10 Ridiculous Movie Moments That Made Everyone Irrationally Angry
4. Lessons On Love - Interstellar
Interstellar is a sci-fi epic that no filmmaker since Kubrick has dared to try, and even it may have overstepped its reach. The film seemed to be soaked in reality (or at least science) but drops a lecture on love late in the second act. Anne Hathaway’s Brand sermons, “Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. Maybe we should trust that, even if we can't understand it.”
Fans argued the speech had no place in the film and made the movie less by its inclusion. In a film about theoretical physics, many felt the idea of love had no place. It did come out of left field but doesn’t mean it was inherently unwelcome.
Guess what? The film’s not wrong.
Love isn’t something science can explain. Cooper offers love, “has meaning, yes. Social utility, social bonding, child rearing...” to which Brand answers, “We love people who have died. Where's the social utility in that?” Was it placed or written in a way that helped the film? Not terribly but is just as interesting a concept as any in the movie.