Hi guys it's Pranav and today I'd like to give a complete explanation of "Interstellar", directed by Christopher Nolan. I wouldn't recommend reading this hasn't seen the film yet because it will contain spoilers about the whole plot. "Interstellar" is set in a close future, a time in which the Earth's vegetation and food, in general, is rapidly dying out because of a series of plant diseases, with deadly consequences for the human population. Society has also changed its manner of organization and its priorities as the world no longer requires skilled students, explorers, armies, many work categories by longer exist and most of the population works on farming.
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For example, this film's protagonist Cooper is a former engineer and NASA pilot which now lives a simpler life on a farm with his family. Soon various odd incidents start happening on his farm, for example, the combined harvesters stop working, objects seem to fall without a clear cause and an old drone flies very close by to the farm as if something had sabotaged its GPS system.
Cooper's daughter Murph is a bright spark and a science enthusiast sounder her father's encouragement she tries to find a common scheme to all these events, writing down everything she notices. Then one day after a particularly bad sandstorm Cooper and Murph notice that the sand had abnormally deposited in Murph's bedroom, forming an uncommon pattern.
Cooper soon manages to work out a set of coordinates from this pattern and sets off with his daughter Murph to see what they might reveal. The two soon discover that these coordinates lead right to a secret NASA facility, hidden away from local prying eyes as funding is now reserved for more necessary and urgent activities, not to exploring and studying. At the NASA facility, Cooper meets an old acquaintance, professor Brand with his daughter and other scientists.
They all point out to Coop that the fact that he reached that secret hidden NASA facility can't have been casual and that something led him here, somebody left him that message in the sand. cooper is very confused and skeptical but the scientists keep on with their explanation, revealing that all the odd phenomenons he had started to notice had actually begun many years earlier, for example, variations in gravity and the appearance of a wormhole in space.
Now in very simple words, a wormhole is a sort of shortcut, it is a sort of tunnel in space that could allow a spacecraft to approach very distant locations in the universe that would otherwise require decades to reach. The odd thing is that a wormhole is not a natural creation, as a matter of fact, it was placed there, it was created by somebody. Other living creatures in space? Future humans? Who knows. The fact is that it is there and would allow humans to reach new habitable planets and potentially save the human race from dying out.
Years earlier twelve brave astronauts had already traveled through this wormhole to explore potentially habitable planets. The only ones that sent a positive-feedback back to NASA were Dr. Edmunds, Dr. Miller, and Dr. Mann. So the time has come for a new team to travel again through the wormhole, inspect these planets, and evaluate whether they would be suitable for human life. The only small problem with this mission is that these potentially habitable planets are located very close to Gargantua, a huge black hole, a very dangerous region of space in which the gravitational field is so strong that it could warp time. In easy words let's say it creates a difference in time.
This could mean time like one year one of these planets could equal to years and years back on earth added to all the time taken to get there and get back.
Cooper is still very confused and not convinced about this mission but Dr.Brand insists that somebody led him there to complete this mission. So although he is reluctant mostly because of the very long time he'd have to spend away from his family, he understands the urgency of this mission and agrees to leave.
The scientists at NASA plan on potentially moving everybody from Earth onto one of these planets but they still miss very important data to formulate a correct equation and physically move everybody out into space. That very important missing information could easily be found at the center of a black hole but obviously, nobody has ever been inside a black hole or even close to it because it would result in immediate death.
So for now the scientists must rely on their limited knowledge and the data they have at the moment to formulate an equation. They plan on using a long time that Cooper and his team will spend on the mission to complete the equation in time. In case of failure of this plan A, there is a plan B which consists of thousands of frozen embryos that could potentially create a new colony of human beings on one of this planet. Obviously, this is just considered a plan B because it would result in the death of everybody which is still on Earth, simply creating a new human race on one of these planets. Cooper sadly says a tearful goodbye to his family, although his daughter Murph begs him to stay, insisting that even the fallen objects in her bedroom form the word "STAY" but Cooper heads off anyway, leaving her just a watch as a present.
So they plan on a swift mission, quickly approaching the planet and then immediately returning back on endurance, just beyond Gargantua's influence. But once they have landed on Miller's planet they realize they have made a huge mistake because the planet just consists of an infinite stretch of water, with huge waves which wipe out everything in their path and which also wrecked Miller's spacecraft, killing her. The team desperately tries to get off of the planet, racing against time but they are repeatedly set back because of the waves.
So by the time they leave the planet and get back onto the Endurance years have passed back on earth. So in proportion, Dr. Miller probably died just moments before their arrival although it seemed like years back on Earth. By now Coop's family has grown up and adult Murph is working at NASA but she is disgusted by her father's absence and his lack of communication, as the Endurance's system doesn't allow him to reply to her. As the scientists have lost so much time on Dr. Miller's planet they realize that they can't visit now both Dr. Edmunds's and Dr.Mann's planet and they must make a choice.
