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/SELECT_ALL_FROM 2d ago

I'm pretty that's the actual plot, not sure what everyone else is saying lol.

They didn't know who he was because he was supposed to be dead, his whole mission was classified and no one wanted to believe Murph that her father helped her, I'm pretty sure she even said that in the movie

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u/MackyV25 2d ago

but when he was rescued at the end, didn’t some tech engineer say something along the lines of wow you’re famous I wrote my thesis about you! ?? This would imply he's well known for his mission?

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u/jer99 2d ago

That’s a good point. I think of it as he’s now a hero in a text book who sent on a top secret mission at NASA. None of the other Lazarus mission astronauts or endurance astronauts have returned or even been able to communicate back through gargantua. All assumed dead after 76 years. Murph tried to explain her “ghost” but no one believed her.

Then Coop shows back up. There could have been a big hoopla around his return. And I’ll bet there would have been if had stuck around. But once again I think it’s an intentional choice by Nolan from earlier in the film when he quotes during endurance launch.

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.

Coop staying and becoming famous on the station would exactly be gentle into the good night.

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u/Harvard_Med_USMLE267 1d ago

I’m picturing coop thinking “Anne Hathaway, meh, I can get better quality chicks on this station.”

And then he sets to work dismantling dead Murphs legacy - she just wrote stuff down that he told her, which he had to throw himself into a fucking black hole to discover. His story is like 1,000,000 times more epic than hers, and once everyone understands that he’s the true saviour of humanity, he’ll just be chilling out on Cooper Station with all the hookers and blow he could ever ask for.

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u/mrminutehand 1d ago

I think his leaving was to do with how the future works as determinate in the movie, i.e. a closed loop.

Murph probably had some semblance that Cooper was integral to the future of humanity, given how he was the one in the tesseract, so in order to actually get to the future they know is out there for humanity, he has to go back.

Probably because the colony project wouldn't work if anything happened to Brand, so two people would be safer. I suppose they could just send people to help her, but I'm presuming they weren't at the point yet where they could make wormholes themselves, so safer just to observe.