Interstellar: Love Transcends Dimensions of Time and Space

One of the most important and resonant themes from Christopher Nolan's masterpiece film "Interstellar"

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[MarkFilipAnthony]

EXPLAINED: Love the 5th Dimension

You have to think about emotions (specifically our strongest emotion "love") as a dimension, a 5th dimension, then it all makes sense.

If the logic on dimensions is based on how we connect with each other:
To meet someone physically u need all 4 dimensions: A Specific location and a specific time. But you are missing a 5th connection: the Emotional connection.

Because you can still be at the same spot at the same time and not even being aware that you are with someone specific, you need an emotional connection also to feel the other person is there with you.
If not you're just emotionless zombies bumping into each other, or feel you are talking to a wall.

But what's interesting about emotional connection is that it's not restricted or bound by the rules of the 4 other dimensions:

Cooper in the film has an emotional connection with Murph no matter her location (3 dimensions), but also no matter what her age is (4th dimension).
He can talk to Murph through a video recording that neither is representing where she is at the present specific time nor location and still have a connection with her.

In this specific last clips in the video, Copper needs to find Murph in a gallery of time, but how does he pinpoint the right time in space to find and connect with Murph? He uses an emotional connection, specifically a time where they connected. Like an editor finding the right take in in a film strip that connection emotionally with the audience.

Emotions, and (specifically the strongest emotion: Love) is a personal connection with someone that doesn't need to exist in neither a specific time frame (like past, present or future) or a specific location (at home, far away in space).

Somehow we can also feel a connection with someone that is dead, or someone we have not met.

Now one can argue these emotions are biased and only a personal illusion, but we humans somehow can be in situations where we get to know each other as children, grow up into adulthood, meet up again, and continue our friendship as if we never were apart. That aspect of humanity can be tested.

Even after evolving into a different human being, both intelligently and physically, with that simple test we can conclude scientifically that love/emotion connection exists through both time and space, despite us not knowing how it works.

[Suggi-gyvh]

My dad died last weekend and this quote is what I use for his funeral because the univers was our thing... we loved to talked about it and my dad was a atheists but he believed he would return someday to be a part of our beautiful sun again. Wherever he is may my love guide him and may he finde peace and eternity between flickering stars. My love for him will transcendence the dimensions of time and space ❤️🕯️😔

[echolot]

seems that people either genuinely love or absolutely hate this scene.

[eurovisionlyrics]

The best part about this scene is that Brand is right: if they had gone to the planet of Edmunds, they would’ve found the habitable planet right away.

[XMenFilmsDotCom]

I’m sad for the people who thought this scene/theory ruined the movie for them. To me, it was extremely powerful.

[SOOL]

“The vision of the eye is limited but the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib (Imam Ali)

[anaribeiro]

So, I can get why people don’t like this scene so much in the context of all the movie BUT I think those people miss one very important detail: at the end Cooper was only able to give the data to Murph because of… love.
He knew she would be back to get that watch for one non-rational reason: because he gave it to her, and she loved him. Despite of all the resentment she might feel, she would still came back for that watch, one last material thing from her father that she could hold on to remind her of him. Love sometimes makes you do irrational things, things behind every understandable reason, and, sometimes, they turn out to be just the thing to do.

[VitaminM]

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

[yrenalantigua]

I am drawn across the universe for someone I didn't see in decades.

[BatmanCK]

Impossible to not cry during the "I love you forever" scene. The music, acting, and overall emotion from this scene after having spent about ~30 minutes with these characters is phenomenal. There is nobody who does it like Nolan.

[codenamerishi]

I hate the "Those who don't like this scene just doesn't get it" people. I get it allright.

Still don't like the scene

[aprisonerscinemastephenmur]

Love is the answer.... the Beatles were't lying when they said "Love is all you need"
I love science, I went down the rabbit hole of quantum mechanics, relativity, learning about the universe alternate dimensions... But the fact is... when I had a nervous breakdown, It was the LOVE from my mother and family that saved my life. We are hear to love, the only reason I wanted to carry on living was to just embrace my family and practice Love, it's all that matters..

[seoul_muks]

this scene makes so much effing sense in this movie and people just hate it cuz they're heartbroken.... love IS MORE than just bedroom stories and romance and rose petals and weddings... love is somewhat like gravity. love is passion. love os hatred. love is a neverending battle. love is also peace. love is love. and in this movie, love has a higher meaning. watch again and you'll understand.

