Interstellar is a three hour long, heart breaking, mind boggling film that will teach its audience many scientific facts while providing an interesting story that will be a roller coaster of a ride.
Directed by Christopher Nolan, the film beings during a second dust bowl that has been destroying the entire world. Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a former NASA pilot turned farmer, must team up with some of the smartest people in the world to enter and explore another galaxy millions of miles away in an attempt to find a new home for humanity before everybody on earth starves to death. In order to reach this other galaxy, a small crew must travel through a wormhole that is on the outskirts of the planet Saturn.
(A wormhole, for everybody who isn’t Steven Hawking out there, is a transportation across both space and time. They can allow objects to travel millions of miles in only a couple of seconds and are, theoretically, possible by the theory of general relativity).
Plot wise that’s about it. However, the story does an excellent job at making the viewer care about its characters and become interested in their fate. Additionally, the relationship between Cooper and his young daughter, Murph (named after Murphys Law) is one of the closest and captivating parent-child relationships I have seen to date.
The acting throughout the film is wonderful. Both McConaugheys and Anne Hathaways performances as lead characters are excellent. The range of emotions portrayed throughout the film by these two individuals is impressive, switching from happy to sad scenes in the blink of an eye.
Hans Zimmer as the composer of the films music outdoes himself with excellent pieces that captivate the emotions portrayed throughout the film. One particular piece had my heart racing and blood pumping as I was on the edge of my seat silently cheering for the characters on screen.
Christopher Nolan has been known by audiences to make some of the best and, unfortunately, some of the worst films. Interstellar is without a doubt one of, if not the, best film he has ever directed and this Lions Roars reporter cannot thank him enough.
10/10
