5 Interstellar moments that left us overwhelmed

Saying 'this is a good time to be an Interstellar fan' would be wrong because there's never a bad time to be an Interstellar fan. There are classic movies, then there are timeless movies and then there's the Christopher Nolan movie, which transcends both.

The film was re-released in theaters last year and the response was, as always, overwhelming. To that end, we thought of making a brief list of the moments from the movie that, more or less, left us feeling the same.

It garnered around $40 million globally, according to data aggregator Box Office Mojo, following the re-release at the time of writing. This isn't the first time it's been re-released, but this is indeed the first re-release that garnered this kind of sum. The 2020 re-release raked in nearly $20 million dollars, second-to-best.

One can actually drown in these stellar moments in Interstellar

When Cooper looked for Murph

There's a different kind of depth to this scene. It's not that Coop (Matthew McConaughey) leaving 10-year-old Murph (Mackenzie Foy) is just sad. It's when he is in the car, driving away, that we get to feel the emotions.

While driving, we can clearly see how heavy-hearted he is leaving everything behind. Add to that him double checking into the rear-view mirror if Murph hid in her usual spot, and that becomes heartbreaking right there and then.

When they realized it was not the mountains

We all know the sequence where Hans Zimmer gave us an invisible clock in the form of Mountains, where every tick represents a day passing by on Earth as the Endurance crew tries to collect wreckage from Miller's expedition while knee-deep in water.

As soon as Cooper hints to Dr. Amelia Brand (Anna Hathaway) that what she is seeing isn't mountains but waves, tension rises to a whole new level. The scenic view soon turns into a nightmare for the Endurance crew as they try to make it back to the ship in time.

When life flashes by Cooper's eyes

Following this sequence in Interstellar, Cooper and Brand come to know that 23 years have passed on Earth. That is intriguing when looked at from a scientific perspective but it takes a mental toll on Cooper.

He receives a video message from Earth, which dawns on him how much time he has lost. He watches the entire 23 years passing by before him in a few minutes, where he watches his son grow up and lose a son himself. And then he sees a grown-up Murph (Jessica Chastain); we can all feel the shock for a second as Cooper does.

When Coop got to know, "they" chose Murph, not him

Christopher Nolan pulled off an unbelievable task in Interstellar when he presented time as a physical dimension. We usually know it as the Tesseract (no, not that glowing cube in the MCU). There, he realized he wasn't the chosen one to save the world.

That dialogue,

"But they didn't choose me, they chose her!"

That lights up his day or night, or whatever time it was there.

When Murph's hope paid off

Cooper was always behind the invisible curtain in the film that we come to know later. (via Paramount Pictures)

The final scene in Interstellar can leave a lasting impact, especially on a parent. How does one respond when they see their little one grow up to become older than them? But that's the whole point of the film, time. And that passes pretty fast in a galaxy far, far away.

A father is about to lose his daughter, but the daughter knows her dad will come back. Because,