Disaster Averted

Yes people, this is about HIMYM again. I just want to back up a little bit, and reminiscence the first time HIMYM got me. So I started to watch it from Season 6, but I watched it for the laugh, and the cast (yeah I love NPH!). The episode that first got me hooked was S07E09: Disaster Averted. This was because there's a very big twist at the end which involving my favorite character Barney. Yeah, S06E13: Bad News also had a big twist and played earlier, but it was Marshall, not Barney.


And I also got hooked by the song in this episode: Hey - Pixies

Yes up till now.

When Life Gives You Lemons

When life gives you lemons, give it to others. Because you don't like to eat fruit.
When life gives you lemons, don't eat it, it's a trap!
When life gives you lemons, sell it to those who need it.

When life gives you lemons, swallow it whole.
When life gives you lemons.. "Screw your lemons, now hand me your money"
When life gives you lemons, you choose Apple. Because Macbook always wins!

When life gives you lemons, just remember that life has given you that chocolate bar before.
When life gives you lemons, keep the faith that life will also gives you the blender. But, later~
When life gives you lemons, you make this post. lol

Caution: I don't own all this post, but 50% of those maybe.
Just say thanks to Google and Lemon and Life ;)

Movie Cliché

First of all, I just want to emphasize here that I do not make this post to mock or criticize others work. Off course they're all great people and I myself cannot compete with them at all. I write these just to share my thought and one of the thing that I love so much, movie. So no offense, these all are not the weaknesses. However, every movie has its own beauty, that's what makes us love movies at the very first place.

What I mean by saying "cliché" is not a bad thing here. It's more like saying that the subject have their own formula which is used in many times and it's not because they don't have other great idea. Sometimes they use the "cliché" because it is simply their own uniqueness. It is what define them, the thing that makes people can identify and watch them. Look at it based on category. Here we go:

 
BY GENRE

Action movie we know it when we see something explode, a lot of fight or weapon, usually involving chasing scene either by foot or car or motorcycle. The main cast is either have the skill to fight or just suddenly can fight spectacularly. The main cast is outnumbered by the amount of the antagonist shooter but suddenly he/she has a-never-empty-bullet and he/she can shoot precisely. At that very unbalance fight, he/she usually doesn't wounded at all, or having a few wound in unimportant part of body, like the arm or leg and continuing the fight like they don't feel anything. Or they do have severe wound but they suddenly have that big energy to finish and win the fight before they die.

Superhero movie sometimes has that similarity with action movie. The enemy usually is a bad person from the beginning or a good person who involves in some fail experiments and change to be a bad person. The threat for the superhero is usually, either his girlfriend/family in danger, but it's a better thing if you can include the safety of a larger group of people like all people in the world or all people in the city, or maybe as simple as -all people in a bus. The more people the better. The superhero character usually has a rich emotional backstory like an orphan, a dying uncle, a child who was left by his father when he was a child, or simply a geek and being bullied by his friends. Oh yes and the latest trend is to gather the group of superhero into one movie.

Musical movie will required the main cast to sing, sometimes with a cheerful choreography. There's a lot of high school element, or fairytale, or maybe the main cast work at music industry. Suddenly their soundtracks hit the billboard and have platinum certification. Great way to score more money~
 
Romance movie meanwhile (usually) has that perfect charming attractive protagonist pair. Starting from the meet-cute, has some problems in the middle and realizing everything and love each other at the end. Or, it can start with the main cast hate each other so much and when they're about to be in their separate way, they realize how they love each other, and there will be some chasing scenes (sometimes at the airport) and they pour their heart to each other (suddenly having a very brilliant and touching word for each other).

Dance movie always has the same thing as its backstory, you know, the school is almost closed, the protagonist is banned by his/her father to make a career out of dance, fighting between two gangs to use a place as their dance class. And don't forget, there will be a pair who dance romantically at the sunset. Yeah well, we know.

Horror / Thriller movie honestly, I almost never watch this genre. Not my preference. But I remember the old time when I still watched this genre, they like to end the movie with a cliffhanger. Either the ghost is still alive or something like that.



