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It sounds like he's just discussing certain aspects of the film, while ignoring much more glaring issues. It's not ice clouds that are the issue, it's the entir
by arikrak 12y ago
It sounds like he's just discussing certain aspects of the film, while ignoring much more glaring issues. It's not ice clouds that are the issue, it's the entire story.
[Spoiler alert] Here's the whole plot of the movie, does any aspect of it make sense?
Earth is dusty so the simplest solution is to transport all of humanity through a wormhole to another planet. The main characters go through a wormhole and walk around on a planet where 1 hour = 7 years of Earth. Later, to help the mission succeed, the main character detaches from their main spaceship into a blackhole and he ends up in a multi-dimensional space where he sends Morse code messages to his daughter in the past by moving her books and watch. How does he do that? Because love. And gravity. She understands the message which contains gravity data from the blackhole that lets them get everyone off earth. The main character then pops out of the blackhole thing near Saturn and is re-united with his daughter just before she dies.
- timdiggerm 12y ago>he ends up in a multi-dimensional space where he sends Morse code messages to his daughter in the past by moving her books and watch. How does he do that? Because the multi-dimensional space was set up by higher-dimensional creatures, who also created the wormhole, specifically so he could accomplish all this (right down to preventing him from going on the earlier missions by causing his craft to crash with a gravitational anomaly at the beginning of the film).
- debacle 12y agoThat seems like a rather roundabout way to save the human race, no? A love-powered hyper-dimensional gateway used to transmit Morse code sounds like something straight out of h2g2.
- magicalist 12y ago(spoilers, obviously) It's a predestination paradox -- so, as with all predestination paradoxes in fiction, the story is a little too in love with the use of it -- but the movie sets the ground rule that the only way to communicate backwards is to manipulate gravity, therefore that's how they're going to have to accomplish it. As for the love-powered part, everyone's a little too hung up on that set of dialog. There's nothing in the plot that relies on it. Sufficiently advanced magic gravity technology is more than enough. Is any advancement of the plot motivated by more than the fact that he wants to see his daughter again? Sure, if they had listened to Brand's feelings they wouldn't have ended up with crazy guy and would have ended up on a (seemingly) habitable planet, but the human race also would have died on earth and lived on entirely from the test tube embryos. The whole tesseract section doesn't entirely fit with the tone of the rest of the movie but it's not powered by love.
- debacle 12y agoWhy not prevent the whole mess by just sending a clear message in Morse to almost anyone at NASA from the future using gravitational waves?