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Originally Posted by M. Steng
I just finally saw this last night. I liked it, but didn't love it. First off all, it was WAY too loud, almost such that it ruined those sequences for me. I can understand and appreciate artistic license to mix music and dialogue a certain way, but physically making your audience uncomfortable due to the volume of the music seemed a bit overboard for me. I consider myself able to tolerate loud stuff but even I was cringing at how loud it was.
As for the story: I thought it was well-told, but a little bit long. It felt like they could have cut some stuff out and still have told the same story.
I'm not a physics guy at all, so I was admittedly a little lost at some points when they were discussing some of the more scientific-type stuff. But regarding time travel/the humans going back to the future to place the wormhole there: if they already got to a point where they had the capability to place something of that magnitude/complexity there, why even do it to begin with? Clearly, humans reached a point in the far future where they reached these capabilities before Cooper and Brand came along. Maybe they had these capabilities but were running out of resources, so went back in time to alter events so that they ended up on a different planet? Time travel and time manipulation always messes with my brain and leaves me with more questions than answers. Any insights into this kind of stuff would be appreciated.
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in terms of the physics time stuff, the easiest way to understand relativity, which is how short times in one location were long times in other, is to explain it in one sentence. the closer an object is to a source of gravitational pull, the slower time moves. the size of that pull also plays a part in relativity, and it's really quite an amazing discovery. since black holes have EXTREME gravitational pulls (galaxies are getting sucked into them), the water planet's time moved the slowest because it was the closest to it, hence the giant waves. that's why the time lapse was 1 hour = 7 years on earth. as far as the time travel in the black hole, that's all simply based on the belief of Christopher Nolan and the astrophysicist he worked with. no one really knows what happens in a black hole, but it is plausible that we could have control of time as a 4th dimension, similar to how we have control of our own 3 dimensions on earth. crazy concept, but possible.
as far as the wormhole, it's kind of difficult to think when/how it would've been placed there, but my belief is that it was the data taken from the black hole that was the reason the wormhole was able to be made. it's as if the data of Garagantua was the missing link to the earth's survival, and that's why Coop risked his life to go into it. with that data, the earth had much more information about spacetime than they had before.