Explain the Ending of Interstellar

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Personally, I like it. Don't love it, but I like it. The whole movie is him trying to return to Murph, and he sees her for 10 minutes then leaves her, I don't love that but it makes sense. At the end of the day, Cooper loves his daughter more than anything, so he'll respect her wishes more than anything. Let me know your thoughts!

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riotofmind · 4 years ago

I think "They" are AI from the future. If you reconstruct the movie with this idea it eliminates every paradox. The movie begins with Cooper and his children capturing a drone with highly efficient solar panels. The solar panels suggest that machines can out live human beings as they do not need food, and instead are efficiently powered by solar energy. The film plays with the idea of an artificial "humor setting" over and over again. Study AI and you realize that humor is one of the great frontiers of AI technology. A machine that understands humor and knows how to use a seemingly illogical human expression is a machine that is artificially intelligent, therefore, TARS is an early AI.

In the original timeline, humanity did go fully extinct, however, they left behind AI (powered by solar energy) which evolved to a point where it could carry out the prime directive as determined by Isaac Asimov. This law of robotics is:

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

In short, humanity went extinct, and was resurrected from the dead by AI. The film makes reference to The Lazarus Missions repeatedly.

"Lazarus of Bethany, also known as Saint Lazarus, or Lazarus of the Four Days, venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church as Righteous Lazarus, the Four-Days Dead, is the subject of a prominent sign of Jesus in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus restores him to life four days after his death."

A resurrection orchestrated by AI as it opened the wormhole from a distant future, fulfilling the prime directive, and more. One of the first hints alluding to the gravity anomaly are Cooper's harvesting machines when they return home, organizing themselves in apparent formation in front of the house.

The interplay between TARS and Cooper throughout the film suggests that they need each other to complete the mission. By the end of the film a bond between TARS and Cooper is formed, a bond of friendship, but, it is a bond that is not as powerful as the human bond between Murphy and Cooper. The power of love is what the AI needed in order to bridge the gap between Cooper and Murphy when Cooper was in the tesseract. This is a bond that no human could feel / establish with a machine, thus, the AI needed a human bond and used Cooper and Murphy to fulfill its objective. Cooper was ready to sacrifice TARS and referred to him as a robot, however, he did everything in his power to save Murphy. A clear distinction in the love shared by man and machine, and human with human.

This theory completely eliminates every paradox in the film, most notably, why would future human beings need to manipulate space and time to save themselves if they were already alive to do it? Also, how could future humans exist unless a wormhole was opened in the first place? This is inexplicable until you focus on TARS. If you re-watch the film with the AI theory in mind, it becomes apparent that man needs machine, and machine needs man, and it is logical for AI to save humanity for reasons which aid the machine. This is demonstrated when Cooper attempts to dock with the damaged Endurance, TARS questions Cooper and states that it is "impossible" based on his analysis of the situation. Cooper responds, "No, it's necessary." This is the key difference between man and machine. The human being will go beyond the impossible to the possible. A human being will create the logical out of the illogical.

Finally, in the tesseract, TARS was the only one capable of reading the gravitational data to transmit to Murphy, through Cooper. TARS deduced that it was pointless to send the data to Murphy as she was just a child. This is an independent thought, again demonstrating that TARS is AI. Cooper as the human steps in to complete the mission by doing the impossible using love as the catalyst, trusting, and knowing that his and Murphy's connection will bridge the gap. TARS extracted the solution form the event horizon and explained what the tesseract was, but ultimately, he needed Cooper to complete the mission by doing something he thought was illogical. TARS filled in the blanks for Cooper, and Cooper filled in the blanks for TARS. A codependency between man and machine, a logical reason for AI to save humanity as the relationship favors both.

Keep in mind, you only know TARS is there by the sound of his voice and never see him. By the end of the film, Cooper began to look at TARS as a person and not just a machine, and this established a unique timeline which took man and machine to a new frontier together. This is symbolized by Cooper and TARS leaving the past behind (The station orbiting Saturn), as they are both from the future and will both rejoin Brand who is waiting for them there. There is a clear connection between Brand and Cooper established throughout the film that begins to encroach on love. This is exactly how the AI knew how to send Cooper back through the worm hole, and used the bridge between Cooper and Brand in exactly the same way it used the bridge between Cooper and Murphy. This theme is clearly repeated in the emerging love between Cooper and Brand as symbolized by their hands touching as they pass each-other in the wormhole. If you recall, TARS and Cooper both realize that although "They", the AI, can manipulate gravity through time, they don't know how to make sense of it. Human beings act as the soul and the eyes for the machine, and thus, are essential to the machine. When Cooper arrives at the secret NASA station with Murph for the first time, TARS is the first to greet them, foreshadowing their relationship as only the three of them are in the scene. Notice how you only hear his voice. In the climactic scene which saves humanity, you also only hear the voice of TARS but never see him. Both scenes begin in darkness, and both end in blinding light. In their first scene, TARS renders Cooper unconscious in the dark and illuminates Murphy with light. In the climactic scene between the 3 of them, Cooper is in the tesseract / removed from Murphy's life (in the darkness) but she is once again enlightened by an invisible being (TARS providing gravitational data), through a "Ghost", whom is Cooper, the "soul" of the machine.

