Space Love

In case you're living under the rock, Interstellar is out in cinemas this weekend. Do I really need to introduce this film? It's directed by Christopher Nolan, who directed The Dark Knight trilogy (BAM!), Inception (BAM!), The Prestige (BAM!) and Memento (BAM!). What a filmography. It stars award winners Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and Michael Caine. It's Nolan doing sci-fi. Nolan in space. McConaughey in astronaut suit. If you're not sold yet, something's wrong with you.

The movie's set in the future when the Earth are polluted with dust and it creates lung disease and also kills the crops. Cooper (McConaughey) is a pilot whose mission is to search for a potential planet for the people of Earth to survive. He must leave behind his daughter for the mission where he goes to unexplored new places through a discovered wormhole.

First of all, The McConaissance isn't fading. He might have delivered the best performance in a science-fiction film ever. Second, this is a Christopher Nolan film. You get what you expect, or that expectation turned out to be defied. The other cast member are great too. Anne Hathaway is great. Jessica Chastain gave a short but meaningful performance. There are people here and there like Hunger Games' Wes Bentley, Cloud Atlas' David Gyasi, Affleck brother Casey Affleck and Spidey 3's Topher Grace, which are all great. Hans Zimmer's music is also a step-up from his noisy, generic percussion music. And it's annoying that the soundtrack album isn't available until November 18! The scenes are beautiful, it's so epic and grounded at the same time. The wormhole scene was amazing, and don't get me started on that unbelievable climax. I don't want to spoil things too. The thing is, you're in it for the surprise. Especially, if you haven't seen the spoilery last trailer.

Chris Nolan turned to Spielberg, Lucas and Kubrick (for a chunk of the film, even Alex Garland and Danny Boyle) for this film, making Interstellar not just a brilliant sci-fi with outstanding effects, but also with incredible, emotional story. Let me tell you, my emotion was drained. It was amazing. The story itself is mesmerizing, and you add that with the great story. While it has big ideas of science, religion and the existence of humanity, like Spielberg, behind all this film is the story of family. Even like Harry Potter films, behind all that magic is the story of the power of love. How the power of love is actually strong. How science and magic is unequal to the power of love. This is what Interstellar truly is at heart. Beyond the technical and scientific explanation of singularity, time-space continuum, is the story of love. Inception, although it was great, it felt emotionally distant but Interstellar isn't. It's actually about dad and daughter love. I would strongly campaign for this movie on every level. Level with me, we had the extremely pompous and incredibly preposterous Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close as a Best Picture contender, why not the thousand light years better Interstellar? It's time The Academy recognize things properly. I'm not just saying this because I'm an alleged Nolan fanboy, but it's true. Nonetheless, you should see this at the biggest screen possible. If there's anything bigger than an IMAX screen, go for it. Interstellar: rated 5/4. GOING TO SEE THIS AGAIN UNTIL I RUN OUT OF MONEY! #spokenlikeatruefanboy

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I still have no idea. I'm on the Interstellar withdrawal program which will commence as soon as I watch Contact and some Nolan movies. I hope they screen Nightcrawler in English next week. hashtag fingers crossed.

[added Nov 7] Just seen Contact! It's so good and it shares the same idea with Interstellar. You could totally pass that as a prequel or a companion piece.