It has been quite some time that I have made an entry here. Something that drove me into those old days of writing and sharing my opinions with you.. is after watching Guruji's movie INTERSTELLAR.
I had all the excitement, all the awe how an year old would have on looking at a bright balloon right in the sky. It all started three days before the start of the movie. Me along with a bunch of friends were eagerly waiting for the advance booking of the movie and one evening the tickets appear on the most stupid site and boom they're all booked (Damn you BookMyShow!). Had to get in the queue at the Prasadz Box office get the ticket and get out. Well that's how it went!
For all the cursing IMAX had gone through, this was a blessing in disguise. I was never able to watch proper digital imax movies or they were presented in a normal format. May be they reserved their traditional projector for one last time.. Exclusively for this one.... With so many expectations and excitement I just got in..
This is a story of an ex pilot who worked for NASA and now taking care of his farm and family. His overly attached daughter, teen son and father-in-law stay right in the middle of a huge corn farm. (Man that farm was huge, it has some stunning visuals when these guys chase a drone.) He encounters a secret lab and then goes on to the mission of saving mankind as earth is running out of reserves and food. This mission is to find habitable planets, come back and take the human race there. How they find it and how he comes back is the rest of the story.
Stunning visuals CHECK
Decent background score CHECK
Challenging viewer's ability CHECK
Ending with a BANG CHECK
NOLAN's movie YES IT IS!
I want to specifically make a note on the way how Nolan brother's dealt with science with regards to the story. Jonathan Nolan took a little course on Black Holes and everything related to that. Chris and Jon had made a purely scientific documentary into a family drama.
What I loved?
Chris takes you on an emotional ride. Leaving all the thread's and pulling them off in the end with ease is what a trademark Nolan film is. With 1 hour of the time spent on the Planet Miller, it is about 8 years on earth. Gravitational anomaly, neutron stars, black holes and event horizon, saturn's magnificent rings, worm hole and the journey through it and the real dust cloud that had covered an entire baseball field (which wasn't CGI)... They made it look simpler and understandable for an average guy. This should be Matthew McConaughey's best performance till date. He was just apt for the role and he pulled it off with ease.
What wasn't that lovable :(
When you know that this movie is about a space journey, there lies a guy who has a dark character. There lies a scene where someone tried to dock the space craft and gets blown away. These two things looked cliche.
Finally..
I loved Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey, that set a benchmark in making space films. Interstellar beats the pulp out of that and it does occupy first place. Honestly the best of 2014 and not the best of Nolan.
Rockingly!
Mani.