BY CAST

When you need an actress who: 

1. Miserable life-hater in pain = Kristen Stewart 
2. Sexy and powerful, somehow evil = Angelina Jolie
3. Sexy naughty rebellion = Emma Stone, Scarlett Johansson
4. Brave Rebellion = Mila Kunis, Cameron Diaz
5. Classy independent brave = Emma Watson, Keira Knightly, Anne Hathaway
6. Happy-go-lucky quirky but still an american sweetheart = Zooey Deschanel
7. Not-so-intelligent blonde = Kaley Cuoco, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Coolidge

When you need an actor who:

1. Womanizer cocky party lover = Seann William Scott, Neil Patrick Harris, Russel Brand, Robert Downey Jr.
2. Nice innocent little boy= Michael Cera, John Francis Daley
3. Geek= Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jack McBrayer
4. Sensitive deep love= Jason Segel
5. Hot guy in school, girls always hysterical at = Zac Efron, Ryan Gosling, Robert Pattinson
6. Sexy daddy = Gerard Butler, Geoge Clooney, Chris Noth, Patrick Dempsey
7. Eccentric weird-face = Johny Depp

BY DIRECTOR / PRODUCER

Christopher Nolan will have a cerebral, often nonlinear story-telling style. He likes to make us think more before we can understand his movie, but once we understand everything, it tastes great! You usually can find a big plot twist by the end of the movie. Nolan doesn't like to just give us that simple happy ending that we always secretly want, he twists it. But don't worry, sometimes it will still be a happy ending in its own way. Nolan also likes to work with the person he is familiar with. We usually see that composer Hans Zimmer and actor Michael Caine in many of his movies. Nolan's notable works including Inception, The Dark Knight trilogy, The Prestige, Memento and the new one, Insterstellar.

 Judd Apatow / Seth Rogen / Jason Segel meanwhile, speaking on cast formula, they like to use same round of people in their movie. Well let's say, Knocked up, we had Seth Rogen, James Franco, Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader. Superbad had Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Seth Rogen, Bill Hader. Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Year One had Michael Cera, Bill Hader. Forgetting Sarah Marshall had Jason Segel, Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader. The-40-Year-Old Virgin had Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd. This is 40 had Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Bill Hader. I Love You, Man had Paul Rudd, Jason Segel. Pineapple Express had Seth Rogen, James Franco, Bill Hader. The 20's popular series Freaks & Geeks had James Franco, Jason Segel and Seth Rogen as regulars. And the main cycle of all is... This is The End starred James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Jonah Hill, Michael Cera, Paul Rudd. You see, it's good to have that friendship group of actors. They could help each other.

Martin Scorsese whom i cannot tell his formula, but i start to feel differently when i watched his movie. He can give that old, classy, timeless, unique tone into his works. Just watch his Shutter Island, Hugo, The Wolf of Wallstreet and The Aviator which had that same atmosphere feel.

Alfonso Cuaron I honestly should tell that i don't watch much of Cuaron but i think he likes to make an ordinary simple story into something very very intense and thrilling. Well, let's say Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Gravity are a dark, ominous, intense movies.

Marc Webb used to direct some music videos in the past, so that's the reason he usually picked the right song for his movies. He could move the story into a more emotional dramatic tone. He also had the formula for the ending though. His own version of ending  most likely ended by the main character couldn't be together, just like what he did to 500 Days of Summer and The Amazing Spiderman 2.

BY SCENE

1. A fighting in the pouring rain. The girl ran away and the guy was chasing her.
2. The-girl-bumped-on-a-guy kind of thing (and the book fell down the floor)
3. The blind date didn't go so well so the girl pretended to go to the bathroom and ran away.
4. The girl almost got hit by a truck when the guy stepped aside and stopped the truck by his hand (lol~we know what movie is)
5. There was a giant green grass field and the guy asked the girl to lie down beside him, looking for the stars.
6. The girl liked that perfect guy but it turned out that the guy whom she really loved was her own best friend.
7. The meet-cute scene at the karaoke, and/or when the guy and the girl accidentally sang a duet.
   
8. That beach romantic scene, at sunset.
9. A group of teenager, looking for a place to have their fraternity party but instead trapped in a spooky and mysterious villa.
10. The hatred and mockery which by the end- turned into love (what, like in three different movies? Yeah, good for you Katherine Heigl).

Not A Commercial

Friday, Farewell and Freeway

Love. It is a very confusing thing. It is a hundred thousand million of emotions.
Love is a contradiction. Love is a sure thing. Love is, you know it even when you first met him.

That guy, standing outside that book store. Blonde hair with fancy t-shirt and jeans. He's smiling at you. No, it's not him. Or that boy, walking alone at the park, in a company by his pet dog. No?

I am changing my mind. Love can be a sure thing, but it not always is. However, it still have a sign, or, many signs.

