Okay, my comment about Interstellar contains spoilers. If you havent seen it, and dont want to be spoiled, dont read. -- -- -- -- -- Okay. This is why I hate reviewers. Most of them have come to the conclusion that the message of the film is that love is quantifiable and is the one thing that transcends time and space. Love, in other words, is eternal and transcends all, even time and space and gravity. Bullshit. Pay attention to the film, which is told almost entirely from the point of view of Coopers perspective. It is Matthew McConaugheys character Cooper who supposes that love transcends all, and it is his supposition which motivates him to take actions against incredible odds. But it is nothing more than his personal faith being projected forward on a movie told from his perspective, to encourage him to take action for the sake of his daughter. But it is not Love, but gravity, which allows him to move dust motes across the tesseract, and to send messages to his daughter in the past which drove the action of the movie. It is gravity, in other words, which transcends space and time. We dont know what motivates the supposed future humans (which are only theorized) to create the black holes and the tesseract; the universe is one of predestination and they may have simply be closing the temporal loop in order to assure their own survival. And while Coopers actions are superior to Mann (stranded on a dying world who fake data to get rescued), and to Professor Brand (who reveals that he had already solved an age-old problem but lied about it to preserve hope--and presumably his status in a world dying of starvation)--all the universe needed of him was not Love but for him to take the actions he was predestined to take.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 13:57:58 +0000
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