TARS is not revealed in either scene and yet he is present, a clear symbol of the non revealed AI from the future, who came in darkness, with flashes of light (Also, think of Cooper falling into the tesseract and then being instructed to "Eject" by a machine (his ship). TARS entered Cooper and Murphy's life for the first time with flashes of light. In conclusion, Future AI created the relationship between TARS, Cooper, and Murphy to successfully bring humanity back from the dead after they went extinct. The movie ends with Brand in her "brand new" home, on Edmunds planet, confirming that love was the binding force, the ghost in the shell.

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kryndon · 4 years ago

This is by far the best movie write-up/theory/explanation I've read ever! I love it and it makes complete sense. Are you sure you just aren't Mr. Nolan himself?

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OShaunesssy · 4 years ago

Wow, just bravo man!

This is canon as far as I’m concerned, because your right, this theory eliminates every paradox and story issue I had.

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BEEF_WIENERS · 4 years ago

Machines: "We need you because you've got this weird ability to do impossible things that we can't wrap our minds around."

Humans: "So you tunneled through space and time to change the past and bring us back?"

Machines: "Yes."

Humanity: "That's impossible."

Machines: "..."

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sildish2179 · 4 years ago

Interstellar became one of my favorite movies after multiple viewings.

This was absolutely incredible to read and to be honest, Nolan could hear this and say this analysis is wrong and I would dismiss him and accept this until he had a better explanation. But I HIGHLY doubt he would. This is straight up incredible to theorize and makes me love the movie even more.

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[deleted] · 4 years ago

I actually walked out of the cinema when I first watched it because I thought it was really stupid, the tesseract stuff and Murph being able to understand the clock hand just was to much for me. However, I’ve watched it like 6 times now and I love it, weird.

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staedtler2018 · 4 years ago

>The whole movie is him trying to return to Murph, and he sees her for 10 minutes then leaves her, I don't love that but it makes sense.

Well the movie isn't really about returning. It's about the fear parents have of missing out on their children's lives, being unable to truly raise them and get them ready for the real world, when they choose to follow a 'career' or their own wants.

In the movie this is shown literally, since 1) his children really do 'grow up so fast' (because of time dilation), and 2) he really did leave them with the right lessons (because his 'ghost' was communicating with young Murph all along).

He doesn't need to stick around in the end because what mattered is that he successfully raised her to become a happy person who lived a long, fulfilling life. 'Returning' is never really an option.

(you're just going to have to ignore the fact that his other child grew up to be a stupid asshole)

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riotofmind · 4 years ago

Thank you, it is! It's fun to watch the film with this idea in mind and it changes everything as you continually catch hints of the non revealed AI.

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jert3 · 4 years ago

Did not like.

I really like science fiction. This wasn't that, it made little to no rational sense. The poor internal consistency of the film's logic and science kept on pulling me from enjoying the manufactured drama.

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ScreamingFork · 4 years ago

I'm going to go as far and say it almost ruins the movie. After multiple rewatches, there is nothing in the movie that hints at the ending (not that there has to be but I believe endings should make sense when viewing the movie as a whole) and its ideas.

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jackwritespecs · 4 years ago

I love the interpretation of 4D time space

It’s fun. All of Nolan is fun!

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uberduger · 4 years ago

> The hardest part for me is the movie ends.

That movie honestly could have been another hour or two long and I'd still want more. There was a lot to cover in one film.

I actually almost feel it could have been 2 movies, if it was reworked a little and extended.

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Someone explain interstellar to me please (the bonkers ending)

Posted by HeLovesThatStuff · in r/scifi · 5 years ago

(To clarify I mean the trippy ending not the rest of the movie)

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PlutoDelic · 5 years ago

Somehow humans are very significant to the universe and reconfigure a blackhole to their needs. Botched the movie for me.

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LorienTheFirstOne · 5 years ago

Turns out humans reach back in time to create the black hole and the library so that cooper could send the information back in time to let humans (well, his daughter) save themselves.

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HeLovesThatStuff · OP · 5 years ago

But then how would they have done it in the first place if they weren’t able to save themselves the first time around? How would they have become advanced enough to do that to save themselves even though they couldn’t save themselves before?

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[deleted] · 5 years ago

One of the many reasons I hate time travel

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LorienTheFirstOne · 5 years ago

Because time is not linear to them, they can touch and impact any point in time. The library was designed to let a 3 dimensional creature get temporary access to the 4th and 5th dimensions (gravity and time)

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jacklad00 · 5 years ago

the beauty of a paradox...

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I'm confused about the ending.

Posted by itzfinjo · in r/interstellar · 4 years ago

Please let me know if I'm simply not getting it.

Is it the fourth dimension? We can't perceive any dimension but ours. Yes we can simulate it like a video game but we have no access to any other dimensions if there are any more the "3rd dimension" (our dimension).

The black hole ruined the whole movie. Seriously what the fuck was that.

It was a advanced civilisation? An advanced civilisation spotted us from many many many many light years away and helped us save ourselves? Paradox.

