Brand New Interstellar Theory Has Me Heartbroken Once Again, 10 Years Later

Christopher Nolan knows how to shatter viewers’ hearts with his movies, and a new theory for one of them suggests you never thought its ending could be more devastating, yet it actually is.

The director’s epic sci-fi drama Interstellar hit the cinemas back in 2014, but years later the movie is still being discussed by its fans. Now all those numerous investigations finally got some results, though others probably wish they’d never got another reason to bawl their eyes out because of that movie.

All the heated discussions regarding what exactly Interstellar’s ending means and what happened to Cooper after all have recently been revived on TikTok. A user @stark_verse pointed out the fact that the same footage of Cooper’s space ship emerges twice on the screen with a difference of one hour of the movie’s run.

The same frame reappears for the second time when Cooper and Amelia are entering Miller’s planet atmosphere, which made the user think that Nolan had made a mistake.

Obviously, such an option has almost zero chances to be true since Nolan is definitely not the one to disregard his movies’ montage. Instead, there could be a huge revelation hidden in the seemingly confusing scene repetition.

According to the user, the first time the footage in question shows up the viewers are seeing the space ship’s crash which would most likely not leave anyone onboard alive. He then suggested that Cooper could in fact die in that crash in the very beginning of Interstellar and the rest of the movie did have signs of that.

The fan then proceeded to explain that everything happening in the film next is Cooper’s journey to the afterlife, the idea that is reinforced by the crew’s constant mentions of the big sleep, “a clear metaphor of death.”

Additionally, Matt Daemon’s Dr. Mann reassures Cooper that before dying he’ll be able to see his kids, and he in fact sees his daughter Murph right after crossing Gargantua’s event horizon that symbolizes some kind of final transition.

To make it all even more mind-blowing, Interstellar’s final scene where Cooper visits his elderly daughter Murph on her deathbed seems pretty weird as nobody except her notices Cooper’s presence — that’s because the latter went to see his child in the afterlife, not in the real world.

I may not be the only one who truly didn’t see this coming since it always seemed like Interstellar’s tiniest details were analyzed under a magnifying glass years ago. Well, TikTok has yet a lot of new striking theories to offer, and we’re all here for them.