Interstellar is definitely one of those films that you need to be paying attention to when you watch it since there’s a great deal that might escape your notice if you don’t. The gist of it is that the earth is quickly becoming an uninhabitable place where human beings are swiftly running out of options when it comes to their survival. There are two options, A and B, and while A is a far cry from reality B seems to be the only hope that the human race will have. As Cooper and the crew that are selected to go forth and find an inhabitable planet for humanity to start over, time keeps slipping away back on earth due to factors that are, quite honestly, beyond my ken though are well into the realm of science, be it fiction or not, and are rather interesting. Imagine thinking you’re a few hours away from someone and then come to realize spending the few hours to get there really takes decades? Yep, it requires firm attention to watch this movie.
Here are a few of the best songs from the movie.
5. What Happens Now?
You can imagine that being stranded out in the vastness of space while trying to find a way to save your species that you might come up against an emotional wall now and again as you realize that as long as you stay out there your family back home seems to be aging decades when it only seems like days or even months have passed. The kind of realization would be hard for anyone to take since to human beings time is more than just a construct, it’s a counting system that we depend on and rely on to keep us aware of how much the world is changing when we’re not looking. But when it becomes something other than what we’re used to, the shock is actually quite great.
4. No Need to Come Back
Plan B was in fact the only viable plan since a mass exodus was never much of a plan to start with. It would have required coordinates and an effort that was too little, too late. But when Cooper finds a way to contact his daughter in the past he discovers that not only is he the ‘ghost’ that supposedly appeared in the beginning of the movie, but he’s also able to influence the past so that the people of earth could actually find a way to make it off their dying planet and seek out another home among the stars. It’s not exactly a happy ending as his daughter still dies of old age by the time he gets back to her, but it’s something.
3. First Step
Imagine embarking on a trip like this, and what might be going through your head. There’s a good chance you’d never see anyone you knew or loved again. There’s a good chance earth might not even be there by the time you get back. That kind of thought process is hard to imagine since to many humans the earth is about as permanent as it gets. But thinking about these kind of things when you’re on a mission to find a home for your people is something that might cloud the issue that you’re doing this so that people can survive, so that humanity isn’t just a blip on the cosmic radar.
2. Day One
With so much riding on this mission one would think that it would be a stressful and even nerve-wracking undertaking, and it likely would be since the idea of leaving home, not just your country, but your entire planet, would be like a giant weight crushing down on pretty much anyone. Leaving those that love you to take on a mission that was for the greater good still wouldn’t go a long way towards soothing anyone’s mind that they were doing the right thing. But trying to save an entire species does seem to bring a good argument into the mix since in order to do this everything had to done just right.
1. Dreaming of the Crash
Perhaps one of the best scenes in the entire movie, but also one of the most disturbing, came on the water world where the crew landed seeking another ship. They did find it, but a sudden tidal wave that seemed to spring out of nowhere did a great deal of damage, taking one crew member and making it difficult to start the ship in order to get away. Had that been the only drawback then things might have gone a bit smoother, but of course in the outer reaches of space nothing was bound to be simple. In fact difficulty was the name of the game when it came to this mission.
If you watch the movie, pay attention.
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