Well this
was a big one – in so many senses of the word! Not least because it was yours
truely’s first ever IMAX experience! I did smirk slightly when the usher
warned the audience to look away if they felt disoriented or sick – but I did
actually feel quite sick during one portion of the film (although,
ironically, telling you which bit would constitute a spoiler) and I felt
as if my head was full of cotton wool for quite a while after the film… I still
loved IMAX though… Especially with a highly visual film like
Interstellar, it’s almost obligatory to have it either in 3D or in IMAX… I
mean, there are some films (*cough* Gravity *cough*) whose entire USP is based
on its visuals and being viewed with “advanced” technology. Interstellar’s aim
is to be a bit more than a pretty face though. And Christopher
Nolan being Christopher Nolan – the film has plenty to say for
itself. Is it all coherent – I hear you ask – or does the film actually deserve
the hashtag Interstellarplotholes Well…
In a dystopian
world where “the system” has been destroyed and everyone have become farmers in
a desperate attempt to keep
the world (and by that I mean the entire planet) from starving to death,
Cooper, once an astronaut, is restless… His children have known nothing
different but he remembers a world where mankind was adventurous and exploration
of the final frontier was still on the cards… That is why he is delighted to happen
upon a top secret space mission run by what remains of
NASA and headed by Dr Brand Sr (Michael Caine) and his daughter (Ann Hathaway)
Cooper gets the chance to return to his vocation, and possibly
save the world while he is at it… However this is a mission like no other, Cooper
is headed for truly uncharted waters and picking the new planet
humanity is going to live on is a tricky business at best…
Now, this
film has, you may have noticed, a huge number of fans. This is because the film
is ambitious, incredibly ambitious, on so many fronts… First of all, visually…
Well what can I tell you the film is a stunner… There are so many so called set
pieces of space, the planets and (mild spoiler
alert) the wonderful visuals of the galaxy beyond the wormhole and (major spoiler
alert for like one sentence) the universe actually inside the worm hole (this
is the point at which I started feeling nauseated by the way) are
wonderful feats of technology and imagination. Best viewed with some form of
HD, you will definitely be visually satisfied by Interstellar…
You will
also be emotionally satisfied by it. Nolan produces quite a few very successful
full-blown tugs at your heart strings. Even the toughest in my group
welled up a couple of times during this one. I cannot state examples
without giving spoilers as a lot of the most emotional moments come at
crucial parts of the story – sort of jump cries as opposed
to jump scares if you will…
But on the
third hand (I appear to be an octopus for the purpose
of this review) the film is also very, very cerebral. Nolan puts in a
lot of science and a traditionally complicated storyline, successfully
blending quantum physics, theory in a dystopian space
context… Or I mean, does he really? This is where the hashtag Interstellarplotholes
comes into play… Because Interstellar is a thing to be felt and enjoyed,
sure… But if you start actually thinking about it seriously, holes begin to appear…
I mean it starts from the smallest things – how, for example, in a world
where purportedly nothing grows except corn, does mankind
still have beer? How come Cooper never loses his tan for the
duration of his “decades” in space? And – this is a big spoiler
so look away now if you’re sensitive but I need to get this off my chest it’s a
big pet peeve of mine -
why oh why oh why does this wormhole somehow magically end up behind a
bookshelf? I mean I get the whole circular storyline thing, much like
the Alchemist of Paulo Coelho we find the answer to the mystery we were
searching for back where we began as it were but… I mean why of all things
behind a book case?? I mean I get the importance of
circularity. I really do. It’s the whole Humanist mindset of human beings “not
needing any mysterious beings to take care of them”, that we and all the
resources within ourselves are the only guides we’ll ever need if only we realize
our own full potential. And I have to say, this is one of the more
beautiful and intelligent ways I have seen of putting this message
across. But I do wish Nolan had paid a bit more attention to the science as he
went along. I mean I’m not even getting started on the fact that the only explanation
we have of a wormhole is the same old folding a piece of paper
thing every other sci-fi movie seems to do. Nolan either wants to mystify the
viewer or, and I feel this may be the actual answer, this is not necessarily
about “accurate science”. It’s a parable of love, humanity and life in a
science fiction context and we should follow what our heart is picking up
and not get “entangled” in the whole scientific context making sense to the “t”.
Then again, it is the 21st century and there are people
out there who have made a bona fide hobby out of hunting for plot holes
so I’m not entirely convinced this was the best way forward for this film if
this was indeed what Nolan was after…
Whatever it
was, true to form, we will very obviously be chatting about Interstellar for a
good while yet…
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