Interstellar SPOILER talk

[hunter]

14. I'm probably a freak, but I thought The Machine had an optimistic ending.

Interstellar did not.

Both movies are about fuck-up fathers fucking-up in fucked-up civilizations.

I think the trans-dimensional beings in Interstellar who made the wormhole and the gravity-temporal-communication-device-in-the-black-hole also made the blight that was killing off all the human crops. They wanted humans to get the hell off the planet but didn't want to completely exterminate us. In my imaginary movie ending I'll bet the wormhole snaps shut forever just as soon as Matthew McConaughey flies through on his way to reunite with Anne Hathaway. The human race goes on surviving on an inaccessible crappy desert world in another galaxy and as fleas in earth's solar system, with the earth itself forever protected by an advanced flea treatment of alien origin.

In The Machine, however, the fuck-up father saves (in an unusual manner) his true love and his daughter, who are both destined to become something greater than their fuck-up father and his fuck-up civilization. Yet the human sense of curiosity and wonder and appreciation of physical existence are clearly preserved.