It's designed to mimic the shape of a clock, which is a metaphor for their spatiotemporal odyssey through the wormhole and along Gargantua, which is a massive black hole that makes a single hour spent by the Endurance's crews near it equal to 7 years on Earth. To me, it's a spaceship full of poetic sentiment. There are many elements that could move me, including the Endurance. I went to the theater twice, every time leaving with my face covered with tears. Whereas most science fiction withers out in space, "Interstellar" rockets home.I was obsessed with the movie when it was released in 2014. Returning to the ship, Cooper watches videos of his kids growing up before his eyes and weeps uncontrollably.Īll of the visual awe, the quantum mathematics, the seeming complexity of the hugely ambitious, nearly three hour-long film is just stardust clouding the orbit between a dad and his girl. A misadventure of a few hours on one watery planet, where relative time accelerates, costs the astronauts decades. More than anything, "Interstellar" makes you feel the great preciousness of time, a resource as valuable as oxygen. There, Murph (now played by Jessica Chastain) has grown into a physicist trying to solve an essential equation. It remains tethered to Earth, toggling between barren, otherworldly landscapes and life back home on an increasingly uninhabitable planet. As in "The Dark Knight," Nolan doesn't investigate all of its philosophical questions so much as juggle them in an often dazzling, occasionally frustratingly incomplete way.īut under extreme gravitational forces, the core of "Interstellar" holds. What happens when the space ship, Endurance, moves past Saturn and passes through the wormhole? For starters, Nolan and his cinematographer, Hoyte Van Hoytema, conjure beautiful galactic imagery, contorting space and, eventually, dimensions.īut what he's really doing is dropping countless big ideas -science, survival, exploration, love - into a cosmic blender, and seeing what keeps its meaning out there in the heavenly abyss. His crew are Brand's daughter (Anne Hathaway), a pair of researchers (a wonderful David Gyasi and Wes Bentley) and a talking robot named TARS that looks like the monolith of "2001: A Space Odyssey" if it were a shape-shifting Transformer. He's a dutiful, driven father stepping out to work, only in another galaxy. The parting from Murph, who resents the abandonment, is wrenching. The journey means Cooper will, under the best of circumstances, be gone for years. There will be no aliens poking forth from bellies or monument-blasting battles with extraterrestrials it's just about us humans. "Interstellar" is a trip, for sure, but it's not a supernatural one. Much discussion of gravity and relativity follows, as Nolan (who co-wrote the script with his brother Jonathan and consulted with theoretical physicist Kip Thorne) tries valiantly to place his quasi-plausible sci-fi tale within the realm of mathematics and science. They enlist him to pilot a desperate mission through a wormhole to follow an earlier expedition that may have found planets capable of hosting human life. Large-scale dreaming has gone underground. Cooper, a former NASA pilot, still believes in science's capacity for greatness.Ĭooper's curiosity brings him to a secret NASA lair run by a Dr. In the imperiled climate, space exploration is viewed as part of the "excess" of the 20th century. The film opens in the near future where a new kind of Dust Bowl, one called "the blight," brings crop-killing storms of dust upon the Midwest farm of engineer-turned-farmer Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and his two children, the adventuresome 10-year-old Murph (Mackenzie Foy) and the 15-year-old budding farmer Tom (Timothee Chalamet). Watch Video: Video | Trailer: 'Interstellar'
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