More Typical Hollywood Ideology put to Film...

Rating: Null/10 (16 November 2014)

Hot off the heels of the scientifically impossible Lucy, comes "Interstellar": another movie that worships science and implies that one day it will turn us all into gods; gods who can control our own destiny.
For those of you who don't know what motivated Hollywood to make this movie, I will try to explain. The Baby Boomers, the generation that gave us Star Trek and Buck Rogers, were convinced that space travel would solve all the world's problems.
Technological advancement would eventually allow us to travel to distant galaxies. We would meet aliens. These aliens would be atheist-socialist-geniuses who would show us even more advanced technology than our own.
The new alien technology would allow us to overcome death and live in perfect happiness. But, more importantly, they would prove to us - once and for all - that there is no God. Humans are the most advanced life forms in the universe, and they will eventually achieve God-like power as long as they continue to do scientific research.
Now, none of these wild fantasies of the Star-Trek-Generation have come true. In fact, the more we learn about the universe the more we are beginning to see: 1) We seem to be alone 2) We will likely never travel beyond our own solar system 3) The universe was very likely started by an intelligence.
Technological advancement has not occurred as fast as many Boomers were hoping and has failed to fulfill their grandiose fantasies. In order to compensate for these sobering realities, the Baby Boomers have modified their fantasies. The reason science has not advanced is because people don't think scientific advancement is important, especially those evil religious people!
Fortunately, the evil corporations (evil capitalists) are destroying our planet through global warming and environmental abuse. Eventually the planet will be so damaged we will have to find another one. When we do this, the Boomer fantasies will finally be fulfilled.
Besides the usual environmental and scientific propaganda, the movie also contains your typical feminist propaganda.
The movie begins on a farm where Matthew McConaughey is talking to his daughter and son. Before the conversation even began, I knew the daughter was going to be a genius and the son was going to be a moron.
I am not kidding. I have witnessed the "boy-idiot, girl-genius" paradigm so often that I no longer expect anything different. Affirmative action (both for women and minorities) is inevitable, and, quite frankly, I am getting tired of it. This is coming from a person of colour (really).
If there are going to be brilliant scientists in movies you can practically guarantee that one of them will be female and the other will be a minority. I use to applaud these efforts in shows like Star Trek, but now I am just getting annoyed by them