Of course, the character and world of that film are vastly different, but still. (As context: I found her to be one of the best parts of The Dark Knight Rises. The cast, as a whole, is solid, though I was slightly left cold by Anne Hathaway's performance. It's a hell of a performance throughout, but this is the high point. The messages themselves aren't terribly insightful, but McConaughey's range of emotions is something to behold. What was 3-plus hours for Cooper on the planet was 23 years on the spaceship, and so he has a lot of messages to catch up on from his family. A good example here-also solid proof of the great editing-is not the sequence when Cooper, Brand, and a couple others are on a planet where time works at an exponentially faster rate than on the spaceship, but the scene immediately after. Even when the script includes some too on-the-nose dialogue, McConaughey's physical performance is enough to sell the corn. Whatever the case is, Cooper's choice haunts him, as well as pushes him to make sure that he's on the Endurance for A Reason. Maybe it's because Cooper's decision isn't as informed by something that only he sees, or that the circumstances on Earth are so dire that getting off the planet to live on a spaceship would seem desirable. Cooper is also not wrong to presume that leaving behind his two children and his father-in-law is playing into the greater good, but even before it's confirmed that he didn't go to space for no good reason, the tenor and tone of the picture seem less harsh. Such rank selfishness is rare to see in an epic-scope genre film, even if it winds up that Roy's not wrong to presume something larger is playing with his head than simple shiftlessness. Roy Neary's decision there to leave his family behind in pursuit of what might be an alien race or a spiral into depression is still one of the more harrowing moments in a Spielberg blockbuster.
Of all the films Nolan has suggested were inspirations for Interstellar, the only one that truly stands out for me is Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But still.) Matthew McConaughey's Cooper is plagued with paternal guilt as soon as he decides to leave behind his family to potentially help save humanity, forced to juggle between his personal priorities and his intense desire to leave his Dust Bowl-esque home behind. What matters more: the intimate personal connections we make throughout life, or something more massive and impersonal? (I appreciate, of course, that "massive and impersonal" may be a brief distillation of why some folks don't like Christopher Nolan films. Priorities came to the forefront of my mind as I watched Interstellar, because that is essentially at the core of this film. (I've been to the local drive-in a couple times, but that's not quite the same as the moviegoing experience I'm used to.) Primarily, I've stopped going to the movies with the exception of the handful I've reviewed since the end of the summer that weren't available to watch via screener links. I am still able to indulge in various frivolities-coming up on 200 episodes of a podcast on Disney movies, and with zero breaks since my wife gave birth-but fewer than before. (I realize this is a small indignity, if that.) I would be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed at only watching Interstellar on an HDTV while the enormity and scope of the story is still evident, it's only as evident as 40 inches will allow.īut becoming a parent, as I have learned over the last seven-plus months, means that you learn the value and importance of priorities very quickly, if you weren't previously aware. Thanks in no small part to being a relatively new father, I wound up not being able to see this film on the big screen, preferably in IMAX.
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