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I think you're interpreting these films more literally than I do. Spoilers! by Pirate DVD Review 01/08/2018, 12:34am PST
Interstellar is a very loose adaptation of Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin, a song about fathers and sons and our subjective perception of time. It's been a few months since I saw the movie but I'll try to recall a few examples.

My child arrived just the other day
He came to the world in the usual way
But there were planes to catch and bills to pay
He learned to walk while I was away
And he was talkin' 'fore I knew it, and as he grew
He'd say "I'm gonna be like you, Dad
You know I'm gonna be like you"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home, Dad
I don't know when, but we'll get together then
You know we'll have a good time then


At the start of the film, both of Matthew McConaughey's children want to be like him - his son a farmer, his daughter an engineer. They "catch" a robot plane, a drone, so they can sell the parts to pay the bills. McConaughey misses much of his children's lives because he goes away on a journey of unpredictable length, one which eventually brings him to the tesseract - a "cat's cradle" in space and time. Along the way he has a little episodic adventure with a man on a moon played by Matt Damon. If you really wanted to work at it I guess you could try to match up little boy blue with the drowned astronaut and the silver spoon with the vaguely spoon-shaped silver lander but that's not really the point of the exercise, it's just digging into a different sort of literalism. We're not trying to crack the DaVinci code of the movie so much as get on the right wavelength to connect with it emotionally. It worked for me, your mileage may vary.

Cloud Atlas is trickier. I think you'd have to be open to the idea of enjoying a preachy SJW circlejerk to begin with to get anywhere with it. I was riveted the whole way through.
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I saw hundreds of movies last year, about forty good ones. by Pirate DVD Review 01/01/2018, 9:58pm PST NEW
    See me after class by your geography teacher 01/01/2018, 11:02pm PST NEW
        I'm sorry I don't have a MAGNET in my BEAK >:( NT by Pirate DVD Review 01/02/2018, 2:19am PST NEW
            submarines traveling underneath the south pole NT by your geography teacher 01/02/2018, 10:01am PST NEW
            Soviet troop transport planes based 2 hours from Antartica NT by your geography & history teachers 01/02/2018, 10:49am PST NEW
                Dude, relax. Maybe try watching American Yakuza? by Pirate DVD Review 01/02/2018, 5:47pm PST NEW
                    Every single thing in that list was wrong. That just stood out as the dumbest. by your English teacher 01/02/2018, 8:14pm PST NEW
                        Your list has two titles on it and already I'm cracking up. Keep it going! by Pirate DVD Review 01/02/2018, 8:40pm PST NEW
    How was GoG 2 better than GoG 1? NT by BABY GROOT IS BAE ^________^ 01/02/2018, 1:38pm PST NEW
        2 had a better antagonist and more interesting emotional arcs for the Guardians. by Pirate DVD Review 01/02/2018, 6:11pm PST NEW
    Cloud Atlas is a terrible SJW circlejerk. Interstellar, more like incoherent by blackwater 01/07/2018, 10:43pm PST NEW
        I think you're interpreting these films more literally than I do. Spoilers! by Pirate DVD Review 01/08/2018, 12:34am PST NEW
            I'm glad MM is fighting for net neutrality to preserve so-bad-its-trolling NT by Insanity like this 01/08/2018, 8:15am PST NEW
                His posts are good. You are a troll. Go away. NT by laudablepuss 01/08/2018, 11:03am PST NEW
                    I appreciate MM but he's right by Vested Id 01/08/2018, 1:03pm PST NEW
                        Slipping on Significance like a banana peel, I landed on the key to Interstellar by instead of the key to my car. 01/08/2018, 1:59pm PST NEW
                            "Touchstonic" would be a good name for a band by blackwater 01/09/2018, 4:27pm PST NEW
                        Up is not down, and good is not bad. Still, despite everything. by laudablepuss 01/08/2018, 2:58pm PST NEW
                        Wait, what? How am I involved in this thread? by MM 01/08/2018, 3:14pm PST NEW
                            whoops, misread anon and it reminded me of your Drive review by Vested Id 01/08/2018, 3:36pm PST NEW
                    laudablepuss, defender of HOT TAKES. Should've seen that coming from NT by Kaepernicks #1 fan 01/08/2018, 2:37pm PST NEW
                You can still do the Harlem Shake! NT by Ajit Pai 01/08/2018, 3:19pm PST NEW
            We need to go deeper. by blackwater 01/09/2018, 4:37pm PST NEW
                Hey I had some ideas for a new season of Frasier. by Pirate DVD Review 01/09/2018, 6:36pm PST NEW
                    Actually I take it as a supreme compliment you all mistook Jerry for me! NT by Mischief Maker 01/09/2018, 8:55pm PST NEW
                    So you were high when you watched these movies, then. NT by case closed 01/10/2018, 2:56pm PST NEW
 
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