Interstellar

directed by Christopher Nolan
List(s):"Movie Two"
Category: "Fantasy"
Year of Release:2014
Date Added:02/07/2015
Date Watched:07/17/2024
Description:Life on Earth is becoming increasingly difficult. NASA has sent pioneer astronauts through a wormhole to explore other planets. Now they need to send a crew to the best of those planets to start a new colony of humans using frozen embryos. Engineer Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is picked to pilot the spaceship. Along with him are three other astronauts, including Brand (Anne Hathaway), whose boyfriend was one of the pioneer astronauts. Cooper promises his daughter, Murphy, that he will return to earth. The first planet they visit is all water, and one of the astronauts is killed when they have to escape a rogue wave. The next planet is ice. It turns out that the pioneer, Mann (Matt Damon) fakes the data because he couldn't stand the idea of being along. When he realizes that Cooper intends to return to earth, Mann tries to kill him in order to fly to another pioneer planet. Brand rescues Cooper. Mann, after killing the other astronaut, destroys himself attempting to dock with the mother ship. Cooper sends Brand off to the last pioneer planet to start the new colony while he attempts to get back to Earth. Somehow he falls into a space behind the bookcases in his house. This space turns time into a physical dimension, so by moving around in it, he can get to anytime. He sends messages to Murph, and she, also a physicist and engineer, uses them to ... I'm not sure what, but she is considered the hero who saved humanity. Cooper, drifting alone in space is picked up somehow and finds himself on a huge space station where humans moved after Earth was destroyed. Cooper is about the same age he was when he left. He meets Murph, who is now an old lady who is dying. They say goodbye, and Murph tells him to fly to the pioneer planet where Brand is all alone and help her set up the colony there.
My Rating:6

Reviews for Interstellar

Review - Interstellar

Visually impressive. The story kept my interest, although it could have moved about twice as fast. I've never been a big fan of movies that take place in space or under water. Too slow. The love between Cooper and his daughter grabbed me as parent-child relationships in movies always do. Which made it weird -- after having this relationship be the thing that drove the movie -- that they finally meet at Murph's death bed and basically said, "Well, I knew you'd make it back. Bye."

Near the end, Cooper figured out that humanity in the future had figured out how to somehow send the messages that saved humanity, or somehow constructed the whatever that enabled Cooper and Murph to save humanity. I don't know. Bottom line, however, is that it was a very humanist message with humans being the heroes that save the world.

It's science-fiction, I know, but the emphasis here really needs to be on "fiction."

Reviewed by Roger on 2024-07-17 13:52:34

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