A fairy-tale from the future

Rating: 10/10 (26 August 2015)

Spoilers, of a sort, beneath the line.
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Arthur C Clarke once wrote that any technology, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic. Take this to its logical conclusion, and any sci-fi film with sufficiently advanced scientific concepts is indistinguishable from a fairy tale. That's what this film is. Do not challenge the science. Do not question the logic. Instead, seek to understand and appreciate the deeper meaning. The narrative is a framework for ideas about love. It's not sci-fi of galactic travel and relativity, it's sci-fi of the human soul.
The Nolan brothers' message is a simple one. The love that ties us together exists in a very real, very objective sense. The limited forms by which we express love are the Morse code through which we communicate information held within our deeper personal realities. Our emotions are an unconscious realm beyond the Event Horizon, a place we cannot see into, consciously, from outside but which we can experience if we are not afraid of entering that part of ourselves without fear of what will happen to us. Love is an emotion that allows our inner selves to travel across galaxies and both backwards and forwards in time, not in a metaphorical sense, but in a literal sense. Each one of our personal existenceses is as much a construct as any other: observing reality is what makes reality real for us. We experience emotional reality and so that reality also exists within our personal universe. And our emotions are not things of the here and now. They exceed the limitations of the simple physical dimensions. Two objects cannot communicate across the Universe, but love links people together no matter how far apart they are. Emotions do not obey the rules they evolved to serve and utilitarianism is a period of human evolution we have outgrown. Rather our feelings inspire us, not just to survive and protect those we love, but to define what it means to survive and what it means to protect those we love. Emotion is the fifth dimension to our human reality.
This is the most profound film of our generation.