"Mankind's next step will be our greatest."
Interstellar. The name tells you everything. The word actually means occurring in between the stars. And that's exactly what happens in this mind-blowing movie. It's a sci-fi, so it starts in the usual way, with Earth being shown as almost-dead.
Our time on Earth is coming to a close. The human population has been reduced to a farming society and dust storms ravage the fields. Cooper is a pilot-turned-farmer. When it is revealed to him that NASA still exists and that a wormhole has been discovered and that it could take them to a new life-sustaining planet, he agrees to fly a team of scientists through the wormhole. After going through the wormhole, they come across three prospective planets. Cooper must decide between on reaching the new planets or going back to Earth while the other scientists must find out whether humanity can live amongst the stars after Earth dies out forever.
What I didn't know when I walked into the cinema for Interstellar was that Christopher Nolan hired cosmologist Kip Thorne to make sure that all the small details in the movie related to physics were correct, like the black hole and the wormhole. I must say, this movie was aesthetically pleasing in terms of the rendering of the stars, planets, the black hole and the galaxies. Even the sound effects made you actually feel like you were in space. In terms of the other aspects of the movie, everything was top notch. Matthew McConaughey did a good job, though nothing out of the ordinary. Mackenzie Foy, the girl who played Murph, did a fine job as well. Christopher Nolan impresses with every movie; Inception, the Batman movies and finally Interstellar. Another thing I really liked about Interstellar was that it actually taught me something about space and time. At first, it seems confusing with the space-time continuum and everything, but it clears up near the end. The movie is almost 3 hours long, but it's absolutely worth it. Oh, and one more thing, there isn't much humour in the movie, but whatever is there is funny! You guys will love this movie.
- Genre- Sci-fi, adventure
- Director- Christopher Nolan
- Producers- Emma Thomas, Kip Thorne, Lynda Obst
- Starring- Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain
My rating
5/5
