This scene represented a specific time dilation due to a little over 3 hours spent, actually.. for the astronauts in the grav pull. The ratio is 7 : 1 ...7 years passes on Earth for every hour spent in the grav pull (at certain moments in the movie) ..But yes, still deeply heart-breaking! =/
Dennis S, Yes you are correct. Brand says she thought she knew the theory but in reality it was different. Just before they escaped, Cooper asks how long they have been there and TARS says between 45min to 1hr.
brickfighter 13 were the same age. I’m sure that when he went to listen to that message, he was actually listening to a message from a few years before
This scene absolutely killed me. The concept of lost time just breaks my heart. Missing all those important moments and never being able to get them back is such a crushing thought.
It can happen now when people have really terrible addictions to drugs or just not living a good life. The time will always fly, it's a matter of how we really want it to fly fast - something worth a legacy each day as it's passing. But 23 years so quick in this movie, wow. For a real shocker, can you believe this film came out 9 years ago now...
I can’t imagine the feeling of going into cryo sleep for x amount of years hoping you get woken up by your companions only to wake up still alone adrift in space
Conner Marchetti I never thought of it like that. When life went on lockdown after the start of COVID made me think of this line. All I wanted to do was sleep but it felt wrong. Still hard now not to feel that way.
It really breaks my heart that he never got to see his son again, when for over 20 years he was the only one who cared enough to reach out to him. The emotional impact of this movie is insane.
@@wholelottapain8130 wait wasn't the whole concept that it was only like a year or whatever to him when he saw the messages but 23 for everyone on earth?
@@boardstretcher100 It would be almost impossible to transmit a live video from their location back to the earth. They send recorded videos more than likely due to the interference, and the fact that radio waves spread out in space would mean its almost impossible for them to receive the messages in the first place. The movie has a lot of science behind it to try and remove plotholes even tho there are plenty
Might I suggest practically any War movie ever? You'll get the emotion with a dose a reality. Pearl Harbor. 1917. Saving Private Ryan. We Were Soldiers. Hacksaw Ridge. Fury. And many others.
@@boardstretcher100 they were orbiting gargantua. There was no possible way for them to live stream. The fact that they even got these messages is amazing considering the interference from supermassive black hole
So true. I saw this with my teen daughter in an IMAX thinking it would be a cool space movie. We cried pretty much from start to finish. We loved it, and I watch it whenever it comes on TV. My says she can never watch it again.
Such powerful acting. I believed every emotion. He truly captured what it’s like to love a child. What that bond is like. I always wrote Matthew mcconaughey off as just a bit of a weird dude, but after watching this I realize how much I underestimated the man. This is one of the best performances I’ve ever watched.
Still one of the most criminally underrated transitions in all of movie history. They show love transition through time and space, right in front of your eyes, the entire point of the movie, and almost everyone misses it.
@@expandwithmar In the end, the man she loved, Edmunds, was dead. But his planet seemed to be the only habitable one. So she was right about her love for him meaning something. They should have listened to her
For real!! Let’s break down the emotional context. Had to legit convey sadness because his character literally watched his kids grow up in the blink of an eye. Watched his grandson be born and die in the same time. See his son wilt away to nothing because the passing of his grandson. His kids “letting him go” all because he was gone for few minutes ? (On the planet) like you can imagine losing a loved one, because it’s very likely happened but this stuff? ^ how? There isn’t anything remotely similar to draw from.. this man got robbed!
So sad to hear he didn’t win one I just watched this movie for the first time a few days ago and thought oh he won the Oscar that year for SURE. So so good and real
Look at it much more simply than that the fact that he was able to portray those emotions with nothing but cameras surrounding him with potentially some video on a screen I still to this day I have no idea how this is not top-tier performance seen acting ever
Losing 23 years of your kids lives in only 3 hours, that’s just insane man. Cooper went through it in this movie 😪 And it’s crazy that he was the link, the bridge that connects everything together. Just tragically amazing
@@Stalk.your.sister He was on a planet where every like 1.5 seconds was a day on earth, and he was on the planet for like 3 hours (every hour on the planet = 7 years on earth)because it was close to a black whole so time was super weird
@@vibescentral5992 Yeah becuase time for him was different then on earth, the girl you see in the video if you couldn't tell was his daughter, and he left her when she was like 12 and now she's 35 and it's only been like a few days for him. The movie is called Interstellar. I highly recommend watching it
@@AlexWashiyYup, just watched it with my girlfriend. One of the best movies we’ve watched together. Honestly, this movie brings so much more closure to your loved ones. Missing out 23 years is unfathomably insane.
