14. The Extra-Dimensional Tesseract - Interstellar
While Christopher Nolans Interstellar takes cues from the likes of Stanley Kubrick and David Lean, it is still a Nolan film through-and-through, including its twisty (and expository) third act finale. This is an ending that undoubtedly left some viewers thrilled and others thoroughly frustrated. In a last minute act of desperation by Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) to save Brand (Anne Hathaway) and their mission, he jettisons himself and their robot companion TARS into the omnipresent black hole leering over their new solar system. As a result, Brand is left to finish the mission alone and Cooper is forced to enter Nolan's rendition of a "tesseract." A Den Of Geek article perfectly explains what exactly occurs:
Once Cooper is falling through the black hole, he is forced to escape into the darkness of space as the ship around him collapses in on itself. But instead of being crushed by any manner of unknowable forces while trapped in a void so dense that even light cannot escape, Cooper enters a "tesseract," or what can best be described as a giant archive center for dark-colored polyester chords clinging to the walls. It is not an actual space that Cooper has entered, but rather a projection of a human beings lifespan from the fifth-dimension, which has been simplified for his (and our) fourth-dimensional thinking. Also, the space he's trapped in is actually a physical representation of a bookshelf that watches over an entire lifespan: his daughter Murphy's to be exact.
What follows is some time travel meddling that would get Doc Brown flustered.
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