Smarts

Rating: 10/10 (10 October 2015)

Brendan the Navigator once prayed, "Oh, Lord, your ocean is so big and my boat is so small." That "fear" and awe did not stop him from sailing across the Atlantic in his "curragh" (Gaelic word, like a kayak)covered in pitch and balanced for buoyancy. He did not presume on some outside agency to do it for him, but went with the flow and paid attention to realities. Matt Damon's character did that as did Sandra Bullock's in Gravity. The people in Interstellar were more "what if" and changed the outcome by changing the input. Listen to those voices in your head and do the math and get to work. Pay attention to what is, avoid wishful thinking, be in the moment. Who said it, "Solve one problem at a time. Then move on to the next"? This movie was one at a time each with it's anxiety that maybe it wouldn't work. Sometimes it didn't. Back to the old drawing board.