Like when he comes to your room at the office, asking you for his website design. Reluctantly introducing himself.

"I may heard that you are the head of graphic designer here, hey my name is Francis Bellmore. I am a new website developer in the IT dept. Can you help me with this?"

And at that very moment, you just cannot take your eyes off him. His blue eyes, his big smile, his brown hair. You just want to see him over again.

And without you have ever realized, one month has passed, you are closed to him than ever. You know he will come to your desk at the 3rd floor, bring you your favorite Macchiato and stay few minutes for a morning talk. It is usually involving the newest IT project he's been working on, or his sweetest 8-years-old cousin who lives with him, or my new project, or practically everything.
I really savor that moment.

And he will come around again at lunch. Basically the same things, but it never fails to make me happy. We talk, we laugh. We even have that much things in common. We learn that we both love the movie 500 Days of Summer, our favorite band is Pixies, our favorite food is Pizza, and we are afraid of cat. We both like the smell when it's rain. All that morning and afternoon conversation was not enough, we call each other every single night. Continuing our discussion, like it cannot be stopped ever.

And without you ever realize, three months has passed. Three months of happiness. You start to be familiar of his smell, his touch, the sound of his laugh. That warm feeling when he's around. And your stomach.. butterfly

And how he never fails to make you happy.


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He looks very happy. I scroll down that pre-wedding photos. There is no bigger happiness in the world rather than by seeing him happy. It is honest and sincere. It is the truth.

I put down my pen.

"Would you marry me?"
I look deeply into his eyes. The most beautiful thing in the world. Francis is kneeling with a diamond ring in a small-velvet-box. I want to cry.

"I can never live without you. It has been a thousand times I said it, you know that. My flight will come in a few minutes. Marry me?"
 
I wish he would stop asking. I wish he would just be silent.
 
But it is just three months. How I can just stop working, moving around the globe with him, throwing away my career because of a guy that I have just known for, three months?
This is my shortest relationship so far. I had two four-months, even one three-years relationship. But it feels different. This is the happiest I have ever felt.

"Francis, I am so sorry. I cannot answer to this now. I need some time."
 
And he understands. He will take one-hour flight every friday. I pick him up at the airport this friday, like every other fridays before. I really do hope that he won't ask the same question soon.

But it does happen on the fifth friday.

"You think about it, what's your answer?"
And I knew my answer. I knew it for a long time. But it doesn't make me easier to say it to him.
 
"No."
 
And he never gets back on friday.
 
Sometimes I check my cell on friday. But it never rings. I never go back to the airport to pick him up anymore. That greatest friday happiness has gone in instance.
 
I hate friday!

Have you ever been in farewell before? What do you feel? Sure, you can do whatever you want to convince yourself that you are fine.
 
And it has been six months since he's gone and never come back. I start to reach the word "well" in farewell. It really hurts at first but then I raise again and move on.
Even though that "what if" question still popped up in my head few times.

What if I say yes to his proposal?

If only I could go back to the past..
 
You know, time sometimes can be very tricky.
 
Have you ever see the opening scene in the movie when a boy bumps on a girl? The girl is holding some books and her books then fall down the floor. That boy bow to help the girl, taking her books and they stare at each other.
 
You know what, I have never asked to have a life full of drama, but that scene happens to me, for real. However, there is a slight difference. He is the one who has that papers.
I help him gathering all his papers and stand again. There he is, staring at me with his blue beautiful eyes.

"Francis"
 
And that is not awkward at all. I cannot believe on how easy we talk and laugh again. Just like the old times. I can feel that familiar warmth on my heart. I realize that it was very cold all these times. He says, it is very nice to hear again from me, we talk a lot. And apparently he would be in town for the next two months.
 
"I will go back to Brooklyn on April, so please come. I really am happy that you're doing well." He gives me one of his thick paper and smiles and leaves.
 
It is an invitation.

My eyes are burned. My heart beats twice than usual. That cold air covers my lung, chokes me up from the inside. I feel like I wanna throw up.
 
I thought I have moved on all this time, but this new detail stings a little bit.
I should have known that I just lied to myself before. How can you call yourself "move on" if you still consistently have that "what if" thought in your mind?
 
I am not fine and I just have to accept it.
 
I open my Facebook search and type the girl's name from the invitation. No, I cannot do it. My head is dizzy. I hope this is just a bad dream. I would wake up and everything will be fine. But it is a reality. The hurt is real. It stabs through your heart, stays there with its poison. It is inevitable.
 
