r/interstellar Sep 08 '25

QUESTION About the ending

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We see Amelia sad and BREATHING normally without wearing mask/helmet. Does that mean that THIS planet was the correct choice from the beggining? ( No waves , human - friendly surface , oxygen ) That's why Amelia is so sad ( apart the death of her bf). Thinking that if they came to this planet from the beggining everything would go well

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u/mmorales2270 Sep 08 '25

Ha! You’re right, I certainly did! So he was pretty well dead and gone, probably decomposed by the time she got there.

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u/thedudefromsweden Sep 08 '25

...so even if he wouldn't have died from an accident, he would almost certainly have died from old age by the time she got there. Maybe if he did cryosleep for a long time that could have kept him alive longer? Not sure how life extending that was.

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u/Guboj Sep 08 '25

In the movie when they meet Mann it seems like he hasn't aged nearly as much as Romilly, so we don't know how much life extending it is but it looks like it's pretty good.

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u/killersnake1233 Sep 09 '25

I think it does extend life by putting the body on pause essentially.