When you go to watch a movie on outer space, the only
thing that intrigues one’s mind is our imagination. Space that exist
outside earth but lived in imagination as very few had the opportunity to go and
see it out for themselves.
There have been many movies exploring the space theme and
most of them have been about our quest to explore the outer space, life outside
earth and survival. Apart from that it has been on to divert/destroy the giant
asteroid that will hit the earth.
Apollo 13 was a movie that I recall that showed that
situation astronauts have to face when everything goes south.
Recently it was Gravity, another movie on outer space that
surely must have scared the hell out of many people imagining to be stuck in
space all alone with almost no means to return back to earth.
Interstellar stand apart from all those movies not by its
plot but execution as it explores the human emotion within and beyond earth
apart for the visual indulgence of outer space.
The movie begins showing earth becoming an inhabitable
place for human beings. Dust storm seems to be the main cause along with
gravity anomalies that comes across. The armies around the world cease to exist
and people resort to farming as food becomes a scarce resource with corps dying
out…
Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a pilot turned farmer is the
key character who lives his life farming along with children, Tom and daughter Murphy
and his father in law Donald. A chance encounter with a space probe and gravity
anomaly takes him to the NASA center that was considered to be ceased to exit.
He ends up meeting the father daughter pairing of Professor
Brand (Michael Caine) & Dr. Ameila (Anna Hathway). There he comes across
mission about finding habitable planet in another galaxy through a wormhole
they come across.
To save the planet earth, they need to send spaceship to
check for habitable planet through the five people who were sent to different
planets.
Cooper chooses to leave behind his life to fight for
survival of the human population along with three other including Amelia and two
robots. Post that it’s been a journey of uncertainty, survival, faith, love and
hope.
Professor Brand though hides the fact that there was no
plan to save the people on earth. It was to save the human species by finding a suitable
planet and use fertility eggs to start fresh. He connives everyone into
thinking that they will able to save the human population by creating gigantic
space station but to do that he needs to find a way and to solve that equation
he needs additional data that can only sought through a black hole singularity.
Murphy takes the hardest when Cooper goes into space and
cuts off all ties with him. She does not even send video message until she old
enough of his age and thinks that he is never going to come back again. She
works with Professor Brand as his assistant.
In the end, love triumphs everything as Cooper makes a go
at the Black hole to provide the data required and his daughter able to
decipher the equation to save the human race.
I don’t think anyone without any knowledge of wormhole,
blackhole, time slippage and different dimensions is going to understand the
movie a bit as it’s assumed that you know…
It touches upon a theme about science that you have heard
theoretically and probably in classrooms but never on a movie theatre and visualized
in a way that takes the breath away. Nevertheless one cannot predict how
accurate the depiction is.
The beginning of the movie is too vague with no clear
indication on why earth is becoming an inhabitable place. The audience needs to
just understand that it is and due to dust storm and gravity anomaly.
The space probe found belonging to Delhi control mission made
me wonder if that was a way to recognize the Indian Space Agency work in outer
space.
The visuals of the outer space are stunning that keeps you
enthralled giving a boost to your imagination of outer space.
Time slippage along with hours of day varying in different
planets has been shown in a way that could be understood.
Matt Damon playing the role of Mann’s one of the people
who took on the mission to find habitable planet does justice his role even
though a small part.
The human emotion has been beautifully explored in the
movie. Like Mann’s desperation for survival that causes him to fudge data in
the hope that people will come and rescue him and they did.
Going to the extent of almost killing another human being
so that he could fight to live another day as the fear of dying alone in an icy
cold planet was not the way he wanted to die.
You will find many such facets of human emotions probed
that actually become the highlight of the movie.
The climax of the movie makes me wonder about Tom who is
nowhere to be seen. Nor shown what happens to him. The reunion of father and
daughter is shown but no mention of his son. Instead Murphy reminds Cooper that
Ameila is still out there and he along with a robot steals a shuttle to look
for her.
Christopher Nolan has kept the movie on a tight leash as
he keeps on bringing surprises to the screen that makes this movie different
and stand out.
The movie has its loopholes; it’s for you to decide how to
look at it.
Watching the movie, one forgets that its almost three
hours long movie.
It’s a must watch movie.
