Interstellar: To start with, I am absolutely sure most people walked in on this film assuming it to be something like Inception which would take time (and possibly multiple viewings) to understand. Then again, most people after the film was over would have understood only the broad outline minus the climax, let alone see the finer details of it. The narrative and the canvas are so vast, it would need you to dedicate yourself to this film. So when you do choose to watch Interstellar, please keep your phones aside and sit quietly. Miss a dialogue and you may not understand why the film ended like it did. I am a huge Christopher Nolan fan and love all his films (barring maybe the dark knight rises) and when he and his screenwriter brother Jonathan Nolan join forces to write, magic is all you can expect. And the dynamic duo do not disappoint. Interstellar is just as much a visual treat as it is a grand narrative. The story revolves around Cooper, an ex astronaut for NASA who now lives like a farmer because the world needs food. Nature has turned its back to humans and all that now exists is dust. Coopers daughter Murph has a ghost friend in her room who guides them to a hidden space station where an operation to send scientists into a wormhole near Saturn is underway. The wormhole opens to galaxies millions of light years apart and has three planets with possibility of sustainable life. Cooper decides to join them on this expedition to help them. And thereafter, things go haywire. While most science fiction movies today are about the earth in a post apocalyptic stage where either machines or some animals or even aliens have taken over earth, interstellar remains true to the genre, much like the Stanley Kubrick classic 2001: A Space Odyssey making the droning apocalypse a present day reality with no necessity of justifications. While it has its core revolving around the father daughter bonding, nowhere is the pace of it groggy. In fact its curve is purely exponentially upward. Performances: Matthew McConnaghy has grown out of the standard romcoms with films like Dallas Players Club and the series True Detective. And here too he almost singlehandedly carries the film. The film did not need much for performance. But he did deliver. Anne Hathaway and Michael Caine are regular features for the Nolans and they too were good. So were the rest. Matt Damons cameo was also great. Direction: Half the battle is won when the story is good. The other half is dependant on the visualization. Interstellar is grand in every respect one can imagine. The scenery of space, the graphics of the planets, all if it! This one is out of this world...literally. Kudos. Almost throughout the second half, I wondered how it would conclude. But when it did, it awed me like nothing has ever done in the past. I loved its simplicity of idea and complexity of theory. Brilliant. Overall: Last week it was Gone Girl and Fury. This week its Interstellar. DO NOT MISS TGIS AT ALL! My rating 5 stars for the genius climax. It left me amazed.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 11:33:27 +0000
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