To Touch the Face of God

Rating: 10/10 (28 April 2015)

Interstellar was stellar on so many levels. It gave much to ponder and reflect upon. I write this as review of the film from a biblical worldview, which I believe can be done with integrity and without compromising the meanings of the film. First, there is a world in need. Then, a savior is chosen. There is a longing to go, see, discover and save, innate in this chosen savior. He leaves his home to journey to another world to save the world. Then, for me at least, greater connections begin. There is a wormhole. This shows us a glimpse of God in Scripture, as in Psalms 90:4 - "a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past" or 2 Peter 3: 8 - "with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." We arrive on Planet 1 - a world of water. It brought to mind Genesis 1: 2 where "the earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep." Water is the source of life, yet death comes on this planet. We go to Planet 2 - a frozen world, an age of ice. There is no life here. It brought to mind Sheol, the place of the dead. Here, resides an enemy, yet it is a fallen man, a trickster, one who masquerades in the light. This man was once the hero of many. Now he has become corrupted and become a living death. The savior then begins to save. The fallen man, the trickster, is defeated. Yet there is a greater salvation in the sacrifice our savior brings. He gives of himself, he lays down his life for his friend, falling into darkness itself, a black hole. He goes into ultimate darkness. And it is there, that his transformation takes on greater shape. A resurrection begins. He makes his true discoveries. That true life exists outside the boundaries of space and time. That the further we go out, the further we go in to discover true love. The love of a father for his child. That the father will do whatever it takes, to cross space and time to reach and connect with his child. And that this is possible. In this we can discover many things for our own lives. We can journey to try to touch the face of God in the cosmos, yet we see this most clearly in love for another human being. We can witness, the story of the Bible, God's love for us in crossing across time, space, flesh, and death itself to come to us, communicate with us. At the end of Interstellar, our savior hero is not old, his flesh has not begun to decay. It is as if he is reborn. He has new life. The purpose and the journey continue. A new adventure begins. Restoration has happened; it is a new world. Interstellar, I believe, shows well in a movie, the biblical story of creation, fall, redemption, and restoration. And it is very good. And there is so much more one could take out of this film. A great story reflecting the Greatest Story.