that we’ve missed something. And when she says that no parent should watch their child die, Cooper understands that if this reunion were real, he would have to watch her die. So his mind gives him the perfect ending. Murph tells him he can go. She gives him permission to let go. And he leaves.

He goes to Amelia. Why hadn’t anyone gone to look for her? Why Edmund is dead? It doesn’t matter. It’s the perfect ending. A woman alone on another planet, waiting for him. The world is saved. His daughter has forgiven him. Love wins.

I know there are theories that Cooper dies in the black hole. But this one adds a key element: the ghost at the beginning is him, in the present. This brings coherence between what we see in the first part of the film and his later death.

There’s a very specific moment that inspired this theory. When Dr. Mann is about to kill Cooper on the frozen planet, he says that science shows people see those they love most before dying. In that moment, Cooper sees Murph. Not in a happy memory, but in the most painful moment they shared: the unforgiven goodbye. When he truly dies inside the black hole, Cooper sees her again. And imagines everything that follows, built around that bond.

Interstellar is not just the story of a journey through space. It’s the story of a father who tried to save Earth and who, to do so, sacrificed the thing he cared about most: his daughter. Thanks to his sacrifice, the human species survives with the repopulation bomb. And in the final moments of his life, he imagines how it could have all gone. Ideally. It’s not just a sci-fi movie. It’s also introspection, psychology, love and guilt.

They spent 15 minutes on Millers planet so how the fuck did 23 years pass? There's gotta be a factor I'm missing because I see people love to say "Time Dilation" Like no shit Time Dilation but either more time has passed than 15 minutes or like I said I'm missing a factor, which could include Time Dilation but at a scale far too advanced for me to understand on my own.

I'm sorry but can y'all weigh in on this. After all that, he just spends a short scene with her. Like 5 lines each type sh**. And then just does the exact same thing he regretted doing in the first place? Leaving to go on a space mission with Anne Hathaway...

Please people shed some lights on motivation based on his character and stuff cause I couldn't sleep last night thinking about this lol

It breathes atmospheric Nitrogen. A highly stable molecule. Organisms need some Nitrogen, but there's a reason nothing uses it extensively.

Then humanity's plan was to traverse the ultra hostile vacuum of space, using a technology that doesn't even exist yet, to live on a planet that might be barely habitable. All the while hoping that none of their ships are contaminated with Blight spores.

How about leaving those air tight ships (that the Blight can't get into) on Earth, so a single hull failure wouldn't kill everyone on board? Without the pressure difference, damage to the hull would be much less likely and in the worst case they lose the harvest in one of these green houses. Since they can control the atmosphere inside, they could even replace most, if not all, of the atmospheric Nitrogen with Argon and stop the Blight dead in its tracks.

Also the Blight thriving in Nitrogen implies a very unique bio-chemistry. Creating a pesticide that ravages the Blight, but leaves all other life on Earth largely unharmed should be possible.

I know the Blight just a plot device, but it bugged me how little thought apparently went into it.

End of the rant.

I get that most sequels aren’t as great as the first, in my opinion there is no other movie out there that can make me cry, laugh, feel raw emotion…. But with the cliff hanger they left at the end of the movie, why isn’t there a second one? It’s not like this movie failed, it made millions… it left people loving life, questioning reality, appreciating the future their past…. Where is the second movie? I seriously can’t get over this movie, I’ve watched it 5 or 6 times and I cry each time each time I watch it. I do believe that someone out there could maybe make a second movie to continue the greatness. There is no recreating such a beautiful movie, I just wish there was more… what’s your thoughts? Do you wish they would make a second?

So, I looked at a Website that told me EXACTLY How much harm we are doing to Our Planet.

I looked it up, and It turns out that Earth is ACTUALLY Dying.

Here's what I mean: We, as a Species, are using up resources 1.7x Faster than Earth can Replenish them.

In OTHER Words, we, as a Species, are slowly, but surely, KILLING Our Planet.

I don't know how else to put it.

It's gotten SO Bad that in 2016, People met up in... Cape Town, I believe it was, and Discussed whether or not we are in a New Epoch Altogether.

No, LITERALLY. They are calling it the Anthropocene, and they said it started in 1950, which is when they said the Holocene ended.

And this is EXACTLY the Premise of a Certain Sci-Fi Movie that this Subreddit is Named After.

I don't know about you, but I'm getting Deja vu to Interstellar.

The movie gained big fanbase over the last 10 years, but with it came this stupid ass trashing on it. You don’t have to love the movie, that’s okay. But calling it shit is beyond my comprehension.

If future humans needed Cooper and Murph to solve gravity for survival,

And Cooper & Murph needed the wormhole (created by future humans) to succeed,

How did future humans come into existence in the first place?

Future humans only exist because Cooper succeeded in the past.

But Cooper only succeeded because future humans helped him.

So, who started it?

So as the movie ended on Saturn's moon, this opens the doors for an entirely new story. Imagine mundane interplanetary living, much like Futurama, with people travelling from planet to planet, moon to moon.

Nolan hasn't done many sequels so I'm not familiar with his naming convention. If he sticks to pattern, I think it's a safe bet to consider that the sequel would be named The Interstellar Rises. So basically my 2nd question is: what do you think the sequel for The Interstellar will be called?

There were tears. Literal tears for realizing the dream again. 10 years later, little older, little wiser and absolutely glad for not going gentle into that goodnight! 🙇🏻🙌🏼

Is it possible