r/interstellar

First movie I’ve ever watched where I felt like I needed to skip to the end because of the tension and anxiety that was building. Immediately went into my Letterboxd top 4. Hopefully Nolan would be proud I sat 2 feet away from my TV to get the true immersion.

How long is this feeling going to linger in me ???

I first watched Interstellar around age 10 in 2014.

Of course, I didn't fully understand the emotional impact of it. I thought it was a cool space movie, and I LOVED the music. The soundtrack was on repeat for a long while.

I'd re-watched it with my family a year or two ago on a holiday. I still loved the movie. I understood that the story was really about love and survival, about not giving up, but for some reason it didn't really stick in my mind. Now I realize it was because I was too depressed to really feel the message.

It was only 3 days ago that I did a rewatch by myself that I realized how much this movie resonated with me.

I've been through so much shit the past few years. I was depressed, miserable, and failed my junior year of college due to my deteriorating mental health. I wanted to give up so many times. I really only fought because I didn't want to disappoint the people I loved.

This movie quite literally represents the conflict I had in my head as I struggled to even get out of bed. One part of me always wanted to give up, to just wither away without hope for anything better. The other wanted to keep going because of love for my family and friends. I hated the thought of them suffering. It was a constant battle against the feeling that I was never going to get better, that I was just destined to be depressed forever.

Now I'm taking bipolar meds. I'm feeling a lot better. I'm graduating my 5th year of college after failing that entire year due to my depression.

I finally see that I didn't give in to the pain or the hopelessness like many in the movie did. Love for others was the only thing keeping me going.

Things didn't go as planned, and there were obstacles along the way. But I was, without realizing it, fighting for a better future for myself because of love. It just didn't feel like it at the time.

The movie really spoke to me, and of course I cried. I cried writing this post, too.

Interstellar will now always be in my top movies of all time. Its just a beautiful tale about being human, and fighting against hopelessness.

I want a png image of interstellar black hole, in good quality.

The Endurance is in orbit about Mann's planet, which is in orbit around the black hole. They would have first done a slingshot like maneuver to escape from Mann's planet into a high velocity elliptical orbit around Gargantua, then slingshot maneuver around Gargantua, after which Cooper and TARS ships would have continued in a high energy elliptical orbit, rather than fall into Gargantua, despite detaching from the Endurance.

This has probably already been brought up, but…

They go to the water planet because they have been receiving a signal for a while from the person who landed there.

Before they go to the planet, they talk about the effects of time dilation and why they need to move fast. But it seems that it wasn’t until they found the wreckage and realized it wasn’t a suitable planet that they mentioned that the signal had only been broadcasting for like a minute or something. And it was the effects of time dilation that made it seem like the signal had been broadcasting for a long time.

Shouldn’t they have known this before they went down to the planet? Shouldn’t they have been like “ok we’re getting the ‘all clear’ signal, but because of how things on that planet work, the signal basically juuuuust started broadcasting”?

Idk why they seemed surprised that the person had basically just landed on that planet.

Joseph Cooper from Interstellar

Pete Maverick Mitchell (Tom Cruise) from Top Gun

Farrier (Tom Hardy) from Dunkirk

Any other (pls mention)

I just remembered that back at the time University stuck together a couple dozens of PS3's to make a scientific computer. Keeping that in mind, It wouldn't be so far-fetched for 500 PS3s to be capable of rendering complex visual effects.