After all
the hype about worm hole, black hole, relativity being explained in a movie,
Interstellar could not satisfy the expectations in my opinion. It does try to
combine the sentimental Spielberg’s movie and a Kubrick’s movie in an effort to
create a Nolan magical which it isn't.
Generally, if we happen to observe films, it is about expectations
management as much as about creativity. We all were disappointed by what we saw
as 'The Dark knight rises' after a marvelous magic of the ‘The Dark Knight’.
Thanks to Nolan’s previous movies (in particular, Inception) and generally
hyped subject of space travel (thanks to Kubrick) combined with the social
media amplification , we had to witness a fool proof physics ph.d paper in the
form of movie to be fully convinced. We still had good moments such as
explaining time relativity based on travel velocity and hence we have a
daughter aged more than her dad. Completely leaving aside the logic part (for
which we must understand a lot of quantum physics and relativity), the film
sometimes did deliver finer moments. Unfortunately, the movie becomes predictable
when it had to deliver the sentimental part and when the robot starts
explaining that we can adjust the time of the lesser dimensional world when we
are into a worm hole, it becomes a moment where you would say ‘this is how I
would have scripted given the context’. We,
in Particular I, certainly did not expect this to be the case in his movies.
Execution of the concept, which is normally very tough for this subject, has been
meticulously done by Nolan. As usual,
the movie had some dialogues which are predictably appreciable and hence
becomes less appreciable. One of the major strength of Nolan’s movies
has been Zimmer and in this film too, he didn't disappoint. Whenever he had a
chance to produce some magic, he did produce it. Some of it goes unnoticed in
parts of the movie where screenplay is brilliantly written. The film doesn't have any expected surprising
moments – say ‘a worm hole inside a worm hole with more dimension than the
lower one which can toy some dimensions that the lower dimension can’t
(borrowed from Inception) or say - ‘the protagonist is left to figure out
whether he has achieved the purpose of moving to other universe by placing him
in a dilemma’ (borrowed from Memento). The film becomes unsurprisingly
unpredictable from Nolan’s frame of reference and this becomes a great
disappointment.
When we
objectively analyze the movie, it is a fantastic one for a decent film maker
and definitely not to the stature of Nolan and I am sorry to say ‘I am still
waiting for another Memento’.