AC2: maybe we saved outselves without any help. an advanced civilisation spotted us and sent a probe to out solar system. The dust happens blah blah blah almost go extinct blah blah and we move to titan. All fails and we go extinct on titan anyway. The advanced civilisation sees that everything fails and goes to shit, so then they create a worm hole. We go through a worm hole, creates a paradox and there ends that theory... But let's say it doesn't create a paradox. The plan with the wormhole was for Cooper to detach near the black hole therefore giving Brand minimal weight on the ship and she creates a colony, and Cooper goes through the bullshit blackhole and so he goes on the ship as a pilot all to detach at the end and that creates another fucking paradox. The whole plan was for humanity to create a colony on another planet with he help of another civilisation.

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LittlePipsqueek · 4 years ago

The “Plan A” ship colony that NASA was building in the beginning worked out. Cooper’s ship dropped TARS into the black hole first to relay information that could help them to understand how it works. Cooper jumped in and used the 5th dimension to code an equation into the hand of the watch that he gave his daughter. She used it to crack how to use gravity to lift that giant station from the earth.

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jSwicklin · 4 years ago

Just a reminder, this is a subreddit literally dedicated to this single movie, so it's safe to assume that most everyone here is a fan.

Are you actually confused and want an explanation, or did you just hop on reddit and search for the Interstellar sub just so you could rant hated the movie?

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itzfinjo · OP · 4 years ago

I’m genuinely confused. I don’t get it

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TraumatizedChicken34 · 4 years ago

We are the "they". We are that advanced civilization. It was just us from somtime in the far future helping us stay alive. Everything that happened in the movie had already happened to the future us meaning it had to happen to the present us. If cooper had never left none of it would've happened. We moved that wormhole.

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Interstellar : une petite question 🙋‍♀️

Posted by Tasty-Mango-fy · in r/CineSeries · 8 months ago

Bon j’ai re,re,revu le film hier soir (purée quel chef d’œuvre…) et je suis peut être lente mais il y a quelque chose qui n’est pas super clair pour moi…

J’ai bien capté que ce sont les humains du futur qui crée le tesseract dans lequel Cooper se retrouve en plongeant dans le trou noir. Il peut alors transmettre à sa fille les données que Tars a récupéré et qui va permettre de résoudre l’équation entièrement et sauver l’humanité.

Ok MAIS, il faut bien que les humains puissent s’échapper de la terre au départ pour qu’ils deviennent des etres super évolués dans le futur pour créer ce tesseract… donc ce sont les descendants du plan B, ceux de la colonie de Brand sur la planète d’Edmund ces êtres au départ ? Et si oui alors ça veut dire qu’ils modifient le passé pourtant à un moment donné dans le film il me semble qu’un des personnages expliquent que c’est impossible.

Autre chose, Cooper n’est pas censé être désintégré par la force exercée dans le trou noir ? Je veux dire, son vaisseau finit par exploser mais pas lui ? Est ce possible qu’il soit en faite mort dans le trou noir et que tout ce qu’on voit après ce ne soit que son esprit qui se l’imagine avant la mort définitive de son cerveau ? C’est la première fois que je capte que tout est super idyllique après le passage dans le trou noir et aussi qu’il y a quelques points qui me semble étrange. Il récupère Tars et peut le conserver (alors que le robot détient des infos supers importantes) et même il le repart lui même avec un tournevis ?? Il revoit Murph, elle est entourée de sa famille, personne lui parle à part elle, les personnes disparaissent puis reviennent comme dans un rêve…

Bref je sais pas ce que vous en pensez mais si vous avez des pistes à me donner, je prends !

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ShadowthroneQueen · 8 months ago

On nous a tellement dit qu'Interstellar est un film crédible scientifiquement, que des experts ont contribué au film, qu'on finit par vouloir tout expliquer scientifiquement. Oui, il y a un paradoxe temporel en cela que, pour que Cooper transmette les coordonnées de la NASA et donne la solution de l'équation (= se retrouve dans le Tesseract), il faut qu'il ait eu possibilité de de retrouver dans le Tesseract en premier lieu.

Mais à mon avis on peut voir ça autrement, en se disant que le film nous propose au contraire une vision où le temps est navigable, grâce à la gravité (les messages de poussière ou l'action sur la montre), mais aussi à l'amour (le lien qu'ont Cooper et Murph permettent de transcender le temps et l'espace). C'est un peu déterministe, mais on peut aussi se dire que Cooper ne change pas le passé ni ne crée de paradoxe temporel, il remplit juste son rôle dans une suite d'événements qui avaient vocation à avoir lieu. Il n'y a pas forcément une explication scientifique ou une cohérence globale à chercher là dedans.

Quant à tes réflexions sur ce qu'il se passe après le passage dans le trou noir : c'est une théorie partagée par beaucoup. Le docteur Mann l'annonce d'ailleurs en disant à Cooper qu'il verrait ses enfants à l'aube de sa mort, ce qui n'est probablement pas un hasard.

Il y a aussi une théorie qui dit que Cooper n'est jamais rentré dans le trou noir, bien qu'il s'en soit approché. Il a pu être "sauvé" et amené dans le Tesseract avant le moment critique, d'où sa non-désintégration.

