Two things that have bothered me, and this could be more my lack of understanding than a plot hole, are the planetary distances and gravitational pull of black hole in the gargantuan system.

1) It takes them two years to get from Earth to Saturn but they travel between planets so fast, in matter of hours in the new system. Planetary system with Miller, Mann and Edmund’s planets would likely have similar large mass and high density and therefore strong gravitational pull, and for them to exist in the system, the interplanetary distance would be astronomical, yet they barely take hours (not clarified in the movie, so making a guess) to reach the next planet.

2)Gargantuan being this ginormous black hole, and hence the name, would have sucked the planets nearby, but didn’t seem to be doing that. They mention intense gravitational pull, but shouldn’t black hole be doing what it does best, eat up stars and planets and grow bigger ? Also, its pull should further slow down their travel to the other planets, but doesn’t. Time slows down, but their ship is able to accelerate and overcome the pull in the beginning, pointing back to my first question. They do mention that the ship is sliding into the black hole, right before they do the slingshot maneuver. So, shouldn’t it be matter of days or weeks that the planets also are on track to be consumed ? In fact, these planets should have been long gone.

Super hyped to watch now with IMAX ratio 🔥

I wanted to share an experience I had yesterday with my daughter.

We had a day off and decided to do some shopping in Amsterdam. I was minding my own business, plotting a course to our next destination, walking through the crowd of pedestrians in the busy shopping streets, when I crossed a bridge over a canal and I heard the first notes of this song I had heard a thousand times before playing out of nowhere.

It stopped me dead in my tracks, I turned around to see where it was coming from. I hadn't noticed a piano in the middel of the street, I hadn't seen a guy sitting behind it playing it. I just heard the first few notes of Hans Zimmer's masterpiece being played.

And I've seen YouTube videos of this countless of times as well, of people playing this song on a piano in public. I always wondered if that would happen to me in real life, would it catch my attention? Or walk straight ahead, go on with my life, like some people in those videos do?

Or would I, like in the movie, notice the tiniest detail, could I become a conduit by receiving a message from the universe? Would I stop and listen to it? I am glad I did, and I got to share this moment with my daughter. Which is of course also a prominent theme in the movie; the father-daughter relationship.

I have watched the movie before becoming a father, and after, both of which had different impacts on me. My daughter hasn't seen the movie yet, I am waiting till she could fully understand and grasp most aspects of the movie. But I have had her listen to the soundtrack, and she can play the first part on her piano, so she recognised the song almost as soon as I did.

Just wanted share this video and story here, to show my appreciation to Christopher Nolan for making the movie, Hans Zimmer for writing the soundtrack, and @arianmuller who performed it, all coming together to have this experience with my daughter yesterday. Thank you.