Reactionary ideology at $165 million a pop

Rating: 2/10 (10 November 2014)

Christopher Nolan tears the environment a new one. Thanks, Nolan. You could discuss this movie in terms of its irrationality, its flawed physics, its attempts at explaining time travel and worm-holes (in a movie packed with plot-holes), its pseudo-scientific explanation of the 'existence' of love in humans, its overuse of the already overused 'Don't go gently into that good night' a poem both politically suspect and over-familiar to the point of banality. You could discuss it in terms of its stereotypical absence of mum and the struggling hero dad, its general bag-of-spanners story-telling ability throw stuff in and rattle it about. The fact it's a whole load of old twaddle told in a way that's an insult to the intelligence. But what really pisses me off is its stance on our environment. Early on Matthew McConaughey, our hero, the protagonist whom we follow throughout the movie, says: Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here. His intellectual mentor, Michael Caine, says: We're not meant to save the world. We're meant to leave it. THIS this let's screw up the world and then move on attitude what is destroying the world around us as we sit here is condoned, confirmed, seen as inevitable, advocated as the way to go. Let's find another planet. Settle there. Screw it up too. Move on again. Reactionary, Republican, right-wing manifest destiny across the universe. Yeah. Good one, Nolan.