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| Subject: Calling Josh Peck! Are ‘Interstellar’ BULK BEINGS Angels And/Or Demons? Tue Jan 31, 2017 8:11 am | |
| Calling Josh Peck! Are ‘Interstellar’ BULK BEINGS Angels And/Or Demons?
January 31, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor
All the characters in Interstellar are convinced that bulk beings exist, though they use that name only rarely. Usually, the characters call the bulk beings “They.” A reverential They. Early in the movie, Amelia Brand (played by Anne Hathaway) says to widowed astronaut Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), “And whoever They are, They appear to be looking out for us. That wormhole lets us travel to other stars. It came along right as we needed it.” One of Christopher Nolan’s clever and intriguing ideas is to imagine that They are actually our descendants: humans who, in the far future, evolve to acquire an additional space dimension and live in the bulk. Late in the movie, Cooper says to TARS (a robot voiced by Bill Irwin), “Don’t you get it yet, TARS? They aren’t beings. They’re us, trying to help, just like I tried to help Murph.” TARS responds, “People didn’t build this tesseract” (in which Cooper is riding). “Not yet,” Cooper says, “but one day. Not you and me but people, people who’ve evolved beyond the four dimensions we know.” (READ MORE) |
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