Review of Interstellar (2014) by Timothy J — 08 Dec 2016

I am actually really surprised by some of the ratings on this movie on here, many of which state that the movie was "inconsistent" or contained many plot holes. Perhaps these people simply did not pay much attention to detail, or perhaps they were simply unable to piece the clues together, but every last detail of the story builds on the previous, resulting in a remarkable end. The movie itself does not blatantly come out and state each, individual point, but if one is remotely decent at putting together both tangible and philosophical clues, then the story as a whole will make complete sense. Even the ending of the movie was explained in full by precious clues in the movie.

SPOILER ALERT-.

For example, many people do not understand the scene with Brand at the end of the movie, where she is shown to have landed on a desolate planet. Earlier in the black-hole scene, Cooper explained that they were going to use Gargantua to propel the ship around the black hole (sacrificing Cooper in the process), but Cooper realized that there was not enough fuel for Brand to make the journey back through the wormhole and towards Earth, so they directed themselves to the third, unexplored planet in the solar system (the same planet her lover was on). Once there, Brand assumed her lover to be dead, but later on she found his settlement and was able to determine that the planet's conditions were similar to those of Earth (enough to take her helmet off). She additionally realized the settlement meant that her lover was alive. There was also an additional complaint: Brand's age. Many wondered why Brand appeared so young, where characters such as Murph had aged well beyond their initial age of around 40ish. The movie also explained this: As seen by the water planet, being near Gargantua caused a massive spike in gravitational time dilation, meaning that nearing the presence of Gargantua would increase their velocity through space, resulting in a decreased experience in time. Since both Brand and Cooper fell into the black hole near the end of the movie (and then Cooper's experience halted by the new dimension), they would have both experienced nearly the same degree of aging as each other.

Honestly, I cannot stand it when people claim that the movie is "full of holes". If anything, their ability to concentrate or analyze the clues given is what is "full of holes". There are plenty of other examples of information which builds up on previous clues, but those were two of the more major ones.