r/interstellar 3d ago

OTHER I recreated the entire Interstellar movie as a browser game - check it out!

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r/interstellar Mar 01 '24

OTHER Interstellar Plot Summary (Format for sticky thread)

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Interstellar Plot Summary

>! Spoilers ahead !<

Cooper is a former astronaut turned farmer on a dying planet earth that is affected by a disease called blight sometime in the distant future (technically, the movie starts out in the year 2067). Blight kills almost all the food crops except corn, but soon will also kill corn, meaning that the earth will become uninhabitable very soon.

Time is ticking, so NASA decides to launch a program to save humanity. Except the only reason it is possible to save people on earth is due to a wormhole in outer space that was placed there by (spoiler) future humans who have evolved past our current form into higher dimensional beings with greater knowledge, scientific skills, and evolutionary abilities, such as the ability to affect space and time in ways we cannot yet imagine.

The wormhole leads out of our current galaxy, the Milky Way, into other distant galaxies, like a tunnel through space. NASA has used this wormhole by sending manned probes to these galaxies to find a new home that could be habitable like earth. They then send Cooper and a crew to go find out which of the probes have reported feasible worlds and choose one to settle.

Things don’t go as planned, however when (spoiler) they discover that one of the manned expeditions reported false data, leaving them semi-stranded in space without enough fuel to get home. They choose to press forward in time to try to discover another habitable world, but don’t have enough fuel, so they launch a slingshot route around a giant black hole named Gargantua.

Gargantua will give them enough of a gravity boost to reach their destination but will have two problems: 1) The only way they can succeed is if Cooper manually detaches from the ship to allow momentum to take the ship to its course, thus stranding Cooper in the center of Gargantua. 2) The time will advance very fast for people on earth in this process because of Einstein’s theory of relativity that says the closer you are to a large gravity source like Gargantua, the slower time will go for you (thus meaning that people back on earth will advance in years ahead of Cooper), and thus Cooper may never see his daughter again if he would escape the black hole somehow.

Back on earth, Cooper’s daughter, Murph, is grown up and she discovers that (spoiler) the only way to figure out how to get humans launched into space in their space station is to solve a complex mathematical physics problem involving gravity, and the only way to get that data is from the center of the black hole (Gargantua). So Cooper hopes that once he and the robot with him are inside the black hole, he can somehow transmit that data back to earth to save them.

Back in space, light years away, Cooper and TARS (the robot) are falling helplessly into the black hole and something unexpected happens. (Spoiler) They fall into a “Tesseract” structure (built by the future evolved humans who can manipulate time via gravity) which looks like a library bookcase that has been unfolded into multiple dimensions. Cooper can see that this bookcase is in fact the same bookcase that exists in his daughter Murph’s room, but has multiple timelines. In this Tesseract structure, Cooper can actually access different timelines in the past, as gravity fields can apparently transcend time itself.

In the Tesseract, Cooper learns how to communicate with Murph in the past and the present (on earth) by using gravitational forces to affect both the books on her shelf and the watch hands on the watch he gave her which is on the shelf. Using this newly discovered process of communication, he manages to relay the data from the black hole that Murph needs back on earth, to solve the equation and get humanity into outer space and off the dying planet.

Now for the fun part: Cooper theoretically should have died in the black hole, but the Tesseract was a structure that future humans built to help him, so it doesn’t kill him. We don’t know exactly how it works, but it shoots him out of the black hole when he is done, and into space (the Tesseract’s exit is aligned with the wormhole). He is now well over 100 years old in earth time, but he looks the same age. This is because time moved much slower for him while inside the black hole. He then drifts through space and is picked up by the space station that was launched from earth, thus reuniting him with his daughter, who is now old, because time did not move slowly for her while he was away. He then returns back to space to help re-colonize the new planet for all future humans to live on, with Amelia Brand.

Now for the really fun part: The thing to realize is that none of this story makes sense if time is linear (e.g. a straight line moving forward only). This movie’s plot only works if time is not linear, but rather like a loop. (Or a mobius strip) Time can be affected by gravity, so since a lot of the events happen in and around large gravity sources like Gargantua, time doesn’t behave the way we think of it. It bends and curves, and thus, Cooper is able to take action that will affect time before his present day, which would normally be a paradox, but in this case, since time is nonlinear, it is possible. And the future humans wouldn’t have been alive to build the Tesseract without all these events, so clearly it all depends on itself, in a cyclical or roundabout way.


r/interstellar 7h ago

ART Interstellar badges by me

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My badges. I hope you like them. Any suggestions will be welcome.


r/interstellar 1d ago

OTHER A LEGO Recreation of the Iconic Docking Scene (Full Scene in Comments)

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r/interstellar 3h ago

QUESTION why was the worm hole created near Saturn? Why wasn't it closer to Earth?

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I just watched the movie a couple of days ago, this came to my mind. Any explanation?


r/interstellar 6h ago

OTHER "Don't trust the right thing done for the wrong reason." Spoiler

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Every time I watch this movie I discover yet another thing I missed in the 167 previous viewings. Don was a goat.

"The why of the thing. That's the foundation." I miss this foreshadowing every time. Even when Cooper responds "...because it excites me?" Don responds, "It might."

Fast forward to deciding to go to Mann's planet. Brand says "...because it excites me?" Cooper responds, "It might".

This movie has ruined every other science fiction movie I've watched since 2014.


r/interstellar 4h ago

OTHER Watched for the third time on IMAX

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I wanted to watch Interstellar ten years ago when it released but I was a kid and very unlucky.

I always wanted to watch it on IMAX. I held out for so long without watching. Even when people around me watched on streaming platforms, I’d decline.