This is one of the most powerful film moments I have ever experienced. The way we see and feel the characters emotions pulls you in even closer. It’s spectacular.
This IS the film moment I always go back to where I'm like, there's nothing that can top this scene. It is so powerful and emotional even just watching the scene a hundred times, can't help but tear up.
This & Them On Millers Planet Is God Tier Movie Production & Acting. Im A Horror Fan & This Is My Favorite Film Of Everything. I Felt Like I Went On This Trip With Them Beginning To End
About That Tho Funny you say that because I watched it like 6 years ago when I was pretty young and just now rewatched it having forgotten basically everything. All I can really say is I was amazed at how fucking phenomenal the film was, glad I got to experience it again.
I finally finished watching it for the first time, it was so good, i tried to watch it when it first came out but i couldnt get into it, so i watched another movie lol
Mathew’s acting is superb in this whole movie, but especially this scene. The way he starts out smiling as his son is telling him about school and you can see the heartbreak just overtake him in real time as he starts to cry. Damn this movie hits harddd
They moral is don’t be the only black guy in a movie. Lol everyone feels bad for Murph, Jesse, Cooper, the bag dude from American Beauty, even Mann (at first). But hardly anyone gives a second thought to Romily
Romily was killed by Mann Romily tried to access his files, and was about to find out the truth when he blew up, CASE or TARS, can’t remember, was with him, but survived Romily was in Dr. Mann’s facility, I couldn’t save him, I’m sorry
@@StuUngar Dude Romily had it rough and I do believe that gave a thought about Romily. I mean the dude literally spent 23 years alone with one robot in a ship just to be later killed by some coward. Romily was amazing and hell, the reason they knew how much time had passed was because of him. Oh and he gathered information on Gargantua that nobody else could have gotten.
05:03 Props to Jessica Chastain for her beautiful portrayal as murph. In her video message you can see that she is sad and disappointed throughout but when talking about what cooper told her of being the same age when he returns, she shows a little smile. Murph would as she just had that hope of that being true and probably encouraged her to send her first message after 23 years. Jessica was amazing
The sheer silence after his son’s last goodbye, before Murph comes on the screen. Such a loud silence. You could see the grief on Coopers face, about to take him over as he thinks that’s the last he will ever see of his family, then murph comes on all grown up, and then when she says she’s the same age as he was when he left, all that grief came back. One of the best acted and most powerful scenes in cinema history. Truly a masterpiece of a film
they seem to appreciate enough ''12 years a slave'' and recently corean movie, but this amazing work of art from every angle possible, this doesnt approve. STANDARD
@@InnanetBaby well were kind of tired of the propaganda and shit 12 years a slave is just about struggles 200 years ago and like there isn't hundreds of those movies, how many actual good space movies do you know?
This scene is so hard to watch. 1st of all, their poor partner who waited for them all that time back on the ship, then the scenes with Cooper seeing his kid's messages, OMG... just so raw, powerful & emotional.
I can't even imagine the intense rush of sadness and depression Cooper went through. I might have jumped out of an airlock at that point. Not to mention the intense loneliness Romilly went through for years, cryosleep or not.
I mean the one dude on the ship waiting could have jus kept sleeping tho and woke him self up every now and then with the timer or whatever so that’s on him . Very depressing scene tho nonetheless
I think one of the really powerful parts is that he starts with tears of joy about his son graduating and finding love. Then over the span of about 2 minutes that changes to crying over various tragedies and the sense of loss. By that time most viewers are crying too, which makes it even more emotional and drives a sense of connection to a situation that no watcher can ever fully understand.
