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Interstellar
(2014) – C. Nolan
I’m not completely sure it holds
together as science (despite the involvement of astrophysicist Kip Thorne) but
it (mostly) earns its emotional resonances.
Or I could be wrong on both counts.
Matthew McConaughey plays an ex-NASA pilot turned dustbowl farmer a
couple of generations in the future when things don’t look too good for the
human race. Of course, he’s worried
about the future for his kids (as we all are).
So, when the opportunity arises to search for a new home world (I’ll
keep the spoilers to a minimum), he takes it.
Thus begins an adventure that is probably equal parts Gravity and 2001,
with a few other nods thrown in. It can be gut-wrenching in its physical tension
but also somewhat incomprehensible in its farfetchedness. At a certain point (admittedly very late in
the film), I simply gave up “believing” and just decided well, OK, then. Although I’m not sure I was ever fully
transported into the world of the film (it would have been a very different
experience on the IMAX screen) and this might have been because of the
distracting presence of name actors (McConaughey is solid but Anne Hathaway,
Michael Caine, and Matt Damon are distracting; Jessica Chastain has too little
to do). Yet for all its loopiness and
hokum, it still has enough fascinating moments and technical wizardry (the
soundtrack included) to rate as a significant accomplishment.
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