Our "Interstellar" Movie Connection
How does this classic movie connect to our latest ARCHIVE HOUR?
Firstly, this post is about our latest Archive Hour Episode which came out last week, so if you haven’t seen that yet, here’s the link:
Something quite interesting came to my attention over the weekend. Someone in the YouTube comments of this episode had this to say…
Now, I love Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, but I have to admit its been several years since I’ve rewatched it - and honestly forgot about this plot point - referring to this scene:
In Interstellar, Matthew McConaughey’s character Cooper uses the second hand of a wristwatch to transmit coded information across dimensions to his daughter, Murph, transforming the ordinary watch into a communication device. As discussed in our latest ARCHIVE HOUR, Puharich believed something remarkably similar was happening in real life. In 1975, he meticulously documented what he claimed were unexplained stoppages and restarts of his wristwatch, convinced that an unknown intelligence was manipulating time itself to encode messages. This comparison is quite remarkable: both stories imagine a watch not as a way to measure time, but as a medium through which intelligence can communicate across cosmic boundaries.
Here are some images of Puharich’s secret, personal binders where he documented this watch communication for several years, trying to make sense of it all:
I highly doubt Christopher Nolan knew anything about this (or did he?) but either way, this is yet another example of how Puharich’s tentacles stretched into so many corners of pop culture -- from legendary actor Alan Arkin optioning his book on the psychic healer Arigo’ to make into a movie, the Star Trek/Gene Roddenberry connection to “The Nine”, etc etc…
I plan on generating good scans of these binders, which consist of hundreds of pages, so give me some time on that… but will follow up with a post on them, and we can then begin the adventure of trying to make sense of it all.
In the meantime, rewatch Interstellar and see what comparisons you find with Andrija Puharich’s “Cosmic Clock Code”.
Greg