Interstellar
In the future, when Earth becomes inhospitable, farmer and former NASA pilot Joseph Cooper is sent, together with a group of scientists, to pilot a spaceship in search of a new planet where people may live.
The 2014 epic science fiction drama film Interstellar, which stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, Michael Caine, and Matt Damon, was directed, written, and produced by Christopher Nolan. The movie centers on a crew of astronauts who use a wormhole near Saturn to go in quest of a new home for humanity in a dystopian future where poverty and plague have engulfed society.
The screenplay was written by brothers Christopher and Jonathan Nolan; it started as a script that Jonathan wrote in 2007 with the intention of having Steven Spielberg direct it. Caltech theoretical physicist Kip Thorne served as executive producer, scientific consultant, and author of the companion book The Science of Interstellar. Hoyte van Hoytema, the cinematographer, used IMAX 70 mm and 35 mm feature film in the Panavision anamorphic format. Principal photography was conducted in Los Angeles, Alberta, and Iceland starting in late 2013. In addition to the numerous real-world and miniature effects used in Interstellar, DNEG produced extra digital effects.
October 26, 2014, saw the Los Angeles premiere of Interstellar. It was initially distributed in the US on film stock before being shown in theaters using digital projectors. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed over $681 million worldwide ($733 million after subsequent re-releases), making it the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2014. It has been praised by astronomers for its scientific accuracy and portrayal of theoretical astrophysics. Interstellar was nominated for five awards at the 87th Academy Awards, winning Best Visual Effects, and received numerous other accolades.
Plot of the Movie
In 2067, an international hunger brought on by ecocide has left mankind in danger of extinction. Like most people, Joseph Cooper, a former NASA test pilot, and his son Tom and daughter Murph, as well as father-in-law Donald, are farmers. Cooper and Murph find a gravitational anomaly in Murph’s bedroom that has left patterns of falling particles during a nighttime dust storm. The pattern takes them to a top-secret NASA facility, where Cooper is recruited as the pilot of their newest mission—which will take them outside of the galaxy in search of new planets that may support life—by chief scientist Brand. This can now be accomplished through an enigmatic wormhole—another anomaly—near Saturn that leads to a distant planetary system circling the supermassive black hole Gargantua.
Although Cooper finds it difficult to part from his kids, he chooses to do so in an effort to save Tom and Murph’s generation from going extinct. Murph is upset, but he assures her that he will be back. Cooper becomes a member of the Endurance team, which also includes TARS and CASE, two sentient robots, plus Romilly, Doyle, and Brand’s daughter Amelia. When the team finally reaches the first candidate planet in the new galaxy after years of journey via the wormhole, they discover that it is an ocean world with enormous tidal waves brought on by Gargantua’s strong gravitational pull. Doyle is murdered by a wave that sweeps him away.
Cooper and Amelia almost make it out alive, but time dilation causes them to be delayed returning to the Endurance, where 23 years pass both on board and on Earth. In 2092, an adult Murph assists Brand on Earth by helping him solve an equation for manipulating gravity, which will enable the mass transport of humans to worlds that may be livable.
As he lies dying, Brand admits that the equation was a hoax designed to prevent people from going insane in fear of their impending apocalyptic collapse. Frustrated, Murph questions whether Cooper intentionally left her behind. She chooses to carry on his work and goes back to her old home in an attempt to find more information. The Endurance team discovers an unforgiving ice world on the second candidate planet. They awaken Mann, the NASA explorer who arrived here ten years ago and is still alive but in cryostasis. While on a reconnaissance mission with Cooper, Mann admits that he fabricated information to draw rescuers and that the planet is inhospitable.
He attempts, but is unable, to murder Cooper. Romilly is killed at the base by an explosive trap Mann set, and Amelia is drawn into saving Cooper. Mann attempts to take over the Endurance in a lander, but a botched docking operation results in his death. Cooper and Amelia track down the crippled spaceship and manage to dock with it just in time, despite running out of fuel and heading straight for the blackhole.
Cooper steers the spacecraft toward the third and last planet, Gargantua, by utilizing gravity to help with the journey, forcing another 51 years to pass. Despite Amelia’s objections, he separates the two bulky auxiliary vessels that are carrying TARS and himself so that Amelia’s lighter craft may arrive at the destination planet without incident. Cooper enters a four-dimensional tesseract, where time is a real dimension, after passing through the black hole’s event horizon. He discovers he sent the NASA coordinates to himself, starting this mission, and uses gravity to speak with both Murph and his previous self. He surmises that the tesseract was made by a later age to direct humanity in a similar manner.
Eventually, Cooper sends Murph the quantum data that TARS within the singularity acquired, allowing her to solve the equation for gravity. When Murph visits the family home, she discovers the information hidden in Cooper’s wristwatch. She succeeds in creating gravity manipulation, saving humanity. Cooper and TARS are ejected back into Saturn’s orbit as the tesseract collapses, and humanity eventually find them there in 2156 within a gigantic O’Neill cylinder that bears Murph’s name. His daughter, who is now comparatively older than him, advises him not to wait around for her to pass away and to go see Amelia when they eventually get back together. Cooper takes control of a spaceship and embarks on a new mission with TARS by himself.
In the meantime, Amelia uses robots to establish a new colony on the last contender planet. She takes off her helmet, taking in the fresh air of this new livable planet as she observes the surroundings.
