Science is about admitting what you don't know. Are you ready to go back to space? Roger Ebert once called film the ultimate empathy machine. It's a window into all kinds of humanity. A way to see more of the world and to confront what makes us human. It's hard to find a better example of this sentiment than Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. It's a movie about the sacrifices we make to ensure humanity continues to survive, even as the lead character watches his own children die from afar. Interstellar has been hotly debated since it premiered in 2014. The movie is loud, sentimental, and filled with advanced scientific theories that work for the story, but are mostly theoretical in real life. I'm not one of those people who sits down to pluck apart the scientific plausibility of a screenplay unless I think it takes away from the story. In the case of Interstellar, I think it adds to it. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 21 January, 2019