Interstellar

Rating: 8/10 (17 November 2014)

A nonsensical approach to wormholes,paternal love and a 40 year old equation.....
If there's one thing as limitless and ever expanding as the universe,I believe it must be Christopher Nolan's cerebral whirlpool,but some physicists believe that the ever expanding universe may one day collapse in on itself...and although fortunately since that has not occurred,I guess it might stand true for Nolan's whirlpool right now.... Starting from some inexplicable turn of events in the plot to a paradigm shift in Nolanesque cinema style....interstellar was a mixed bag of sorts of which to call it Nolan's high point would be stretching things a little too far....
Gone are those days of cold,steely drama amidst high bravura and true heroism,and this time Nolan paves way for soapy emotional drama and really deep astrophysics(2 research papers came out of it's movie-making!!!)...
As it occurs in infinite Hollywood movies,in the beginning we are introduced to an about-to-be-post apocalyptic world reeling under agricultural crisis,where we meet our protagonist Cooper,an ex-NASA pilot turned farmer who pushes each passing day fueled only by his memory of the bygone days of exploration and 'Top Gun' macho piloting... It's when Murph,call her prodigy or just plain paranoid,sees coded messages in the strange events around the bookshelf that the plot thickens like the dust from the dust cloud.Equally strange would be how Cooper stumbles upon the NASA secret station only to find out that he is the chosen one to lead the new batch of explorers to far away galaxies in search of hospitable planets...Artistic Freedom,right??
Contrary to what the movie makes us believe,Cooper agrees to pilot the ship not out out any altruistic intentions to save the doomed human race or to save his kids even;it's clear as day that he did so only to feel 'alive',because he could do something he was really good at... In Breaking Bad,Walter White confesses to Skyler that he could not quit his meth cooking,not because he wanted to leave behind a mountain of cash for his family,nor was it the threat of tying off loose ends,it was just for a very personal reason of feeling the 'high' of doing what you are really good at.....
Witnessing truly spectacular waves and losing an astronaut at Miller's planet,our heroes return to Endurance only to find their fellow astronaut aged 23 years more....that surely delivers enough to convey Einstein's Relativity theory in a matter of few seconds...23 years of solitude in a metallic can in a god-knows-where galaxy,surely makes him a front runner for Arkham Asylum...
It's in Dr.Mann's station that we find Jason Bour..oops..Matt Damon finally staying away from the grid of Agency backstabber's in a hyper-sleep chamber...only to reveal later that the idea was always for new colonization and never to save the poor souls back on earth.... Cooper and Amelia finally part ways at event horizon(makes for a beautiful farewell)and Cooper plunges into the dark territory that Marty mentioned a long time ago in True Detective...only to eventually wake up in Murph's bookshelf(or behind it,i wonder?)....
As in true Nolanesque style,the events in the beginning slowly unfold bending more than time,space,gravity sometimes even logic and definitely more than Sloan's bullets in Wanted..
With a TARS honesty parameter of 90%,it would be safe to say this isn't Nolan's finest work...it maybe his most scientific,most soapiest,most audacious,yes,but definitely not his best...Barring the countdown,the giant waves,the Endurance docking,the event horizon,the wormhole travel and to an extent Zimmer's heavy church-organ score,Interstellar even falls short of giving us that delicate Nolan Moment....