In the span of a few minutes, Cooper witnesses his son falling in love, graduating, becoming a father, losing his own son, and the most crushing part is when Tom loses hope and let’s go. Then, Murph. Jesus Christ when she says she is now as old as he was when he left, all the feels flowed forth. All the while he can’t touch or hug them, and is helpless and unable to tell them that he hasn’t abandoned them or forgotten. A truly remarkable scene and one of my all time favorites.
I've watched interstellar so many times and this scene ALWAYS makes me cry. Really wish I could see this movie in a theater again for the first time. What a magical experience it was
2001 A Space Odyssey is looked at more as a piece of art. Interstellar is going to be remembered as an experience. Literally every aspect of this movie, whether its the acting, direction, cinematography, the editing, the sound design, THE MUSIC, set design, and writing(debatable)...is firing on all cylinders. It represents the peak of filmmaking. It also has 2 scenes that I think will go down in history as some of the greatest scenes put on film; watching his children’s messages scene and the docking sequence. I remember seeing this movie in IMAX on the first day of release, planned it perfectly to make sure i got there early to get center seats and not too close to the screen. Right after Cooper pleads to Dr. Mann not to dock and then Mann blew himself up, Cooper accelerates towards the Endurance and Dr. Brandt then asks Cooper what he's doing, and he just says..."docking" (Cue Hanz Zimmer's score). I lost my shit in the theater, I got goosebumps and literally leaned forward and audibly said pretty loudly "what...the...fuck!?!". As the scene went on I remember thinking, Nolan... you crazy bastard , you just cranked the intensity up to a 10. Then the music tipped it over to an 11. That moment, that sequence with that music and the sound just blasting. Sensory Overload...I will never forget the experience. Seriously, if you sat down and really thought about "what" this movie is about, like really thought about all its themes, all its layers of depth and what its trying to say, your gonna come to only one conclusion. Its about Everything.
@BEEFCAKE 306 yea I guess if you want your country to remember you like that then you go. I don’t care about that at all when it comes to my family. Way to troll though good job 👏🏼
@TheSkyWhale yea I get that part but basically didn’t get to say bye to his dad before he died and barely saw his daughter again. Yes I get he did the mission for mankind and mankind includes his family, but in reality he was dead to them once he took off on that shuttle. They lived most of their lives in dust bowl Earth so they still suffered
You missed the point of why he made the choice to go. If he stayed, his kids would still suffer and died. As a father he made the tough choice to save them no matter how much they hated he left@@DP-eo5xd .
this scene never fails to make me tear up. it really showed the sacrifice they made. cant imagine being a father and losing all those years, watching my kids grow up so fast through a screen without me there while i haven’t aged a bit, just heartbreaking. makes my heart ache every time. phenomenal movie
I took both my Daughters to watch this in theaters, I was crying. My Daughters remember the experience of watching this amazing movie, open their mind to how small and precious we are in this infinite universe. Thank you Mr. Nolan.
"Today is my birthday. And it's a special one because you once told me that when you came back, we might be the same age. Well, now I'm the same age that you were when you left... and it'd be really great if you came back soon." You need to realize that she probably realized her father died. And while she did hate him for leaving him to save everyone, she finally wanted him back. In an ironic sense, even in the film, Cooper says that he can't tell Murph that is saving the world because being a parent means not telling your child that the world is ending. So... I'M NOT CRYING. YOU'RE CRYING.
She still thought he would come back. It's just that, in her mind, she set the condition that he would come back before they were the same age. She thought he would keep the promise and come back before then, but now that that time has passed, she doesn't have any time she can expect him to return. She could be on her death bed as an old woman before he returns like she was at the end or she could see him any time before that. Removing the barrier of the two decades made it feel more real and she couldn't use the anger to hold back her other feelings. She's also starting to realize that she didn't just miss her life but he missed hers.
I always understood the power of this scene but it wasn’t until I became a father to my beautiful daughter a couple of years ago that it really hit me ! Nolan is a cinematic genius and this is truly a work of art!
When Jon Voight died in - The Champ... The performance in that scene by kid Ricky Schroeder was more heartbreaking for me. Best kid acting I ever saw. Good movie.
It feels so weird watching this scene. I’m not crying, but my heart just shattered when the camera cuts to cooper crying when Murph says she’s the same age he was when he left. It hurts to watch.
