Interstellar2014 film, dir. Christopher Nolan, is one of the most impressive in decades, masterfully balancing unflattering pessimism about the Earth’s future with inspiring optimism about the possibilities of human ingenuity. The film was a visual marvel, giving audiences a glimpse into some of the most mysterious and otherworldly aspects of our physical universe. While the film shows humanity reaching to the farthest reaches of the galaxy, its greatest strength is its emotionally driven, family-oriented narrative. Christopher Nolan and his brother Jonathan wrote the script, based on the work and ideas of theoretical physicist Kip Thorne.
Interstellar The action takes place in the future, when human life on Earth is on the verge of complete disaster. Environmental degradation has led to worldwide famine, forcing humanity to focus most of its resources on agriculture in an almost futile attempt to avoid extinction. Joseph Cooper (ur.Matthew McConaughey), a former NASA astronaut, one of many forced to work as a corn farmer. His daughter Murph (Mackenzie Foy) notices a strange phenomenon in his room: a gravitational anomaly, which Cooper manages to identify as Morse code. While deciphering the message, he discovers a secret NASA facility run by Professor Brand (Michael Caine) and is hired on a desperate mission to save humanity.
Cooper is piloting the mission with other astronauts, including Brand’s daughter Amelia (Ann Hataway), through a wormhole in search of a planet capable of supporting human life. They travel to another galaxy where three planets orbit a supermassive black hole. Gargantua, which may be capable of supporting life. However, due to time dilation caused by the black hole’s gravity, time on Earth passes much faster than during the mission. Adult Murph (Jessica Chastain) discovers that Brand never intended to find a way to take humanity off Earth and always foresaw that Cooper’s mission would be based on “Plan B”, i.e. the delivery of human embryos to create a new human colony on one of the planets. However, the first two planets that Amelia and Cooper explore are considered inhospitable to humanity, forcing them to make one last attempt to acquire a possible final planet. Using a slingshot maneuver to push Amelia towards the final planet, Cooper sacrifices himself to give her the boost she needs.
Falling into a black hole, Cooper ends up in a five-dimensional space, a tesseract, where time is a tangible construct with which he can interact. He suggests that the tesseract, as well as the wormhole that allowed them to travel to this galaxy, were sent by people from the distant future to help humanity escape. Cooper uses Morse code to send a message to himself in Murph’s room, convincing him to join the mission in the first place. He then uses the broken watch to give Murph information that allows him to solve the previously unsolvable gravity equation.
Cooper survives the trip through the black hole and escapes the wormhole. He awakens to find that Murph has managed to use the information he sent to lead humanity’s exodus from Earth, saving humanity from the doomed planet. Amelia’s latest mission is also a success, sending humanity to her planet to start over.
However, this optimistic conclusion Interstellar Initially this was not the plan. During a media event promoting the film’s Blu-ray release, Jonathan Nolan it turned out that a darker, albeit more straightforward, conclusion was originally intended to be drawn than the one they had decided to accept.
Originally Jonathan Nolan”he predicted that the Einstein-Rosen bridge (commonly called a wormhole) would collapse when Cooper tried to send data back.Nolan didn’t provide any further details about what this means, but the findings are all relatively pessimistic. This conclusion would have removed a significant portion of the film’s final sequence. There will be no vision of Cooper entering a black hole, no tesseracts and fifth-dimensional beings, no time manipulation in Murph’s room, no triumphant return of Cooper. The film already had elements of darkness and themes similar to horror films, but this conclusion would be a tonal shift that would radically change the entire premise of the film.
Since Jonathan Nolan didn’t provide details about this original ending Interstellar, having only confirmed that the wormhole would collapse after Cooper sent the data, the success of his mission remains only speculation. One possibility is that the data was never sent to Murph, which would have resulted in a complete failure of the mission. Without this information, humanity would never have been able to leave Earth, dooming Murph and the rest of the population to extinction.
But this conclusion seems so dark and contrary to the meaning of the story that it seems unlikely that it is a vision. Another possibility is that the collapse of the wormhole doomed only one main victim: Cooper. More likely Jonathan Nolan he intended for Cooper’s data to go through the wormhole and return to Murph, even if he himself could not do the same. Cooper will die a hero, sacrificing his life to complete the mission. Humanity and, more importantly to him, his daughter will be saved. This conclusion is a satisfying conclusion to the themes and motifs of family love that drive the film, but Cooper’s reunion with Murph would be a tragic outcome that would carry a heavy burden.
What do you think? Would you prefer this ending for Interstellar?
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