I never understood the ending... He says something along the lines of "We built this". But if humanity built it, then doesn't that mean humanity survived, hence rendering your entire trip pointless? Or am I missing something?
Humanity survived only because of the trip.
If they hadn't gone on the trip, they wouldn't have found the tesseract gravity manipulator, and thus humanity wouldn't have gotten the information they needed to get off earth.
Don't forget. You also gotta remember that he 'met/contacted' humanity that acquired the 5th dimension, they were helping him get to the planet/results that would lead to it.
They tried to somehow justify why the wormhole (a transport plot device, since there is no way anyone could reach any Black hole in any different way, with the tech depicted in the movie) to the black hole appeared.
So the writer, instead of making up some "oh, it was an accident/natural phenomena/aliens", at the end when McCounaghey enters the Black hole and the singularity, he supposedly sees every time and place simultaneously, and sees that in future people will be able to manipulate time and space in a manner he did being inside the singularity.
He does not refer to themselves or the humanity of his time, when he spoke about "we".
Pretty brilliant movie. Loved the feeling of helplessness in space as their relatives age rapidly.
it's basically the plot for a lot of time travel movies/books/whatever
let's look at futurama
fry goes back in time, kills who should've been his grandpa, impregnated his grandma, and now fry is his own grandpa
artemis fowl
artemis's mom gets sick, only cure is in an extincnt animal, artemis goes back in time, artemis pisses off some magical being that goes forward in time to make artemis' mother sick which is what caused artemis to go back in time in the first place
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You just ******* noticed this now? I don't even know why I try and slay you anymore but it gets funner and funner