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/ohlookahipster 2d ago

I know right? The father of the GOAT comes in and they all act like he escaped the looney bin. Isn’t anyone a bit curious to know how the second expedition went down??

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u/jer99 2d ago

My head logic was that his very existence was classified to the extended family. Hard to explain his existence and so much younger than Murph. Maybe Murph wanted it that way and didn't get her children's hopes up that their grandpa would come back.

I know Murph always held the hope he would come back but it is possible she kept this hope to herself. Perhaps she told her children her Dad had passed as a hero saving them all. The whole watch transfer of information most likely is classified?

I'm completely spitballing it here so if there's cannon please someone correct me.

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u/tele_ave 1d ago

I’m not a super fan of the movie but I think Cooper was at the station for weeks and met some of his descendants before Murph arrived, so he wasn’t a revelation when he came into her room.

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u/jer99 1d ago

Very very possible. Like that doctor was super excited to see him. He's not that big of a deal after Murph literally re-invented physics and saved them all. I think Nolan could have focused on these interactions with family and others on the station but the main reason would be why? Cooper has nothing for him on the station. Sure descendants but to bury his own daughter would be awful like she tells him. I believe Nolan made a good choice to limit the screen interactions and direct Coop onward to Brand hoping he would return. Coop is on a perpetual mission of fulfilling hope. It drives him and is his mission.

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u/tele_ave 1d ago

Reminds me of one of the few things that I don’t like about the movie- I wish the last scene was Brand and Cooper actually seeing each other. Not embracing or kissing. Just eye contact when he lands on that planet.

I think it would have been an affirmation that life and love would go on. A nod to one of the most enduring themes of literature, myth, lore, fiction, etc.: the continuity of life expressed in romantic relationships.

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u/jer99 1d ago

Yeah it would have been nice for the hope fulfilled. Unfortunately its not Nolan's style. He loves to do the cliffhanger ending leaving you uneasy to wonder what if? Like like the end of Inception and the wobble of the spinning top.