My Review of "Interstellar"

Interstellar is a big box office movie that came out in 2014. It was hotly anticipated because the director Christopher Nolan was coming from the high of Inception. Expectations were high and we didn't know what we were going to get ourselves into with this one. All we knew was time was going to be a big factor to the movie much like Inception.

The movie starts off with some rather bleak interviews about the state of the world. There are some older people explaining life in the dustbowl that Earth had become. Environmental disaster had hit earth and pretty soon there will be no more food left for the inhabitants on Earth.

On a little farm there lives our main protagonist Cooper. He's a farmer that so happens to be a single dad of 2 kids, Murph and Tom. They're all navigating life as the variables of living are constantly changing on the spot. Things look very bleak for the world and it looks like it's going to be a full extinction of everything on Earth.

That is until Cooper's old friend from NASA has come to ask Cooper to help him out. Apparently Cooper was an incredible pilot for NASA back in the day. Cooper is to go on a ship with 2 fellow crew members in order to find possible habitable planets to transport humans. they're adamant about keeping the human race alive.

There are even plan B situations where they don't have enough fuel to come back. Their ship contains a bunch of embryos to start a brand new colony on a new distant planet. This sounds crazy already. Is keeping the human race really that essential? If a new human race is created it'll be really difficult to manage. The crew members would be senior citizens by the time this next generation comes to maturation. Plus the logistics in teaching them all the sciences and survival knowledge they need would be crazy.

This is the story though. It's simple enough but has a lot of cascading events that spill over to the development of Murph and Tom. It also has a lot of mental straining on the crew. How could you maroon yourself on a distant planet without going mad? Quite simply you can't and they have a bit of that conversation in this movie as well.

Originally they make you think that this movie is all about time and physics that concern space. That is a big factor to this movie however, ultimately this movie is about being. It's about existential questions of why we want to survive and why we do the things we do. There's discussion of emotional attachments and isolation. Humans are social beings and when that's all taken away from you, you ask yourself why you still exist.

These are big heady questions and it's all fun and games. At times I got bogged down with some of the superfluous physics and math jargon that they spew out every now and then. Sure maybe it'll impress those that are in the know but as a common movie watcher I couldn't care less. With most movie we have nonsensical situations that allow us to understand how our heroes get out of their sticky situations. For some reason they thought it would be best to try to explain exactly how it works. Sometimes those things are best cut out of the film.

Other than that this movie is absolutely gorgeous. They did a lot of work with the amazing visuals throughout this movie. There's a lot of imagination that helped propel this movie in its artistic stylings and ideas. You can tell this was something that they took a lot of time getting done.

Overall, I really liked this movie. I thought it was a great time even with all of the over complicated vernacular sprinkled throughout the movie. For the most part it is understandable and it's fun. The existential questions that they ask in this movie will carry on in your head after you finish watching it. That's why I have to give this movie an 8 out of 10. Don't be too intimidated to give this one a shot.