I grab my pen and start writing from the very beginning. How I met him, how I loved him, how I finally could let him go. With a letter, I could just faking "move on".

"..and there is no bigger happiness in the world rather than by seeing you happy. Thank you for everything. Have a great wedding."

- Fiona Bradshaw

Yeah, that's all. I will send this, so I don't have to show up on his wedding. But I really need to see the bride's photos. So I re-open my browser. And there it is. A collection of their pre-wedding photos.
 
I scroll down that page, see all their photos, one by one. There he is, with that girI beside him. He looks very happy, like the luckiest man on earth, staring at his fiancee eyes, full of love. It is honest and sincere. It is the truth. She is the real one for him.
This is the end. I finally know the real answer to my "what if" question.

What if I say yes to his proposal?

I would be in the wrong marriage right now. I would suffer more than anything ever happen in my life.

But it didn't happen. I am here, I am strong. Someday I will find the right one, just like him.
I did it! I answer it. I know I would never ask that question again, ever.

It is solved now.
 
I see their photos again. I smile without realizing it. That big burden in my heart is finally lifted. I surprise on what I feel right now. Light and relieve.
 
This is the freeway, I can see it now.
 
I put down my pen.
I throw my letter to the trash.
 
Whatever, I'll go to that wedding! 

The Front Porch

Before we started this, i really do hope that you guys can understand. It's not that i cannot move on from these, but i don't know. Every time i watched it, i really just kept watching it again and again and again. And i don't know when i can stop liking this series. Yes, i talk about How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM), which by the way, has ended in more than a half year ago. For you, who are also a fans of this series, you can guess it from this post's title. For you who aren't, then you don't have to continue reading this post because it is useless.

Anyway, I don't know when i can let HIMYM go. I re-watch it all the time. I don't know, maybe it is because i cannot accept its ending. Well, yeah, i don't think the ending is really worked. To be honest, i don't think that Ted and Robin are even belong together at the very first place, let me tell you why.


Robin will still move places [thoughtcatalog]
Robin is Robin and Robin will always be Robin. The show have given us nine seasons to get a full grasp of Robin’s identity, a strong, scotch-drinking, hockey-loving, Canadian, independent woman who would give up anything, ANYTHING, for her work. We saw how it went down with Robin and Barney. How would it work with Ted? It would probably go down the same pipe as it did with Barney because Ted will not be able to handle Robin’s constant travels, popping here and there whenever her job pleases. Her job controls her. And as one blogger put it, “Robin was never The Mother that Ted needed and wanted in his life.”

S5E02: Double Date

This is the dialog between Ted and Jen in the closing scene of an episode.
Ted: I can't believe I'm gonna screw this up again, but umm.. I like finding typos in menus.
Jen: What?
Ted: And I know my shellfish pun is stupid. But the truth is, I'm not suddenly gonna stop making stupid jokes.
Jen: Now that you mention it.. I'm never gonna stop talking about my cats. They're funny and adorable.
[chuckles]
Ted: Shouldn't we hold out for the person who doesn't just tolerate our little quirks, but actually kind of likes them? Even if it means finding ourselves on another blind date with each other, seven years from now?
Jen: Oh, dear God, I hope that doesn't happen.
Ted: Well, good luck out there, Jen.
Jen: You too Ted. You'll find your shellfish lady.

[2030]
And kids, when I told your mother that shellfish joke,
she did laugh.


Robin never had that big of a heart for Ted
We've seen Ted been through many other relationships, yet Robin was (mostly) cool about it. It's not like when Barney dated other girl. We saw Robin freaked out on Barney dating Nora in the beginning of seventh season. We saw Robin's uneasy closure when Barney announced his engagement with Quinn at final episode of seventh season. It's not like Robin didn't have that 'jealousy' moment with Ted's girlfriends, but it was just to a few girl and it's not that big deal. We could say that Ted and Barney supposed to be in a same place, because they both were best friend and ex-girlfriend to Robin. But it looked like Robin had a bigger heart for Barney rather than to Ted. And it only worked out 3-years-long with Barney. So where did that leave us?

Ted and Robin had way too many differences
The red roses, all gooey romantic 'i love you' word, poetic philosopher, child lover, gun hater Ted and smoking cigars, 'you're idiot' word,  scotch drinker, child hater, gun lover Robin. I mean, yeah, the similarities in a relationship sometimes make you bored. But with too many differences, is also exhausting. It needs a lot of work, struggle and determination. You cannot be a person who is easy to give up.

