Better still, life-size versions of some of these spacecraft were constructed for use in exterior landscape shoots. When Interstellar began life back in 2006, Steven Spielberg, not Nolan, was the man in the cockpit; a presence still felt in the relationship between Cooper and Murph.

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If Gravity took us into the unforgiving abyss of space, and Sunshine took us towards the unrelenting blast of the sun, Interstellar takes us beyond both, to wormholes and space anomalies, ice planets and water planets and other dimensions.But as we saw at the beginning of the film, while young Murph (Mackenzie Foy) gets his message, she's unable to convince her father to stay. According to the book The Science of Interstellar by Kip Thorne, the film imagines a future where a combination of catastrophes reduces the population of North America tenfold or more, with similar consequences for the rest of the world. The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage. It’s no coincidence that the film’s shooting pseudonym was Flora’s Letter, after Nolan’s own daughter.

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As stated, Interstellar already looked fabulous on Blu-ray, but that image was not without its faults, despite the mostly jaw-dropping results. After realizing why the library exists and that "they" want Cooper to give Murph the quantum data she needs to save the world, TARS asks how Cooper plans to communicate such complex information from another dimension. TARS determines that they made it through Gargantua alive because they were protected by "them," the mysterious beings who constructed the wormhole that allowed the Endurance to travel to this new galaxy in the first place. However, even aside from the strangeness of Cooper immediately taking Murph's advice to fly back through the wormhole to find Brand, it's easy to wonder exactly how Murph even knew where Brand was, or that she was still alive. None of this amounts to anything more than a stylistic choice, however, and the audio track cannot be faulted for its faithful adherence to Nolan's desires, delivering the sound exactly as he intended.

Interstellar makes a tremendous Ultra HD Blu-ray bow as part of the Nolan selection, vying with Dunkirk for the top spot in terms of video presentation and delivering reference material for both video and audio, and a superior selection of extra features. Opening, tellingly, on a dusty model of the shuttle Atlantis, the film’s near-future setting sees humanity starving, squalid and devoid of hope. Although the library where "they" bring Cooper seems to go on forever, every part of this room serves as a window into the exact same place: his daughter Murph's childhood bedroom.

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Never a comfortably emotional filmmaker, here he demonstrates a depth of feeling not present in his earlier work.Just as Cooper is able to use the library to influence events that, for him, already happened, the humans of the future have been using their understanding of time and gravity to ensure their own survival by assisting Cooper, Murph, NASA, and the other humans of their past. Not only does every major theme and theory of the film come to a head as the story builds towards its climax, but it also throws a major curveball at the audience in the form of an infinite, interdimensional library that literally comes out of nowhere.