《星际穿越》英文影评

A FILM CRITIC OF INTERSTELLAR

Abstract

"Interstellar" is a movie directed by Christopher Nolan. Christophher Norlan is

one of my favorite directors and his movie "inception" left a deep impression on me.

The "interstellar" did not make me disappointed.

Key Words

family bond, the real human nature, impasse, wormhole, "Mechanical drop God", Albert Einstein's theories.

Introduction

Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Matt Damon and Michael Caine. The film features a crew of astronauts who travel through a

wormhole in search of a new home for humanity. Brothers Christopher and Jonathan

Nolan wrote the screenplay, which has its origins in a script Jonathan developed in

2007. Christopher Nolan produced the film with his wife Emma Thomas through

their production company Syncopy and with Lynda Obst through Lynda Obst Productions. Caltech theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, whose work inspired the film,

was an executive producer and acted as scientific consultant. Warner Bros.,

Paramount Pictures, and Legendary Pictures co-financed the film.

The movie showed the scene of the earth's end and human beings' trying to

surviving by moving to other planets. This is the first thing we need to think about. If

we human beings not to save our motherland now, the end of the earth won't be so

far. But the most thought-provoking thing in this movie is time.

In this movie, the hero Dr. Cooper gone through the wormhole and landed in a high-mass planet which led to a

chaos of time. Then he witnessed the

growing and becoming old of his

daughter. His promise to his

daughter that he would come back

has disillusioned. The hero, who is

going to save the human beings can

not just save his own family.

I personally think the main line of this movie is family bond. In the atmosphere of earth not suitable for human habitation,

the family bond became more thought-

provoking. The parted of father and

daughter means another way of farewell.

Being in different time is the farthest

distance of human beings. But they choose

to wait. Daughter chose to wait for his

father and to believe in him. In fact, the

same theme of time chaos was used in

many novels and movies, but in this movie, the true feelings' revealing were the highlights of this movie.

Besides the family bond, the real human nature in an impasse in this movie also sets people thinking. Dr. Mann, who was dispatched to survey an unknown planet, could not suffer endless loneliness, chose to leave the planet by deception and nearly killed everyone. This character

was defined as a villain. But It is

worth mentioning that he was put

to the planet nearly a hundred

years, no one responded him and

died alone would be his only

ending. I really can't imagine how

could a real normal person stand

this. Maybe dying for human

beings' future is admirable, but

what if he did not prepare for this

tragic ending? How many people

were made to sacrifice for

"justice" or "Bright future"etc?

At the end of this movie, human beings were saved by formula provided by "four dimensional creatures". Dr. Cooper met them by fallen in a black hole and transmitted the formula to his daughter. This kind of "Mechanical drop God"1 make out a good case of many doubts in this movie, but I don't think it's a brilliant way to end this story. The movie described "four dimensional creatures" as human beings in the future and the universe, found the way to leap the time and finally got full

1 The term has evolved to mean a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved by the inspired and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability or object.