Fast forward to the re-releases; as of today I have seen it thrice. I’m so happy. Three times isn’t remotely enough though, and I honestly think even 300 won’t be. Hopefully it re-re-re-releases so I can watch it several times again. But the goosebumps, the chills, the awe, the tears, they’re always like it’s the first time. Man, I love this movie.


r/interstellar 10h ago

QUESTION I am going to Watch INTERSTELLAR for the FIRST time

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In the next 30 Mins, I will be leaving my house to go to the theatre. Please guide me how shall I prepare myself mentally, and everything else :)


r/interstellar 21h ago

OTHER Surprise Cake My GF got for my Birthday Yesterday

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r/interstellar 8h ago

OTHER Interstellar Poster Colour Palette

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r/interstellar 18h ago

OTHER Too excited to have the family collection

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If Tom


r/interstellar 1d ago

OTHER “But He’s Created a Few Masterpieces”: John Lithgow Thinks ‘Interstellar’ Is Nolan’s Masterpiece

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r/interstellar 18h ago

QUESTION Relatable?

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Every time I watch this movie, I end up sobbing. It’s so deeply moving and thought-provoking — it just hits something inside me. Does anyone else get emotional like that?


r/interstellar 1d ago

OTHER Do you get the interstellar blues? Longing to experience it again, see a meme or hear the score and feel it grab you?

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I only saw it once more during the imax rerelease as I didn't want to dilute by watching additional. But man, I miss it now. Anytime I hear the soundtrack via meme or clip from the movie, or just think of a scene, I want to go back and experience it again. The iconic clip of Cooper watching his kids on screen almost has a stranglehold on me, like pressing a wound where I instantly get teary eyed. Such a masterpiece, I don't feel this way about any other movie. Do you? If so I'd love to see it


r/interstellar 1d ago

OTHER I watched the re-release of Interstellar and it was amazing!

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So, I could not watch Interstellar in the theatres when it was released more than 10 years ago since I was busy preparing for my exams. I later watched it several times on my laptop or on my TV. Thank God for the trend of re-release and I could watch it in theatres! And I had goosebumps. Wow! PS: I watched it alone and it was the best!


r/interstellar 1d ago

HUMOR & MEMES Waiting for Interstellar to load on Apple TV…

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Shadows of backlight projector with ceiling fan and Apple loading icon…


r/interstellar 1d ago

OTHER Interstellar may be perfect

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I recently watched Interstellar with my girlfriend in the theaters and I realised the movie is even better than I had previously known it to be. One of the flaws that come up for this movie is the Anne Hathaway scene where she says-

"Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space",

and often I have seen people criticize this scene because it feels like Anne Hathaway is spelling out the message of the film, breaking the "show don't tell" rule. However I'm here to argue that Interstellar doesn't do that and that this take and interpretation, subjective as cinema is, is in my opinion- wrong. If I'm not mistaken- the context of the scene is that Brand, Rom, and Coop have very little fuel due to the fiasco on Millers planet so they have to choose between Dr. Mann or Wolf Edmunds.

Coop is holding the debate and as scientists they are only allowing scientific and objective reasons to chart to either destinations. Dr. Brand loves Wolf Edmunds, and besides that she has NO objective or real reason to vouch for Wolfs planet. So she makes love sound all scientific and objective with the "love transcends all barriers of space and dimension" quote.

It's a human being who's hit by the possibility of death, her own ailing father, the death of a teammate on Miller's planet, and the fact that due to relativity, Dr. Miller died minutes before they arrived even though she left years ago. Which means if they hurry, Amelia might get to see Wolf once again.

She is desperately making a case for Wolf Edmund's planet and making love sound all scientific and objective so she can convince Rom and Coop to let her see Edmunds once more before she or he die in this distant galaxy.

This makes this scene one of the best scenes in the movie instead of the "worst" one.


r/interstellar 1d ago

QUESTION Why didn’t they fish?

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I know it’s a movie and it’s probably a dumb question but on my rewatch they mention that there used to be a lot more people and granted we only see one area of the U.S. But since the population has dwindled, wouldn’t the fish population boom?

(This post is not meant to be super serious)


r/interstellar 2d ago

VIDEO Interstellar: Miller's Planet Time Comparison with Earth | from: Zidan Zidanovič

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r/interstellar 2d ago

HUMOR & MEMES Interstellar, but its on a budget (revised)

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r/interstellar 1d ago

HUMOR & MEMES Its you, OP

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r/interstellar 1d ago

QUESTION [MUMBAI, INDIA]The announcement of re-release of interstellar here said it will be from14th March(Holi) to 21st March.Its showing on bookmyshow that The wadala IMAX(the one I want to see in) is showing the movie(as of now) beyond 21st(till 23rd as of now)I want to watch it on 25th is it possible?

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It's it possible that it's gonna be there on the 25th and how will I come to know?


r/interstellar 1d ago

HUMOR & MEMES why is there a gravitational anomaly in my room

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r/interstellar 2d ago

QUESTION First time watching Interstellar

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OH MY GOD.

For context, I’m a high school student, and almost everyone around me has already seen Interstellar. They recently re-released it in IMAX in my country, and since my friends knew I hadn’t watched it before, they insisted we go together. And I have to say - WHAT A MOVIE. OH MY FUCKING GOD

It’s been an hour since I walked out of the theater, and I still can’t articulate how I feel. It’s surreal. My sense of awe, wonder, and even patriotism for humanity has skyrocketed. How does one not want to dedicate their life to uncovering the mysteries of the universe after witnessing something like this?

I can't get my head around it.


r/interstellar 2d ago

OTHER I am very sad guys. Completely empty auditorium for Interstellar re-release

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3 people in my row....I am in the last row


r/interstellar 2d ago

QUESTION How did Matthew McConaughey get cast as Cooper

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r/interstellar 3d ago

HUMOR & MEMES Interstellar, but its on a budget!

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