Interstellar #MovieReview

Where do I start. Another movie from a man with a missing “d” towards the end of his surname.

No. Lets not go there. Lets pinch and zoom out to take a super gigantically macro view of what he put forth on the screen this time, for almost three hours.

None of us can argue about Nolan’s proven genius. He is a master of story telling, a champion at wringing emotional dilemma’s and human relationships, and a legend at characterization. He is also a flipping gold medalist at making our arse sleep or shift uncomfortably in the cinemas for 3+ hours, for looking sideways to find confused looks on your loved ones faces as if they just had their kidney’s removed. He likes to take a pinch of three dimension, a spoon of the fourth dimension, a fist of the fifth dimension, then adds it to a grinder already containing our brain, and blitzes it into a fine thick shake. He then likes to sip that in his cozy house, and watch all the talented actors in the world and Uday Chopra, praise the pants off his movie. Quite simple, he is the master.

So when I was looking to book tickets for Gone Girl, I wasted no time despite the shock of my life on noticing Interstellar due for release, in booking three quick tickets. Missus and my freakishly movie geekish father for company and we found ourselves in the cinema on the day of its release.

It usually is advisable to write a movie review as soon as you’re out of the cinema as you tend to retain plenty of details along with your objective opinion about the movie. I have needed around three long days to take a strongly subjective opinion as I feel one needs to. I’m sure most of us believed Interstellar to be the THE MOVIE TO WATCH this week. You would be surprised to know Disney’s Big Hero 6 has beaten Insterstellar in the first week box office collections. Things aren’t always as they seem on the first look, which is why I took my time to reflect. This is all purely personal opinion though.

As you surely know by now, the movie is about an intergalactic expedition to save mankind from mother earth who’s had enough of KRK’s tweets and wants to call it day. McConaughey and co. tired of paying Sky Sports subscription fees each month, set sail to search for an alternate galaxy containing a prospective planet for survival. What follows is an honest yet excellent depiction of physics involved in such a travel and the emotional turmoil of seeing your children age in front of your own eyes, in short video clips, received intermittently on the space ship, in another unknown galaxy hidden behind a worm hole. I want to strongly believe this will happen in near future because as it stands, I don’t get full cellular coverage at work.

The movie evolves into a beautiful story and the star cast delivers splendidly. The cinematography, animation, which would have been tricky, is a pure treat to watch and deserves all the accolades that no doubt will follow. Matt Daemon offers a superb twist full of dilemma wrought by the human survival instinct and Anne Hathaway is superb when she wears the spacesuit.

The purpose of the movie is splendid and I believe, there will come a time when earth asks us to eff off and this movie portrays all the emotions induced while embarking on such a quest, brilliantly. The premise however, can get confusing, offending, irritating, and the ending will have you chewing your popcorn harder than ever. Not the kind where you stare off into the screen oblivious to the corn falling in your lap, but where you really are looking at your popcorn box, wondering why the idiot gave you sweet ones along with the salted ones, how pricey these things are getting, why does the missus always say no to popcorn but then has fistfuls from yours, why isn’t dad having any, how I should have got some spare tissues as well and quite what the bollocks is McConaughey doing in a Tesseract in the middle of nothingness.

Spoiler alert-> Skip the next paragraph.

A tesseract according to this movie is a place where time is just like another spatial dimension and a you can move through your lifetime in present, flipping events like a phot0 album except for the fact that they are actually taking place. McConaughey then uses these events to interact with his daughter to give her hints of what she should do. In one scene he morse code’s the arms in her wristwatch to say the words “STAY”. What I don’t quite understand is why he did not say, “hello dear, this is your father who has been done in the rear by Michael Caine’s “Do not go gentle into that good night…” nonsense. You should scheme up with your brother and grandpa and tie me up in the basement so that I am not able to go on this mission, and spend time braiding your hair instead.” (update* Close friend explains that it was the books he dropped as a morse code and the watch helped solve an equation. Thank you for paying attention Rohit when the rest of us were drowning ourselves in popcorn.)

Movies today tend to touch on social topics and attempt to invoke realism in some way or the other. I am glad Nolan has this time, created a film that is deeply rooted in family ties despite being intergalactic in nature, where the heroes are unassuming, hard working scientists and not Kirsten Dunst bitten web secreting, or auto knee repairing, nuclear bomb inhaling super humans.

Your must watch this movie. Several times to understand it completely!