"Love is the one thing that transcends time and space."

Rating: 10/10 (15 November 2014)

Nolan's masterpiece bewilders me. Yet again, he never ceases to amaze me. Here are the insights, lessons and questions I have in my mind after watching #Interstellar (alone) and this is my first time writing a review:
1.) This dialogue : "Doyle (Wes Bentley "Seneca Crane"): You can't just think about your family. You have to think bigger than that. Cooper (Matthew McConaughey): I'm thinking about my family and millions of other families." This scene/dialogue made me distinguish what it is being single and being a father (a lame observation and inference but honestly this struck me hard). It is easy to judge Doyle as being single since his priority and goal is general. He sets out on a journey and maybe no one on earth is waiting or longing for him, while Cooper has an inner battle on missing his family - that he should be together with them and is torn between thinking about them and saving the human race. It is weird because I ended up realizing and asking a shallow question on why didn't they choose people who have no other priorities but this mission? However, the movie has its own answer and it shows you how good a pilot Cooper is! (Again, this is only my observation.)
2.) The Ghost: I swear to God I find the ghost a little cheesy but it surprised me a lot in the end. During the entire film I kept on wondering if the "ghost" is an alien or a "higher being". But the film climaxed so well and revealed on what it truly is or what really caused it. (This would also be discussed in #3). 3.) The highlight "Love is the one thing that transcends time and space." Indeed, this is the best quote I have learned from the movie. When Brand (Anne Hathaway) had this dialogue with Cooper, she explains (and I'll explain it in my own words) that love could be that force that is inexplicable, a force so compelling and mysterious that it surpasses all boundaries and defies all the laws of science. Love is what makes us human. Love is corny but then it is not. Love is the one that made Cooper the "ghost" in the eyes - or since it is invisible – in the heart of Murph. It was all over Cooper that he thought of nothing, during his "sojourn" in the 5th dimension, but his family – Murph most especially. It is what connected them and what made Murph feel, in the beginning, that she somehow knew and felt the "ghost" present in her bedroom. The gravity of love is gravity itself, it is what binds humanity and also the downfall of it.
4.) "We must confront the reality of interstellar travel." Yes, in the film, we did. It bothers me on what most people said after watching, when there's a cliff-hanger, there is a sequel to it. NO. It cannot have a sequel, it is thoroughly developed in the film that we have achieved interstellar travel. You cannot have a "Part II" to explain what happened to whom or to which. A good movie entertains you. But a Transcendent one leaves everything to your imagination, inquiry, and emotions. It is all up to the audience if Cooper went out to save Brand from another planet while she's hopelessly ready to repopulate the human race with a bunch of embryos. During the donut planet ;-) scene, at first I thought Cooper was dead, or trapped in the 5th dimension, but he wasn't. Murph found a solution after she said "Eureka". She completed the equation and the formula for interstellar travel. But still, it left me perplexed if it really was a planet or an augmented reality where humans inhabit an artificial one.
5.) "Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here. We've always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible. And we count these moments. These moments when we dare to aim higher, to break barriers, to reach for the stars, to make the unknown known. We count these moments as our proudest achievements. But we lost all that. Or perhaps we've just forgotten that we are still pioneers. And we've barely begun. And that our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, because our destiny lies above us." A very long film lets you think a lot of questions. I walked a hundred meters just to take time thinking after seeing the movie. As a kid, I was always amazed by space, I wanted to be an astronaut when I grow up. This movie made me appreciate the world on a new perspective. As what Arthur Clark said, and I quote: ""Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
6.) What is mankind's next big step? I hope this movie will not be a typical nerdy one or a mere entertaining movie for others. I hope it serves as an inspiration for another breakthrough of the human race. Cheers to Nolan and his team for creating this masterpiece. I hope this planet will produce more like you - or them.