Latest / Dad Needs To Talk / Interstellar and Lost Time

Transcript

Interstellar and Lost Time · Dad Needs To Talk

0:03
What's up Y'all, and welcome back to Dan Needs to Talk.
0:06
I'm your host rapper, and today Today we are starting off a new
0:13
freaking year. We are in 2024 and it has
0:20
already been a doozy. Feels like soon as I stepped
0:22
into 2024 it put it spread out, tripped me up and it's been a
0:30
pretty painful week. But part of what I'm going to
0:34
get into today involves some stuff I'm dealing with
0:37
personally, but mainly talking about my first experience
0:42
finally watching Interstellar and some of the themes of family
0:50
and lost time and all that stuff that kind of goes into all that.
0:55
So but before I get into all that, if this is your first time
0:59
here then welcome. But if you're a returning
1:02
listener and or watcher then welcome back.
1:05
Y'all know here at Danny's to talk it's all about fatherhood
1:07
and family manga, anime, TV, movies and video games.
1:13
So like I said, the year is starting off with the doozy for
1:22
me and my family. Cause couple weeks ago when I
1:28
was kind of planning out all the stuff I did for my end of year
1:31
podcast stuff and I was kind of looking ahead, I was like, you
1:34
know what? I think I know what my first
1:36
episode is gonna be like. Then we had a situation happen
1:41
on New Year's Day and I was like, you know what, Maybe I
1:44
just won't record at all. But sometimes, sometimes you end
1:53
up finding something of comfort of some sorts to help you out in
2:01
certain situations and thus that's why I'm here recording
2:04
today. So just for a little bit of
2:06
context and I will not be getting into the full scope of
2:10
the situation or what happened, but unfortunately on my wife's
2:16
side of the family, we had a very tragic loss in the family
2:24
on New Year's Day. And so it's yeah, it just kind
2:29
of shook up the whole family and stuff, whatever.
2:31
So, so yeah. So it's it's been, it's been a
2:35
pretty rough week overall, that stuff.
2:37
So you know, of course my kids and my wife taking it very hard
2:41
and all that stuff. So and you know, I'm trying to
2:43
do my best to try to like you know maintain and help out
2:46
everybody where I can and be supportive and stuff.
2:49
But, you know, stuff like that is always, you know, pretty
2:52
taxing and draining mentally, physically, emotionally, all
2:57
that stuff. And so I found myself last
3:02
night. I don't know, just kind of, I
3:07
wasn't really, really sleepy or whatever, and it kind of crossed
3:11
my mind off, 'cause so Interstellar, like, I'm just
3:16
gonna just get into it. So Interstellar, obviously a
3:21
well renowned, at least from my point of view, movie that came
3:25
out ten years ago now in November 2014.
3:28
So it's been out for on the cusp of 10 years.
3:32
I've always heard about it. I've watched and enjoyed a lot
3:35
of Christopher Nolan's other stuff, like I mentioned in my
3:39
favorite Movies thing last week or whatever.
3:43
I enjoyed Oppenheimer and back in the day one of my favorite
3:46
movies that I went to go to went to the theaters to see a dozen
3:49
times. Inception and of course The Dark
3:53
Knight trilogy and all that stuff.
3:54
Whatever. So big fan of his work but
3:57
Interstellar is one that just passed me.
4:00
I don't know you know it it just passed me by during the time
4:03
when it came out. But I feel like and and and I've
4:08
definitely kind of grown more comfortable with this in recent
4:12
years and stuff since I started doing the podcast and content
4:15
and stuff or whatever like this to where there is just so much
4:20
stuff that comes out. Movies, video games, TV shows,
4:25
manga, comic books, you know all all host of stuff to consume on
4:31
top of just normal life stuff. You might want to go do an
4:33
adventure to that I've become more and more comfortable with.
4:39
It is OK if I have missed something because sometimes
4:45
certain things might not hit or you might not enjoy as much as
4:53
you would have in your current life situation or whatever the
4:57
case may be or whatever. So so Interstellar is one of
5:01
those movies. And so I knew honestly still all
5:07
these years I still kind of knew like like the bare minimum.
