Interstellar — 11 Hidden Messages You Might’ve Missed

Tom Kuegler
12 min readJan 26, 2023
Christopher Nolan, Interstellar, 2014

“Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

That means two things in this movie.

One, obviously, is to fight against death —and extinction as a species.

The other is a metaphor for Gargantua, the film’s giant black hole.

I’ll prove that to you, along with the existence of ten other hidden messages within 2014’s Interstellar.

NOTE: If you want to watch the video component to this essay (it’s way cooler), click the link right here.

1. The Meaning Of “Rage Against The Dying Of The Light”

Gargantua | Interstellar, 2014

About midway through Interstellar, Romilly mentions Gargantua is a “gentle” singularity.

Upon a quick google search, I found there’s no such term as a “gentle singularity” among…

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Tom Kuegler

Travel blogger. 30 years old. Currently in Mexico. Subscribe to my Substack: https://mindofawriter.substack.com/