Interstellar –A Sci-fi closest to reality

Nov 14
11:43

2014

Baker Smith

Baker Smith

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The world of cinema knows Christopher Nolan as a risk taker rather a phenomenal improviser who likes to stand firm as he takes on unconceivable challenges.

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His unquestionable ability to transform a project into a blockbuster can been seen in films of different genre,Interstellar –A Sci-fi closest to reality Articles Inception, Memento and the trilogy which came out as the most epic 21st century rebranding of a classic comic, Batman- The Dark Night.

Nolan’s latest endeavor, Interstellar, is a big budget science fiction, which adds an emotional appeal of love and sacrifice to make it more intense for the viewers. Critics call it a complete package, it is breathtakingly edgy, hopeful and heart touching. It’s the type, which deserves to be seen on the biggest arena and with best sound system. Find your spot folks; Nolan has stirred his magic wand once again.  

This time around it’s not an action movie or a futuristic fantasy instead it gets as realistic as it can be. Now how can fiction be realistic, that too space fiction? Well that is Christopher Nolan personified for you. The story is in lieu of mankind’s quest of finding similar life forms and space exploration, a task NASA is up to for quite some time now. The movie goes one step ahead and shows a practicable future space travel is dangerously uncertain, sounds real enough up till now? It does not have spaceships firing lasers or using a magnetic field to protect it from debris, nor does it use a space bridge to zap from one cosmos to another.

Theoretically speaking, long distance space travel requires entering a wormhole where relativity, quantum mechanics and time dilation comes into the play. So if you are expecting it to be a bit like, Star Trek, Guardians of the Galaxy or Star Wars, you might be disappointed. This movie does not disregard science, rather, acknowledges it as we understand them.

The story revolves around basic human instincts, survival and need of exploration. It shows how a rather unfortunate part of the future when the Earth stops healing itself and is no longer suitable to sustain humanity. Mankind has regressed to an agrarian life style and is victim to famine caused by overpopulation. Crops are destroyed by a blight which thrives on nitrogen, hence continuously decreases levels of oxygen in the atmosphere, making the survival of the future generations at risk.

This buildup is 45 minutes into the movie. All the space adventure starts afterwards, you wouldn’t want to spoil your fun by reading what goes on in the entire movie, now would you? So grab your tickets to the nearest cinema, 3D preferred, and enjoy, arguably, the best science fiction of its time.