Two science Fiction movies, one great, one not so

Rating: Null/10 (3 December 2014)

Interstellar takes Einstein's theory of relativity and the story of the man on a train and makes sense of the time related logistical problems of long distance time travel. Man takes off with 14 year old child and returns to a child now facing old age. On the way home the man travels through a black hole. Aside from the fact that everyone pretty much agrees that one would be crushed instantly on entering a black hole, theories about what time might be like in a black hole are portrayed in an interesting and plausible fashion. Kudos of the first degree for everyone involved. If you want to understand the theory of relativity and its impact on time, watch this movie. On earth, the science is a bit more questionable. Earth has entered some sort of cataclysm with lots and lots of people dead, and coming out of it, government ended war, and people are not employed in the making of food. The making of food is endangered by a series of crop diseases. First, historically, governments have poor record of making fixing things and eliminating war after end of world scale disasters. The plague had more to do with starting the thirty years war, it didn't make it shorter. Then with most of the planet now gone, the remainder is working on making food. The hero of the story is a farmer with 5 automated tractors farming an enormous farm. If one guy is running one ginormous farm with lots of drone tractors, where is the requirement for most of the population to be farmers? And if there are fewer people, there is lower pressure on the earth to produce food. But somehow the ability to produce food crashes. Again, going back to the plague in England, in the aftermath, the English ate beef. Yup, beef. There weren't enough pesants to grow wheat, so the land went fallow, and land owners ran cattle. And everyone ate beef. So much so that the English became known as beefeaters (as in the gin). Actually, nothing on earth in this film made sense, except that the evil Republicans ruined everything, but the Progressives made it better.