Ted was easier to give up on Robin

We've seen Ted chased Robin in a lot episodes but, sorry to say, i think Ted was giving up so easily. Ted asked Robin whether she loved him, Robin rejected him and that's it. Ted then had a rebound with another girl and when it wasn't worked out, he got back to Robin. But, sorry to say Team Tedward, Ted was really weak of rejection. He took the rejection and gone. Unlike Barney, who took the rejection and turned it into a miraculous plan to change Robin's mind. You know, people like to say "if you love someone, set it free. if it's meant to be, he/she will be back." Sorry bro, but I don't think that way. I think, if you want something, you work on it, you earn it. Then you deserve it.

So you think that i am Team RoBarn, am i? Wait until this post ends before you decide. Don't worry, we are so close to the ending. My version of The Front Porch of everyone in the gang should be:

Marshall Eriksen and Lily Aldrin

Who am i kidding, they are perfect! Nothing is needed to be changed.

Ted Mosby
I guess, i like it just like other people preference. The Mother wasn't die. But if it still had to happen, then it was nice if Ted could get back with Victoria. 

They were a great couple, they never had real issue. And the drum-roll was amazing.

Robin Scherbatsky
I really do prefer Robin to be just by herself. She chose her career over anything, hence she should be given the opportunity to focus on that. But, if you think that i am too cruel. And that Robin was really really lonely, she should be with someone. I think Don was a really great man. They really had a thing right? Remember when Robin broke up with him? I think I have never seen Robin acted so devastated through a break-up before.

Plus, Don was also an anchor. Nothing's better to support Robin in her career as someone who also went through the exact same thing. And if they were a partner in news-reading, they would be able to travel around the world together, consider it as many honeymoons awaited. But instead of them paying the expenses, they were paid for that. High-five!


And it's going to be legend..
Barney!
Yeah, to be honest, i love HIMYM because i love Barney. Everything about this guy was legendary, except.. wait-for-it.. the ending. I said i love Barney, i mean i love the old Barney. Barney before he became such a Ted-wannabe with girl. The Barney before Nora, Quinn and Robin ever happened. Oh geez, why killing such a wonderful character. Barney was a unique person with all his womanizing, catchphrases and adventures. Why they had to change him into a lame, ordinary person. We got Ted and Marshall for that! I should say, i had twice laugh to Barney at the early season, compared to the episodes in the late season.

I know about the thing, that you will grow old, you have to be mature and responsible. But most people did it! They meet their soul-mate, have child and everything. Why couldn't this only one over-the-top extraordinary Barney take a different path, a legendary path? You see, it is not like it's for a bad intention. The old-Barney always brought happiness to the gang. He always brought the gang together, either by his new rule, his mischievous plan, his playbook and his legendary "true" story. You see, a lot of activities which the gang did, had something to do with Barney. So why took away his light and brought the darkness to the gang?

If Nora-Quinn-Robin thing was never happened. If Barney still became a legendary Barney towards the ending, we might never even see the gang spent time in The Front Porch.

We would see the gang still be in the same booth at MacLaren's, laughed so hard watching a-60-years-old Barney teased around the bar to complete his "Challenge Accepted".

And that they always be there for the big (and small) moments.

Unanswered Question from Movie INTERSTELLAR [Please Help!]

SPOILER ALERT!
Seperti biasanya, Nolan bikin film yang sedikit rumit, dan karena saya ngefans sama Nolan, dan kira-kira sudah menunggu film ini dari setahun yang lalu mungkin, long story short, akhirnya nonton juga kemarin. Tapi masih ada beberapa hal yang tetep ga nemu jawabannya walaupun sudah bongkar-bongkar internet forum, wiki dan imdb, mohon jawabannya jika ada yang tahu. Thanks anyway atas yang udah jawab, beberapa pertanyaan bisa saya isi.

