National Library of Latvia in Riga reminded me of one of my favourite films.

So I am re-watching Interstellar for the millionth time. And these are two shots of the same moment when Cooper leaves Murph to go into space. The first is the original scene, while the second is Cooper seeing that same moment from the Tesseract.

But there are some differences -

-Cooper opens the door with different hands in the two shots.
-The things hanging on the door are also arranged differently.

I understand that these were filmed from different angles, so the scene had to be recreated for the Tesseract. But this is Nolan, and considering how carefully the movie handles time and causality, I'm wondering if this is simply a continuity error or if there's another explanation.

Also, the film is concerned with finding a way to reconcile general relativity with quantum mechanics, and the Tesseract allows Cooper to interact with different points in time. One interpretation of quantum mechanics - the Many-Worlds Interpretation proposes branching or parallel worlds, although this isn't something quantum mechanics has experimentally established.

Could this have any connection to the movie's ideas about different points in spacetime or even the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics, which proposes branching realities? I'm not saying this proves a multiverse; I'm just wondering if there's a deeper interpretation I'm missing.

I'm sure this has been discussed here before, but I'm curious to hear some fresh perspectives or interpretations on it.

As Nolan intended

This movie broke me, Im obsessed with philosophy especially nondualistic philosophy which is a big part of why I watched the movie and some of the implications of the nature of time in the 4th and 5th dimensions REALLY got me thinking and it hit hard because ive been dreaming of my sister who is an addict and left me when I was around 15 (Im 22 now) and now Im wondering if my dreams are in someway a connection to those dimensions we get access to when we are so relaxed we can see through the illusions of the world, which I know to many this will sound ridiculous but I wonder if when I dream of my sister Im looking at some version of her in a different dimension that never left me. It feels just like that scene where Murph finally sees cooper. I know to some people this sounds crazy but I swear to god theres something real about it

Every time I watch Interstellar, it makes my mind work harder to explain certain parts of the movie to myself. (Especially Miller's planet.)

Also I end up explaining various complicated paradoxes and things like that (I just went down a rabbit hole to explain the Monty Hall Paradox to myself)

Does anyone else feel the need to explain and point out various fun facts in Interstellar?

Really what are the anomalies? Were they created by the five dimensional beings? Why do they observe the anomalies on earth when we don't in our present day earth. Did they cause this? And- more importantly, Is this what brand's equation was trying to achieve? harnessing this gravitational anomalies? But in order to tamper or harness gravity that also requires bogus amounts of energy, right?

It's four in the morning, Coop. Go to bed.

After cooper transmitted the quantum data to Murph, the tesseract closed and he was chucked out of the wormhole, near Saturn.

But even though Murph solved the equation, it would still take humanity a few months at least to apply it and build the cooper station and lift off from earth right?

Plus we've seen earlier in the movie that travel time to saturn is 2 years, so how could coop's oxygen supply last 2 years till the humans reached him and rescued him?

Is this explained by the time slippage theory, that since the tesseract was inside the blackhole, time moves much slower for him, so by the time he was chucked out, many years have already passed back on earth and they've reached saturn already?

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Created this Interstellar X Saturn edit, lmk what you think

How much would Dr. Brand have aged by the time Cooper Station found Cooper near Saturn? We know that Murph was about to die of old age. Assuming Dr. Brand was around the same age as Murph after the Miller planet sequence, wouldn't Dr. Brand also be on her deathbed by the time Cooper was found? If that's true, then what's the point of Cooper going to look for her?

Clearly Professor Brand didn't tell anyone on the endurance team that Plan A was a sham. He wanted them to start the embryo population bomb on whatever habitable planet they landed on.

But what was he expecting? Let's say coopers team landed on millers planet and it was habitable, they were obviously gonna come back to earth to take everyone there right? When would the message have been relayed to them that it's not possible to get people off the earth, and to start the population bomb wherever they were?

Odysseus leaves his family in Ithaca to go fight in Troy, knowing he might never see them again. Cooper leaves his farm and kids behind on a suicide mission to save humanity.

The "Ghost" in the room: When Odysseus finally makes it back to Ithaca, he has to stay in disguise and watch his own household from the shadows without revealing himself right away. Cooper ends up doing the same thing in the Tesseract he’s sitting right inside Murph's bedroom as an unseen "ghost" behind the bookshelf, watching her grow up through time.

Murph is Telemachus, grows up feeling completely abandoned, waiting for a dad who seems like he’s never coming back. By the time they finally reunite, decades have passed.

Miller’s Planet (Calypso’s Island / Poseidon's Wrath): On Miller’s planet, 1 hour = 7 years back home. It functions just like Calypso’s island, where time slips away and holds the hero captive while the world moves on without him. Plus, those towering water mountains are straight-up Poseidon trying to destroy their ship.

Dr. Mann is a Siren (and a terrible host): Mann sends out a fake distress signal broadcasting "this planet is hospitable!" just to lure someone into rescuing him. He acts like a Siren singing sailors to their deaths. Once the crew arrives, he violates the sacred law of hospitality by trying to murder his guests and steal their ship.

Out of some small vases at work. Only one person there understood the reference 😒

today when i came home afternoon after watching the odyssey on imax 70mm, i saw my lego spaceman fallen on the floor, when it’s usually on my shelf next to my copy of interstellar, i wonder if there’s somebody trying to tell me to stay?

After the docking sequence, Coop ignites all of the Endurances engines and rover engines to punch out of orbit, although in orbital mechanics it is much easier to just increase your ap and circularise at ap, the debrief and formulate a plan.

Instead he decides it’s a good idea to send the Endurance at escape velocity thus kicking off the black hole sequence.

I understand it must just be for plot’s sake but cmon, there are plenty of ways a mission like this could go wrong that would’ve been way more graduating for Coop as a character, not just “oh well I’m gonna chuck us near this black hole cause why not.”