Interstellar – Christoper Nolan’s New Epic
Nolan has given us many spectacular films including Memento, Prestige, Inception, and several Batman films. For me, this one tops them all. At the present time if you go to the Internet movie database where users rate the films (imdb.com), Interstellar gets a 9 out of 10, a rating higher than any of the Lord of the Rings movies.
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From Wikipedia:
Scott Foundas, chief film critic at Variety, called Interstellar “as visually and conceptually audacious as anything Nolan has yet done”. Foundas said the film also felt more personal than Nolan’s previous films.James Dyer, reviewing the film for Empire, awarded the film a full five stars, describing it as “Brainy, barmy and beautiful to behold … a mind-bending opera of space and time with a soul wrapped up in all the science.” Time Out London?’?s Dave Calhoun also granted the film a maximum score of five stars, stating that it is “a bold, beautiful cosmic adventure story with a touch of the surreal and the dreamlike”. New York Post critic Lou Lumenick deemed Interstellar “a soulful, must-see masterpiece, one of the most exhilarating film experiences so far this century.” Richard Roeper of Chicago Sun-Times awarded the film a full four stars and wrote, “This is one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen — in terms of its visuals, and its overriding message about the powerful forces of the one thing we all know but can’t measure in scientific terms. Love.”
Describing Nolan as a “merchant of awe”, Tim Robey of The Telegraph felt Interstellar was “agonisingly” [sic] close to a masterpiece, highlighting the conceptual boldness and the “deep-digging intelligence” of the film.”
Unlike Nolan’s earlier films, this one will hit you in both the brain and the heart – relentlessly for the three hours of the movie. The adventure and the tension lasts the entire time. It slows down a little in the middle, but near the end a very famous movie actor appears and the story picks up major speed with multiple plot twists happening simultaneously.
Cooper (Matthew McConaughy) is a former NASA pilot, now living as a farmer as the earth is threatened by blight and becoming uninhabitable. One possible solution, they see, is to find another planet to which people can move.The only possible planets are light-years away, a strategy that would involve black holes, singularities, and wormholes. It is not an easy strategy for Coop to embrace. As a widower, he has a 10-year old daughter that thinks the world of him, and he of her. If and when he could return, she would be much older if she is alive then at all. He would age very little from his trip through space and time while she would would continue to age on earth.
To keep the science as accurate as possible from what we know today, Nolan engaged the help of Kip Thorne, a prominent theoretical physicist. To create the black hole and wormhole in the film, Thorne fed stacks and stacks of mathematical equations to Double Negative, a company that helped Nolan with Inception. For this film to get the images they needed, it took 30 people working 1000 computers. Thorne wrote a book The Science of Interstellar that is already published and on the market. He also wrote at least two papers on the technical aspects of creating those images.
Matthew McConaughy, the lead actor in the film, is a very committed Christian himself and speaks out on his faith very often. He attends a local church with his wife and kids when in town, and takes the family with him when shooting on location. He is also very committed to his marriage and his relationship with his wife and kids. In the film he images as an “everyman” and his relationship with his film daughter drives the entire film story. Nolan spends the entire first third (1 hour) developing that relationship before he takes off and leaves her to try to save everyone. You’re weeping with both Matthew and daughter at this point, wondering if they will every meet again.
This is the FIRST time you will see what a black hole and related effects looks like. They did not cheapen or imagine the images. The images were created by the mathematical expressions from the scientists.
I’d like to see my own book Breaking Light moved to film.It would make a great movie. Watching InterStellar made me really want to birth my own book as a movie.
There are some major sites for more info on the Interstellar and the synopsis. DON’T read these until AFTER you have see the film.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_%28film%29 (Complete Detail Synopsis)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/faq?ref_=tt_faq_3#.2.1.15 (Frequently asked questions)
http://interstellarfilm.wikia.com/wiki/Dr._Mann (This missing chapter of Interstellar. See Wired Magazine, December, 2014)
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/18/christopher_nolan_s_lost_interstellar_chapter_what_is_the_meaning_of_bermondsey.html
The missing Chapter)
Finally, the December 2014 issue of WIRED was edited by Nolan. LOTS of good stuff in it.
