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1listen to me when I say that love isn't
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3something we invented it's observable
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5powerful
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7it has to mean something Christopher
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9Nolan's science fiction epic
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11interstellar has sparked many
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13discussions since its release for a
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15story that deals with complex science
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17this doesn't come as a surprise but I
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19found that aside from the topics that
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21are addressed most often such as
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23explaining the plot discussing
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25scientific accuracy debating the role of
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27technology and artificial intelligence
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29and drawing parallels with Joseph
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31Conrad's heart of darkness and the Dust
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33Bowl era there hasn't been that much
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35real discussion on one of the more
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37controversial moments from the film the
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39scene in which bran suggests that love
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41might be more real and powerful than we
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43previously thought maybe it means
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45something more something we can yet
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47understand maybe it's some evidence some
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49artifact of a higher dimension that we
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51can't consciously perceive love is the
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53one thing we're capable of perceiving
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55that transcends dimensions of time and
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57space
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59maybe this topic often gets overlooked
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61because of the slightly awkward writing
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63or could it perhaps be that we are
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65unwilling to explore an attempt at
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67making a sincere statement about an
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69intimate subject that is not rooted in
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71both modern deconstruction or science
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73devoid of the subjective human
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75experience or as Aaron Stewart and puts
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77it in his fantastic article on
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79interstellar have we become more
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81terrified of intimacy than interstellar
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83travel my main goal for this video is
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85therefore to explore how Nolan's views
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87the connection between time and love in
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89interstellar there's going to be some
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91science but because that topic has
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93already been covered so much I'm just
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95going to stick to the basics that are
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97needed to understand the world of
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99interstellar
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101it is well known that Noland
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103collaborated with theoretical physicist
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105Kip Thorne to base the film on actual
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107science they deliberated on things like
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109wormholes and black holes but for the
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111purpose of this video I'm going to focus
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113on time what is time in interstellar to
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115answer this question Nolan again turned
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117to science which unfortunately doesn't
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119provide a clear answer time is the same
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121that everyone knows intimately until you
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123ask them tell you about this in no
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125aspect of time use I feel we really
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127fully understand thanks to Einstein and
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129his theory of general relativity we do
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131know that time and space are connected
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133establishing our experienced universe in
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135four dimensions also referred to as
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137space-time
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139one important discovery of this is that
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141our experience of the past the present
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143and the future is actually just an
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145illusion when in fact time exists all at
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147once but unlike the spatial dimensions
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149within which we can move around freely
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151we seem to be imprisoned by time always
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153experiencing only one slide of
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155space-time which we generally call the
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157now we are however always moving forward
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159in time from what we see as the past
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161towards what we see as the future we
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163call this linearity the arrow of time in
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165short the arrow of time most likely
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167exists because of entropy the movement
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169from order to disorder that was set in
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171motion by the Big Bang another important
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173discovery one that is especially
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175relevant to interstellar is that time is
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177not experienced the same by everyone and
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179is strongly influenced by gravity which
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181makes time go slower for those who are
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183closer to a strong gravitational force
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185scientists confirmed this by using
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187highly accurate atomic clocks they found
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189that if they placed one of the clocks
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191higher further away from Earth's gravity
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193let's say from the floor to a table time
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195moved a little bit faster the difference
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197here of course is infinite
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199is small but when we look at a black
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201hole for example which has immense
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203gravity the difference becomes far more
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205significant this is in a nutshell the
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207known science behind the concept of time
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209and pretty much establishes the rules of
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211time for interstellar time is relative
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213okay it can stretch and it can squeeze
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215but they can't run backwards can't
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217they're right the only thing that can
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219move across dimensions like time is
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221gravity it is interesting to look at how
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223Nolan incorporates this knowledge in
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225interstellar far aside from the obvious
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227use of time and time dilation in the
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229story
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231Nolan is known for using his films to
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233make meta statements on filmmaking and
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235the act of watching a film in Inception
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237for example the dreamworld is created in
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239pretty much the same way that films are
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241made there is a director a producer a
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243production designer an actor and the
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245studio who all work together to deliver
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247an experience to the audience that
