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The love angle actually makes sense here. There's no technological way to do what needed to be done: find a willing recipient amongst strangers for a message fr
by loa_in_ 2y ago
The love angle actually makes sense here. There's no technological way to do what needed to be done: find a willing recipient amongst strangers for a message from the impossible. Only because Murph shared a bond she was able to correctly bet on that there was a message and find out what it was. In something everyone else would not even consider.
- bhickey 2y agoNothing is forbidden, until you try to explain it. I come from the perspective that genre is a contract with the audience. Here _Interstellar_ is making a genre error. Take _Star Wars_ for example. You don't need to know how the Force works. There's no suspension of disbelief because you've bought into the genre and its tropes. The Force is everywhere, Luke is atuned to it. We don't need to know anything else mechanixally. Then they rolled up with midichlorians and reduced the whole thing to jibberish. _Interstellar_ sets a hard sci-fi expectation with a visually accurate black hole before losing the train of thought. Imagine if _Lord of the Rings_ spent 20 minutes discussing how the plate tectonics of Middle Earth gave rise to Mount Doom before veering off into the history of the eagles. It gives your audience whiplash.
- loa_in_ 2y agoI'd argue that Interstellar is defying your expectations, but it's hard sci-fi all the way. At no point happens something that's proven to be impossible, and the future is, well, ever unknown to us, and to the viewer.