Nov 15, 2014 12:54 AM
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What balderdash! What if you were given textbooks of Space-time Continuum, Einstein's Relativity, and Quantum Theories and asked to finish it overnight and pretend it was entertaining. That's Interstellar for you:) You better come nodding your head wisely, lips pursed just in case people assume you have not understood the plot. I could not wait to get out of theatre trapped there for 2.5 hours and more looking at a plot playing out in possibly a garage for most part and pretending to be a high budget movie. You amp up the speakers to such an extent that the audience cannot hear its own thoughts forget the dialogues of the actors. The water in my bottle nestling on the arm rest shook and rippled in the loudest explosion I have ever heard in a theatre.
Actors land in different planets, discover water and step out as if they were heading to the neighborhood swimming pool with not a touch of worry to assessment environmental danger. Tsunami approaching - no explanations given. A colleague is left behind. One of the producers is a scientist which explains heavy sounding theories being bandied around to make very important conversation with nodding heads and pursed lips and robots that look like ATM machines hand in hand. Really!
Terminator and Total Recall came up with more telling stories. And yes just in case you feel that it is not contemporary there is the story of how agriculture was destroyed, climate gone all wrong with Nitrogen flush in the air a couple of asthmatic kids in a countryside with desert type dust storms.
All I can say again is balderdash something a senior actress used in reference to another Hindi movie. I have no pretensions of liking, understanding appreciating the highbrow scientific stuff if it is thrust down my throat for 169 straight minutes!
I write below that the best part in the movie was the ending because it helped me escape!