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249impacts their lives in some way or
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251another I think that an interstellar
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253Nolan wanted to make a similar statement
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255a statement about the experience and
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257manipulation of time both in film and in
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259real life for starters the first act of
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261interstellar is surprisingly linear
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263compared to some of Nolan's other films
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265like in most films time is compressed
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267but still experienced linearly by the
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269viewer the story unfolds to us in the
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271same way that it does for the characters
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273Nolan even employs the traditional cut
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275to black to show the passage of time an
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277editing technique he almost never uses
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279it's not until we enter the wormhole and
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281are introduced to Einstein's theory of
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283relativity that time becomes distorted
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285not just for the characters in the film
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287but also for the audience as from this
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289moment the film breaks up our linear
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291experience of the story by cross-cutting
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293seams and jumping back and forth in time
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295while however still being limited to the
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297established
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299riddles of time for even a medium like
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301film that can manipulate the experience
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303of time is still bound by its arrow
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305always showing us a story one frame at a
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307time
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309besides the scientific foundation of
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311interstellar nolan also tends to ground
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313his films within a reality that is built
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315from familiar elements taking everyday
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317experiences and enlarging them building
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319them into the bigger story again going
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321back to Inception when establishing the
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323rules of the dreamworld and the concept
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325of extraction nolan used universally
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327experienced elements to make a science
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329fiction concept feel relatable to the
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331audience such as the kick and the idea
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333that dreams feel real while we're in
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335them so only when we wake up that we
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337realize something was actually strange
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339in interstellar he does this by drawing
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341on our universal experience of being
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343imprisoned by time which is beautifully
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345symbolized by the clock shaped endurance
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347that while moving in infinite space
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349binds the crew within its limits and
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351haunts him a score which during high
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353tension scenes becomes a ticking clock
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355at exactly 60 beats per minute
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357here in Japan
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359[Music]
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361we also see this in what is perhaps the
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363most devastating scene in the film the
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365moment when Cooper and brand come back
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367from Miller's planet to find out that 23
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369years have passed in the mere hours they
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371were gone in what feels like the blink
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373of an eye
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375Cooper's children have aged decades what
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377was once their future is now a series of
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379memories that he was not a part of and
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381we do as the audience are deprived of
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383being part of their story like we were
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385in the first act of the film why do we
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387find this moment so profoundly moving
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389I'd argue that this is because we do in
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391fact experience this dilation of time
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393and subsequent feeling of loss in our
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395own lives take for example the stories
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397of people who are forced to stay in one
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399place for a long period of time or
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401stories of those who went on some kind
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403of journey coming home for them is
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405rarely so much about the spatial element
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407as it is about the passing of time it is
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409the realization that life has moved on
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411in your absence it is knowing that no
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413matter how you move within the spatial
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415dimensions you cannot escape time all of
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417us experience this to some extent when
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419we reconnect with old friends or family
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421members when we revisit places where we
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423might have lived years ago or when we
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425get back from a long trip we find out
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427that things have changed or perhaps even
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429that we have changed that we are no
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431longer in touch with that which once
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433felt familiar again not because of
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435changes in space but because of this
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437passing of time that forever dooms us to
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439experience fundamental loss whether this
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441loss is a significant and traumatizing
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443as missing out on the lives of your
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445loved ones or as insignificant as
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447missing out on a moment of a movie after
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449going to the bathroom all of us
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451inescapably suffer under
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453arrow of time interstellar this harsh
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455reality of time is taken to the extreme
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457by enlarging it through the science of
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459gravitational time dilation yet it still
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461shows us something essential about the
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463way in which we experience time in our
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465own lives
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467so what resistance can we offer against
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469such a relentless force of nature the
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471short answer is that we cannot escape
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473time but we can transcend it and we are
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475doing so increasingly this is because
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477human beings have the arguably unique
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479ability to defy time by documenting
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481language and images for a long time the
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483most important way to do this was
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485through books books allow us to reach
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487back in time and access moments from the
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489past not just to experience stories of
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491old but also to develop a sense of
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493cultural history and pass on ideas and
