***GREAT FILM*** (CAUTION: SPOILERS BELOW)
Reviewer: Mike Welsch Rating: 4/4 Director: Christopher Nolan Writers: Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, Michael Caine "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." It is safe to say that this motion picture is one massive jump for the Sci-Fi genre in the film industry. With subtle allusions to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Interstellar exposes concepts about space that for many are too universally complex to comprehend, and for others, too frightening to comprehend. This of course, in turn, makes the film one that so easily captures the audience's attention and wonder. Space travel stimulates the human mind in a way that nothing else can. Truly being Man's "Final Frontier", what resides beyond Earth's atmosphere is a mystery that our species cannot help but crave to solve. Since the dawn of man our species has always yearned to expand, to travel, and to discover. We are voyagers at our very core and the idea of learning something unknown draws us in like a gravitational pull. Christopher Nolan makes a daring attempt to combine the enigmatic notion of relativity with a passionate representation of family connection during Earth's final days. McConaughey plays Cooper, a former NASA pilot who is given a task that, if accomplished, will not only save the lives of his children but also the continued existence of mankind. When the world is near its end, at what lengths would you go in order to save it? To save your friends? Your family? Your children? An even more important question: how much would you sacrifice to protect the human race if it meant never seeing a human again? Cooper, accompanied by his team of Amelia Brand (Hathaway), Romilly (David Gyasi), Doyle (Wes Bentley), TARS (voice of Bill Irwin), and CASE (voice of Josh Stewart), battles between an act of heroism and a longing to be reunited with his family, and through the efforts of Nolan and musical director Hans Zimmer, the audience experiences the thrill and heart-wrenching paths of their journey in the most authentic way possible. 746 million miles from Earth, through a portal in space time, into the realms of alternate universes, across the dimensions of human perception...what could possibly exist there? Where does that leave us? Aided in production by theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, Interstellar is a scientifically accurate conjecture of space travel and the assumed nature of 'time'. What would you do if you could go back in time? If you could change the past? Interstellar explores not only the science of such a journey, but also the emotional consequences of its result. I have never seen a film that has blown me away to the point of questioning my observed reality, but Christopher Nolan manages to do just that. Interstellar is the best movie I have ever seen and, in my opinion, manifests the truest and most tangible form of existence that the human mind can perceive. I think that this movie, though overlooked by the academy, will be remembered as one of the best films of all time. I understand that to some, depending on one's generation, the concepts may be a little too "out there" (no pun intended) to grasp, but the story and meaning behind those scientific concepts is something that can be universally understood and appreciated: Love transcends the dimensions of space and time.
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