I know it has been a long time since I wrote anything on this blog but I am back with some more reviews of some of the movies that amazed us all last year.
"Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here."
-Cooper
This quote by the lead character of the film, Cooper (portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), sums up the message of the film. Firstly, Interstellar is a Christopher Nolan film, and we all know what that means. If one is familiar with movies like Inception, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Insomnia and The Prestige, well, one would know what to expect from Interstellar. If you think all of these movies are good, I assure you that Interstellar is even better.
The movie presents an apocalyptic scenario where life on Earth is about to end. In search of new habitable worlds for humanity, a few astronauts travel through wormholes and the film (as expected from Nolan) forces us to think whether a fourth dimension really does exist.
A brief synopsis is as follows:
In the world shown in the movie, crop blight has led to a failing agrarian society. Former NASA pilot Cooper lives with her ten year old daughter, Murphy, who believes that her room is haunted by a poltergeist. Soon, it is discovered that this 'ghost' is an unknown intelligence sending coded messages through gravitational waves which leads Cooper and her daughter to a secret NASA facility of Professor John Brandt (portrayed by Micheal Caine). It is revealed that a wormhole has opened near Saturn that provides passage to new galaxies for potentially habitable planets. According to the data presented by three astronauts, these worlds are orbiting a super massive black hole named Gargantua.
Copper, along with Brandt's daughter Amelia (portrayed by Anne Hathaway), scientists Romilly and Doyle, and robots TARS and CASE make their way to the wormhole.
As they enter one planet, they discover that it has a severe gravitational time dilation of seven years per hour on the Earth. By the time they come back to ENDURANCE (the space shuttle), twenty three years have passed.
Murphy (thirty three years old now) is a scientist at NASA and is trying to solve the singularity equation of the black hole. Low on fuel, the crew decides to enter Mann's planet (one of the three scientists). Here they find Mann but as a result of years of desperation in the hope of a rescue, Mann just wanted to save his own skin. He tries to escape in the ENDURANCE, but Cooper brings it under control and Mann dies in the process.
The major twist comes right in the end. Low on fuel, Cooper and Amelia slingshot towards Gargantua and Cooper arrives in an 'extra-dimensional' tesseract where he realizes that the wormhole's creators are future humans transcending time and space, who had constructed the tesseract so that he could communicate with Murphy as her "ghost" and save humanity.
Using the code, Murphy solves the singularity equation. and once the data is transmitted, the tesseract dissolves itself and Cooper travels through the wormhole and wakes up at a NASA space station, realizing that humanity has been saved.
The film ends with Cooper preparing a mission to travel to Edmund's (another of the three initial scientists) planet in order to rescue Amelia.
The film had countless positives. Matthew McConaughey's performance was truly commendable. The supporting cast of Micheal Caine, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain (adult Murphy) also did justice to their roles. The direction (again, as expected) was amazing. The way such a complicated movie was worn together was really spectacular to watch. Double Negative also deserves to be mentioned, for if not for them, such a movie, with so many extraordinary visual effects, would not have been possible.
The move was based on the idea of an alternate universe and the fourth dimension: time and space. Nolan presented a universe where one had the ability to transcend time and space, to affect it and to change it. The ending of the movie is a classic example of the Bootstrap Paradox, something which has been debated by time travel enthusiasts all around the globe. All in all, the movie is a very interesting fusion of science with action, which encourages rational thinking, in an irrational way.
As for the negatives, Nolan films don't have many. If I have to be critical, it would be regarding the running time of the film. With a running time of 169 minutes, sometimes the movie does get a bit stretched. The science of the film was not fully accurate, but then again, it is a film on time travel, so that is expected.
THE VERDICT:
Interstellar presents us an insight into a world of four dimensions. If we truly are able to transcend time and space one day, the results could be paradigm-shifting. Overall, the movie is a good blend of all the emotions that make a good movie. Christopher Nolan's just gives it that stamp of verification of a good product. It is a bit complicated, so you would have to use your brains when watching the movie.
OVERALL RATING: 9.6/10
(P.S.: Please leave comments, it really encourages me.)
Till you return to Earth,He Who Must Not Be Named
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