An intense experience!

Rating: 10/10 (10 November 2014)

Sometime during the initial part of the movie, Donald remarks that when he was young, something or the other was being invented every day and that things have changed now. Considering the fact that this movie is set in the near future, Donald is most likely referring to the way things are today. It makes you wonder whether we are actually heading towards a future where we have an abundance of planes and TVs but not food.
This movie is about finding a solution to a problem. A problem whose scale is so vast that it demands great sacrifice and bravery from the individuals whose journey we witness as we look up at the screen and wonder.
Interstellar is an intense and intriguing movie. It is different from every other space travel based movie we have seen off late. Explosions and chases do not take the center stage here. The music is starkly different from the earlier works of Hans Zimmer. The casting is near perfect. Mathew McConaughey gives another intense performance after True Detective. The scene where he drives off from home which is accompanied by the countdown for the rocket launch is brilliant. The movie is not laden with visual effects just for the sake of it, though the visuals had me gaping in awe in the IMAX format. I did not try to over analyze the physics behind this movie because it is not necessary. Hell, no one bothered how Iron Man's suit could do the things it could.
When the movie ended, I was thinking of the monologue from the first teaser and together with the way the movie ended, gave me a sense of satisfaction that only the best of movies can give.
And then there is Murphy's Law.