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.
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