Interstellar Review Rating: 7/10 The judgement of this film will always be made against the epic expectations that the audience had from the film. It is the return of Chris Nolan since Dark Knight Rises, in collaboration with his brother Jon, with the expert help of physicist Kip Thorne. Interstellar was supposed to scale the heights of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film prior to its release was showcased for all the science that was there in it. It all looked too good on paper. And for this reason beware and trim down your expectations. The film has a first half that is rooted well in reality and the discussion of science almost as a cultural object. The first half is tad slow and boring buildup. Most of the stuff is believable and correct. But complications start in the pacy second half. As the story takes the twist and turns customary of Nolan, the solid scientific (and logical) strain goes for a spin. The second half does provide some of the best scenes of space faring cinema, you will ever see. But it has plenty of goofiness. While some would suggest that many of the bits and bolts of the climax are built of work considered a part of theoretical physics, it must not be forgotten that these ideas are still not proven science. But anyone who is not well acquainted with the various advanced ideas of spacetime theories, would find the film a blur of scientific jargon and obscure ideas. The biggest disappointment hits you at the climactic moment of the film when the classy director of Insomnia, Memento and Dark Knight leaves behind the eternal chicken of the egg question hanging around as a byproduct of the climax. There are other questions regarding the credibility of many of the logical constructs. The film Nolan looked up to and payed homage to: 2001 - A Space Odyssey, was a collaboration of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke. The great genius of 2001 was the abstraction of the unknown. My personal feeling is that because Nolan tries too hard to construct detailed pieces to explain the story while trying for consistency with science, Interstellar suffers. We must accept the realm of the unknowns in science and adoption of the abstract would have helped in the closing stages. The time slice construct of the climax should however be a decent reason for all to read Edwin Abbotts 1884 classic Flatland. Intersteller makes me want to relive Kubricks epic, the one that still remains the best, setting standards of the genre. Nolan, the perfectionist student of a genre fails to transcend to the level of the genius.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 22:01:07 +0000
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