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495technologies
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497just imagine what today's society would
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499have looked like we're it not for this
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501vast accumulation of the past today we
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503revisit the past through photographs
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505audio recordings music and film this
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507increased ability to transcend time is
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509referred to as a temper ality one
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511consequence of a temper ality is that
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513our ever-growing access to the past is
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515unbinding us from time a development
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517that interstellar takes to the extreme
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519with the bulk beings the bulk beings had
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521complete access to time but it was
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523exactly this unboundedness that became
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525that disadvantage for them time is
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527happening all at once from beginning to
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529end infinitely pinpointing a specific
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531moment must for them be like what
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533pinpointing one specific drop in an
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535endless ocean is for us that is unless
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537we have some way to create a connection
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539which is exactly what the Deseret was
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541for now to fully understand what happens
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543inside the Deseret we first have to
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545understand
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547from film that clearly inspired
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549interstellar and that is the 1962 French
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551film la jetée
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553Lasha day is a 30-minute science fiction
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555story that is told entirely through
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557photographs linked together by a
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559narrator as if the story was already at
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561hand in its fullness from the very
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563beginning after a third world war
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565destroyed Paris and forced its people to
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567live on the ground to escape radiation a
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569group of scientists explore time travel
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571to learn from the past to help their
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573situation in the present they
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575experimented on prisoners but found that
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577most of them went insane when unbound
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579from time just like the bulk beings in
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581interstellar they simply couldn't find a
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583moment to connect you they were
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585eventually able to send one man back to
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587before the war because of a strong
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589connection he had to a specific memory
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591of a woman's face the narrator explains
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593the energy status of nyada's Oklahoma so
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595naked without Lisa for cuneta
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597identically
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599so these are individual as a diversity
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601dotted pea collect a little gear instead
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603northern alternative energy we see
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605levitation an odd to say who later you
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607remember the collegiality when we
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609compare this to interstellar it becomes
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611clear that the tesseract is not about
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613Cooper it's about mirth time is
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615transcended by her she is the one
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617haunted by her childhood
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619I am memory of a dad leaving his young
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621daughter in her bedroom with a ghost she
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623didn't understand in the beginning of
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625the film Cooper even tells her
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627we just hear the memories our kids
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629notice also our nerve is still wearing
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631Cougars jacket decades after he's gone
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633it was her not Cooper's connection to
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635the past that gave the ball beings a
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637specific anchor point for communication
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639a connection ultimately determined by
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641love Cooper realized that what he found
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643in the Deseret was not his love for
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645Murph it was her love for him that
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647created the bridge understanding that is
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649what gave him the confidence to go the
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651data into the watch the watch that he
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653knew she would come back for because he
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655gave it to her just as in logic they
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657interstellar uses love as a supposedly
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659quantifiable force to navigate the
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661dimension of time now all this is not to
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663say that love is something supernatural
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665or has its own dimension or that it is
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667the answer to all of our issues it is
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669simply as Aaron's do it and puts it that
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671our lives are a strange journey through
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673time a construct that is as intimate as
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675it is alien forever binding us yet
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677always eluding us in time we find the
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679essence of our mortality the
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681confrontation with our own annihilation
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683always looming in the distance
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685interstellar shows how love is
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687inexplicably tangled up in this part of
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689life we do not really understand not
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691just in a sentimental way but moreso in
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693the deep sense of grief of mournfulness
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695that inevitably follows as we pass
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697through time frame by frame moment by
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699moment always losing it against this
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701sorrow interstellar gives us not science
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703but poetry do not go gentle into that
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705good night old age should burn and rave
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707rage rage against the dying of the light
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709this poem by Dylan Thomas is often
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711interpreted as a poem about the struggle
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713against death but in the light of
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715interstellar I would argue that it is
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717about the struggle against time against
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719our cosmos being driven towards
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721nothingness by entropy the true
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723antagonist of the film as Professor
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725brand explains unliberated a fellow
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727physicist I'm free to time it seems that
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729the only thing we can do is commit the
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731memory all that which will be lost
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733be it the sounds of Earth in deep space
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735or the testimonies about our lives and
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737in doing so keep pushing the boundaries
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739of this strange dimension this temporal
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741frontier waiting to be explored