Space. Time. Travel. Spacetimetravel.

Rating: 10/10 (15 November 2014)

Time, as a concept, has always been relative and it has been measured by us in the changing of seasons, the passage of the sun and the moon in the sky, manifested more profoundly in the inevitable circle of life and death.
I had come across "time" as a relative concept much later, when I read the works of Henri Bergson, prior to which I existed only from Mondays to Fridays, broken only by the time capsules of the weekends, when my imagination used to take flight. And I always used to wonder, and I still do, if I could extend that time. Time, as I said, is always relative.
Mankind, in its attempt to make meaning of its existence on this plane of reality, has broken down the seasons into months, days and further on into infinitesimal quantities to arrive at some meaning of its presence here. And we have looked towards the stars and wondered about gods and the immanent will of the universe while we feebly grasp those abstractions in our own Dreamtimes, believing (relatively) that we are giving some semblance of meaning to the things around us.
Interstellar is a film that presents very complex concepts that is both heart-breaking and frightening, yet riveting. The fact that time is relative and space/time take on whole new meanings out in the infiniteness of space, again emphasizes how small we are within a grand multi-dimensional omniverse. Yet, this film presents us with hope and love, and tells us, that in some n- dimensional space/time, human abstractions and emotions are the anchors that can be measured and therefore should be valued as much as our lives themselves. It is a place where twilight abstractions cease to be such and weave themselves into dimensions of reality that are as palpable as the crashing of waves or the cry of a new born child.
This film, like a philosophical palimpsest, is also in many ways, comparable to Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, the recent Gravity, the highly underrated Event Horizon, Andrei Tarkovsky's incomparable rendition of Stanislaw Lem's Solaris, the anime Serial Experiments Lain, and last, but not the least, the visionary novel, The Time Machine, by H.G.Wells. If you want to get rattled in the head by the meaning of "time" - this is the movie for you.