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ReddflipMTG · 8 months ago

Il y a aussi l'hypothèse selon laquelle les "humains du futur" seraient plutôt une forme de puissance divine, une intelligence supérieure ayant transcendé les limites humaines. L'aventure de Cooper dans le film pourrait être interprétée comme un écho à celle de Moïse et son arche, où est choisi pour guider et sauver l'humanité.

M'enfin, tout ça pour dire qu'il n'y a pas UNE interprétation gravée dans le marbre, c'est à toi de voir avec laquelle tu vibes le mieux :)

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ShadowthroneQueen · 8 months ago

Tout à fait ! L'hypothèse de la volonté divine rejoint un peu la piste déterministe que j'évoquais. Quant à l'explication des "humains du futur", elle vient de Cooper lui-même, mais elle n'est pas indépassable...

D'ailleurs, pouvoir transcender le temps, l'espace et la matière, n'est-ce pas le propre d'un dieu ?

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krazygyal · 8 months ago

J’étais restée sur l’explication : « l’amour transcende l’espace-temps ». Puis, s’agissant d’une fiction et qui plus est de la SF, je pars du principe que ça n’est pas vrai et j’accepte toute explication tirée par les cheveux. Ça ne me choque pas comme les voitures qui n’ont jamais une rayure après une course-poursuite de malade dans un polar, car l’histoire se situe dans un univers « normal ».

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Tasty-Mango-fy · OP · 8 months ago

Ah oui exact, Mann en parle et insiste pas mal là dessus en plus c’est vrai ! Sûrement pas une coïncidence.

J’imagine qu’il peut y avoir plusieurs interprétations, et c’est aussi ce qui fait la beauté du film.

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ggggg_ggggg · 8 months ago

J'adore ce film et en effet il y a ce grand flou qui est difficile voire impossible à expliquer mais j'aime me dire que parfois tout n'a pas besoin d'être parfaitement droit et logique pour être apprécié.

C'est toujours un pur moment et pour moi un des plus beaux voyages cinématographiques que de regarder ce film, je crois que je ne m'en laisserai jamais !

Et finalement, j'adore qu'on se pose toutes ces questions, ça fait partie du film.

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Tasty-Mango-fy · OP · 8 months ago

Clairement, enfaite je me rends compte que les films qui laissent une partie un peu floue ce sont mes préférés. On cherche à comprendre, on s’interroge et au final on garde le film en tête…

Je suis pas super bon public mais j’ai vraiment quelques films que je ne me lasse pas de regarder et celui là en fait partie.

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Otowa · 8 months ago

Voici mon point de vue : tout ce qui se passe à l'écran à partir du trou noir n'est que le fruit de l'imagination du personnage principal, alors en train de mourir lors de sa plongée vers l'astre.

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phiram · 8 months ago

C'est un grand film mais sur côté par une fan base totalement delu. Beaucoup d'incohérences et faciliter. Mais ça reste un beau film

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Sensitive-Area2125 · 8 months ago

C'est sûr, c'est pas un film d'anticipation, mais esthétiquement il est au top, la musique aussi. Avec les deux premiers Batman et Dunkerque, c'est mon préféré. Inception, Mememto, Insomnia, Tenet, Le Prestige, j'ai eu du mal. Surtout Tenet, je suis parti de la salle pour manger une pizza, c'est m'est pas arrivé souvent. Me reste Eisenhower à voir, la photo à l'air belle, et au moins celui-là devrait pas basculer dans l'incompréhensible

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youtpout · 8 months ago

C’est pour ça que je n’ai pas aimé ce film, ce passage sans queue ni tête sur comment il reçoit les infos et les transmets.

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Ending of Interstellar Finally Explained...6 years later?!

Posted by catchpen · in r/interstellar · 5 years ago

youtu.be

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[deleted] · 5 years ago

Anybody else feel that this didn’t need explaining, especially an entire 6 years later? Furthermore, they didn’t actually “explain” the ending per se, they just pretty much described what we saw on screen, and nothing more. Actually explaining it would require a knowledge of theoretical physics and would get into time loops, multiverses, etc. THAT’S what people would really like to see, and I have yet to see anybody satisfactorily do that. Even Physicist Kip Thorne himself in “The Science Of Interstellar” surprisingly did not choose to address this among all the head-spinning topics within that tome. Perhaps because Nolan forbade him to, as he likes to keep things ambiguous and for people to come to their own conclusions about his movies. Take the ending of Inception and peoples differing interpretations, for example.

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0nly0bjective · 5 years ago

The one thing I can't wrap my head around after several re-watches, is how the humans of the future were ever able to exist in order to send the quantum data. How did that future exist before the fifth dimension was discovered, allowing them to create the tesseract for Coop? It's a paradox. So many different theories but they all have a fault somewhere.

I love the ending of Inception. It's obvious that you're not intended to know whether or not Cobb is in a dream and leave you in suspense. Interstellar is different to me- it's not just a mystery, but what seems to be an impossibility. I wish Nolan would come out with an explanation himself, but I doubt he ever will.

