It's immensely disappointing that Nolan hired the brilliant Jessica Chastain to play such a one-note character in adult Murph. Twenty-plus years later, Murph is still deeply traumatised by her father's abrupt departure, still immensely angry at his leaving and haunted by it. Still, it just doesn't seem very realistic that, two decades on, someone couldn't forgive their father for, oh, you know, going to save the freaking world. It's like Murph is stuck in a state of arrested development, perpetually sulking at her dad like she would as a child, when human beings don't really behave like that in real life. Over time, the anger would fade, she would get on with her life and that would be that (it's not like she was abused or something, jeez). For her to hold a grudge for so long seems laughably unrealistic, especially the unappreciative, simplistic manner in which she moans about it. Despite Chastain's efforts to make it ring true, the character is poorly written and ultimately quite annoying.
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