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The first time I saw Interstellar I was thirteen, in a sticky IMAX seat, and didn't really follow the third act. I just remember being viscerally moved by the docking sequence and the wormhole. The second time I watched it I cared less about the science and more about Cooper choosing to leave. The film is, to me, less about black holes than about the kind of love that warps your decision-making across thirty years and four-dimensional space.

What I find rewatchable:

  • Hans Zimmer's organ on "No Time for Caution" — best needle-drop in modern film, full stop.
  • The Miller's planet sequence as a meditation on relativistic time as moral stake, not just plot device.
  • TARS. The best robot character of the last twenty years, mostly because of how unsentimental he is.

What doesn't quite land:

  • The Brand monologue about love being a higher dimension is too on-the-nose. The film already makes that argument structurally; you don't need to say it.
  • Mann's villain arc feels imported from a different movie.
"We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt."

Watched: dozens of times. Will watch again.