5:09
All I knew is that it was like a sci-fi space movie.
5:12
That is literally all I knew. And so I started watching it
5:17
last night about close to 10:30 or whatever.
5:19
So this movie is 2 hours and 45 minutes.
5:23
So I was up to about almost 2:00 AM watching it.
5:26
But it was well worth it. But I found a lot of comfort in
5:33
this movie in many ways because so Laura, Matthew McConaughey,
5:44
his character in the movie, a lot of stars aligned to where I
5:49
am in my life currently to where he plays a father in the movie.
5:52
He's a he's in his early 30s thirty 3.
5:56
So I'm 33 at the times of this recording.
5:58
But my birthday is in a couple days on the 6th, so I'll be 34
6:01
in a couple of days. But you know I'm kind of in in
6:06
new in the same age, age range as his character was in this
6:09
movie. You know he has a couple of kids
6:11
and stuff like that. So and by the way, I will be
6:14
going into spoilers for Interstellar just because just
6:18
to kind of get to some points of how it hit me in certain ways
6:24
and kind of helps me with some of or maybe not Mr. like helps.
6:30
But just like it just made me relate to so many things in this
6:35
movie to where. So basically like I said the the
6:42
connections are fatherhood and family and the thought of lost
6:48
time. Because in recent years, and
6:55
I've mentioned before, the reason, the reason why I started
6:59
Daddy's To Talk was because I was going through a tough period
7:03
a few years ago to where I had lost both my sister and my
7:07
mother within a couple months part at the end of 2020 going to
7:12
early 2021. And so this podcast became a
7:16
outlet, a a place of peace for me to kind of be able to both
7:23
Vance but also find community, to be able to find people I
7:28
could connect with. And also just for me to just
7:31
talk into the void about my life experiences and all the, you
7:36
know, stuff I'm watching, reading, playing, all that
7:39
stuff, whatever. And so, yeah, so here I am, like
7:43
I said, watching Interstellar And this father who kind of
7:50
feels like he's not living up to his life's purpose.
7:54
You know, he, he lost his wife some years back, so him.
8:00
So he's raising his kids. He has a 15 year old son and a
8:03
10 year old daughter. And they're, you know, living
8:06
together with the grandfather, his wife's father.
8:09
So they're all kind of living together on this farm and stuff.
8:12
So, but, you know, Matthew Mcconaughey's character is
8:17
basically, he's very brilliant, kind of like a engineer type of
8:20
person. But, you know, he's living on
8:23
this farm, They're farming, growing crops and stuff,
8:25
whatever, because the planet is suffering a food shortage,
8:31
whatever. And like each year different
8:34
crops and stuff start to die off.
8:36
Whatever. And they also just live in a
8:38
horrible place like this town. There's constant dust storms or
8:42
whatever. So it's like if like they've
8:45
messed around, left the window open or the door cracked during
8:48
a dust storm, like the whole house just covered in dust,
8:51
horrible place to live in. Anywho, Fast forward a little
8:55
bit or whatever into the situation.
8:56
So his daughter is noticing some strange anomalies and stuff
9:01
happening in her room, and that is leading them on this journey
9:07
where they end end up discovering this secret NASA
9:09
project where because of the state of humanity, they're
9:15
sending people out into the universe to explore, to find
9:18
other inhabitable planets to live on and stuff.
9:24
And that is where Matthew Mcconaughey's character comes
9:29
into play, which they they call him Cooper.
9:33
Joseph Cooper, Oh, and Long story short, collects I'm not
9:40
here to go for beef beef for bee thing, but just kind of just
9:43
talking on the main plot points kind of really spoke to me.
