Mythologizing the Future: INTERSTELLAR's Stunning Vision of the EART-H-EART

Rating: 10/10 (15 December 2014)

Christopher Nolan updates Stanley Kubrick with a vengeance and i wish Arthur Clarke & he were both alive to see INTERSTELLAR! This is not to belittle the greatness of Clarke & Kubrick, but to lament why Christopher took half a century to do this for us, after "2001:Space Odyssey" kept up our interest on the subject for 3 generations.Perhaps Nolan was too busy exploring the quality of evil in "Dark Knight" and the possibility of interjecting our dreams with it, evil, that is,in "Inception",or perhaps he wasn't even born when a friend of mine and i trooped off on a Sunday morning in Delhi City,both of us about 17,to watch HAL do his/it/IBM thing in the early 1970's!But that is all in the past and Nolan avoids the past like the plague because he believes we are now,in the future,in a blight which is worse than a plague,despite having turned our artificial intelligentsia of TARS,KIPP & CASE into friendly neighborhood explorers!And while the origins of mankind is passé,school-book stuff if you know your Darwin,what mankind really needs is to dust off its ambiguity,its indecisiveness,its procrastination,its revisionist agrarianism (which is the killing cause of dusty death on Earth)to go way boldly further than simply star trekking or hitch-hiking on a much more serious mission to find another planet to survive on!What makes INTERSTELLAR simply the greatest sci-fi movie ever is that Christopher Nolan makes the search and the need for the alternative so urgent,so immediate,so critical,so now or never that you are at the edge of your seat for close to 3-hours and ready to fly out at the end of the movie to go find your space craft,your space shuttle,your space crew, your sartorial space suit, and lift off on your mission to make sure that mankind, born on Earth doesn't end up dying in it! In the process you discover the inward collapsing black hole,the corridor creating cosmos connecting worm hole,the all-of-time at one-time tesseract - what the Hindus call the 'tatra' - the 'that'(tat) - the 'there'(tatra),the book shelf with the prompting books & the ghost behind it prompting you which is you,the watch and not just time as a dimension but the timely dimension & the circularity of it,the feminine principle, and the triumphant return, not as a fetus to end some silly war on Earth but over a century younger,relatively speaking,a deus ex machina ready to take off all over again...you yourself , an alien an extra- terrestrial in INTERSTELLAR who discovers that EARTH is simply an anagram of HEART, spun over and over again,by the gravitational pull that we FEEL attraction! Eart-h-eart-h-eart- h-earth-Heartheartheart!Earth Heart!WHERE OUR HEART IS,IS OUR EARTH!