Interstellar

Love is like gravity — it binds us all, we can't touch it, and yet, we cannot survive without it. Thus, in Interstellar, gravity becomes love, and this becomes the key to saving humanity. It's that simple, and yet this powerful film commands your attention for all of its 169 minutes as it presents the human experience as something more than just feeling. Hans Zimmer's score elevates the film tenfold, and is one of the few soundtracks I've heard that could inexplicably be better than the movie itself. In my opinion, the score is what did most of the emotional legwork — I wasn't as touched by the story as I expected, and I think it might be because there is a lot of exposition in this film. Everything is explained to you, and I wish this wasn't the case, because the film takes the liberty of telling you what it's about, stripping away opportunities for interpretive depth. After watching The Odyssey, in which it seems that small titbits are left for the viewer to catch and interpret themselves, this was a bit disappointing. Then again, I think this just shows me that I prefer Nolan for his direction rather than his writing. This film, however, is incredibly, incredibly ambitious, and it seems like that's what Christopher Nolan does best — pushing the boundaries with every big project he does to create magnificent scale and wow the audience every single time.