After reading Interstellar Theory, you’ll never see a Nolan film the same again

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Complex, rich and deep, Christopher Nolan’s feature films are the kind of films that generally deserve to be rediscovered and that promise the viewer a new perspective with each viewing. So even if the British filmmaker recently announced that he no longer bothers to comment on them, we can no longer count the number of theories that have swept the internet since the release of Inception, Tenet and, of course, Interstellar.

Is Interstellar a movie about life after death?

Released in 2014 and hailed by AlloCiné viewers as the best science fiction film ever made, this space, time and emotional journey takes astronaut Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) to the edge of the universe, between wormholes and black holes. The latter, in search of a new home for humanity, ended up succeeding in his mission by transmitting the coordinates of the transfer in space and time to his companions.

But could it be that we missed the movie entirely? That Christopher Nolan managed to hide a completely different dimension of his story from the audience? That in fact, like Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense, the main character of Interstellar was dead from the beginning?

Just published On JaredFPS’s X account, this theory begins with a simple observation… quite strange. Indeed, as said JaredFPS In his video preview of Interstellar, he was able to notice that the same shot was used twice in the film and placed identically in two completely different sequences.

The same plan is placed in two different places

This is an exterior shot in which we can see the fuselage of the Cooper shuttle (see above). This is evident from the introduction of the film, at exactly 1 minute and 29 seconds, when a character dreams about an accident he experienced in the past. And we can see it even later, in 1 hour, 7 minutes and 11 seconds, when Cooper arrives at Miller’s planet.

Given Christopher Nolan’s legendary perfectionism and meticulousness, JaredFPS It has been suggested that this repetition was not a simple mistake, but a way to draw the attention of more discerning viewers to the first scene of the film, making them wonder how Cooper would have survived this famous accident.

What if, in fact, he didn’t survive? What if the entirety of Interstellar actually showed us its journey to the afterlife?

Many arguments

as explained JaredFPS In the rest of his video, even if such a hypothesis seems a bit far-fetched at first glance, many elements of the film support it:

“ It cannot stay on earth and it must go. The name Lazarus’ mission refers to Cooper’s death and his journey into the unknown.Jared says.

During the “Endurance” mission, the crew always mentions “The Big Sleep”, which is clearly a metaphor for death. And words are used by Cooper’s children. It sounds like the personal thoughts one would have about a parent who died in an accident.”

“When Cooper faces Gargantua, Tarsi tells him, ‘I’ll see you on the other side.’ Dr. Mann tells Cooper that before he dies, his children are seen again, and just after Cooper crosses the Gargantua (…), which symbolizes the ultimate transition, he sees Murphy in the Tesseract. And when Murphy is on his deathbed, she’s there to greet him on the other side. I always find it very strange that when he walks into a room full of people, no one notices him.”

To conclude these numerous arguments, let’s go back to the very first scene of the film and note that after the famous shot of the fuselage, Cooper wakes up with a start. The first thing his daughter said to him at that moment was: “I thought you were a ghost.”

What do you think of this theory? Do you think Interstellar is Cooper’s journey into the afterlife?

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