Movie Review: Interstellar

Director: Christopher Nolan

Year: 2014

Language: English

Verdict: Good

My views may be biased regarding this movie. I heard so much about this one long before I got a chance to watch it, that, my expectation raised as high as the tidal waves.

And may be that’s why I was so disappointed. Why? When one (means me) goes to watch a sci-fi, one (me again) expects any one of the two things from them. Either it is all about action, action and action. Or, it is about the big questions, pondered upon but still unanswered. Star-Wars, Armageddon, War of the Worlds, Chicken Little, Back to the Future are part of the first category and Contact, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Gattaca belong to the second one.

After hearing a lot of praise about this movie from my friends I kept this movie in the second bucket. Thus the disappointment. Director Mr. Nolan tried to portray some of the extreme human emotions raised because of space-time travel, and according to me not quite successfully. I will surely admit that Interstellar definitely introduced the masses to some of the cool concepts of relativity and quantum mechanics, however I was introduced to them by none other than Prof. Stephen Hawking a long time ago.

Whenever I think of a sci-fi the first movie that comes to mind is Contact. I guess it would be wrong of me to compare this movie with ‘Contact’. Contact was written by one of the greatest scientist story teller, who dedicated his life to bring science to masses and who never believed in a supreme power. In Contact, the questions were asked and never answered. It was left to us to decide what we chose as our own truth.

My bad! I expected something similar from Interstellar, and what I felt was that, in order to merge the two world of action and The Question, the movie lost track and was unable to deliver.

Overall, it is a good movie. It is a story of a quest through space and time — a search for an alternate habitat for human, as earth’s resources are almost depleted. Their were three options, three planets near a spinning black hole called Gargantua. Matthew McConaughey was only option they had as a pilot who can take the spaceship to its destinations. In this movie we have time travel, space travel, wormhole, black-hole and Murphy’s law (figuratively, literally and physically) ☺.

But you know what, I wanted more from Mr Nolan, who has always taken us to some other world on some extraordinary rides. This time, although we were in the outer space, I never left my seat. It is true that the depiction of the science stuffs (sci) were accurate (as they are saying) but the fiction (fi) was lost somewhere.

If you really are into this big questions I would really suggest you to watch aliens and time travel or theStory of Everything episodes of Stephen Hawking universe. I think you will enjoy them. Check them out!

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