Things You Only Notice In Interstellar After Watching It More Than Once

Cooper's journey dwarfs any distance traveled by any human in history in order to return to his daughter. Unfortunately, because of relativity he returns to find Murphy on her deathbed. The nurse at the hospital informs Cooper she has been in cryosleep for two years. The large amount of family gathered around her suggests that she has lived a full life without him. Murphy states that no one should have to watch their own child die, so she spurs Cooper onward, back into the cosmos, in search of Brand. But how does she know Brand is still alive?

"Brand. She's out there. Setting up camp. Alone...in a strange galaxy," an elderly Murphy's voice says over a montage of Anne Hathaway's Brand settling into her new home planet. It is meant to wrap up the entire film and drive home the idea of moving forward in our lives, but we were left wondering how the filmmakers could trip at the finish line. It is a plot hole that could have easily been remedied by a single line about a debrief. Interstellar's story covers over 80 Earth years, a wormhole, a black hole, and countless light-years... given the circumstances, we can find it in our hearts to move past some omitted information. It's what Cooper would do.