Film review: Interstellar
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Distributed by Paramount
As caretakers of our world, we have spent decade upon decade trying to preserve the state in which we existed on it. While trying to maintain its purity, we go to great lengths to protect trees, animals, and natural landmarks. Yet the more we keep living, the more our planet continues dies. This brings up the question, why are we limiting ourselves to the confinement of earth? Humans began here, but must our time also end here? Are we meant to save the world or leave it?
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar forces us to ask these questions. With famine and drought that make life on earth unsustainable, humans are beginning to look to the stars for answers.
With a excellent cast of talented actors, Nolan truly creates a masterpiece that is far beyond brilliance and unlike anything our world has seen. Cooper, a former NASA pilot played by Matthew McConaughey, is summoned along with Amelia, played by Anne Hathaway, to board the last starship on earth to venture into the unknown and find a new home for humanity. Cooper leaves earth in turmoil, knowing his daughter, Murphy, feels completely abandoned by her father. The only thing causing him to go is his determination to return and provide her with the chance of a better life.
This film not only questions humans existence on earth but stretches farther to ask what makes our earth our home. Science is based on facts, evidence, theories, but what scientific data is written about love?
Whether it is family or romance, love continues to make everything irrelevant besides the fact that it exists naturally. It is not human-made, and can’t be found in science and equations. It is a never-ending force, a gravitational pull, that all humans are lead by throughout our existence. With Nolan’s portrayal of fatherly love throughout Interstellar, he proves that through space and time, love not only guides us, but defines us.
Never has a film made me feel so glorified and inspired, yet, at the same time so insignificant. While many films these days are giving humans the cold shoulder, displaying our faults, our imperfections, Interstellar depicts humans as adventurers with our heads in the clouds instead of the dirt. While we continue to mend the constant damage to earth, we never stop to ask if these are signs that earth wants us to leave.
Interstellar is Nolan’s masterpiece and should be seen by all. It is by far one of the best movies of 2014, and could definitely change your view of our existence on earth.