This movie shows how time is so precious and so easily lost. This movie should've gotten way more awards and recognition. One of the best sci-fi dramas I've ever seen.
@Jimmy Combs lmao same I was rewatching interstellar and all I could think of when I saw him was "look at this mark watney looking ass WHY ARE YOU WHINING BRO"
Everything about this scene breaks me. “It didn’t seem right to dream my life away.” Is so powerful the thought of being alone in space thinking this it. The line that truly breaks me everytime is from Murph “you once told me that one day I might be the same age as you. While todays it’s a special one because I’m the same age as when you left.” It’s just the deliver of power in the line that brings me to tear. That feeling of anger but also that longing feeling murph is going through is chilling.
T G did you not clearly hear him say he had stretches of cryo sleep? Even then, he had those machines to socialize with so he wasn’t necessarily all alone. Of course his sanity might have changed but he definitely wasn’t awake the full 23 years
Not just that but also the time we spend with them. That’s why this scene is so heart wrenching. Because Cooper sacrificed all his time with his kids to save humanity. So much time he could’ve spent with his kids but then humanity would have been doomed. Incredibly difficult decision he made taking on this mission
After being alone for 23 years you can slightly notice romily's social skills have taken a hit, he doesn't exactly know how to be around people after so long
EyeAr WeeTawTed Endgame is great for a flashy action movie. I wouldn’t call it top 3. It looks great and has a bunch of our favorite characters in it. It isn’t really a movie with a fantastic plot, fantastic acting, twists and turns, and a horrifying underlying theme of how value time is. Endgame is a fun watch. Interstellar is an experience.
Mr Burger it’s my third favorite movie, Interstellar is first followed by Joker then Endgame In fact I would go so far as to say the MCU is my favorite movie, since Endgame is so epic because of its 22 movie legacy And no one can deny Portals was a powerful scene
Billy Bob wtf? If you must know I’m the only person in my generation who had a childhood, my favorite games are Dragon Age Origins (2009) and Star Wars Kotor (2003), I watched Popeye the Sailor Man and Wallace and Gromit growing up, Why the hell are you asking for my age as if that somehow discredits my own personal opinion? Who the f*ck are you to belittle my opinion and think you’re better than me for having a different opinion you haven’t even mentioned! Seriously dude how old are *you?*
We can try but we could never comprehend what spending 23 years alone in space would feel like. "Something seemed wrong about dreaming my life away" That line right there hits hard.
God it's heartbreaking at 2:41. Just how much more broken and beaten Tom looks and the way his voice is so much more raspy and weathered. You know that he has bad news this time, and seeing him even just being upbeat and delivering good news over the first couple of messages already had everybody near tears, so the next few minutes are obviously going to be rough. McConaughey's acting in this scene is unbelievable. To say that much without actually speaking a single word, you feel every emotion right there with him.
damn. i can’t ever get over how romily is just so sad when cooper and brandt come back to the ship and cooper walks right past him. you could see his expression just so empty and sad. ugh. i can’t imagine being alone for that long and having your friends come back and walk right past you. stomach turning.
As a father this scene absolutely cuts me in half. I think anyone feels it though. It highlights how bound to the passing of time and how temporary all of us are, even those we love more than life itself. The thoughts that they will eventually die too or have already... well that's the curse of living, for as long as we are alive, we will only ever witness those we love pass away.
God, when he just starts shaking his head when Tom said it was time for him to let go just killed me. Can you even try to imagine that? You already missed 23 years of your kid’s life in just an hour or two, and then on top of that you won’t get to see the rest of it? That’s just awful man. And Matthew McConaughey sold that reaction perfectly.
Seems as if this entire movie isn’t really about space and the journeys they traveled. It just seems as if it’s all about loss. Losing his relationship with his daughter, his kids losing their dad, and the end repeating loss as she dies. Truly a great film.
This movie is unique. I’ve watched thousands of films throughout my life and none of them impacted me the way this film did. This movie is a roller coaster of emotions but it makes you really think about how limited our time is and to spend it wisely with your loved ones. One amazing masterpiece.
