The new Christopher Nolan science fiction epic certainly has everyone talking. There are talks about the brilliant filmmaking, realistic scenes, the touching emotions and themes at the core of the film, and there are discussion of course about how people just got all sorts of muddled up especially because the movie's last hour went the way it did. Major Interstellar movie plot spoilers will be discussed in the paragraphs ahead.
As mentioned, the major points of confusion occurred in the last hour of the movie. This was when Matthew McConaughey's character, Cooper, goes intentionally into a black hole. Why would he do that? Because he was sacrificing himself to that Dr. Amelia Brand (Anne Hathaway) will be able to have enough force to escape the black hole and be propelled into the planet that they were suppose to go to. This would enable Dr. Brand to fulfill their mission of starting a new human colony on this third planet, if it was habitable. So now, not only is Cooper detached, so is TARS the robot, but he is shot off from a different, detachable part of the space craft.
Now, in another bit if Interstellar movie plot spoiler, Cooper finds himself in a very interesting place once he entered the black hole. He calls it a "tesseract," and it is designed to correspond exactly to look like the space behind the bookshelves of his daughter, Murph's room. It is a virtual portal where Cooper finds Murph as a young girl. It turns out, it was Cooper who was knocking the books down to send a message, and not the ghost that Murph thought.
Cooper is able to send "quantum data" via Morse code on the watch he left for his daughter. This gives Murph what she needs to figure out how to save mankind. And for more Interstellar movie plot spoilers, Cooper is shot out of the black hole, is rescued near Saturn, and gets back to see Murph who is now an old lady. The film ends with Matthew McConaughey's character taking a spacecraft to join Anne Hathaway in the newly colonized planet.
Some believe that the entire third act may have just been a part of Cooper's imagination, or dying dream, that he may have died in the ice planet or when he was propelled into the black hole. Who knows? As Christopher Nolan himself has said, it's a movie to be felt more than understood.
