INTERSTELLAR: space, love, hope and spoilers

 Christopher Nolan has done it again. He has brought us another amazing movie – INTERSTELLAR.  Interstellar is a futuristic movie in which Earth is nearing its end. Food is scare, dust is everywhere and people are dying of asthma. NASA physicist, professor Brand (Michael Caine), has been working on ways to save earth and mankind. For this he needs to send Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) , his daughter (Anne Hathaway) and 2 other researcher into another galaxy using a wormhole where they will have to find a planet that could be their new home. However, this movie is more than a space exploration movie. It is a movie about love and survival. Copper is a single father and he has promised his kids that he would come back home. To keep this promise he has to race against time as the other galaxy has a rotating black hole as its sun. The nearer they go to the black hole, more the time they lose as inside the gravitational pull of the black hole, hours can turn into years! At the same time, the team of researchers has to work as fast as possible so that they can find a solution while there is still an earth to save…

Truth be told, I was a bit disappointed. After Inception, I expected something out of this world. Literally speaking, Interstellar is ‘out of the world’ but it did not make me go ‘wow’ like Inception did. Space exploration is something that has been done so many times that the concept wasn’t new. But Interstellar is still a great movie. Firstly, the visuals of the movie are mind blowing. Although it is a fictional movie, most of the things in Interstellar have scientific groundings. The depictions of gravity, wormholes, black holes etc. are very realistic. And the concept of time as a physical dimension is also something that is being explored in the real world. No doubt, a lot of research went into the making of this movie and no doubt it has paid off.

Secondly, this movie is jam packed with emotions like love, loss and reunion. While everybody else is obsessing over the end of the movie, which I honestly did not find that confusing, I think that the real beauty of this movie lies in the innocence of a father-daughter relationship. Small instances like how Cooper is unable to tell Murph that he is actually going to save the world because he wants to protect her, how even after growing up the word of her father that they may both be the same age by the time he returns matters, how the father and the daughter have their own bubble which is more important than anything else in the world and a happy ending when they both reunite are the things that make this movie heartwarming and sets it apart from most of the movies that Nolan has done. 

Lastly, one thing that Inception and Interstellar have in common is that they both made me question what all is really possible. We all need to escape from reality now and then. In fact it is one of the reasons why I love movies; reality is never enough and we all need a little bit of magic, fiction and fantasy to help us believe that there is something more out there, something more meaningful and worthy than money, power and fame. And this is what truly made this movie great for me, because it gave me hope. And we all need hope living in this world full of greedy, stupid and inhumane human beings… 

Thus, Interstellar, while not as great as Inception, is beautiful and amazing in its own way. And who doesn't love Matthew McConaughey? Must watch.

15th November 2014

People leave and we feel abandoned and sad and pathetic. But the thing is that everyone comes back and it is just a matter of time. I have heard people say this all the time and I have caught myself believing that this is true because the alternative is just too depressing but it is also the truth. People don’t come back, not completely anyway. Things never go back to being the same. 

We ask people to promise that they won’t leave and we ask them if they will stay and when  they say yes we feel a moment of safety like we won’t have to feel abandoned and sad and pathetic anymore but the truth is that there is always something that can make them say “well I lied’. People always leave and that is just a matter of time. 

I have done it and now I know, very well, what the other person must have felt. I mean this entire year has been about people leaving and I guess I should get used to it by now but it still sucks the same. I just repress my feeling, ignore them and act like I don’t care. But the thing is that no matter how much you try to not deal with something, it still follows you around like a bitch. You start to feel sad and depressed and you just can’t figure out why. Over time you start to feel like you are not good enough because everybody leaves. You become insecure and under confident and keep trying to impress someone. You put on a mask to make people stay and then you wonder why you aren’t happy. And then they also leave and the cycle goes on. 

I guess people expect us to become stronger but I didn’t. I just became worse and needy and desperate. And I don’t know what to do. I make mistakes, no doubt. But I care and nobody cares back enough. And even thinking about them makes me feel even more pathetic like how could I even fall back into the same trap?? But I can’t stop myself from trying and believing that there is someone different out there. And this feeling, this hope is taking over my life. It’s like my life isn’t moving and I am waiting for something that doesn’t even exist and I can’t help it. 

Maybe in 5 years I will laugh at all the pity things that I used to care about but right now I can’t help but be stupid…

HER

It wasn't meant to be
The world and her dreams
Clashed at each others shores
And for her this just couldn't be

She couldn't fight for her beliefs
to her eyes, the world had no hope
In its darkened heart was no love
Its hopelessness consumed her sparks

Lonely were her days and nights
for there was no one
who saw the world through her eyes
and so she died, a little bit inside

She felt like giving up
But she knew the ones she loved
would blame themselves
for they couldn't see her pains

I love them and I shall go on
For them, she said
and died a little more
each day

It wasn't meant to be
The world and her soul
She couldn't give up nor fight
Her fate she couldn't control
so she lived, but barely..

The eternal V for Vendetta

Remember, remember the 5^th of November, the gunpowder, treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.

On the 5^th of November 1605, Guy Fawkes and numerous others planned to blow up the houses of English Parliament. He was put in charge of the explosives, however he was caught and the ‘gunpowder plot’ came to be known as the ‘failed gunpowder plot’. Despite this Guy Fawkes is sometimes referred to as the ‘last man who entered parliament with honest intentions’ and this is the idea that can change the world after hundreds of years; the idea of freedom.

Artists use lies to tell the truth while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught; he can be killed and forgotten. But four hundred years later an idea can still change the world.

And this is what ‘V for Vendetta’ stands for; an idea. The only thing that makes this movie eternal is the idea. While vendetta actually means a feud or getting equal or revenge or vengeance, which basically sums up the movie, the though left on our minds is freedom. How this futuristic world of the movie applies to every single one of us and every single nation out there is what makes this movie eternal. The movie released in 2006 and I watched it in 2014 and it is set around 2020, yet this movie is relatable to all till the end of time for as long as mankind exists, so will the struggle for power. 

The people should not be afraid of their governments. The governments should be afraid of their people.

‘V’ blew up parliament on the 5^th of November. He blew up a symbol of despotic power in front of thousands, giving them hope and power to fight for a better future. He made them believe it was possible to live without fear as he took his last breath. His vendetta was against a few but he made it to be against power, against rules, against fear and against hopelessness. He blew up a symbol of despotic power and gave thousands the idea of freedom and revolution. This idea was and is eternal.

A building is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it. Symbols are given power by people. Alone, a symbol is meaningless, but with enough people, blowing up a building can change the world.

This movie is inspiring yet deeply saddening. While it gives hope and power back to humanity, it makes you question if humanity even exists? But it is breathtaking to see a man who lost everything to retain a part of his humanity, even if it resides in his vendetta mixed with bloodshed, it is breathtaking to watch a man who has lost everything to hold on to hope. And there you have the answer; yes humanity does exist for a man who has lost everything fights so that no other loses the most important parts fo their souls; their integrity and their hope. So in the end, this is not the story of a man who had a vendetta rather a story of hope; hope which lies in ideas, hope which is bulletproof.

Beneath this mask there isn’t just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea and ideas are bulletproof.

Here, I want to leave you with idea of fighting for what you want and believe in. What you do with it is up to you…

credits for persuading me to watch- Vivaan :')