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| On board the Endurance - Interstellar |
Christopher Nolan's Interstellar mixes theoretical physics, strong character development and an in-depth back story with stunning visual effects to deliver a complex layered film quite distinct from many recent efforts in the science fiction genre. A simple straight forward space exploration film this is not and with a screening time of 169 minutes it is a film which will appeal to those who would like more than dazzling CGI effects (although there are more than enough scenes with high end imagery).
The plotline of the story is set on a dying planet Earth, not too far into the future with crops failing and endless dust storms. Society has fallen back into an agrarian culture to survive with technology and space exploration abandoned. Former NASA pilot and widower, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) runs a farm with his father (John Lithgow) and his son, Tom and daughter, Murphy. Through strange messages he discovers that NASA still exists and through the efforts of Professor John Brand (Michael Caine) is launching a mission to a worm hole which has appeared near Saturn. Probes through the worm hole have established that three potential planets for human habitation exist on the other side. Cooper is enlisted by Professor Brand to pilot the mission shuttle with a team consisting of Brands' daughter, Amelia (Anne Hathaway) and scientists Romilly (David Gyasi) and Doyle Wes Bentley) with very quirky robots operating with almost human personality programming.
The plotline of the story is set on a dying planet Earth, not too far into the future with crops failing and endless dust storms. Society has fallen back into an agrarian culture to survive with technology and space exploration abandoned. Former NASA pilot and widower, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) runs a farm with his father (John Lithgow) and his son, Tom and daughter, Murphy. Through strange messages he discovers that NASA still exists and through the efforts of Professor John Brand (Michael Caine) is launching a mission to a worm hole which has appeared near Saturn. Probes through the worm hole have established that three potential planets for human habitation exist on the other side. Cooper is enlisted by Professor Brand to pilot the mission shuttle with a team consisting of Brands' daughter, Amelia (Anne Hathaway) and scientists Romilly (David Gyasi) and Doyle Wes Bentley) with very quirky robots operating with almost human personality programming.
On Earth, as time relativity passes more quickly, Cooper's daughter Murphy has become an adult (Jessica Chastain) and joined Professor Brand working on an equation to launch massive space stations from Earth using gravity. All is not what it seems and Cooper and Amelia are confronted by endless challenges far away in space (including a massive black hole termed 'Gargantua') and some unexpected but devastating deception from their own colleagues.
The film was shot on locations in the United States, Canada and Iceland and theoretical physicist, Kip Thorne (a collaborator with the late renowned scientist, Carl Sagan) was the scientific consultant both with story development and visual effects. If you're familiar with terms such as worm hole, event horizon, singularity and gravitational lensing, the actual science gives the storyline a high level of gravitas.
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| The supermassive black hole,Gargantua, as shown in Interstellar |
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