“Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.”
The movie
Interstellar is a
2014 American science fiction film written and direct by Christopher Nolan. It stars Matthew
McConaughey as Joseph
Cooper, Anne
Hathaway as Amelia
Brand, Jessica
Chastain as
Murphy Cooper, Bill Irwin
as TARS (voice
and puppetry) and CASE (puppetry), Ellen
Burstyn as old
Murphy and Michael
Caine as
Professor Brand.
Interstellar
has some of the most beautiful images of the space. The space is vast and the depiction
of a wormhole accomplishes amazement especially to science fiction space. The
black hole is even more amazing and it is a recurrent image throughout the
movie. It’s in these lingering shots of a tiny spacecraft floating through the
galaxy that we can recognize the influence of Kubrick’s space Odyssey.
Interstellar include complex but fascinating theories referring to Physics, thanks to a scientific consultant, Kip Thorne, who also wrote a book where he explains
all the Physics in the film (The Science of Interstellar).
The Plot
The story of Interstellar is very
simple. The Earth is no longer habitable and NASA creates a program to colonize
other Earth-like worlds so they send astronauts to check if there are other
planets which are habitable. The
greatest danger that those astronauts have to face up is Time.
“The end of the Earth will not be the end of us”
Our
Review
We
think that Interstellar is one of the best
- and of course most successful - films in contemporary cinema. We also
think that Christopher Nolan has a genius for landscape-scale action sequences,
and the planets, with alien weather and gravity, give him opportunity to stage
them. There are gigantic waves, frozen clouds and other dangers that feel
threatening despite their looking totally surreal powers.
Nolan
and Kip Thorne use the relativity theory to create some original and urgent
crises as the shuttle crew, which figures out how to better spend their
shifting time. Time is a resource, like food and water. We liked the story of
the film very much and it made us fond of
space and astronomy.
The
only thing we don’t like about the movie is the end, because we think that it’s
a bit cheesy and sad. However we
recommend this film especially to those of you who love Science, Astronomy and Physics.
“This world’s a treasure, but it’s been telling us to leave for a while now.”
4
things you may not know about Interstellar
1.
Why is it called interstellar?
Interstellar is a real word (just like Inception) and it
is the adjective that describes a journey
among the stars.
2.
Is there a real storm in the movie?
Yes, to simulate the turbulent descent on the ice
planet, Nolan decided to send a main unit to film a real storm in the skies over Louisiana!
3.
The special effects of Interstellar
are so amazing that the team had to develop new technologies to make them
happen.
Kip, in order to create the black hole, collaborates
with Paul J Franklin and his special effects team at “Double Negative”. Thorne
contributed his theoretical material and equations to the team, which created
new CGI software.
4.
Kip and the bet with Stephen Hawking
about Interstellar
Kip Thorne won a scientific bet with Stephen Hawking
on a theory of astrophysics.
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