- Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:34 pm
#41967
I don't think the movie actually had a happy end.
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(Spoiler tags don't seem to work)
Coop dies in the black hole, the bookcase and old Murph are all a dying dream.
No-one can survive inside, or close to a black whole, Coop would be pulled apart to a string of Molecules (Spaghettification) long before he'd get to the Tesseract.
Remember what Matt Damon's character said about seeing your children before you die?
Notice how Coop seems unable to really change anything from behind the bookcase? He spells out the word STAY with the books, knowing that he is not going to listen, he even sends himself back to NASA with the message in the sand.
When he is found near Saturn (of all places!), the staging point of this vital mission to save humanity they have built a space station there, and on this important location ,he wakes up in a hospital, overlooking a baseball field (remember where he took Murph when she argued about the moonlanding in school?) and a perfect replica of his old house.
There doesn't seem to be much else there, the space station doesn't appear to have any real purpose to anyone but Coop.
He quickly visits his dying daughter without interacting with anyone else in the (crowded) room , and immediately afterwards has no problems procuring a spacecraft , which not only he can effortlessly pilot even though it was built almost a century later, but also has a conveniant custom storage space for his now 90 year old supersized robot behind the drivers' seat.
The whole final act of the movie is a textbook examble of a dream sequence.
If these are all plot holes, Nolan would be a horrible story teller, I think it's intentional, the whole thing just makes more sense if Coop died. This also solves the obvious time travel paradox in the movie: Coops own message from the future was the thing that prompted him to go on the journey that would take him to the future.
Now this MIGHT be taking it one step too far, but if you would consider that the original "gravity" messages to Coop and Murph were sent by Michael Caine's character, because he needed a qualified pilot for his mission and knew Coop would be suitable (He also lied about "Plan A") you are left with a movie without any supernatural elements: No aliens, Tesseracts, Ghosts etc, just a guy manipulated into a suicide mission to ensure the survival of the human species after an ecological disaster. This would also explain the coincidence of not only finding NASA, but meeting an old friend there, who instantly asks him to pilot the most important mission in history.
Back on topic: the soundtrack is awesome =)