Interstellar - A Interspace Endeavor that Stanley Kubrick would have Enjoyed

Rating: 9/10 (10 November 2014)

INTERstellar – is not easy, not easy at all on your senses. It requires helluva effort to keep attention to the details, clutter-free your mind from all the dodgingly & myriad theories we have been fed on while absorbing the movie sequentially, peacefully yet trying to keep mental pace directed. Most joyful things about the movie, before I start: InterSTELLAR marks a yet again a great reunion of the Nolan brothers. Great to see Michael Caine and listen to Hans Zimmer's mesmerizing sounds uncertainising every scene. Anne Hathaway has a new look while Matthew McConaughey is simply perfect essaying the role of main protagonist. AND notice this – bridging the past to the present in the movie (subtly), very prominently it shows a Solar Powered Drone belonging to the Indian AIR FORCE (that has been hovering wildly for 10 years). From the first scene itself, your mind starts playing a intricate musical connecting you to one too many cinematic events chronologically. You get reminded of M Night Shyamalan's SIGNS – those vast agri-landscapes. As you nip a bit –the sensuality of SIXTH SENSE can't be missed. Moving on, its CONTACT for Armageddon's mission onto the a very intricately complex domain that tries to touch a chord deep within – starting with GRAVITY, it glimpses at THE BLACK HOLE; takes a closer clue from 2010: THE YEAR WE MADE CONTACT and then steering towards EVENT HORIZON, veers into melancholy of OBLIVION – PROMETHEUS - MOON; yet again to ride back into ELYSIUM. You watch the movie and you would notice your mind driving at a breakneck speed of thought processing – trillions of permutations and combinations to pave a straight simple path::: its not easy, we know:::::::: its not easy that, the NOLAN brothers knew. Last year GRAVITY re-marked the expected standards and interSTELLAR stands by that, it also endeavors hard to touch the masterly 2010: THE YEAR WE MADE CONTACT. While INTERstellar is a labour of Nolan's love for the relativity laden timespace, I felt it tried to come closer, even touch but just couldn't tip CONTACT. But here once again STANLEY KUBRICK remains the king with 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, the master of it all. INTERstellar would remain with me for some months as I would enjoy watching/ noticing certain tidbits again and again (like I had to do with Inception) while I would exalt Christopher to attempt another endeavor into cinematic prime. Before we embark on interstellar, it shall be a good idea to re-watch 2001: A Space Odyssey, glance through Stephen Hawkins 'A Brief History of Time' while googling Kip Thorne. I remember reading an article in 1988 about the proposed space bull-dozers that should have been put to work to gather space debris and construct(if that is the right word) by 2020 a interspace travel gateway – the black hole somewhere near Jupiter and Saturn. If you happen to notice, by some calculations, all such theorists have earmarked rendezvous somewhere near Jupiter – Saturn juncture to make this possible. Look at all the movies and you would get the clue. Space probes have been in hot pursuit for that in the last few decades now. NASA's Juno would be at Jupiter in 2016 while ISRO joins as a helping hand to make manned landing possible on Asteroid by 2025 and on Mars by 2030. And that's what gives me the jitters, I am not sure; if Nolan (with his deep insight) is nudging us/ forewarning us of the apocalypse. Leaving Earth may not be far away – and that's leaves me onto the movie MELANCHOLIA.