In Interstellar, the music doesn't frame and enhance the story. The story is the wrapper for the film music and the visuals. I loved Zimmer's nods to Kubrick, and I could almost have just watched the galactic scenes and planetscapes set to the music with no plot at all. The music enhanced and sharpened what there was of the plot.

The plot itself did little more than provide some tension to keep the viewer awake for the film's whole three hours. There was deadly threat after deadly threat. As a whole, it was the sort of sci-fi plot that one shouldn't think too hard about for fear of it all coming apart. If you watch the film, do it for the art and the music.