It’s in the storage area where you pick up the king and queen pieces, on a wall, all lit up. You just need to use the king piece to unlock a door to it. It makes the dash out of it and dropping the boss for a container smackdown slightly easier.
Oh, I’ll totally throw down on this one! Firstly, I didn’t say Matt Damon was her boyfriend. I have no idea how you got that idea. We never even see her boyfriend, unless you count his grave in one of the last shots. My point is that Brand and Mann (Hathaway and Damon) are both examples of letting human fallibility impair judgment. Love on Dr. Brand’s part and fear and cowardice on Dr. Mann’s part. Brand wants to go to the planet where her boyfriend is – that’s her speech about how love can be as important as science – but they don’t go to that planet. If they had, Cooper never would have gone into the black hole, the data would have never been transmitted to his daughter, and humanity would have been doomed.
Did you not follow the whole reveal about plan A and plan B? About the genetic material for the population bomb? About Dr. Brand (Michael Caine) lying because he knew people’s love of their family would hold them back? If you don’t like Interstellar, that’s fine. But you seem to have lost interest and stopped paying attention halfway through!
It certainly came across as if you thought Matt Damon was her boyfriend, but let’s blame that on you speaking extemporaneously and me half-paying attention while working (until I realized how wrong you were being).
The movie doesn’t back up Brand being wrong - the planet she advocates going to has better telemetry, and it turns out to be habitable. Going to Mann’s planet turns out to be so disastrous that only a insane slingshot maneuver can have any hope of salvaging the mission. The reveal of there not being a plan A only makes her more correct.
The only way you can see her judgement as being impaired is if you judge it from the point of view of knowing about the Black Hole Ex Machina where Cooper enters a tesseract and transmits gravitational data through a vibrating clock arm to his daughter in a move literally validates Brand’s speech of love being a thing that transcends space and time.
Which is almost as ridiculous as that sentence.
As for “foolish womanly sentiment”, that’s an odd takeaway. I didn’t see anything in the movie with that sort of dismissively misogynistic tone.
I’m not saying the movie’s misogynistic. I think the dudes’ rejection of Brand’s notion of going with the more habitable planet smacks of “oh stop being so emotional and be rational” - even though rationally the planet with better data is the option with most chance of success, but I also think the movie is siding with Brand.
(Also the greatest fuckup is is kinda pointedy named Mann - the movie’s playing with gender in some odd ways.)
