Posted on 11/11/2023 2:29:56 PM PST by Rummyfan
... I went to see Interstellar mainly because I was tickled by the fact that the bad guy is called "Dr Mann". But I took along my kids, and I'm glad I did because it's a good film to see with children or parents. Underneath all the saving-humanity space-travel stuff, the only relationship that matters in the movie is between dad Matthew McConaughey and his daughter. I'm tiptoeing around the startling evolution of that relationship, but let's just say that the, ahem, role reversal of their final scene together had my boys talking all the way home.
Interstellar is directed by Christopher Nolan, and written by him and his brother Jonathan, and reviewers were enjoined not to give away any details of the plot, or even the name of the fellow who plays "Dr Mann". This injunction spurred an entire genre of spoiler-laden Internet posts with titles like "Twenty Questions Left Unanswered By Interstellar". For my own part, I shall eschew too many specifics about the narrative of the film, save for a word on "Dr Mann" at the end. But I would like to say something about the view of the future offered by the Nolan brothers (no relation to the Nolan Sisters).
The story takes place a few years from now, when mankind is facing extinction because of a planet-wide crop-killing "blight". I know everyone and his Auntie Mabel have done thumbsuckers on the supposedly right-wing sub-texts of Interstellar, but in my case I found it oddly reminiscent of my own book. Hey, how about that? There's a moment early on in the film when a schoolteacher earnestly explains to McConaughey's character why he can't let his daughter have outdated books about the space program: The current textbooks teach that the 1969 moon landings were a fake ...
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I’ve always known about relativity, but it was beautifully exemplified in a few short scenes. I can’t imagine being in Dr. Romilly’s situation!
“I’ve always known about relativity…”
Me too. See line below. ;)
“ the only relationship that matters in the movie is between dad Matthew McConaughey and his daughter. “
Help me if I am wrong. The people from the future sent the message to earth to figure out how to launch the craft. But there would be no people in the future if they did not launch the craft.
Google “bootstrap paradox”.
CC
Yeah, can’t happen.
This was written When?
I’ve seen this movie a number of times on TV and can pull it up on any number of streaming sites.
Don’t need to go to theater to see it?😟
How about this:
Who made the wormhole???
Something like that....
To be sure science was correct, they brought in Nobel Prize-winning physics theorist Kip Thorne, who had veto rights on any part of the show that was not scientifically correct.
He vouched for all of the advanced physics in the movie.
Just a great movie! It touched a lot of buttons.
Time will tell.
CC
Excellent movie.👍
Better late than never I suppose.
Other than what we know of wormholes is that they’d squish anything they drew in flatter than atoms...
Somehow we DO have physic-defying craft popping in and out like we’re the backward zoo exhibit in some higher civilization’s travel brochure. But hey, I’m just a poor unfrozen cave man. Your modern technology alarms and frightens me...
How did Einstein explain this?
1 Hour Here Is 7 Years on Earth - INTERSTELLAR scene
Link:1 Hour Here Is 7 Years on Earth
This movie was hyped for its 4K HDR video, and its Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. The characters, wispered alot, and the special effects where extremely loud.
It looks like they tried to put 10 lbs of crap, into a 2 lb box. Continuity; this movie didn't have it. Just hopped around alot.
Link:It Has Been 23 Years - Interstellar
Other than that Mrs Lincoln; how did you like the play?
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