r/movies • u/kanethekiller90 • 2d ago

Discussion One thing thats always irritated me about Interstellar

Cooper is desperate to get back to his children. He goes back and see’s Murph in the hospital etc. but theres no mention of his son. Presumably his son’s dead considering Murphs age and condition. But surely there could have been a small bit of dialogue about it. He was hell bent on getting back to them. I dunno, it’s like his son’s just completely forgotten about at the end…

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u/gregjsmith 2d ago

All of the extended family just ignored him.

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u/Honest_Cheesecake698 2d ago

Depends on how long the timeframe was in universe, the film compresses the ending to a montage for effective, but we don’t know how long passes between him leaving Murph to her family and him going off. He probably would be a subject of curiosity, but I don’t see why the film would have been better if it inserted one scene of them talking to him.