Post 4: Favourite Movie: Review & Critique.

 

 

Interstellar, a film released in 2014 and directed by Christopher Nolan, tells the story of Joseph Cooper, an ex-NASA pilot, who sees himself forced to work as a farmer in a corn plantation, due to the precarious situation of the planet Earth, where a harmful dust has invaded its surface, and a series of plagues has drastically reduced the amount of food on the planet. So, in a desperate manner, a secret group of astronauts look for a way to make the human race prosper, by taking it to some habitable planet far out of our solar system. Because of this, Cooper will go back to his old profession, and ultimately, become the only hope for humanity.

I consider this movie as one of my personal favorites because, even though it’s a film that touches a plethora of scientific subjects, it also includes a theme that’s not so far-fetched from the reality we see in this day and age, where the carelessness of humanity has put the planet in a critical condition. If we add to that the great dialogues showed, the fact that every scene is filled with beautiful visual content, and we also mention that its third act presents an impressive twist that tackles a polemic subject in the scientific field, such as travelling through a fourth (even a fifth) dimension, it really keeps us spectators on the edge of the seat the whole time during the film.