Interstellar
“Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.”
2014 | PG-13 | 169 min | Adventure · Drama · Science Fiction
One review so far — the second is where the argument starts.
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Synopsis
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
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Themes & motifs
the taxonomy ↗- Machines That Outgrow UsThemeTARS is the anti-HAL: an adjustable honesty setting played first as a joke and then as the film's most reliable relationship, in a crew where the humans are the failure points.
- Parents and ChildrenThemeThe clock is the emotional instrument: Cooper watches twenty-three years of messages in one sitting, and the film's physics exists to make a father's absence measurable.
- Time Out of OrderMotifTime is the antagonist and the structure at once — an hour on one surface costs decades at home, and the last act folds the first scene into its own ending.
- Water That RisesMotifMiller's planet is a shin-deep ocean whose mountains turn out to be waves — terror produced by nothing more than a correction of scale.
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