Recommendations of the Editorial team
To this day, this 2014 film about life in space and on alien planets is considered Christopher Nolan’s greatest challenge. Because “Interstellar” wasn’t supposed to be “Star Wars.” Nolan made the conditions for interstellar travel involving gravity suitable for hard sci-fi without becoming too theoretical. He achieved this through cooperation with astrophysicist Kip Thorne, who in turn, inspired by the film, wrote a book: “The Science of Interstellar”. An actioner in space with functioning logic? A novelty, that itself Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke with “2001: A Space Odyssey” did not create.
Let no one say that Nolan, always dressed in a tuxedo, has no sense of humor. He borrows the gravitational principle illustrated for the audience from, of all things, the space trash “Event Horizon”. We understand: a pen reaches the opposite end of a sheet of paper faster when it pokes through the folded paper; the paper is the curved universe, the pen is the rocket that has to travel enormous distances in a very short space of time.
Trailer for “Interstellar”:
Everyone is still talking about Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” and now “Oppenheimer.” Perhaps it will be another ten years before Interstellar is recognized as his masterpiece. The fantastic works, the human seems sublime. It’s the story of an astronaut (Matthew McConaughey) who leaves his angry family behind on an Earth dying from climate catastrophe in the hopes of finding a world where future generations can live after flying through a wormhole.
The fact that twenty Earth years pass by for every minute of wasted visits to unsuitable planets (Einstein could explain this) while humanity continues to suffer at home is pure horror. The fact that McConaughey meets Matt Damon on a deserted ice planet and both of them fight each other in spacesuits is a real punchline. And no spoilers – there’s more to come (Warner Bros.).