Time travel featured in Christopher Nolan's film Interstellar was much less confusing compared to a more recent film from the director. Nolan has earned a reputation as a director who makes ambitious, often complicated films and Interstellar remains one of his most daring cinematic performances. In InterstellarEarth is suffering from a plague that will make the planet uninhabitable. Therefore, former NASA pilot Joseph Cooper is sent on a mission across the galaxy to find a habitable planet for humanity to move to.
The end of Interstellar introduces an element of time travel. Time travel always naturally complicates a story, but Interstellar Explains the concept of time dilation very well. Six years later Interstellar release, Nolan film 2020 Principle it also dealt with time travel. Compared to Interstellarlike the characters in Principle Time travel is much more confusing. This caused many viewers to be completely lost as to what actually happened in the film at the end of Principlemaking it a less satisfying high-concept story than Interstellar.
Most interstellar time travel is relatively factual and based on real-world science
Interstellar explores the concept of time dilation
In Interstellarthree astronauts were sent to different planets that NASA believed were potentially capable of supporting human life. The first planet that Cooper and his team arrive at is Miller's planet, which is very close to a supermassive black hole, Gargantua. It is on this planet that the characters of Interstellar experience time dilation. The science of Interstellar is based on the work of Albert Einstein, who believed that time is directly influenced by gravity. Therefore, Because Miller's planet is so close to Gargantua's strong gravitational field, time moves significantly slower on the planet compared to Earth..
Cooper and his crew were on Miller's planet for about three hours and seven minutes, meaning 23 years, four months and eight days have passed on Earth.
In Interstellar, for every hour Cooper and his crew spend on Miller's planet, seven years pass on Earth. Cooper and his crew were on Miller's planet for about three hours and 17 minutes, meaning 23 years, four months and eight days have passed on Earth. Technically, time traveling to the future because of time dilation had a profound effect on Cooper, as his children, who he left to embark on the mission, were adults when he left Miller's planet.
The ending of Interstellar is where the film really becomes science fiction (but it still works)
Fifth-dimensional humans from the future ensured humanity's survival in the interstellar
The majority Interstellar It's a linear story, but because of the time dilation Cooper experienced on Miller's planet, the film's ending gets a little confusing. At the end of InterstellarCooper is pulled into the Tesseract, which was built by future humans with knowledge of fifth-dimensional physics. Humans from the fifth dimension, who can observe the past, present and future, built the Tesseract so that Cooper could communicate with his daughter.who is also trying to figure out a way to save humanity.
While the concept of fifth-dimensional humans is somewhat complicated, the time dilation Cooper experienced on Miller's planet easily explains how he is able to communicate with his adult daughter. The information Cooper is able to provide Murphy during the climax of Interstellar Dramatically advances humanity's understanding of space and timeand ends up saving the species.
Interstellar time travel was much simpler than Tenet
Characters in a tent travel to the past
Although there are still some very complicated subjects covered in Interstellarthe high risk of spending too much time on Miller's planet was effectively communicated to the audience and becomes one of the film's most stressful sequences. While Cooper technically traveled to the future in Interstellar, characters in Principle travel to the past. In Principle story, a scientist from the future invented a machine called a ratchet that reverses the entropy of anything or anyone placed inside it.
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Film |
RT Critic Score |
Worldwide box office |
|---|---|---|
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Interstellar (2014) |
73% |
US$733,491,575 |
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Tenet (2020) |
70% |
US$365,304,105 |
Characters in Principle You can rewind time instead of forward using the turnstile. However, as characters in Principle are receding into the past, everything around them is still moving forwardwhich makes several sequences in the film very disorienting and difficult to follow. Time travel presented in Principle is based on a theoretical physics hypothesis by Richard Feynman and John Wheeler, but is not explained as well as time dilation in Interstellar. Therefore, time travel in Interstellar is much easier to understand than Principle.