Interstellar

*[4k UHD] “Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.”* I know I’ve already said this in my review of ‘Inception’, but there is no director out there that thinks the way Christopher Nolan does. And especially for this film, you have to also talk about the genius of Christopher’s brother Jonathan. If I’m not mistaken, Jonathan Nolan wrote the first draft of this film for Spielberg, which he turned down. Then he decided to pitch it to his brother and they both sat down and wrote one of the most complex, yet genius films of all time. I can understand the people that don’t like this film, it’s very difficult to understand. But you have to realize that 1. It’s science fiction and 2. Christopher Nolan is a director that studies these complex narratives. A lot of Interstellar is actually very accurate, yes the whole tesseract sequence is made up because it is science fiction. But once you understand it, this film is such an impressive feat and that’s what I love about Nolan. He doesn’t want to make a film that’ll be easy, he wants to challenge the limitations of film, whether that’s the plot, visual effects, and especially practical effects. Interstellar is also the most beautiful film I have ever watched. The visual effects department earned their Academy Award for this because the entire film was mesmerizing, and I’m hoping that they re-release it in 70mm for its 10th anniversary, because I really want to watch these beautiful, mesmerizing images in the highest possible quality. I also want to point out that I feel like this was Christopher and Jonathan Nolan paying homage to Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’. The robot TARS in ‘Interstellar’ reminded me a lot of Hal 9000. The ending of the film, especially the whole time dilation, reminded me of the ending of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’. Maybe I’m stretching it but, both films in my opinion have a lot in common and it’s also important to know that they both are two of the greatest sci-fi/space films of all time. Both are mesmerizingly beautiful. Lastly, Hans Zimmer’s score for this film is the greatest score in cinema. A score that no only is absolutely beautiful, but it’s also as complex as the film. For example, when they land on Millers Planet, Cooper says “Every hour here is 7 years on Earth”. So when you calculate it, every minute is 48 days. So, in the score, Hans Zimmer’s ‘Mountains’, has a clock in the background. The clock is ticking at 48 BPM. So every time the clock ticks, is one day passing on Earth. It’s just another reason why Hans Zimmer is one of, if not the greatest composers of all time. And it’s bizarre that it didn’t even win Best Original Score. I mean yeah, I love Alexandre Desplat’s score for ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’, but it isn’t even close to the genius of this score. The score was recorded inside a chapel, which gives the organ a more heavenly sound. I could go on and on about how perfect this score is, but I’ll stop here by saying that there is no score that compares to this score. Soundtrack: 10/10 Academy Award Winners: Visual Effects: Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher