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Interstellar has now turned just over one hour old

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Published 15:01 30 Dec 2022 GMT

Interstellar has now turned just over one hour old

Matthew McConaughey's sci-fi was released in 2014

The UNILAD Team

The UNILAD Team

The date is 30 December, 2022, and it's been just over an hour since Matthew McConaughey's baffling sci-fi film Interstellar was released.

Confused? Me too, to be honest.

Any fans of the film will be more than aware that Interstellar didn't just drop today - you'd barely have had chance to even watch the film if that was the case.

Instead, Interstellar was released on November 7, 2014, and you don't need to be a genius to know that's more than eight years ago now.

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But I'm not talking about the film's release date in our time - I'm talking Interstellar time.

If Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece taught us anything, it’s that time is nothing but a construct. So while we might find ourselves on planet Earth, where more than 70,810 hours have passed since Interstellar‘s release, elsewhere in the universe it could be anywhere from a matter of minutes to hundreds of years.

For example, on Miller’s Planet, the infamous water planet orbiting the black hole Gargantua where the Endurance first splashes down, one hour is equal to seven Earth years.

If we calculate the film's release based on that timeframe, then it's been approximately 68 minutes since we were introduced to McConaughey's character, Cooper.

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The timeframe in Interstellar means it's only been an hour since it was released.
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Luckily, most of us will probably never experience the time slippage Cooper, Romilly and the rest of the crew had to come to terms with, but the difference between the passing of time in the film versus in real life has been causing a stir on social media as people attempt to get their heads around the famously mind-bending timelines.

Earlier this month, one fan wrote: "I just realised that it's been only 1 hour 9 minutes on Miller's planet since #Interstellar released on Earth in November 2014."

Marking the film's anniversary last month, another commented: "It's been 8 years since Interstellar was released, it’s like an hour and 8 mins on that planet with the big waves."

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Some fans might want to rely on Miller's Planet time as an excuse for why they still can't wrap their heads around the plot of the film, which would probably make just about as much sense if you watched it in reverse due to its shifting timeframes.

Viewers have admitted to still being lost even eight years after the film's release, with one writing this week: "watching Interstellar for the fourth time, hopefully i understand wtf is going on."

If you claim the film was only released about an hour ago, then it's much more acceptable for you to still be confused about it. At least, that's what we can tell ourselves.

Featured Image Credit: Warner Bros.

Topics: Film and TV, Matthew McConaughey, Entertainment

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