Interstellar

     I LOVE this movie so much!!! The cast does such an amazing job conveying the story to the audience and the plot sheds light to a problem that the human race will have to face one day. The cinematography and CGI elements of the film were incredible, and make the audience feel like they were in space with the crew. The star studded cast also did a phenomenal job pulling the audience in, and keeping our attention throughout the movie. Matthew McConaughey is one of my favorite actors, and I think he does an amazing job showing all of the emotions that come with leaving behind your family for several years in order to save the human race. I also loved watching him and his approach in this movie because it is very different from his movies that I am more familiar with. 

    The blackhole scene is by far my favorite scene of the film and bends the minds of every person who watches the film. Connecting the fact that Cooper was Murph's "ghost" all along trying to warn her and get her to convince him to stay from the beginning pulls everything together, and the strong emotion shown by Cooper while he in the blackhole made me an emotional wreck. When Cooper finds out gravity can cross dimensions to send messages, he helps her solve the gravity equation while he is in the 5th dimension. Their father daughter connection is felt across dimensions, and their bond saves the world. Cooper sacrifices witnessing his kids grow up and Murph dedicates her life, to saved the world. They make the ultimate sacrifice to save the human race, and I believe it will take these sacrifices to save us from destroying our planet completely, as depicted in the movie. One of the central themes of this movie is sacrifice, and the human race would not have been saved without people like Cooper, Brand, and Murph sacrificing everything in order to save generations they will ever even live to know. This type of sacrifice and having this type of faith is so powerful, but necessary in dire situations like the end of the world. I think this is the central message of the movie, we must make difficult sacrifices to accomplish big things. The outcome might not always be perfect, but you must maintain your faith that you are working for something bigger than yourself and that hopefully it will be worth the sacrifice. 

    One of the most interesting things I noticed in the film that we didn't talk about in class were how Tom and Murph ended up being character foils of each other. Even though they had their dad during their childhood who showed them the values of science, Tom ultimately chose a life of rejecting science and Murph dedicated her life to science. I believe that Tom stopped believing in science when he stopped believing that his father would come back. After Tom gave up on Cooper, he began ignoring the pressing issue of the world becoming uninhabitable. He ignored that his crops were no longer growing, and he ignored his wife and son's declining health due to the dust. He lived an ignorant life because he lost his faith, and ends up putting himself and his family in great danger. Murph, on the other hand, never lost faith in her dad. Although she held a lot of anger in her heart towards her dad for leaving her, as she worked at NASA she better understood his sacrifice, and solved the gravity equation that was supposedly impossible. She kept her faith, which motivated her to keep working even when there was no hope. She solved the impossible equation and saved the human race.