Interstellar

                Just a few days ago, a new movie called Interstellar came out. This film was directed by Christopher Nolan and written by Jonathon Nolan. Interstellar stars Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway. So far the film had made over $132 million.

                This movie takes place on Earth after billions of people had died because of lack of food.  Earth can no longer sustain humans and we are required to find a new planet to live on. Cooper and his daughter finds the secret NASA hideout and they ask Cooper pilot their spaceship to find a new planet to live on. Cooper decides to do it which makes his daughter Murph very mad at him. Cooper leaves Earth and goes through a wormhole to another solar system which supposedly has planets that would be suitable for humans. Ten years earlier NASA sent out a group of scientists that each landed on their own planets and reported back to NASA on whether or not the planet was livable. Cooper was sent to look at some of these planets and save the scientists there.

                This movie’s story was very original which is weird because most of the movies nowadays are remakes or sequels of old movies. There are many movies of humanity trying to survive after something bad happened but there aren’t really any like this. In those movies the people don’t really go into space to try and find a new home. Also there aren’t many movies that show space travel realistically like this movie did. The only other movie I can think of that did realistic space travel was Gravity (which I never saw but I heard was really good.) Another thing kind of freaky about the story in this movie is that it could someday actually happen. Someday the Earth might not be livable and we will need to figure out how to survive elsewhere.

                This film was long but still very good. It was about three hours long but still engaging throughout the whole thing. There were problems that arose that you never would have expected to arise. Some parts in this film were kind of depressing. Like the part when Cooper leaves and Murph gets really upset with him. And then later when he’s on the ship he gets messages from his kids which is also really depressing.

                Even though it is a science fiction movie, most of the science seems to be real. And the film producers do a really good job of explaining this science to the public. A lot of the science in the film is very advanced and complicated and most people in the general public wouldn’t understand it. However they do a good job of making it simple enough that someone who has never had experience with this type of science could understand it. For example, they use a really good analogy to explain wormholes. People who have never even heard of a wormhole before could understand how it works.

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