This is probably my favorite scene in the movie.I did actually tear up in this scene cause of how real and depressing it was.The idea of you have to wathc years of your kids growing up in a matter of just a few minutes know you missed it all and couldn't be there, never to be able to take it back or worst your loves ones dying while you can't be there to finally see them put to rest.Interstaller is one of my favorite movies of all time and this very scene is why this movie became one of them.A true masterpiece that is right up there with 2001 A Space Odyssey
Murph had never made a video until this moment and he is seeing her all grown up. His last image in his mind is her of a child. Time dialation is all too real in this scene
@@youngarnold4 A time paradox is, for example, when you travel backward in time and touch your past self. It's a paradox for a whole lot of reasons, but the most straight-forward one is because just the act of touching your past self would change the path that resulted in your future self from existing. Time dilation is when you experience time at a different rate than someone else because you are traveling through space faster than them. This is real physics and actually affects us - GPS satellites for example have built-in clocks that run ever-so-slightly faster than identical clocks on the ground, because they're orbiting Earth quickly. Those satellites have literally traveled forward in time. So, when you imagine how quickly the crew in Interstellar is orbiting a black hole, you can see how years would go by in the perspective of Earth.
This scene has the same effect on me every time I watch it. Their expression when they hear how many years, the look on his face when he see's his son, The music that comes on with it, how his emotions change watching the videos, then MURPH! I watch this scene every now and again to see if I won't cry. Still cry every time.....
Gravity's affect on space-time is so trippy. Light is a constant speed, so if strong enough gravity stretches space out, the only thing that can change is time. Real strong gravity (like black hole style) will dilate time. It's so hard to wrap your head around but it's true.
Einstein theory of relativity, which makes this movie so great has unfortunately or fortunately, on how you look at it, is being debunked by EU Theory and Plasma Universe theory. It's going to take awhile for the census and billions of dollars to change but the research is stacking up
This scene in Interstellar encapsulates why it's probably in my top 3 all time favorite films. It takes a concept I'm interested about (space, black holes, and time dilation) and adds a human element to it. Adding human drama to the concept of black holes and time dilation is just incredibly fascinating to me and really puts into perspective just how incompatible the human life span is to the scale of celestial objects like black holes and space time.
This part of the movie, the messages scene, always gets to me. It makes me very sad. Imagine that for a minute. Imagine that to you it seems like not a long time has passed, but in reality 23+ years has passed. Your son is a grown man, your daughter a woman. Your parents have passed away. Your friends have passed away. It's so sad.
This scene still hurts the same as when I first saw it-to watch 23 years of your kids lives go by in an instant and know you weren't there, to watch one of them graduate, find love, have a child of their own and tell you you're a granddad before you suddenly lose that child in your perspective hardly a minute after, to hear them say goodbye and that they're letting you go and suddenly then see your other child an adult when you only just saw her as a young girl...just the tragedy of it all, I need to rewatch this at some point.
The part with the grandson kills me. Imagine being a grandfather and never being able to hold your grandson, then learning he died minutes after learning about his birth and you weren’t able to be with your family at one of, if not THE, most difficult time in their lives.
I was in middle school when this film came out, and even though at that age I didn't quite understand all the nuances of time dilation and what exactly was happening, a part of me knew that I was watching something very special, a film I could feel even if I couldn't understand it. It left me in deep thought for the next few days every time I watched it and still does to this day. Space and time was merely a backdrop to a story about a father's guilt of leaving his family behind, and I will always love this movie.
My dad past, one year later my grandpa (his dad), one year later my grandma(my dads mom), 2 years later my son was born. Really hard scene for me to watch.
I do my best to hold back the tears in this scene,but as soon as Murph shows up on the screen I can't help but break down entirely. Fantastic scene, perfect movie
rewatched this movie after several years (i was a kid when this was released). this is easily the best movie ever made, but also one of the most heart wrenching. this scene in particular almost had me in tears. i can't imagine only being gone for a few hours and coming back to missing 23 years of your childrens life.
This scene increased my love 💔and affection 😭 towards my family and taught me how important they are..... Now i cant imagine a life without my Dad aand mom😭.. Time never runs back!!!
This is a scene that doesn't get as much attention as some of the other brilliant ones, but this is easily one of the most monumental ones that really touches the depth of what is going on.
