Tuesday 5 November 2019

INTERSTELLAR: MANKIND'S NEXT STEP WILL BE OUR GREATEST




“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.                                                                                                                                                                                                                           


 Gabriele & Simone

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