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Fans blown away as true ending of Christopher Nolan's Interstellar is finally explained
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Published 15:04 2 Jul 2024 GMT+1

Fans blown away as true ending of Christopher Nolan's Interstellar is finally explained

Despite the film being incredibly well received, many were a little confused by the ending...

Britt Jones

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Interstellar is arguably one of the best Christopher Nolan flicks to date, which called into question how far the human race would go for love and for survival.

But the ending has always left viewers with opposing ideas.

Was it all a dream? And did Matthew McConaughey’s character Cooper really die at the start of the flick?

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Or were there aliens running around pulling the strings behind the scenes like puppet masters?

It turns out, both of those theories are wrong.

After a YouTube video by Looper was uploaded explaining the ending of the 2014 film, it all suddenly makes sense.

After the hoopla what was Miller’s Planet, and the emergence of the black hole, Gargantua, we can finally reveal what the ending truly meant.

Cooper is tasked with saving the world. Paramount Pictures
Cooper is tasked with saving the world. Paramount Pictures

In a film which follows astronauts who are sent to outer space and through a worm-hole to explore potential planets that could rehabilitate human life, there is one main focus throughout.

Love.

Cooper, a farmer-turned-astronaut, has a deeply profound love for his teenage daughter, Murphy.

When he’s shot into space, it becomes clear throughout the journey that the only way to save the human race is by gathering data from inside of a black hole, but only one person can complete the task.

Cooper and Murph haven't seen each other in decades. Paramount Pictures
Cooper and Murph haven't seen each other in decades. Paramount Pictures

Cooper decided to sacrifice himself by falling away from the craft in his own little ship, descending into Gargantua’s gravitational pull which somehow transports him into a library of memories about his daughter.

This ‘Tesseract’ allows Cooper to go back to moments in time to provide his daughter clues and information pertaining to the black hole, which could save the entire race.

It’s a moment which allows Cooper to realise that the Tesseract was created by super advanced future humans who want him to communicate with his daughter and that he was his daughter’s ghost all along.

In the end, it was love. Paramount Pictures
In the end, it was love. Paramount Pictures

In the end, the main point of the ending is his love for his daughter, and his immense regret for leaving her and missing her entire life to save humanity.

His love becomes a sort of homing beacon which allows him to use the Tesseract to convey the information about the black hole, enabling Murph to crack the code of gravity manipulation, which dgoes on to set the course for humanity’s exodus from Earth.

Cooper is then thrown from the Tesseract, which crumples in on itself and teleported by these advanced beings to a camp near Saturn, where he finds out that the plan worked and that humans are spread out across the universe in various pods.

But now due to the time lapse, Murph is an old woman and on her deathbed, where the two reunite after decades.

It’s a really touching scene and I’m sure many who watched it in the cinemas bawled when she told him to leave before he had to watch her die.

In the end, it was his love for his daughter, life and humanity that set the course for the entire plot.

Featured Image Credit: Paramount Pictures

Topics: Entertainment, Film, Matthew McConaughey, Christopher Nolan

Britt Jones
Britt Jones

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