Edit: did some more googling and found this interesting interpretation in a response to a similar question-

>You pose an interesting question. It may indeed seem that this is a paradox since the humans couldn't have gone back in time to save themselves when they wouldn't have been saved in the first place.
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>But your problem is actually that you're searching a cause out of nothing where there is none. You are basically searching for the beginning of a circle. You assume that there could be an alternative timeline where humanity was not saved by the whole wormhole/tesseract stuff from its future self but then created the observed timeline by sending the message back. But such an alternative timeline does not exist and can't ever exist in the time concept of the movie, which follows the Novikov self-consistency principle in this regard. The point is that the timeline has always been this way and hasn't been created out of another timeline by some external influence, humanity has always been saved by its future self and will always safe its past self. If they hadn't saved themselves, they wouldn't exist to save themselves, as you realized yourself. You just have to stop looking for the beginning of what is a time loop, because there is no dedicated beginning, this time loop has always been part of the universe's unchangable time continuum.1
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>There is no point in reasoning about a reality where Cooper did not send the message to his daughter and himself in exactly the same way as he received them, since that is not the reality we're shown. It is not possible for Cooper to send other messages to himself than the ones he received or for the "Bulk Beings" to not open the wormhole in the future, since all that has basically already happened in Cooper's and earth's past. If he'd do it differently, he had received different messages in the first place. I know this may sound like a lame excuse or discussing away a supposed paradox just by its necessity. But it is really a fundemantally different approach of looking at time travel in contrast to, say, a different timeline whenever the past is changed. By saying that the past cannot ever in any slight way be changed -- and that's indubitably what the movie says -- the existence of any kind of paradoxa is basically avoided. One just has to accept the fact that the future 5D superhumans will at some point create that wormhole for us and will at some point create the tesseract for Cooper. Why they do this exactly is admittedly not answered by the movie, which just doesn't care about their reasons as they seem irrelevant here, but they certainly do it in exactly the same way as it already happened, because it happened in the way they did it.
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>This interpretation of an unchangable timeline is in fact a common way to avoid the problem of time paradoxa. A good other example for this is the movie Twelve Monkeys, where the end reveals
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>>!that the timeline has always looked this way and the young Cole has always seen his older self die.!<
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>And in fact when viewing that movie for the first time, it immediately struck me as one of the most plausible time travel movies ever, since it avoids any kind of paradox present in many other time travel movies by the simple consequence that the exact flow of events cannot ever be changed at all and every kind of time travel is already part of the causality chain that led up to it, even if in a circular way. (I have to add though, that discussions on this site have since made me doubt the unchangability of timelines in Twelve Monkeys a bit. But nevermind, Interstellar with its perfectly consistent depiction of a completely unchangable timeline can now take its place.)

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[deleted] · 5 years ago

Looks like you answered your own question there, slick. And it’s correct; it’s a temporal loop, not a paradox.

EDIT: Although I would just like to add that the Fifth Dimension has already been discovered in real life - at least in academic theory - and is thus not just relegated to Science Fiction. So with that in mind, there could already be beings existing in it. Perhaps even alternate versions of ourselves. Whatever the case, the existence of The Bulk has already been proven - to a degree. Who is to say there isn’t already at least planets and such within there. This would be another way to answer your question as Interstellar exists decades from now (the year 2067), so there could have already been humans/aliens existing in The Bulk for quite some time prior to the beginning of the movie. It isn’t stated in the movie that the Bulk Beings that created The Tesseract were the FIRST Generation, only that they created The Tesseract, and thus presumably also the Wormhole. So it is entirely possible that those beings are not actually humans from our future (because that was simply Coop’s rapidly formed opinion based on no evidence; it is not a fact), but beings that have always existed in The Bulk, maybe even since not long after the creation of The Multiverse, and perhaps even before the very existence of our own stars and planets.

As TARS said “Cooper, people couldn’t build this”. While I still haven’t fully come to a definite conclusion over the last 6 years (however one feels, I think it’s up to personal interpretation. Much like your Inception example), I do typically tend to trust machines that can perform millions of computations per second - or whatever - to form an opinion, particularly a machine that also has the ability to gather, decipher, and transmit “invisible” quantum data (incidentally let’s hear it for TARS, who was instrumental in helping to save humanity when you think about it, and not just Coop and Murph), over a human who has been shown to be less smart on several occasions (remember “why are you whispering? They can’t hear you” ? Lol). A human that is also not a space physicist, just a pilot and an engineer. A human that thinks emotionally and makes assumptions. Let’s also not forget that TARS had to pretty much explain everything to Coop while in the Tesseract.

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kevind553 · 5 years ago

Looper tends to do this. They are almost getting as bad as WatchMojo

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FrenchTars · 5 years ago

>http://www.looper.com/158243/the-ending-of-interstellar-explained/

Thanks for that easy reading, from a french guy !

I share it on my fan group Interstellar

https://www.facebook.com/groups/949890458739055/

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MacVikar · 5 years ago

It’s literally so easy to understand lol

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Right!

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Trying to understand the ending? Only watched it the once, I think a movie like this deserves a second watch, it's more complex than let's say Life

Posted by alexlukasz100 · in r/interstellar · 3 years ago

How did Dr. Brand end up on Edmunds planet? Did Cooper set that course for her?

