If there’s one movie that will instantly blow your mind and make you feel ‘out-of-this-world,’ it’s Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar.
The movie takes off in a run-down home, where Cooper, played by Matthew McConaughey, lives in with his daughter, Murph, his son, Tom, and his father, Donald. The setting is extremely devastating—Earth is slowly disintegrating and there are many, many dust storms occurring.
Cooper, former NASA pilot, runs a farm with his family. Anti-intellectualism has become the norm in the U.S. since they first ever begun to teach moon landing conspiracy theories to encourage the citizens to continue farming the decaying Earth. At home, Murph is positive there is a ghost in her room that is desperately trying to communicate with her. The ghost, is in fact, somebody sending messages using gravitational waves, and you find out who right by the end of the film. The ‘ghost’ left secret binary coordinates in which Cooper and Murph sought out for and, surprisingly, led them to NASA. A former colleague of Cooper’s, John Brand, reveals to Cooper that there is a wormhole right by Saturn that was apparently made by alien intelligence. In this wormhole, there is extreme hope for survival. You can guess what happens next: Cooper’s departure.
Cooper is accompanied by biologist Amelia, scientists Romilly and Doyle, and robots TARS and CASE. They enter the wormhole and the adventure begins.
The crew head towards the planet Miller, but realize that the time had been changed drastically—each hour on the surface of Miller is seven years on Earth. They descend to the planet which is obviously inhospitable considering the fact that it is covered in shallow water enrolled by gigantic waves. Trying to recover Miller’s data, Amelia is nearly killed by a wave; instead, Doyle, dazed by the view in front of him, had unfortunately passed away by the harsh waters.
It’s immensely difficult to not give away so much of the film since every little detail and scene plays a huge role in the film (which, may I add, is director Nolan’s favorite thing to do in his works).
Want to find out what happens next? Buy a ticket and have a seat. You won’t regret the nearly three hours of pure magnificence and you might just want to see it again. The film captures the scenery and events flawlessly, and if you’re a total science-freak like me, you’ll adore every second of it. I can assure you that you will leave the theater completely mind-warped but in the best way possible. I rate this crazy movie a 5 out of 5 stars.
Rating: 5/5
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