Love has no limits

Rating: 10/10 (23 February 2019)

When you look back at cinema will you remember movies like the Artist or The Post, or will it be Interstellar? For me, Interstellar is the pinnacle of filmmaking. Original, Breathtakingly Beautiful, and Powerful. Christopher Nolan outdid himself here. I didn't think Inception could be beat. Yes, The Dark Knight will be seen as Nolan's Mona Lisa to most, but there's one element missing or lacking, and that is love. Yes Bruce Wayne loves Rachel, and gets his revenge, but the heart-wrenching and heart-string pulling love isn't there like it is in Inception and Interstellar. Christopher Nolan's original material has one common thread, save for Dunkirk, and that is The beauty and Power of Love. In Inception, Dom did everything to see his kids and to be reunited with them. In Interstellar, Cooper goes on a mission across space and time to secure his kids future, who are on a dying planet. While the decisions may at first glance seem to be selfish and unloving, the grand reveal at the end reaffirms to you that Love transcends everything and that the main protagonists were right to do what they did. The last scene where Dom is reunited with Murph is one of the most overwhelmingly powerful moments in movie history , despite being so short. But the length of that scene is deliberately done so that you have no time to stew on it. Cooper was a father first and a hero second, and that is the way it should be. Interstellar is a space opera, a blockbuster epic, and a love story. True cinema. There's no axe to grind, there's no social justice they are trying to achieve, it is just simply how movies should be made. I said this with Inception, but Interstellar will be impossible to beat, but knowing Christopher Nolan, he will probably beat it.