1. Gravitasinya diapain ya sama Cooper sampai bukunya bisa jatuh? Jam tangannya diapain ya sampai bisa rekam kode gitu?
2. Kenapa blackholenya bisa ngarah ke rak buku itu, padahalkan universe luas, ada banyak galaxi lain, jutaan planet lain. Kenapa harus Bumi dan kenapa pas banget itu di kamarnya Murph? Apakah tempat Cooper mau munculnya, yang mengendalikan lokasi tsb pikirannya si Cooper? Jadi simplenya gini, Future Man (yang pinternya sudah tingkat dewa) denger tentang sejarah mereka bisa selamat karena adanya Murph dan Cooper yang menyelesaikan problem "gravitational pull en masse". Mereka mempelajari ilmu sejarah sampai mereka tahu kalau Cooper memberitahukan solusinya ke Murph melalui wormhole karena bantuan Alien. Jadi mereka belajar mengenai problem "gravitational pull en masse" dan cara bikin wormhole juga. Saat mereka nontonin si Cooper kok ga ada yang dateng-dateng buat bantuin, mereka takut mereka tidak jadi terlahir karena manusia mati semua di Bumi akibat tidak tersampaikan solusinya~ Akhirnya gemes nontonin "kok Aliennya enggak bikin-bikin wormhole untuk Cooper kasih tahu Murph," akhirnya Future Man bantuin bikinin wormhole buat Cooper menuju rak buku Murph supaya Cooper bisa kasih tahu Murph solusinya, dan Future Man bisa terlahir, dari manusia yang akhirnya tidak jadi punah semua di bumi (setelah sampainya solusi tersebut). Future Man pun tersadar bahwa Alien itu sebenarnya adalah diri mereka sendiri. (a double paradox, i knooow~) Hal tersebut berlaku juga dengan yang pas Future Man naroh wormhole di Saturnus di awal film, dst. Oh ya fyi aja, Future Man cuma bisa bantuin diem-diem dan ga bisa nampakin diri, mungkin karena ada semacem law, Future Man ga boleh kelihatan atau kenalan sama orang di masa lalu, karena akan ada Butterfly Effect (the usual classic time-travel story)
3. Kenapa di blackhole Cooper kasih message S.T.A.Y, tapi kasih tau koordinat NASA? Terus abis itu nangis-nangis sendiri. Padahalkan kalau dia mau dirinya dia di masa lalu ga pergi, ya cukup dari awal ga usah kasih tahu koordinat NASA.
4. Beneran ga ngerti deh sama kelakuan Dr. Mann. Kenapa harus ngebunuh orang-orang? Kan dia tinggal minta tebengan pulang, dan juga setelah sekian lama kesepian dan hidup sendiri, bukannya lebih enak balik ke bumi barengan ya? Ada yang bantuin nyetirin pesawatnya. Kalau masalahnya cuma dia takut dibocorin tentang dia bohong tentang planetnya, pas balik ke NASA kan dia emang harus pertanggungjawabin hasil researchnya dong. Dan orang NASA kan ga bodoh, pasti tahu kalau ada sesuatu yang salah atau aneh di laporannya. DIA GILA!
5. Terus kenapa juga Dr. Mann tetep buka si pintu terus dia meledak? Kan dia ga terlalu tahu tentang Endurance (secara baru nyetir sekali), begitu dikasih tahu sama yang emang udah tau Endurance dan udah berhasil nyetir Endurance dari awal, supaya "jangan dibuka pintunya" dan dengan panik pula ngasih taunya, dia tetep buka. Kalau dia pinter (seperti yang dibilang) harusnya kan tahu, kalau di luar angkasa itu banyak resikonya. Kalau melakukan suatu prosedur yang salah sedikit aja bisa bahaya. Oh well Matt Damon -.- DIA GILA!
6. Ga ngerti apa tujuannya si Cooper misahin diri dari Endurance dan Brand? Terus dia loncat ke blackhole sembarangan, terus kenapa masih bisa komunikasi pula sama TARS?
7. Ga ngerti banget sama scene Cooper di luar angkasa terus bangunnya di Cooper Station. Kok bisa begitu? Apa TARSnya manggil bantuan buat Cooper, terus send coordinate Cooper ke NASA, baru Cooper diselametin sama NASA? Sedangkan dari awal film kan dibilang komunikasi bisanya hanya nerima data, tapi ga bisa transfer data ke NASA. Karena perbedaan waktu, Cooper ngapung pingsan dari wormhole keluar sendiri ke deket Saturnus sekitar beberapa menit, namun di space di luar wormhole udah lewat puluhan tahun. Ga sengaja dia ketemu sama Cooper Station (semacam pesawat luar angkasa tingkat tinggi) yang kebetulan lagi jalan-jalan ngorbit deket Saturnus. Terus diselametin deh, si Cooper ditolong dan diangkut ke dalem pesawat Cooper Station.
8. Cooper Station tuh apaan sih? Bukan Bumi tapi kenapa banyak manusianya? Kan ada problem manusia ga bisa dipindahin ke planet baru, karena ada problem "gravitational pull en masse" Bumi? Dan sudah pasti Cooper Station bukan planetnya Edmund yang dikunjungi sama Brand. I know this is a silly question, pardon me. Jadi ceritanya Cooper Station dibuat berdasarkan solusi dari equation "gravitational pull en masse" (lebih gampangnya anggep aja: masalah gravitasi). Cooper Station adalah cara untuk memindahkan manusia yang tersisa di Bumi ke planet baru. As simple as, bikin pesawat dengan fitur dimana "masalah gravitasi" tidak berlaku lagi di situ. Jadi manusia di Bumi pada naik ke Cooper Station yang jumlahnya ada banyak, untuk diangkut ke planet Edmund. (semacem cerita Nabi Nuh gitu, cuman ini bukan perahu).
9. "Gravitational pull en masse" itu apa sih? dan plan B cara ngembangin colony manusia itu gimana ya? Kan mesti bawa ibu yang rahimnya ditanem juga dong, basically bawa orang banyak juga dari Bumi, sama aja kan.
10. Kenapa di ending Cooper malah diem-diem pergi ke pesawat buat ngejer Brand di planet Edmund? Kan di Cooper Station teknologinya udah canggih, bisa cerita ke NASA hasil researchnya terus minta support orang lain buat ikut. Belum lagi pesawatnya yang diem-diem diambil udah selesai maintanance belum? Kan harusnya dicek fuel dan segala macem sebelum berangkat. Sedangkan Cooper satu-satunya orang (selain Brand), yang tahu koordinat planet Edmund. Kalau dia sampe kenapa-napa di jalan, terus udah gitu, chance buat survival dan memulai kehidupan baru di planet Edmund hilang dong. Toh untuk waktu dia cerita, mau berhari-hari ataupun persiapan terbangnya berbulan-bulan lagi ga masalah kan, soalnya waktu disitu jauh lebih lama daripada waktu di tempat Brand (planet Edmund).

