The Eccentric Edification

Rating: 9/10 (20 January 2015)

Let's start like this: If Sandra Bullock can get nominated for "Best Actress" for Gravity, and if Alfonso Cuaron can get nominated for "Best Director" for Gravity (then actually win it), and if Gravity can itself get nominated for "Best Motion Picture" together with so many other so-called "Oscar" nominations, then why the heck should Interstellar be left desolate? What is the jury trying to prove, that Nolan can suck it up, that however incandescent he comes up in every other project, he'll still be entertained with comments on obsession and insanity? I mean look at IS's script once for god's sake (I'm really starting to doubt the "god" part here.) Nolan literally infuses the most divine elements of time and cosmology with compassion, stress, and culminates at cyclical points—there is no end; you can't tell what part of the movie you liked most.
I read some reviews on Interstellar stating that the film can be compared to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Are you serious? It's not like I'm blindly in love with this guy but Nolan is far more prodigious than Stanley Kubrick. That guy was a mastermind and surely far ahead of his time, but Nolan, don't ask me, Nolan doesn't know what time is, because once you know time, you have to conform to it, and that is "friction" to apotheosis.
Interstellar is something that is not directed towards mass audience; it's engendered only for those who have this innate sensibility and passion for assimilation, who are genuinely dissatisfied with the regular course of life and seek exploration, and who are simply "non-conformists". The movie isn't a sci-fi, although this view is relative. It builds itself on that premise but it indicates and enforces concepts of love, family, nostalgia, care-taking, and acute improvisations. The plot is not simple at all; that's why I'm saying this movie is not for everybody. If you're a professional critic, or a dilettante, sure, go ahead, but if you wish to see it only because your dad keeps your pockets filled, back off.
As an advocate of philosophy, I'm not usually very keen to make empirical comparisons and judgments. But here, I think they're really necessary. Gravity (2013) was nominated for ten Oscar nominations. I'm sure as hell I loved that movie but now that I've seen Interstellar, Gravity seems so incompetent to me now. Why isn't Nolan nominated for direction? Where's the "Best Original Screenplay" nomination? Where's the "Best Picture" nomination? I'm ready to compromise on cinematography and best actor (Matthew McConaughey pulled off an intense performance, but still, you know, you can't get everything) but the rest is utterly unequivocal. The way Nolan has produced and directed movies throughout his career, I don't think anybody else can ever pull out projects with this much vigor. I'm sure Nolan isn't materialistic, else he would have committed suicide by now, but come on, he must be credited with things other than praises and complements. I mean who actually goes to NASA, Space X, takes courses on "relativity" from California Institute of Technology, and consults physicists? Justify his endeavors god dammit.
The script is something like this. In a world with imminent collapse, a former pilot agrees on a venture in collaboration with NASA to travel through the wormhole in search for other planets with "survival" ingredients. That's the synopsis. Now let's move forward in "time" and see Cooper in the black hole in "extra-dimension" where he witnesses his daughter's experiences (most of them with past-Cooper) in response to messages sent by the future-him. That's how mankind's survival is ensured, through an unlimited odyssey into stakes and gorges, and through devising solutions through incessant painstaking, and humanitarianism. Nolan isn't just a director, writer, or producer, he is a philanthropist. He is the unhatched egg to perfectionism. Too bad, the old-fashioned assessors nominating and awarding mostly the "lamest" movies of the year are too ignorant to appreciate aesthetes and aesthetics.