9:46
And so he isn't getting chosen to be to lead this mission or
9:51
this crew of four to go into this black hole that is out near
9:55
Saturn to basically follow up on potential inhabitable planets
10:03
and stuff. And so 10 years prior, there
10:05
were 12 scientists, they got sent out across the Galaxy and
10:11
stuff whatever to potential planets, whatever, and three of
10:18
them landed on potential planets, whatever within the
10:21
same solar system, so to speak. And so the part of the movie
10:31
that like super hits hard is the time element.
10:38
So I was already down with this movie because I I enjoy sci-fi
10:43
stuff and you're like a little bit of kind of like mystery and
10:45
drama stuff, whatever. But I just enjoy stuff that kind
10:51
of teases out, some stuff, whatever.
10:54
And then like by the end kind of loops back around to like, oh,
10:58
so that's what that was at the beginning of the movie or the
11:01
show or whatever the case might be, whatever.
11:02
So Benny who. So, yeah.
11:05
So he ends up leaving and bitching off on this space
11:10
journey, whatever, you know, partly, you know, for trying to
11:14
help establish a future for his kids on the planet or whatever,
11:20
but also to chase this sense of lost purpose of like, hey, it
11:26
kind of wasted my other way on this form or whatever.
11:29
And I know I'm meant for more, but it's like, you know him when
11:32
the options are like, man, OK, I'm leaving whatever.
11:36
And the struggles of not knowing when or if he will ever come
11:41
back was really tough to watch. And they do it in small doses
11:50
with the time stuff to where it's like OK, they get off the
11:53
planet and they're like OK, the black hole or the worm hole,
11:56
whatever is out there near Saturn.
12:00
Well it's a two year flight from Earth to Saturn that's already
12:05
man 2 years to really even before the mission really truly
12:10
even starts, you know. And so you've already lost two
12:14
years of your kids lives and stuff, whatever.
12:17
And them also like being able to like send video messages and
12:22
stuff, whatever to him over this time also just like really
12:25
helped bring home the point of it, of it all.
12:31
But yeah, so you know, they go, they go to sleep or whatever,
12:35
wake up two years later, they're at the wormhole or whatever,
12:39
they go through whatever like say like, man, two years, it's
12:41
OK. So they come up on their first
12:45
planet and the problem with the planet is that the time on this
12:53
planet is distorted to where one hour on this planet is 7 years
13:02
on Earth. When I heard that, I had to
13:06
pause, 'cause I was saying I was like, Jesus, seven years and one
13:11
hour and like, like they get to this planet or whatever.
13:20
They're like, OK, we got to get out, Hopefully find the
13:23
scientists that landed here all those years back or whatever,
13:26
and figured out whatever they land on the planet.
13:28
It's a freaking pretty much just a straight water planet.
13:31
And stuff just immediately starts going wrong or whatever
13:36
to where they're like, oh, we need to head towards those
13:38
mountains and then Cooper's like, hold on, those aren't
13:43
mountains. That is a humongous tidal wave
13:46
that is coming and immediately crap hits the fan and they lose
13:51
one of their crew mates, whatever.
13:53
And then because of the water, the ship gets waterlogged and
13:57
they're stranded on the planet so the water can drain and it's,
13:59
you know, operable again. Well, they're stranded on the
14:03
planet for maybe a few hours. So when they finally get back up
14:08
to space to the to the to like their like their space station
14:11
thing where they're they're attached to whatever the
14:14
scientists that stay behind soon as they walk in or whatever.
14:20
And they're like, God how how much time has passed cause the
14:25
dude is already looking or whatever he's like it's been 23
14:27
years. I literally had to like pause
14:31
the movie, get up and walk out, walk out my area here, whatever
14:35
'cause I was like 1 simple mistake.
14:41
And that. It's like it's like stuff like
14:43
that is like sometimes I think about just in normal day-to-day
14:48
lives or whatever of like how sometimes all it takes is just
14:52
one moment, one screw up or just fading out on your side.
14:58
You've been at the wrong place at the wrong time or whatever,
15:00
and the whole trajectory of your life can be changed.
15:06
And so that moment just like super hit man.
15:09
And then it's like they went to to to the little station where
15:14
they get their messages, whatever.
15:15
And then they start playing the messages in sequential order of
15:19
how they've been coming in over the years and stuff, whatever.
15:23
And just like hearing his kids being like, you know, going for
15:28
like, yeah, hey dad, and then be like, hey, you know, you know,
15:33
finishing up high school, whatever.
15:35
And then other life stuff, whatever, dating and
15:38
relationships, whatever. And then now his 15 year old son
15:42
is a grown man and being like hey dad, you know, here's your
15:47
your grandchild or whatever. And just like Matthew
15:50
McConaughey is just bawling and weeping at this because like to
15:58
him it was just like, man, we're just stranded on this planet for
16:01
a few hours. And but back on Earth, freaking
16:05
23 years had passed, man. And the mission has literally
16:10
just started. And yeah man, just just this
16:14
constant thing of time or whatever.
16:16
And then just to fall out the the all the moments of isolation
16:25
and stuff as well because of course they're venturing into
16:27
the unknown, floating through space.
16:30
All these various scientists that went on these other
16:33
planets, whatever that you know, like Matt Damon's scientist or
16:41
Doctor Mann found out he was on a planet that had no hope of
16:46
providing life. And his character kind of just
16:52
kind of like coming to terms initially of like, well, hey, I
16:58
don't know when or if anybody will ever even find me whatever.
17:01
So he didn't he? So, like like, they had like
17:03
these, like hibernation chambers or whatever.
17:08
And he was like, I didn't even bother setting a wake up day
17:11
because he had already ran out of his provisions and stuff,
17:15
whatever. So he was literally just
17:17
stranded there, whatever, until they showed up.
17:19
But it was just like, well, hey, I'm gonna just hit this thing
17:24
for me to sleep. And if I never wake up, Oh well.
17:28
And hey, maybe if I do, it'll be someday later in the future,
17:31
whatever. So but but yeah man, like I said
17:35
overall though like I said just just this movie.
17:39
Like I said, just losing time with family isolation and kind
17:49
of coming to grips with potentially never been able to
17:53
go back to where you came from and and facing what's the proper
18:02
word I'm looking for. I guess kind of like kind of
18:05
like mortality that that that's what I'm looking for facing our
18:09
own mortality. It was a lot.
18:13
But like I said, I it it was kind of like like the right
18:15
movie for the right time. Like I said with the situation
18:19
and stuff that happened with my family stuff this week.
18:23
And I don't know, this is kind of like on a tangent wise, but
18:27
kind of just like Speaking of like the isolation thing,
18:29
whatever. I've also kind of kind of
18:32
realized about myself over these last like 10 years or so that I
18:38
spent a lot of time isolated on my own.
18:42
Because, you know, it's kind of like, well, you know, after
18:45
college, whatever I was, I was kind of putting these like
18:49
little pockets kind of to myself to where even like when I moved
18:53
up here initially with no to stay in my sister's house, house
18:56
with her family, whatever they had like a guest house park,
19:00
that was kind of, it was attached but to itself.
19:03
And so I was with family, but I was also to myself.
19:08
And then there's a bit of time when I got my first apartment to
19:11
myself, whatever and so on and so forth.
19:14
And I feel like, you know, it's like it's like I've dealt with
19:19
so much loss and stuff over over the course of my life a lot,
19:23
especially when I was younger, kind of like high school and
19:27
younger. And then it's kind of like some
19:29
time where not too much lost stuff happened or whatever.
19:33
And then like I said, like a few years ago with, you know, with
19:36
my mom and my sister and stuff, whatever.
19:38
And then, you know, some stuff on my wife's side of the family,
19:41
whatever, it's kind of wrapping up again.
19:44
But I've come to realize that, you know, it's it's like every
19:51
family kind of is that person that will kind of be like the
19:56
the rock, the foundational support person.
19:59
And I've kind of feel like I've taken on that role for most of
20:04
my life because I've, I even remember like when my
20:08
grandfather passed when I was 4, going on five years old, and you
20:12
know, just how much pain my mother and stuff was in.
20:14
Even at that little point in time in my life, I kind of had a
20:18
sense of like, man, I need to be strong for my mom.
20:21
I need to be strong for those around me, whatever.
20:23
And that is kind of how. I feel now to her sometimes I am
20:28
like man, like, am I just void of emotions and stuff?
20:32
Whatever. But it's just like, no, I will
20:35
cry when I'm kind of to myself sometimes or when I've know
20:41
like, hey, we're a little bit out of the bubble of the
20:43
situation and everybody else is OK and stuff, whatever, you
20:47
know? Then I might have no my mama's
20:49
here in there and stuff, but when I'm kind of in the eye of
20:52
the storm, I'm kind of just like making sure OK, you're
20:56
observing, OK, you could what do you need?
20:59
And things like that. So but like I said, this, this
21:01
movie was just the perfect thing that I needed at this moment in
21:07
my life. And so I just wanted to say,
21:11
like I said, just like I said up top, it is OK if you missed
21:15
something, a show, a game, a book, movie, whatever.
21:21
Because sometimes that thing might come back around for you
21:25
to at A at a point in time in your life when it might be
21:30
better fitted, 'cause this movie in general was solid.
21:36
But I do wonder how I would feel about it and how I would
21:41
interpret it at the time. Because ten years ago I wasn't a
21:46
dad, I didn't have a family, I was an uncle.
21:49
I've been an uncle most of my life, since I was four years
21:51
old. So going on 30 years of my life,
21:53
I've been a uncle. But that's different versus your
22:00
own children. And so I do wonder how some of
22:04
this time stuff would have affected me And like I said,
22:11
like his relationship with his kids and stuff, whatever, how
22:13
that would have hit me or maybe not hit me.
22:16
Not being a parent at that point in time in my life versus now
22:20
where I got five kids. And you know, just kind of, you
22:25
know, just like I said, just like, man, like if it follows
22:28
going on a mission or on a journey or whatever.
22:30
And then it's like, yo, all this time has passed.
22:34
And then even kind of how it all kind of wraps up whatever to
22:38
where, you know, he ends up being able to reunite with his
22:43
daughter, but she is like super old and stuff, whatever.
22:47
And she has grandkids and maybe even great grandkids and stuff,
22:50
whatever. And you know she's on death's
22:54
door, whatever. But he still, you know, 33 or
22:58
whatever. It just kind of a wild full
23:02
circle thing of the moment. But one of the beautiful things
23:06
of the movie also was that kind of unspoken bond and
23:11
communication of a parent and child.
23:14
And just kind of seeing how sometimes you have to trust in
23:23
the potential unknown of the thoughts and ideas of our
23:29
children or of the youth in general.
23:31
Because she was saying, his daughter was saying when she was
23:34
a killer, hey, I think that there is something out there
23:37
trying to talk to us. And like, hey, I think this is
23:39
Morris code these, you know, the way these books are lining up or
23:44
whatever the case may be or whatever.
23:47
And then when the situation happened all these years later,
23:54
and then him realizing what was going on and then trusting,
24:00
they're like, hey, if I do these things, I trust and believe that
24:06
my daughter will best could be able to piece it together,
24:10
whatever. Because she is my daughter and
24:13
she knows me or know believes in me or whatever case may be or
24:17
whatever. And so that was just like a
24:20
super awesome, like kind of like little message within the other
24:25
craziness that happened in the movie, Whatever.
24:27
It's just that kind of sometimes unspoken bond we can have with
24:32
somebody. Not just parent and child, but
24:34
sometimes siblings, sometimes just close friends.