Anyway, beberapa pertanyaan terjawab sebenernya dapat plot holes baru lagi lho.
[for complete version log on to: http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/11/08/interstellar-plot-holes/]
And the best plot-holes from that site is:

"Cooper shows up randomly at NASA and suddenly he’s piloting the craft? If he’s so ideal for this incredibly important Earth-saving mission that’s just about to happen, and even knows the professor, and is just a day’s drive away, you would think they (NASA) might have already known he was working the farm down the street and reached out to him. Did NASA not have a pilot before he showed up? We talked about the most important earth saving mission here."

Sering ga sih nonton film tentang luar angkasa, biasa awalannya selalu NASA cari orang-orang pinter, direkrut buat jadi tim mereka. Normally, (misi sepenting nyelametin seluruh kehidupan di muka bumi lho), mereka samperin, bujukin buat ikut misi~ semacem "karena ga ada orang lain untuk posisi ini yang lebih pas dari kamu~". Apalagi si profesor (Michael Caine) nya sudah kenal sama Cooper.

To be fair, sebenernya filmnya overall bagus kok, ya problem dengan plot hole aja, karena biasa Nolan jarang bikin plot hole di film dia. Whatever it is, Batman Begin, The Dark Knight, The Prestige, Memento, ataupun Interstellar, tetep ga bisa ngalahin Inception sih.

Flashes Before Your Eyes

I am shocked, looking at my hands holding a kitchen knife. A stream of warm blood is running through the floor.

What have I done?!

I feel like having a sudden heart attack. Everything is blur. I'll get back on my knees, run and flee as fast as I can.

There's the gate, I need to get out of here, right now. I look around the room and see the light leaving her eyes.

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"This is the house that I want, sweetheart." I said it to her. Caroline that's her name. I met her at high school. Had a little rough patch during college, but that's an old story. Anyway, we met again several years ago and fallen back in love. She has already had a huge career as she managed to be a human capital manager at a notable firm in the city, meanwhile I am just an insurance agent for like 7 years, frustrating that this job would never got me anywhere.

And then I kill her.
I look at the same floor, I told her, we were gonna live here. But now the floor is full of blood.

"You want this house, are you sure? Isn't this a lil bit smaller than what I have showed you before? We'll have a garden and a swimming pool James."
"No sweetie, since you're paying, I am not gonna proud of it anyway, Carol. You should be treated the way you are, because you are special. You deserve a husband, who is not only buying you a house, but even a whole world. I promise you, this won't be our permanent house. I would gain more money and buy you a place worth living, better than here, better than any house you've ever dreamed of. And since it's not permanent, please save your money." I whispered, gazed deeply to her beautiful mesmerizing eyes, to the warmth of her presence.

