Entwining of love, music, and fascinating cosmology

Rating: 9/10 (1 June 2015)

As a drama movie lover, Interstellar strikes me hard and deep and resonates with me for a long time. It has profound lingering effect on me after I watched it the 1st time. It is very worthwhile experience to me trying to dig into each character's mind and feel their emotion in the journey. Although at the first glance Interstellar may look like a "sci-fi movie", the deeper meaning that it really try to convey may only be revealed once the outer scientific layer was proficiently translated, which may be easier for viewers with related physics background. Just like a professor who taught electromagnetic field theory facilitated me to appreciate the beauty of physics by getting through the Maxwell equation outer layer. :)
In the beginning of the film, the deep relation and emotion among characters has been built up with good foundation, which is the heart of this movie. And the interesting clue for the later hyper- dimension travel was also hidden there. As the journey unfold, the relationship bounds among characters got actually stronger even with astronomically increasing "distance" in both spatial and temporal domain, the bound can even be built crossing the human-machine interface (TARS & CASE). The consequence of distorted originally- linear-space-and-time concept adds in additional twist in the drama and keep the audiences in tension all the time.
If the relationship is the heart of the movie, the soundtrack is the soul of Interstellar. The lingering sadness with curiosity to the unknown was overflown in the entire theme. Many unforgettable scenes were greatly amplified and engraved in audience's feeling with Zimmer's emotional score, such as "Mountain", "Coward", "No Time for Caution", and especially "Detach". The "Detach" scene and music is probably the mostly emotionally unforgettable part of this movie to me, while "No Time for Caution" is the most intense one. It is amazingly experience to listen to these scores with good audio system that can provide profound sub- bass.
The Tesseract scene trying to complete the circle of the beginning mystery. While it is interesting to use gravity to propagate information across hyperspace, it may be a little bit cheesy. It does provide a intriguing cause to further draw the audience into the black hole to explore the Hyperspace travel. An interesting read, "Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension" may deepen your interest on this topic. Being a EM field theory guy, I found it very interesting.
The ending of Cooper heading for Amelia on the finally habitable planet is a nice touch. It matches perfectly with the gravitational time dilation and gives hope to the audience, which I love most. Interstellar give me not only a beautiful drama, amazing soundtrack, and even a life-long interest in the hyperspace and unified field theory. How much more can you ask for from a "sci-fi movie"?