Glizzy
Australia
 
 
In Christopher Nolan’s Oscar award-winning film Interstellar, There is Sci-Fi, action, drama and most importantly the movie asks philosophical questions: Who are we? Where do we belong? How love isn’t always explained by science? Christopher Nolan tackles these questions head on and really shows the audience how important love is in Interstellar, how love solves the problem with gravity and how love crosses through all dimensions and how love transcends through time and space. Just like real life, Interstellar shows us why we do things for love and how it can’t always be explained. In Nolan’s dystopian earth that is covered by a virus called blight and a world damaged by a World War. The earth is dying slowly, there is no more food to feed everyone except corn but corn is dying out slowly because of blight. A farmer called Cooper who previously was a pilot/astronaut was drown to his daughter Murph bedroom by an anomaly, which gave Cooper the coordinates to a top secret NASA base. Cooper meets up with his old professor Dr Brand and Brand informs Cooper about the mission to save the human race called the lazarus missions. Murph becomes devastated because Cooper is leaving but Murph doesn’t know that Cooper is doing it to save mankind. Cooper hides the fact the it’s a mission to save mankind from Murph because Cooper doesn’t know when he is coming back and because he want’s to keep Murph faithful and safe: “I wasn’t much of a parent, but I understood the most important thing - let your kids feel safe. Which rules out telling a ten-year-old that the world’s ending.” Cooper knows that this will change the way his children feel about him but Cooper trusts his father-in-law Donald (John Lithgow) to take care of his children when he is on the lazarus missions and Cooper is doing this because he loves his children. When Cooper and Dr Brand are deciding to chose one planet to go to because they only have enough fuel to make one last trip and Dr Brand recommends that the crew that they should go to Wolf Edmunds planet. Cooper knows why Dr Brand wants to go there but Romilly doesn’t know. Dr Brand is strongly convincing everyone towards Edmunds planet until Cooper tells Romilly that “Brand is in love with Wolf Edmunds.” Cooper thinks that Dr Brand isn’t thinking like a scientist but Dr Brand proclaims “I’m drawn across the universe to someone I haven’t seen for a decade, who I know is probably dead. Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.” Unfortunately for Dr Brand. Cooper and Romilly vote to go to Dr Mann’s planet, which would end up being the wrong decision as Dr Mann (Matt Damon) would end up betraying the crew for his own life. Dr Brand was right about going to Edmunds planet because she was thinking that love is something that humans can’t understand and Dr Brand had a feeling that Edmunds planet was correct because love transcends throughout dimensions, time and space. “So listen to me when I tell you that love isn’t something we invented - it’s observable, powerful. Why shouldn’t it mean something?” Later on in Interstellar, Cooper goes into the black hole as the last opposition to save mankind. When going into the black hole, Cooper ends up failing into the fifth dimension where time is stretched out and gravity solves the problem with what is happening on earth but Cooper finds out why ‘they’ chose him to save mankind “But no way to find what they need - but I can find Murph and find a way to tell her - like I found this moment - TARS (over radio) How? COOPER Love, Tars. Love - just like Brand said - that’s how we find things here.” It all comes back to love. Christopher Nolan’s interstellar, is a movie about love. How love can transcend throughout time and space and that makes people do anything for their love ones. Nolan has managed to make us believe in love and that love can solve any problem, even ones that aren’t solved by science.