How was Cooper found?

I'm confused about how he can be behind the bookshelf sending a morse message and he sees himself with young Murph, and he also sees older Murph.

Sorry one more q. Where was Mann escaping too?

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Empire_JeSzO · 3 years ago

Mann wanted to finish the mission, that was his motivation for stopping Cooper.

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alexlukasz100 · OP · 3 years ago

so Mann wanted to go to Wolf Edmunds planet/galaxy?

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Empire_JeSzO · 3 years ago

Yeah to seed the population, he says his going to finish the mission i recall. And asks brand to join him after

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InkDemon_Omega · 3 years ago

They set up the path before they started flying there.

The time shifting entities dropped him by the rift.

The time shifters built an infinite bookshelf of memories and he finds younger and older murph in there.

He just wanted to be back with humanity.

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Rwh221 · 3 years ago

When he see older and younger Murph I assume that is how the entities experience reality. Past present and future all at the same time. Like the prophets from ds9.

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jaymavs · 3 years ago

A second watch? Nope, you need many watches to truly get the essence of what this movie really is.

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Agreeable-Cream5432 · 3 years ago

Mann just wanted to gtfo. Isolation drove him mad, and he wanted to be anywhere BUT that little ice cloud in the middle of nowhere, even if it meant killing the very people who came to him.

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toomanyUNsweretaken · 3 years ago

I’ve watched it 100 times and still discover new things. It’s enthralling. Could answer all those questions, but you’ll enjoy it even more watching it again and pulling things together.

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Could someone explain the ending to me? I’ve watched it a few times and I still don’t quite understand how Cooper went from being inside the tesseract to being on the station orbiting Saturn

Posted by TriG-tbh · in r/interstellar · 6 years ago

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elpatator · 6 years ago

“They” brought Cooper to the tesseract so he could communicate with Murph (giving her the codes, thus enabling humans to leave Earth and create Cooper Station.). Once this was done, they “expelled” him from the tesseract and left him near Saturn, where the members of Cooper Station picked him up.

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Jrocks123 · 6 years ago

Couldn’t “they” prevent or warn the 4d humans of the events that would cause earth to become uninhabitable

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FuturistAnthony · 6 years ago

Also since he was in gargantua a lot of time had passed as was stated in the movie, so Murph was old while coop was still the same age.

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The7thNomad · 6 years ago

The mysterious future humans transported him back out. Since the tesseract, and the wormhole were all their constructions, and they had no small amount of control over time and space, once Cooper sent the message to Murph they said "Seeeeeeeee ya" and flung him through the hole for the now saved humanity to find.

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I don’t understand

Posted by shrekisshrexy3561 · in r/interstellar · 3 months ago

So I just finished watching interstellar and I just couldn’t wrap my head around the ending. Anyone mind explaining (quickly summarize) the ending?

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100dalmations · 3 months ago

Coop enters the black hole. Brand heads to Edmund’s planet. They both went 50 yrs into the future bc of their time around the black hole.

While in the singularity, Coop relays the quantum gravity data to Murph (an adult). Then he pops out of the singularity at the present (+50 yrs). He’s picked up and taken to Cooper Station. Murphy is now in her 90s and they reunite. The quantum gravity data has saved humanity. Apparently they’re able to change the gravitational constant and it becomes possible to move humanity into space and toward the wormhole to get to the new planets.

Coop steals/borrows one of the new rangers, also benefitting from the new quantum gravity science/tech and intends to meet up with Brand. I guess based on where everything is he doesn’t have to travel FTL in order to meet her.

Meanwhile, Brand arrives to Edmunds. He apparently died shortly after his arrival. She sets up camp. She prepares to go into hibernation. Not sure what she knows or intends. But she can execute Plan B.

But plan A has been successful.

Edit: typo

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sentalmos · 3 months ago

I always thought Edmund died before she got there? Thats why he was transmitting for a little then presumably got crushed by the rocks we see at the end.

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100dalmations · 3 months ago

Sorry typo. People speculate that he set up camp then died of some natural event like a rock fall or soemthing. Based on that very last scene. And remember she arrives there 50 yrs hence.

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ZTDYeetbloxjail · 3 months ago

i think they meant edmunds died shortly after his arrival, not Brand's

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drifters74 · 3 months ago

Technically the Endurance didn't have any sort of FTL capabilities

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100dalmations · 3 months ago

Yeah. No ship did. They had cryosleep for long hauls. The new Rangers don’t.

I never got the geography (astrography?) of the 3 planets. If they were in the same system how come it seems like the first astronauts didn’t know of each other? If they weren’t in the same system how did the Endurance get to them all w/o FTL travel?

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CryptonautMaster · 3 months ago

What’s FTL?

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RandyMcTreverson · 3 months ago

Honestly, the movie still works if Cooper dies in the wormhole. He immediately sees his children in an uncanny reunion where no other family members acknowledge his presence. This is what Matt Damon’s character said would happen when you die. Plan B succeeds and those future humans open the wormhole to enable the plot, even though earth dies.

I don’t believe this particular interpretation, but its plausibility is actually a tribute to Nolan. Not knowing the absolute truth about an outcome is the most human state of being.

