Interstellar Will Give You 15 Minutes of Speechless Moment When It Ends

Rating: 8/10 (16 October 2017)

Recently highly anticipated Pakistani movie "021" starring Shaan Shahid received Boos and Hoots in Capri Cinema in Karachi. 021 which was being tipped as brainiest Pakistani movie ever by critics has not been well received by audience of single screen cinemas. Negative response from such an audience must not be assumed as final verdict because there is large section of society which praised this movie overwhelmingly and critics loved it. Same goes with Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar".
Mr. Nolan's space adventure will confront same fate if it is released on same single screen cinema in Karachi. We will not be entirely wrong if we claim that Interstellar is for Nerds but not for Jerks. Since Mr. Nolan's romance with Batman franchise has ended he has been creating plots which have been difficult to decipher. First Inception and now with Interstellar Mr. Nolan has proved himself as a director who always intends to tingle with audience intelligence and consciousness through his unique ideas and does not have slightest fear of negative response from audience.
Interstellar starts with a future world facing increasing level of nitrogen in earthly atmosphere and depleting level of oxygen causing catastrophic outcome. Crops have died and farmers are not able to produce anything except corn. Fertile grounds are converting into desert and massive sand storms have become daily routine. There are no armies in the world and US Government has shut down all unproductive endeavors such as NASA to save scarcely available resources. In this grim time NASA drop out engineer and currently corn farmer Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) finds unknown gravitational anomaly which leads him to discover NASA working underground for years to save last of humanity.
NASA's chief Professor Brand (Michael Caine) along with his daughter Amelia (Anne Hathaway) reveals him that NASA has discovered some sort of Traversable wormhole in our solar system near planet Saturn. Professor Brand convinces Cooper to lead a team of explorers to surpass the limitation on human space travel to discover inhabitable planet in other galaxy for humanity by using interstellar voyage through newly discovered wormhole.
Cinematic presentation of concept of intergalactic traveling is not new for moviegoers but Interstellar gives us a slight nose dip with touch of reality. Interstellar looks like that Mr. Nolan has wrapped Paul Anderson's 1997 "Even Horizon" into Stanley Kubrick's "Space Odyssey" but with lots of emotions involved in. In one of scenes in which one of Interstellar voyager explains how Traversable wormhole works has an enormous similarity to one scene of "Event Horizon".
As we know that Mr. Nolan is master of creating climax in almost every scene, Interstellar gives its viewers brainstorming sessions from beginning to end. As I have mentioned above this new Nolan's saga is a treat for Nerds and if you are not aware of the concepts such as Murphy's Law, Theory of Relativity, Traversable Wormhole, Black Hole and singularity then Interstellar is nothing but waste of 169 minutes of your life. Interstellar invokes many questions with subjective layering such as assuming love as the fifth dimension of the time and interstellar voyagers are shown discussing about "They" who presumably put this Wormhole up there in our solar system.
This is the cleverness of Mr. Nolan who pops up many questions and expects viewers will draw conclusion according to their own set of beliefs. If you are Muslim believing in ascendancy of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) to heaven on the eve of "Isra and Mi'Raj" then Interstellar will strengthen your belief in it. If you are just a Nerd and love Einstein's Theory of Relativity then Interstellar is a roller- coaster ride for you with an unexpectedly happy ending. If you are father then you will shed tears with believe that father's love for his daughter can transcend everything in the universe. Whatever reason you can carry to watch Christopher Nolan's space outing but one thing is certain it will give you 15 minutes of speechless moment when it ends.