Review of Interstellar (2014) by Jacqueline M — 06 Jul 2017

Don't come for the drama. But do come for the sciene. I do not know of a better depiction of events as travelling through a worm hole or black hole. It was the first time I saw a wormhole, a 5-dimensional tesseract. It blows you away. Especially when it is so gorgeous and frightening as these phenomenons. It is like Nolan took an astronomy textbook and visualized it. (it is everything, it is reality on film).

Every time the camera is pointed to actors though things go sour - so much went wrong there. Every character is wasted, no relationships are established correctly. The script feels like a counterweight to the visual storytelling: Nolan builds this haunting world with extreme crop shortage, dust storms - it is no meteorite-crash scenery that kills our earth, no, our planet and the humans on it are dying slowly, the subtlety makes the decay feel real. And then you have a just plain stupid interaction between cooper and a teacher where discuss whether scientific research is of any value. The space shots did their job, Nolan! I was amazed, inspired, completely struck by them - in so much love for humanity - and then you make Anne Hathaway give a cringey, cringey speech about love and how it guides people?! Why?!

Also, why are known actors even hired any more? Not for a second was I not seeing Jason Bourne, Alfred and Fantine.