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cl00s_ · 3 months ago

Iirc when Cooper enters the room with Murph and her family, many family members look at the camera (camera being Coopers POV).

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jamnewton22 · 3 months ago

I’d just watch it again honestly. Especially if you did enjoy it. You’ll start to understand more with multiple viewings.

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Babblingbutcher420 · 3 months ago

I’ve seen it maybe a dozen times and catch something new every time

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sozar · 3 months ago

Quick summary: both Plan A and Plan B are successful.

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r/interstellar • [9]

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Has any movie ever been able to have 3 major plot twists that all work like interstellar does?

Posted by bujimango2000 · in r/interstellar · 9 months ago

One of the (infinite) most impressive things about this film in my opinion is that they were able to have 3 plot twists that all flow together perfectly and don’t feel forced or stupid whatsoever. (That’s subjective but most would agree I’m sure)

Brand lying about Plan A
Mann lying about his planet
Cooper being the ghost

I mean it’s just unbelievable to me that this was done. Have any other films accomplished something like this?

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redbirdrising · 9 months ago

Just Matt Damon being Mann was a twist in and of itself. As long as you didn’t read IMDB before hand.

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AbsolutusVirtus · 9 months ago

Extra interesting because he was in The Martian shortly after.

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theslipguy · 8 months ago

Hahahahhaa I remember the first time watching it in theaters and being like WTF is that Matt Damon?!? And then triple checking

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AbsolutusVirtus · 9 months ago

Completely shocked when they revealed that. A+ twist!

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TheUnpopularOpine · 9 months ago

That guy shouldn’t be allowed in space anymore he’s got some issues

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superfamichong · 9 months ago

There are some with even more than just 3, for instance, “The Prestige” (also by Nolan).

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mmorales2270 · 9 months ago

Freaking great movie. But that one’s dark for sure. I won’t ruin it for anyone who hasn’t seen it, but the way it ended shook me a bit.

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Aquariusofthe12 · 9 months ago

Try making sense of Primer in one go.

You won’t.

Then go find the video on YouTube breaking it down that’s twice the length of the movie.

It’s incredible.

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VeloIlluminati · 8 months ago

Not a movie but an anime series.

Ive never seen so many jaw dropping plot twists as in Attack on Titan.

The characters are so well written that it makes them so believable.

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NarrMaster · 8 months ago

And the pacing of most of those twists. It gives you no time to reflect, it just keeps going.

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thanosthumb · 9 months ago

Personally I think TENET is awesome but I know not everyone agrees on it being a great movie

! 1. The Protagonist is fighting himself in the Freeport!<

! 2. Kat saw herself diving off Sator’s yacht after killing him!<

! 3. It was always Neil protecting TP!<

! 4. The Protagonist founded TENET in the future!<

It has a lot of little things showing how all the scenes are connected, but I think these are the major ones. There’s also the fan theory about >!Neil being Sator’s son Max, which I also think is plausible because of how he is the one narrating the end of the film as Maximilien walks away from the school with Kat.!<

I think The Prestige is another excellent example. Oppenheimer even has a few. Coincidence that they are all Nolan films? I think he’s just shown he’s a master of delivering cinematic twists.

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necros911 · 8 months ago

And Maximilien's last 4 letters is Neil. So much crazy detail in Tenet. Genius writing.

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Interstellar is a Very Poorly Written Movie

Posted by darksidathemoon · in r/MauLer · 3 months ago

Everything about this movie is great except for the writing. The writing is a complete failure.

NASA was shut down for refusing to bomb people: the department of defense absolutely does not need NASA's help to bomb anyone

NASA was brought back in secret to explore potential habitable planets on the other side of a wormhole: it is never explained why any of this needs to be secret

Coop is the perfect man to lead NASA's next mission: NASA decided that they were ok with just sitting around and waiting for Coop to stumble across their secret base instead of just recruiting him

Coop finds NASA's base by decoding coordinates written out in lines of dust on the floor: Insane leap of logic that he and Murph are able to decode any of this

Wormhole travel explanation scene: If I see one more person fold a piece of paper and poke a pen through it, I'm going to go insane

Water planet assessment: despite knowing that the scout astronaut only landed there an hour ago by the scout's perspective, they decided that that's enough time for a serious positive signal indicating that the planet has been assessed as habitable

Water planet wave scene: Anne Hathaway wastes time insisting that she needs to recover the data from a planet that is obviously not viable. As a result, the wave hits their lander, another astronaut dies, and they're set back more than two decades

Dr. Mann's Planet: they go to the next planet and revive Matt Damon's character. He tells them that the planet can work and lures Coop away from his shelter. He detonates his robot that was somehow rigged to explode in the hopes that he can beat Coop in a fight and kill everyone else in the blast, allowing him to steal their ship. Somehow, he actually manages to get everyone in the explosion and leaves Coop for dead

Dr. Mann's death: he then tries to dock on the station without a robot to assist him, something that he should know is impossible. He does this anyway, because he is somehow simultaneously cunning and ruthless in self preservation and suicidally stupid and arrogant. During this scene, there is no ability to remotely override anything on his ship other than his comms. They use this to ineffectually yell at him for being stupid.