24:38
That's almost like like y'all, like we have a telepathic link
24:42
or whatever, and that sometimes we can entrust the future or
24:48
other stuff to other people because we're like, OK, hey, I
24:52
know this person knows me well enough or knows how to think or
24:56
think similarly, whatever to where they'll be able to figure
25:00
it out. And that's what his daughter
25:02
did. It took her some time because of
25:05
course sometimes, and I think I've talked, I've talked about
25:09
this on something else a while back, but about how sometimes
25:13
our ideas and stuff are ahead of our current time or just our
25:19
current life situation. Oh it was this when I talked
25:25
about orb on the movements of the Earth and because because it
25:32
was just kind of talking about like the themes of you know
25:35
people trying to figure out this like science and astrology stuff
25:38
whatever. But sometimes they just didn't
25:40
have the tools to be able to help them realize the vision or
25:47
the thoughts that they were having and stuff whatever.
25:50
So but but yeah. But All in all Ante Stellar was
25:55
freaking fantastic, man. And yeah, and and I'm really,
26:00
like I said it, and it's kind of sciencey vibe and stuff, 'cause
26:06
one of my favorite things that I enjoyed last year was watching
26:09
the IT was an anime called Space Brothers.
26:13
There was about two brothers who had a dream of both, you know,
26:18
going to the moon together, but also hopefully hoping to someday
26:25
get to Mars together and things like that.
26:27
So and like I said, like shades of that kind of reminded me of
26:32
not, not all the way the stuff is going on here, whatever,
26:35
'cause this is a lot more deeper in the time stuff, whatever, but
26:39
just on the bonds of family and just like the camaraderie of
26:43
people supporting and pushing each other on their roads to
26:47
their goals and stuff. And and also just just shout out
26:51
to all the extra characters and stuff, whatever.
26:54
In the movie along the way, seeing a young Timothy
26:58
Charlemagne in this movie getting introduction to Casey
27:03
Affleck, Ben Affleck's brother. Never even don't think I ever
27:07
knew of him or seen him before. Shoot, what is the one dude?
27:16
Is it Jeff Hefner? No, I can't remember.
27:21
Basically the guy who who plays the main guy from from that 70s
27:29
Show, seeing him pop up in here and stuff.
27:32
Whatever. Michael Caine as the professor.
27:35
Just so many dope people in this movie and stuff and Hathaway,
27:41
lots of great people and stuff. So but.
27:43
But yeah, Interstellar man. Thank you.
27:47
Thank you. Thank you.
27:49
The movie I needed for this point in life and life.
27:54
Like I said in closing again, it is OK to miss some stuff because
27:58
it might be waiting for you for a better time in your life when
28:03
you need it. But yeah, I don't think I have
28:07
too much else to say aside from that, like I just kind of really
28:09
wanted to touch on this movie and just kind of has spoke to me
28:14
with what's going on with my life right now.
28:17
But but yeah, so hopefully I'll be hearing from me again soon
28:23
for another podcast episode. Cause yeah, the year is starting
28:28
off and lots of interesting things I'm looking forward to
28:32
getting into in the future. So and I got some very dope
28:37
manga reviews and stuff I'm working on that y'all should be
28:40
seeing coming up soon. Some very interesting stuff you
28:42
should put on your radar. And of course, the the winter
28:46
anime season has also kicked off.
28:49
So very, very good stuff. Just watch the premiere of a
28:55
Delicious and dungeon that was super cool.
28:59
And what's the other anime I watched yesterday?
29:04
It sure pretty cool premiere. So menu, like I said, I'll touch
29:09
more on that stuff for another time.
29:12
I just need to get off and rest 'cause my my sleep schedule and
29:15
stuff is just kind of all over the place dealing with this
29:19
situation and stuff. So but but if you made it this
29:22
far, I appreciate your time and I appreciate you listening.
29:26
And as always you can find me everywhere at Danny's to talk.
29:29
If you enjoyed the video version, make sure to subscribe
29:32
on YouTube channel or following on whatever podcast service that
29:35
you enjoy listening on. And as I always say, treat
29:40
yourself to some nice read some manga, watch some TV anime and
29:45
movies, play some video games, and live your best life.
29:50
And with that, I am out 2024. We here and I'll catch on the
29:56
next one. Peace.