It will take another 10 years to made me experience another movie the way I've experienced the "INTERSTELLAR".

Rating: 10/10 (14 November 2014)

Watching the IMAX version of the "INTERSTELLAR" the first time around I sat through in amazement what could be considered, there I will say it, arguably the smartest movie of the decade! The actual experience that is the "INTERSTELLAR" goes far beyond the normal movie going event. Nolan shot the movie using 70MM IMAX camera tailored specially for viewers that want to see this movie in all it's glory in IMAX. He used majority of a real locations and stayed away for using CGI. "INTERSTELLAR" lensed by Hoyte Van Hoytem takes advantage of not only the size of the screen but most of all it sound capability. Nolan took a full advantage of that and I must say I didn't mind the sound mix one bit.
In fact I think in terms of music Hans Zimmer once again outdone himself creating score, that is simple, yet emotionally strong, being an integral part of the storytelling experience. His compositions usually consists of simple few notes that become the emotionally associated with particular character or situation, which is brought back in correct moments of the movie to heighten the emotional impact.
Hans Zimmer decided to remove himself form typical orchestral strings motives and opted for more grand organ arrangement that complements the film experience to the perfection. Bravo indeed! Now lets go back to Christopher Nolan and his wonderful filmmaking talent. I must admit I am a long time fan of his work and always admired the fact that he has a talent combining the intellectual art house stories with big scale Hollywood production. "INTERSTELLAR" cost 165 million dollars and has been produced by two companies to alleviate the risk, however with Nolan there are no risks involved. He is able to do something unprecedented since the time of Stanley Kubrick maintain the creative control over his movies, something most Hollywood directors struggle with. His previous movies made over 1 billion Dollars each so in some sense he has earned the respect of the industry the hard way. What's need to be noticed is the fact that he writes (together with his brother Jonathan) most of his movies. Some of the best Hollywood directors use someone else's material to create their movies. Not Nolan. The movies he directs are multilayered narratively and I applaud him for challenging the audience intellectually in times when Hollywood majority of time makes movies which are often dumb down, tailored to the average movie goer which they believe is not that bright in the first place.
It is very difficult to explain complex issues in science of Physics and do it in a way that common viewer understands without too much of a dialog exposition is very hard. In movies we show the story not tell, therefor we try to avoid long explanations of things that normally we would want to see it visually and not listen to character explain them to us (unless you are Quentin Tarantino who loves long dialogs). This could be only criticism of this otherwise magnificent masterpiece that there is too much exposition explained using dialog. Then again considering the complexity of the story I do think Nolan did amazing job with what could have been overly intellectual approach to complex subjects. Work of Andrei Tarkovsky and Terrence Malick comes to mind watching the "INTERSTELLAR" and to be compared to those three filmmakers including Kubrick it is a biggest complement 44 years old director could hope for.
The acting is superb with Matthew McConaughey delivering very emotional portrait of a father on a mission to save the humanity but also his beloved daughter Murph played by both Mackenzie Foy and Jessica Chastain respectively who push this epic story in to the importance of relationship between the father and daughter. This is where emotionally strength of 'INTERSTELLAR" lays. Anne Hathaway playing daughter professor Brand character played soulfully by Michael Caine also delivers one of her better performance being the intellectual counterbalance to more hands on approach of Matthew McConaughey's character. Caine constant reference to the poem by Dylan Tomas "Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." is nothing more then anthem against dying or passage of time that subsequently ends with our death.
Nolan in it's complexity created the story that does not have a clear antagonist. The villain in this movie is TIME that takes away the precious moments between loved ones united by love that is the fuel for their actions. This is precisely why Nolan chose the planet Saturn as the planet where the wormhole is situated around which allowed our heroes venture on to the other part of the galaxy where the possibly habitable worlds resides for the whole humanity to be saved. In antiquity planet Saturn otherwise known as Kronos was the representation of time. This is why symbolically Saturn has such a prominent role in the "INTERSTELLAR", it represents the time and material world our protagonist try to fight against. As I mentioned before I strongly feel that this film is one of the smartest piece of filmmaking in this decade and I applaud Nolan for challenging the audience to be thrown in to the beautifully emotional and intellectual at the same time 164 minutes long masterpiece, forever written on to the history of the cinema book as mighty "INTERSTELLAR". If you haven't deducted that from this review already, I am blown away by it and I think it will take another 10 years to made me experience another movie the way I've experienced the "INTERSTELLAR". Seeing it in IMAX is must for all the real cinema fans because this is what Christopher Nolan intended.
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