My Wishful Thinkings: Movie Review: Interstellar (2014)

Interstellar is a 2014 science-fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan (also the director of Inception film). The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow, Michael Caine, and Mackenzie Foy.

Interstellar (2014) Official Trailer

Plot

Set in the future (around 60 years from now) where the condition of our earth is not possible to be a living place anymore where the only crops is corn, other plant has extincted because of the climate change, bad condition of the soil, and populated air which is not healthy anymore even for human, thus the humanity is struggling to survive here.

Cooper's Family House

Furthermore, corn is nearly extinct because of the continuous climate change. The only solution to save the entire humanity is to look for another planet to live. In that era, technology is not important anymore, every people lives humbly and all they care is just food. That's why almost every people's job is farming corns, and also for that reason NASA works secretly.
One day after dust storm happened, little Murphy (Mackenzie Foy) finds a coordinate and shows it to her father, Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) who is a former pilot of NASA. She and her father then follow the coordinate and find NASA secret headquarters. There they meet Amalia Brand (Anne Hathaway) and her father, John Brand (Michael Caine) who is a professor, and other astronauts. They explain that they are working on a solution to find a new planet to live and they convince Cooper to be the main pilot of this mission. Cooper agrees, but Murphy does not allowed her father to go because she knows that it will take him forever to come back, and also the 'ghost' in her room tells her to convince her father to stay by giving a Morse code. Nevertheless, Cooper still leaves.

Cooper, Brand, 2 other astronauts, and 2 robots go through the blackhole to get to the planets. The first planet they visit is Prof. Miller's planet which is the nearest planet to the blackhole. They find out that Prof. Miller is already dead upon their arrival in the planet. An hour in the planet, equals seven years in the earth. They determined to go out of the planet as soon as possible, but an accident happened, they need around three hours to go out of the planet which means more or less than 21 years in the earth.

Planet Miller

After that, their fuel is only enough to visit one planet. They need to choose one between two planets, and they decide to go for Prof. Mann planet. Arriving in the planets, the find Prof. Mann is still alive and is hibernating in the capsule without setting an alarm to wake up. They wake him up. Later they find out that Prof. Mann has been sending fake information about his planet, it turns out that his planet is not a planet that can be inhabited by human. Prof. Mann then tries to kill Cooper -because he wants to come back to earth by the Endurance ship- but fails.

Planet Mann

Shortly, Cooper is trapped in the 5 dimension space. He can communicate with Murphy by sending her Morse code, and the 'ghost' that gives Murph "STAY" code is not a ghost but him. Grown up Murph (Jessica Chastain) then understand the code he sends. Later Cooper wakes up in a hospital room, he is 124 years old but still look middle-aged. He is in Cooper Station, orbited around planet Saturn, he meets Murphy, now a grandma.

Thoughts on This Film

For me, this is a very good film. The cinematography is god's work -at least for me-. The sound effect is success to make me feel thrilled, the film effect is very amazing, they make it look as realistically as possible. Even though I could not really understand some scenes, but that will not make me change my mind that this science-fiction film is a very good film. For me, the story of the film is not actually fiction, for now it might be a fiction, but who knows for 50 years in the future? This could happen to our earth. If we think about it, the most noticeable change in our planet is climate change, and with the global warming thing of course. In my opinion, there is a very important value behind this film, it is how we must appreciate our earth.
The conflict between Murphy and her father is very touching. This makes me realize that time is the most important thing in our lives. We cannot turn back time, so we have to spend it wisely with those who love us, especially our family. This film makes me want to spend more time with my family. This also shows me how great a father's love is. I could not lie that my mind goes to my father when I am watching this film.
The ending is quite sad for me, because, can you imagine meeting your little daughter again after those years but your little daughter is a grandmother now and you are 124 years old but still look pretty much the same as when you left her? It is vice versa for the daughter. From My point of view, as i am a daughter so pretty much thinking that it must be so sad to grow up without your father. To be married without you father, and on top of that, to be in a situation that you dont know whether you father is alive or not. The drama between dad and daughter is very touching for me. I will rate this film as 9/10.

Main Casts

Matthew McConaughey as Cooper