"See You On The Other Side Slick

Rating: 8/10 (24 October 2015)

*SPOILER ALERT - INTERSTELLAR MOVIE*
When They released another "space movie" so soon after Gravity (2013) that was supposed to be THE movie, some sort of groundbreaking, amazing, awe-worthy movie, I had my doubts. I had a moment of "Are moving into a space era?" You know how the film industry goes through phases? They've been stuck on Superhero for quite some time. Not that long ago, it was remakes. They go through these cycles. Whether or not that is what is happening, I still don't know. It's probably not. Even if it is, that's okay. Movies about space are more often than not, brilliant. (Let's forget about Event Horizon (1997) for just a moment) Filled amazing visuals, gripping story, heart-wrenching emotion and more often than not something that's quite relevant to our time, or maybe even something that we've all wondered was possible.
That's exactly what Interstellar was for me. By the end of the film, I had totally forgotten my initial reaction from when I first heard about it.
Set in the future - how far, I have no idea, but it's so far in the future, that we've almost gone back in time. Set in a time where there is a world-wide food shortage, and textbooks teach that the moon landing was actually faked, we are shown what appear to be interview snippets of people talking about the past. Farmlands and dust. This, coupled with images of people in old country farmhouses, dealing with said dust, lead me to believe we were being told about a time in OUR past. The first indication that we aren't is when we get into the story, and we see a laptop - cleverly hidden by this dust/dirt - being set up.
Straight into the story at this point and we slowly realise that we aren't in our past but in fact so far into the future and everything is a bit f***ed up. We don't spend too long wondering exactly what went wrong, and we learn in a school parent-teacher conference that the world basically ran out of food. This has caused civilisation to regress. Farming is the new college, much to main character - brilliantly played by Matthew McConaughey - Coop's annoyance. Despite the ongoing struggles of the world, he still wants what he believes is best for his kids. To him, that is college, training in a field such as science or engineering, rather than a field full of corn.
In Coop's home you will notice there is no TV, no mobiles phones... in fact for a future civilisation, there very little technology. This is something that I particularly loved about this film. We're so used to seeing futuristic films with flying cars, voice controlled homes and mobiles phones built into our palms. I love the post-apocalyptic feel it has....
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