Interstellar is a 2014
epic science fiction film directed by
Christopher Nolan, starring
Matthew McConaughey,
Anne Hathaway,
Jessica Chastain and
Michael Caine. The film features a crew of astronauts who travel through a
wormhole in search of a new home for humanity. Brothers Christopher and
Jonathan Nolan
wrote the screenplay, which had as its origins in a script Jonathan
developed in 2007. Christopher Nolan produced the film with his wife,
Emma Thomas, and
Lynda Obst. Theoretical physicist
Kip Thorne, whose work inspired the film, was an executive producer and acted as scientific consultant.
Warner Bros.,
Paramount Pictures, and
Legendary Pictures co-financed the film, while
Syncopy and
Lynda Obst Productions served as production companies. Cinematographer
Hoyte van Hoytema shot the film on
anamorphic 35 mm and
IMAX 70 mm photography. Filming commenced in late 2013 in
Alberta,
Canada;
Iceland; and
Los Angeles. The film features an extensive use of practical and miniature effects, while
Double Negative created additional digital effects.
Interstellar premiered on
October 26, 2014, in Los Angeles. In North America, it was released in
film stock,
expanding to venues using digital projectors. It was successful at the
box office and received positive reviews from critics, who gave
particular attention to the film's scientific accuracy,
musical score, visual effects and performances from Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, and Mackenzie Foy. At the
87th Academy Awards, the film won the
Best Visual Effects award and received four other nominations —
Best Original Score,
Best Sound Mixing,
Best Sound Editing and
Best Production Design,
as well as several other awards and nominations particularly for its
visual effects, cinematography, musical score, and the performance of
Mackenzie Foy.
Plot
In the near future, crop
blight has caused civilization to regress into a failing
agrarian society. Former
NASA pilot Cooper (
Matthew McConaughey) runs a farm with his family. Murphy (
Mackenzie Foy), Cooper's 10-year-old daughter, believes her room is haunted by a
poltergeist trying to communicate with her. They come across a malfunctioning
Indian unmanned aerial vehicle
that they salvage for spare parts. They soon discover that Murphy's
"ghost" is an unknown intelligence sending coded messages using
gravitational waves, leaving
binary coordinates in the dust that direct them to a secret NASA installation led by Professor John Brand (
Michael Caine). Brand reveals that a
wormhole, apparently created by an alien intelligence, has opened near
Saturn
and leads to new planets in another galaxy that may offer hope for
survival. NASA's "Lazarus missions" have identified three potentially
habitable worlds orbiting a
supermassive black hole
named Gargantua: Miller, Edmunds, and Mann, named after the astronauts
who surveyed them. Brand recruits Cooper to pilot the spacecraft
Endurance
to recover the astronauts' data; if one of the planets is habitable,
humanity will follow on space stations. Cooper's departure devastates
Murphy, and they part on bad terms.
On
Endurance, Cooper joins Brand's daughter,
biotechnologist Amelia (
Anne Hathaway); scientists Romilly (
David Gyasi) and Doyle (
Wes Bentley);
and robots TARS and CASE. They travel to Saturn and enter the wormhole,
heading to Miller, but they discover that the planet is so close to
Gargantua that it experiences severe
gravitational time dilation:
each hour on the surface is seven years on Earth. A team descends to
the planet, which proves inhospitable as it is covered by a shallow
ocean roiled by enormous tidal waves. As Amelia attempts to recover
Miller's data, a wave hits, killing Doyle and delaying the shuttle's
departure. When the others return to
Endurance, 23 years have passed.
On Earth, the adult Murphy (
Jessica Chastain)
is now a NASA scientist helping Brand with an equation that will enable
NASA to launch the space stations via gravity. With his last breath,
Brand admits he already solved the problem and determined the project is
impossible. He concealed his findings to keep hope alive and put his
faith in "Plan B": using frozen embryos aboard the
Endurance to start humanity anew. However, Murphy concludes that Brand's equation could work with additional data from a black hole's
singularity.
Low on fuel,
Endurance can only visit one more planet before
returning to Earth. After a tense vote, the team selects Mann's planet,
as Mann is still transmitting. However, they discover it is perpetually
cold, covered with icy glaciers, and inhospitable. Mann (
Matt Damon), who always knew Plan B was the mission's true goal, faked data about his planet's viability so
Endurance
would rescue him. Mann breaks Cooper's spacesuit visor and leaves him
to die, and flees to Endurance on a shuttle; Romilly is killed by a bomb
Mann set to protect his secret. Amelia rescues Cooper using the other
cargo shuttle, and they arrive at
Endurance in time to witness
Mann docking improperly. The airlock explodes, killing Mann and causing
serious damage, but Cooper uses the cargo shuttle to get
Endurance under control.