To now, I still cannot believe that she is my wife. I mean, I am not a special person whatsoever. Yeah I used to be a man with high ego and everything. But I am nothing compared to her. She used to be my unicorn, crazy special, the girl that I thought would never exist. But as I found her, and the moment when I introduced myself to that new girl at the third grade, was the moment I cherish the most. I was the luckiest guy in the whole world.

But I kill her.
I want to run away, but my knee acts like my enemy. Shivering all over my body, my mind cannot take any action regarding on how shocked I am. I try so hard to stand but it is as hard as finding a better job than being an insurance agent for 7 years. I have no hope.

I remember almost everything. The greatest first date ever, how her eyes colored like the sun sets on the ocean, stared back at me, full of love. The time when my knee acted stupid as well, the time I proposed to her. And there's the time we married, between her warm touch to her hot burning passion. How she left everything just to be with me. And then how she finally got sick of me.

Yes I kill her. Slowly and painfully, but never intentionally. At least I won't admit that. I slowly become such a pain in the ass. She worked hard every night and I was there with hundred maybe thousand of promises that never came true. I was too afraid to face the world so I caught an addiction in alcohol. Beer was my favorite friend every night. It made me forget all the horrible things I did to my life and dragged my wife onto it as well. Slowly I was more familiar with violence, rant and abuse.

Yes, I kill her heart, I kill her feeling. The feeling I once felt so lucky to have it from her.

I kill her heart but never her life. I cannot do such a thing, even with the influence from the alcohol. So I grab this kitchen knife and walk through her.

I stab myself. I am ending the misery my life has, the whole time. I am ending the misery I have caused to my wife. And by those begin a whole new world.

I am shocked, looking at my hands holding this knife. A stream of warm blood is running through the floor, my own blood. A lot of pain comes from a hole on my stomach, feels like having a heart attack. I need to find the gate, go out to the hospital, do whatever it takes to remove this pain.

What have I done?!
Everything is blur. They say, that your whole life flashes before your eyes when you're about to die. It is true. I am seeing every moment of my life with her, which leads me here.

But Caroline is in that room, she realizes the thing that just happened. She holds the knife, throws it out and starts to yell for help. But before the last flashes come up to my head, I can see where the light's leaving her eyes. And everything becomes dark.

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Epilogue: Flashes After Your Eyes

I came home early today, I'd gotten three new customers already at this very brief hours. I planned to buy her red roses and made her a very romantic dinner date at our home, she must be surprised when she arrived from work. I was so excited and walked to the kitchen. But eventually I wasn't alone, there was a voice inside my bedroom.

I carefully stepped my foot as quiet as possible, made my way to the bedroom, while suddenly the door was opened from the inside. I was hurrying, hidden myself behind the sofa and took a peep. There's a man who buttoned his shirt and then Caroline came up from the bedroom in her underwear, kissed him a goodbye as he rushed towards the door and gone in a few minutes.

Still hidden behind the sofa, I was very shocked to see that thing. My heart was broken as I quietly took a walk to the nearest bar from my home and started drinking. And I couldn't stop. There was the beginning of every alcohol, violence, rant and abuse.

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I wake up and eventually find myself in a hospital ward. My stomach is still felt hurt but I am overjoyed. It is all worked! It didn't matter actually if I'm dead, I had suffered too much anyway, but this healing process is really way better. You know what, I explain to you why, it is either:

a.) I will make her suffer very much in jail. The police would get this great alibi that she got rid of me so then she could really be with the man she has an affair with, or she is so stressful of our solitary lives where I always went out for drinking. Her fingerprints and everything are in the right place, right? Or

b.) If the police doesn't buy it and she is out of jail. I know she still love me whatsoever, hence she would be forced to love me more. How? I can say that I killed myself because I knew she was cheating on me and my heart is broken. That I couldn't live without her, and I was scared, that I chose to die rather than being left by her. And I apologize to be a bad husband but I'll try to be better, pretty much all those gooey romantic line all you girls usually watch in a movie. I know her, she would feel guilty and eventually lives in a guilty feeling for the rest of her life, with me.

Either way, the control is in me now.

Welcome to a whole new world, Caroline.
Revenge is a very sweet thing, isn't it?