Dr. Amelia Brand insists on traveling to Edmunds's planet as she feels it is the most favorable. But the rest of the team is against her, claiming that her judgment is purely based on her romantic feelings for Dr. Edmunds. And this is when Dr. Brand introduces a very interesting concept which is the power of love.
She claims that love can be considered a power just like any other. She says that just because we can't feel it, physically tangibly measure it, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist or that we just simply haven't found the way to measure it or that somebody else hasn't found a way to prove it. She describes it as the only force that can transcend time and space, allowing us to love people or concepts we haven't met or that are very distant from us, making it one of the strongest forces.
So she insists that this feeling she has of Dr. Edmunds's planet presenting a favorable environment might before a bigger reason than pure intuition. But the rest of the team is still not convinced of Brand's thoughts and picks Dr. Mann's planet because he is still transmitting.
During that time they also receive a message from Murph back on earth in which she explains that Dr. Brand died and confessed on his deathbed that there has never been a solution to the equation for gravity and that he had lied so that Cooper and his team would leave on the mission, leaving the rest of the population back on Earth to die, creating a new colony in space.
Murph believes that her father and Dr. Amelia Brand knew about this all along and had just decided to leave the planet anyway. Obviously, Coop and Amelia are distraught by this message but decide to make the best out of their mission anyway and visit Dr. Mann's planet. When they land on Dr. Mann's planet they find a very harsh environment but which presents promising data.
Dr. Mann leads Cooper to the area which he believes presents the best living conditions, far away from the base camp. But during the hike, he confesses to Coop to having tampered with the data just so somebody would come to visit his planet and bring him back home.
At first, he had managed to remain strong and brave but after a while the loneliness had taken control, leading him to insanity. He then attacks and injures Cooper, kills Romilly by blowing up the base camp, and escapes on a spacecraft, trying to dock onto the Endurance and flee away from his planet.
Cooper, TARS, and Amelia rush after him on another spacecraft, begging him to not try and clumsily dock onto the Enduranceas it would heavily damage it, risking everybody's life. But Dr. Mann is unreasonable and inexperienced and he crashes into the Endurance, sending it spinning away from the planned route and taking his own life in the process. Cooper manages to dock back onto the Endurance with an extreme maneuver but by then they are all dangerously flying towards the center of Gargantua, the black hole.
The last hope of reaching Dr. Edmunds's planet is completely gone and they are doomed to die out in space. But then Cooper has an idea and that is using Gargantua's gravitational field to push them, literally throw them towards Edmunds's planet. To do so the weight of the spacecraft must be reduced so Cooper and TARS eject themselves and leave Dr. Brand to travel on her own towards Dr. Edmunds's planet.
Cooper and TARS prepare to die as they fall through the black holes, but during the plunge, they find themselves in a strange place which we could call a tesseract, a sort of cube formed by beams of light. Now, normally we are only able to interact with the tangible world that surrounds us: height, width, and so on.
We move around, touch, and interact with the physical structures that surround us. For example, we wouldn't be able to interact with time and interact with it as if it were a tangible concrete structure. But in the film, it is now explained that other beings have learned to interact with time as if it were something they could touch.
Just like I can now reach out and push this camera over, other beings have learned to physically interact with time and warp it as they prefer. That's how they created the wormhole and most importantly how they created this tesseract, this place where Cooper and tars are, which allows people to interact with time.
As a matter of fact, through the beams of light that surround Coop, he can see his daughter Murph's bedroom and he sees her in different stages of her life, including her as an adult. He tries to shout out to her, to touch her, he pushes on the beams making books fall, begging her to not make him leave on this absurd mission, but he can't manage to speak with her. He even tries to send a message to her through the books in morse code so forming the famous word "STAY" but nothing seems to work. But then in his despair, he suddenly realizes that that structure had been placed there to help him complete his mission, with Murph as the "chosen one".
And then he sends back all the data necessary for the gravity equation on the watch he had left Murph as a child. Back on earth Murphsees the hands of the watch moving and understand her father is trying to communicate with her and understands that this is the data she needs.
Again if we follow Dr.Amelia Brand's string of thoughts this could be the power of love that gave Murph that necessary last bit of hope and trust towards her father. As the mission is now over the tesseract starts to unfold around them and coop faints, floating into space.
But because of difference in time, during the time it took Cooper to complete the mission, fall through the tesseract, faint and float into space, Murph has already solved the equation and saved humanity, creating an international spaceship which saved everybody.
So luckily Coop is found floating around in space and is brought onto the space station where he finally meets his daughter Murph.
But what about Dr. AmeliaBrand? Well, it turns out she was right all along: Dr. Edmunds's planet turned out to be the perfect one, with the perfect environment and she is now living there on her own, colonizing it with the frozen embryos.
So who helped Coop and the missional along? In the film Coop says that they brought themselves there, meaning that paradoxically it was future humans that learned to work with the time and create the wormhole and the tesseract.
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Maybe the frozen embryos from Dr.Edmunds's planet, which in the future managed to work with the time and paradoxically send all this information back to Earth. Or maybe other living creatures in space that decided to help humanity. Let me know about your thoughts on "Interstellar" with a comment section
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