Nearly out of fuel, Cooper and Amelia plan to
slingshot Endurance
around Gargantua on a course toward Edmunds on the other side of the
black hole while many years will pass on Earth. TARS and Cooper detach
their shuttles into the black hole, sacrificing themselves to collect
data on the singularity and to propel Amelia and CASE by dropping the
ship's mass. They emerge in an extra-dimensional location (although
often considered a tesseract, it is stated multiple times that it is a
5-dimensional area - therefore saying that it is a 'tesseract' is like
saying that a cube is located within the boundaries of a square), where
time appears as a spatial dimension and portals show glimpses of
Murphy's childhood bedroom at various times. Cooper realizes that the
wormhole's creators are future humans transcending time and space, who
have constructed the tesseract so he can communicate with Murphy as her
"ghost" and save humanity. Using gravitational waves, Cooper encodes
TARS's data on the singularity into the adult Murphy's watch, allowing
her to solve Brand's equation and launch the space stations.
Once the data is transmitted, the tesseract dissolves and Cooper
finds himself traveling through the wormhole, coming into orbit around
Saturn. He awakens aboard a NASA space station and reunites with the now
elderly Murphy (
Ellen Burstyn),
who has led humanity's exodus. Satisfied that Cooper has kept his
promise to one day come back, Murphy convinces Cooper to search for
Amelia, who is implementing Plan B with CASE on Edmunds's desert,
hospitable planet. Cooper and TARS, who was also rescued from space,
steal a NASA shuttle to travel to Edmunds's Planet.
source :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_%28film%29
Very Beautiful movie "Interstellar"
**spoilers**
i loved it
it is my second best movie
after "Cloud Atlas"
only second best
because i need to give a ranking
but it is not less, if not even more, deeper.
i just jot own what i loved.
movie mixing scientific references:
such as black holes, singularity! even that lol
i had read a book about it a few years back
so i was so eager all along the movie
to see what the main actor gonna find
once thrown into the black hole.
though most of time i was guessing ahead
what was going to happen
as i am sharp
yes yes throwing myself roses
but true
so i guessed it right lol
there are so many fine details
and beauty of the message
main message being
they went to space
to find a place
a new earth to live upon
one scientist called the Higher Beings
which communicate with them
by giving clues and info
or even "who placed this planet under our nose"
"right now, when and where we wanted it to be"
all of these were mild clues to these Higher Beings, Intelligence
which are in the 5th dimension.
at the end,
when the main actor was thrown into the black hole
he found himself in the back part of her daughter library
where he was the "one" or "the ghost"
that was communciating with her
so the point is
there is no "they"
there is only "us"
the 5th dimension
is the human being having accessed it
and helping out the ones in the 3rd dimension
and these "Higher beings" can pinpoint the right INFO.
the concept of gravity
which is the one "thing" which is a common thread throughout time
the only thing that can impact a dimension
and the impact can only be perceived
through the feel of Love
meaning,
if the person which is a being from the 5th dimension try to communicate
he is linked to people through a bond/tie
of intimacy/Love
which would haved developped
as the woman scientist explained it so well
when she had to explain the choice of a planet
to go and save her lover
a scientific speaking of love
cf her quote
but above else
i loved her showing
that this perception is based on sth
so this sth DOES exist
as it is eliciting a decision of a direction to give to a spaceship
and this thing is Love
and this "feel"
provides
a relaxed openness of vision
leading to a closer perception
of reality
of how to gear our acts and choices
toward signs that only the person
in his deepest fiber
knows are meaningful
like the main actor's daughter books falling
by themselves
for others was not important
because they had no link
no perception of the event
which "touched" them
but for the girl yes
it did
and from this place of sensibility
the inspiration came to her
as to understand
decode
the pieces of information sent by her father
from the "other side"
be it literally
or scientifically speaking
by the way
one had this gut pressure
while watching the father from behind
the library trying to save humanity
to help it survive
and evolve
by finding out this right INFO
on time
as she said in the movie
no one believed me is not me
who found the formula
for the INFO we kind of channel them
by being rightly on the right time "inspired"
is not like our mind is as much infinite as the universe is
does it? :)
there are a few more stuff i loved
the key one
being
how the man went out
in the universe
to save humanity
and how he saved it
by returning back home
literally speaking in the back part of his library
and in truth,
he found truth, in himself
so beautiful
he went in the universe outside
the macrocosm
to discover
once he fell
that he is the micro cosm
where he has access to all time and space
and this library
is the symbol
of the akashic records
which gather all knowledge of humanity.
