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Interstellar · 2014 — 第 3 / 13 章 · 4'53" · B2

Cooper Says Goodbye to Murph, Explained：the ghost of your children's future

Cooper is trying to patch things up with Murph before he leaves; she answers with a threat rather than a goodbye: "Then I'll keep it broken so you have to stay." The scene is a farewell neither side can make clean, ending on Cooper's promise to come back.

あらすじ

Before leaving on the mission, Cooper tries to talk to his daughter Murph, who refuses to make it easy: "If you're leaving, just go." A relative tells him he has to "make things right with Murph," and Cooper finally opens up about being "the ghost of your children's future."

Goodbyes & funeralsParents & kidsPromisingConfrontingParent & childB2slowamericanClean
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注目の表現

make things right withthe ghost of your children's futurefigured outcome along

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このシーンの表現

the ghost of your children's future

a parent remembered only as a past presence

库珀转述妻子的话：成为父母后，你就成了孩子未来记忆里的一个幽灵。

Keep working late every night and you'll end up the ghost of your children's future.

このシーンの他の表現

  • make things right with

    to repair a relationship after harm

  • figured out

    to work something out by thinking

  • come along

    to arrive or appear, of a person or chance

このシーンのメモ一覧

65 行のセリフに 22 件のメモ

表現 · B2never enough for someoneThis world was never enough for you, was it, Coop?
表現 · B2be born to do somethingWhat, because heading out there is what I feel like I was born to do?
表現 · C1done for the wrong reasonDon't trust the right thing done for the wrong reason.
表現 · C1the why of somethingThe why of the thing, that's the foundation.
表現 · B2ain't gonna do somethingWell, next year ain't gonna save us, nor the one after that.
表現 · B2for a while nowThis world's a treasure, Donald, but it's been telling us to leave for a while now.
表現 · B2be meant to do somethingMankind was born on Earth, it was never meant to die here.
発音born on

liaison

Mankind was born on Earth, it was never meant to die here.
表現 · B2make things right with someone

to repair a relationship after harm

Tom will be all right, but you got to make things right with Murph.
表現 · B2keep a promiseWithout making promises you don't know you can keep.
文法 · C1making promises you don't know you can keep

reduced relative clause

Without making promises you don't know you can keep.
表現 · B2fix something before one goesI need to fix this before I go.
表現 · C1be memories for someone...we're just here to be memories for our kids."
表現 · C1the ghost of something

a parent remembered only as a past presence

Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future.
表現 · B1the one who did somethingMurph, they chose me. You saw. You're the one who led me to them.
表現 · B2that's exactly why ...That's exactly why you can't go.
文法 · B2why you can't go

why-clause as complement

That's exactly why you can't go.
表現 · B1figure something out

to work something out by thinking

I figured out the message.
発音figured out

flap

I figured out the message.
表現 · B1run more slowly...time's gonna change for me. It's gonna run more slowly.
表現 · B2you hear meForever. You hear me?
発音love you forever

stress

I love you forever, and I'm coming back.

「Cooper Says Goodbye to Murph」を読み解く

What's really going on

This is the goodbye the whole film keeps circling back to. Cooper wants a clean exit, but Murph won't grant one; her "Then I'll keep it broken so you have to stay" turns a child's sulk into a moral trap, and he cannot answer it. The scene's real subject is the cost of leaving. A relative frames it as duty - "you got to make things right with Murph" - but the more honest line is Cooper's reworking of his wife's words: "Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future." He is explaining, not excusing, that going away means becoming a memory before his time. That is why the final "I'm coming back" is both a promise and an admission: the mission, not the family, gets to decide when he returns.

Theme

ParenthoodA father explains that leaving means becoming a memory for his children.
MemoryThe parents' words frame life as something their kids will later remember.

このチャプターで学べること

  • “Stay” is both a command and a plea.
  • Cooper explains science to soften goodbye.
  • Motive matters as much as action.

発音のポイント

  • born on — liaison
  • figured out — flap
  • love you forever — stress
Don't trust the right thing done for the wrong reason.

The foundation of a choice is its motive: even a correct action is untrustworthy if the reason behind it is wrong.

Mankind was born on Earth, it was never meant to die here.

A statement of species-level ambition: humans belong among the stars, not confined to a dying Earth.

Then I'll keep it broken so you have to stay.

Murph refuses to accept the goodbye and keeps the broken equipment as a reason for her father to stay.

Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future.

A parent describes leaving as becoming a memory inside his children's future.

このシーンについての質問

Why won't Murph talk to Cooper?

She is angry that he is leaving at all. She tells him to just go, and later she keeps the broken equipment as a way to force him to stay rather than accept the goodbye.

What does Cooper mean by "the ghost of your children's future"?

He means that once you become a parent, leaving or dying turns you into a figure your children will only remember, not someone present in their lives. It is his way of naming what his absence will cost.

What did Cooper's wife mean by being "memories for our kids"?

That parents are, in the end, something their children look back on. Cooper says he now understands the line as he prepares to become exactly that.

Does Cooper promise to come back?

Yes; he says "I'm coming back" and that he loves Murph forever. Whether he can keep that promise is the question the rest of the film answers.

インターステラー · 全 13 章

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第 1 章follow in my footstepsThe Ghost in Murph's Bookshelf第 2 章the best-kept secret in the worldCooper Stumbles Into Secret NASA再生中 · 第 3 章the ghost of your children's futureCooper Says Goodbye to Murph第 4 章Ninety percent it isCooper Leaves Earth with TARS第 5 章wasting your breathChoosing the Next Home for Humanity第 6 章pull it offThe Cost of Time第 7 章the stuff of lifeEscaping the Wave on Miller's Planet第 8 章let goCooper Watches Years of Messages第 9 章raise someone from the deadWaking Dr. Mann on a Frozen World第 10 章sorry for your lossThe Plan A Lie Is Revealed第 11 章one last crack atCooper Chooses Home Over the Mission第 12 章resist the temptationCooper Confronts Mann's Lie第 13 章home sweet homeCooper Wakes on Cooper Station
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