Interstellar is about three-hour long movie and trust my word, you will not get tired by its surprises. This movie is not like others. It's not about green-faced aliens and there's no UFO's, etc. This movie needs an entire book to explain its beauty and science behind amazing visuals.But unless you have a degree in quantum physics, forget trying to figure out the inner workings of this movie. It is so beautiful how gracefully blends the cosmic and the intimate, how it explores the infinite in the smallest human details.
The first third of the film in the American farm belt of the near future, introducing us Cooper, a former test pilot turned into farmer, who depends on his father-in-law to help him raise two kids. 15 year old Tom and 10 year old daughter Murphy. Like her dad, she is a rebel one who refuses to buy into her school's official dictum that the Apollo program was a lie.
When dad and daughter find the remnants of NASA, headed by Cooper's old boss Professor Brand, that's where the story begins. Cooper heads into space to find a new world for colonization, he leaves two kids behind who may never forgive him. The world is turning into dustbowl and running out of food.
Also comes the wow factor that makes Interstellar a heaven for movie lovers. A high-tension docking maneuver. Surprise visitor. A battle on the frozen tundra. Tidal wave size of a mountain. That is unbelievable that Nolan and his team, led by cinematographer Hoyte Can Hoytema and VFX supervisor Paul J. Franklin made this huge step in cinematography. It is so beautifully amazing when you're watching a movie which is thrilling and suddenly you hear Hans Zimmer's amazing compositions. It gives you chills.
And yet it's the final, quieter hour of Interstellar, that gives the film lasting value. All the speech about black holes, space-time continuum take root in Coop when he realizes that his two years in space, have lasted 23years on Earth. His kids Tom and Murphy, spill out decades of joys in video messages that Cooper watches in breathtaking silence. It is heartwhelming how Cooper realizes what just happens. He nails everything, his face a road map to the life he's missed as his children bombard him with a Rorschach test of emotions. After all these happening, it seems that there is no other hope, there is no escape, but we feel the love. Love between father and daughter. Love proves itself to be the crucial fifth dimension that can overcome the confines of time as well as space.
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