A beautiful, classically modernist sci fi movie

Rating: 10/10 (24 November 2014)

There are so many reviews already on "Interstellar" that I will leave it at just my own emotional reaction. In the first half hour or so my heart was sinking because the character and story development are very slow. This is not an action movie. As the main story builds though, the emotional content also builds. In the final analysis, this is a movie about humanity, and maybe more emotional than many a love story or other tearjerker. The second half of the movie is both riveting on the plot level, and emotionally intense. It has something of "2001 Space Odyssey", it has something of "Gravity", and yet: it is more emotionally complete than "2001" and more emotionally real, and relevant, than "Gravity". I can see how it may not be for everyone. But it worked for me. And thankfully we are spared many of the tried and true end of the world tropes. No finger wagging here. In fact there is a nod and twinkle to science and against anti-science and romantic back to the roots forces. In its basic premise it is therefore much more modernist - in the space age fashion of the 1950s and 60s - than other current sci fi. Modernist, optimist, yet not triumphalist. It really pulled it off to navigate clear from cliché most of the time.