A "wannabe". Potentially great, in fact mediocre.

Rating: 6/10 (9 November 2014)

Interstellar is amazing in terms of photography, setting, special effects and ideas. The close future where earth is doomed and humans are looking desperately for a way to survive is masterly created and transmits a vivid anguish. The trip to the unknown and the references to literature help give the film a solemn, contemplative air. The problem comes, in my opinion when the omnipresent, worn-out American rhetoric steps in, and turns it into a film like anyone we have already seen. The hero; the importance of keeping promises; the positiveness; the happy ending, the flag of the States that saves humanity. It makes all so unrealistic and boring. I honestly would have appreciated a more courageous Nolan. What if we travelled that far to find nothing but inhospitable worlds, cold, desolation and darkness? After all, the reference to Conrad's "The Hearth of Darkness" in the film seemed to link Cooper to a revisited Marlow, who in search of hope, but finds only "horror". Life isn't only fulfilled hope and good endings. Sometimes it doesn't work like that. Sometimes a promise simply can't be kept. Sometimes we can't fix mistakes and to be able to see the bad consequences of our actions in the future would transmit much deeper insights of the present we are living. That could have been achieved if, instead of seeing a bunch of people playing baseball in the end, we'd see only an empty, lifeless universe.