Tough one

Rating: 9/10 (9 November 2014)

How to put this?
People who have never even tried to understand the concepts of astrophysics presented in this movie will have a hard time getting caught up in the story. Like this lady sitting next to me in the theater who literally scoffed (loudly) at the space time theories and fake-laughed (loudly) when she saw that there was a rotating tube with farms and houses growing upside down. At more than one time I heard her whispering "yeah right" to her partner, which ultimately makes me think that she might very well be one of those people who think we never went to the moon.
But back to Interstellar. I was awestruck that Nolan managed to put some of the most complex concepts known to mankind today on film and weave them into a story. No, I was awestruck that Nolan actually tried. As stated before for most people these concepts are too scientific to understand, too abstract to actually wrap their head around the notion that time is just another dimension and what that would mean and what it could look like. Put gravity - which most people would define as "something that makes stuff fall down" - in there and it's no wonder that most people don't get it. I don't blame them. No one has ever tried to visualize time and gravity. To actually look at it and understand what you are seeing is almost impossible.
There is a lot of stuff in "Interstellar" that requires the viewers to believe that this is indeed more science than fiction. More reality than fantasy. If you know that you will probably like this movie. If you have never even heard about the space time concept, curved space, relativity, 4th and 5th dimensions, wormholes, this will be a tough one to swallow which will ultimately lead to either rejecting the whole movie or filing it in your head in the "yeah right" cabinet like the lady sitting next to me.
I myself loved the movie and I will go see it a second time because even though I'm interested in astrophysics and these concepts are anything but new to me, it was a bit much to take in in one sitting. More than once I caught myself still contemplating the scientific discussion that took place 5 minutes ago and not paying attention to what was happening on the screen. Or was it 10 minutes or 20? It felt as if I was just distracted for just a moment and then my mind came back to the movie and it seemed like i missed a lot more. But time is relative. This movie will do that you.