[TastyCrats]

This is one of the most powerful scenes I know of. I understand people that don’t understand though, and I truly wish them the strength and guidance to understand this existence.

[joshuat]

This film was robbed imo far as awards and is overlooked as one of Nolan's better films imo also. Matthew McConaughey blew me away in this film because i knew he could act good but this was a brilliant performance from him imo the score and the acting really transcends you into there world almost and gets you emotionally tied from the start. So that scene with Matthew after finding out just how many years have last for his daughter and people on earth and Matthew goes to his messages and we see his daughter and she is now his age and only does the one message because he said he promised to be back and that she might be his age when he comes home and she starts with the mad at him to just emotionally hurt because it's her birthday and it would be a really good time to be there and she's crying and then Matt's character does with the score slowly getting louder is just a brilliant scene imo that scene had me emotionally invested as if i was there and Felt there pain and sadness. So this film is beyond underrated imo

[unickx]

'how? cooper'
Love, TARS, love

[jarltrippin]

I don't think people quite understand everyone's gripe with this scene. It's not that the film is about love, it's that the dialogue spoon-fed the meaning and removed all thematical subtlety.

Nolan is a talented dude, but can we all agree that his dialogue can be extremely heavy handed?

[MariaGigante]

Interstellar is a fictional movie. The tesseracts is effectively a fiction. A cube that has more cubes inside. A structure with the same room with its bookcase, with everyone present lived by Murphy with his father in a limited period. The period of time that they are all happening at the same time, is the time that his ghost manifests, who was also his father. The tesseracts are an artificial creation of future humans who are more technologically and ethically advanced enough to know that Murphy's love for her father will solve the film's dilemma. Authentic love goes beyond the physical dimensions and the time dimension. It is the only bridge. Love transcends time and space has not been scientifically proven but I believe that many people with full awareness of life have the intuition that love: "Love is the only thing we can perceive that transcends time and space." (Dr. Brand / Anne Hathaway)

Love may be a pattern of all possible universes. I invite you to see the film "The Arrival" by Denis Villeneuve. During my life I have wondered if love is a constant of all the possibilities of consciousness of intelligent beings that achieve a high level of social and technological development. And if it is a necessary condition to be able to avoid extinction and to know transcendence.
Love is not an emotion comparable to hate or desire, fear, etc. The concept of love in the Western world is devalued by romantic love, but love is much more, perhaps it is everything. Because love connects you to everything, all the time. It is a state of life that few people get to know. Figures like Buddha or Jesus, I did not understand them, but reviewing their lives knowing that they were men who knew love in the transcendent sense made me resignify their lives. Disney's romantic love is not love, it is a state of ego dependency. It's just consumerism. To understand love you must try to understand the meaning of life. What does life pursue? Why evolution can generate intelligent life. Intelligent life that connects with each other and that can reach empathy, compassion and love for everything and despite everything, why?

All emotions like hate, revenge, lust, envy, etc., are born from the absence of love.
Authentic love has no correlation with the emotions you mention. Greetings

[dionbennett]

It’s interesting to see how a scientist might actually view the concept of love. We all have our ideas about things but I think why this might be cheesy for some is because emotions and science maybe don’t mix? In any case I never understood what she truly meant until I actually fell in love.

[vibovitold]

"- We love people who have died. Where's the social utility in that?

Have you ever fallen in love with a dead person though? No - you've loved someone when they were still alive, and then it just doesn't get cleared out of your system.
So what you still feel afterwards is a byproduct of having internalized this person (having created an inner internal image of them, which you need anyway to meaningfully interact with others when they're still alive). It's a byproduct of something decisively useful.
And the further usefulness of this may be limited, but apparently there's just little benefit in having the brain totally erase memores and feelings associated with a person that's passd away.
So it may not be useful by itself (although I think it still is, see below), but it's nevertheless an artifact of somethng that was actually useful in the past. It's an echo of pre-existing love, not a new phenomenon that exists independently of loving alive people.

And then he answers:

"- None."

You're still wrong here, buddy, because loving dead people absolutely IS socially useful whenever people love THE SAME dead people.

"Let's put aside our differences in the memory of our beloved mother, may she rest in peace".
Does it work 100% of times? No. Does it work now and then though? Of course. And that's enough to be useful.

The veneration of the dead - or sharing love for the same deceased people - increases the cohesiveness of social structures (families, clans etc.), binding people together. That's why it persists in a great many of human cultures.