Shrewdly, the writers don’t reflexively blame the deterioration on the catch-all “global warming” or “climate change,” but rather upon severe “blight” resembling the Dust Bowl of the 1930s wheat and other produce are done for, while corn growers, such as Cooper ( Matthew McConaughey), may have a bit of time left.Ĭooper belongs to a lost generation a former engineer and test pilot, he expected to become an astronaut, but dire economic conditions forced the closure of NASA and the abandonment of the space program. ![]() Where Nolan takes his big leap is in trying to invest his wannabe magnum opus with an elemental human emotion, that between parent and child it’s a genre graft that has intriguing wrinkles but remains imperfect.Ĭitizens of the world convinced that our planet and civilization are now in a possibly irreversible decline will readily embrace the postulation of the script, by the Nolan brothers Jonathan and Christopher, that life here will shortly be unsustainable. But audiences tend to be accepting of even far-fetched premises as long as the rules of the game are clear. While it technically occupies the realm of science fiction, this gargantuan enterprise brushes up against science fact-or at least intelligent speculation-as much as it can in an effort to make the idea of leaving and returning to our solar system as dramatically plausible as possible. Feeling very much like Christopher Nolan‘s personal response to his favorite film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, this grandly conceived and executed epic tries to give equal weight to intimate human emotions and speculation about the cosmos, with mixed results, but is never less than engrossing, and sometimes more than that. Preoccupied with nothing less than the notion that humankind will one day need to migrate from Earth to some other planet we can call home, Interstellarso bulges with ideas, ambitions, theories, melodrama, technical wizardry, wondrous imagery and core emotions that it was almost inevitable that some of it would stick while other stuff would fall to the floor.
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