Coop's son: Back on Earth, Coop's son has been unnecessarily turned into an antagonist by making him into an idiot. He wilfully denies his own children the opportunity to get medical attention and be moved to a safer home to avoid the harmful effects of dust on their lungs. He goes as far as to get into a fist fight with a doctor who his sister brought to help his children, and who ultimately becomes his brother in law when that doctor marries Murph

In the black hole: Coop realizes that the black hole is a time machine that allows him to affect the gravity at his daughter's bookshelf. He speculates that the black hole was a tool sent by future humans to save humanity here. He has nothing to go off of, he's just talking out of his ass. Additionally, this would constitute a bootstrap paradox, as the future cannot create the past because then the future would have to be responsible for its own existence. He then decides that he's going to send the data necessary for humanity to "solve the gravity equation" by flickering the second hand on his watch in Morse code.

Murph notices the broken watch: while returning to her childhood home to abduct her brother's children because he refuses to move them to a location that isn't actively killing them, Murph notices the pattern of the watch and correctly assumes that the broken second hand is actually being done on purpose by her father from outer space in order to tell her how to solve the gravity equation. This level of deduction is completely insane and unbelievable. She is then shown to have taken the watch back to the NASA base to continue to write down the code and analyze what's being sent. How Coop can continue to manipulate the watch when it is removed from the bookshelf is never explained

Overall, this movie contains incredible acting, directing, music, and production design and all of it is totally failed by the insane plot and characters

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SkitzoRabbit · 3 months ago

NASA was shut down for refusing to bomb people:.....But it sure could help with orbital bombardment, targeting, launch platforms for weapons.

NASA was brought back in secret ......because the american public couldn't get behind a science project while the government failed to find a fix to feeding the next generation.

Coop is the perfect man to lead NASA's next mission:.......that the good doctor passed over because he had kids and a dead wife. All the original rangers were unwed and no kids.

Coop finds NASA's base by decoding coordinates written out in lines of dust on the floor: Insane leap of logic that he and Murph are able to decode any of this....fair but its a movie

Wormhole travel explanation scene: If I see one more person fold a piece of paper and poke a pen through it, I'm going to go insane ....fair but its a movie made for mainstream anyones not just scifi fans

Water planet assessment: .....you land on plymouth rock and not know that food can grow there? just because it looks like a water planet doesn't mean things are what you think.

Water planet wave scene: ....you seriously underestimate scientists data boners.

Dr. Mann's Planet: .....sometimes scenes are made around dialog, and sometime dialog is made around scenes, this would be the former, needed for Dr. Mann's speech

Dr. Mann's death: .....thats kinda what the writers were going for the HUBRIS of MANN

Coop's son:....... the stubbornness of rural america begs to differ

In the black hole: He speculates that the black hole was a tool sent by future humans to save humanity here.....I've always assumed that the way future generations of the plan B embryos (and not anyone saved from the surface of earth) reached some limitation of their initial gene pool, which was saved by the original timeline, they then added to the plan timeline to get Coop involved via the teseract to hopefully send the data back allowing the larger population of humans to survive in space and produce a better alternative future.

Murph notices the broken watch: ........fair but Coop was outside of time and could have been clicking the second hand for a few months and not really have a biological care about anything. And he can 'see' his daughter to know when to stop, go back over a mistranslation, or whatever.

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Past_Search7241 · 3 months ago

They don't necessarily have to have hit a limitation of the gene pool.

They could just have been human and been able to do something to avert the greatest loss of life ever.

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SkitzoRabbit · 3 months ago

totally possible, but i figure the time necessary to evolve to a 5th or more dimensional being would separate themselves so far from caring about their predecessors, that SOME sort of self interest would be necessary to endeavor to change the past, and wipe out their own future in the process.

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nephilim80 · 3 months ago

Guy leaves his family to die on apocalyptic Earth to enter an alien created wormhole in search of lost human colonizers that entered the wormhole years back in search of liveable worlds. He then enters and survives a black hole and into a 4th dimension and ends up talking to his now grown up daughter from behind a wall in his house using morse code.

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lvl12 · 3 months ago

I'm pretty sure it wasn't aliens but future humans

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nephilim80 · 3 months ago

Sure but you only know that towards the end.

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InertPistachio · 3 months ago

Seems rather straightforward to me...

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ShipRunner77 · 3 months ago

Either the planet is viable or it isn't, they needed an answer.

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ShipRunner77 · 3 months ago

An effective visual explanation of how a Wormhole works isn't bad writing, repetitive yes but not bad writing.

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Summoner475 · 3 months ago

That's not an effective explanation. Its equivalent to being asked "how does a plane fly?", and replying "like this: whooosh" while making an airplane with your hand.

The directors could've watched one fucking Leonard Susskind video and would've given a far more acceptable explanation.

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Western_Agent5917 · 3 months ago

This is still one of the most emotional movie I've watched and I just never bothered with it's flaws.

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xolotltolox · 3 months ago

Well yeah, that is the movie. Amazing acting and music, but an absolute turd of a script that falls apart if you bother to think about it obectively

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