The Gospel According to "Interstellar"
I saw Christopher Nolan's new mind-bender, Interstellar , a few weeks ago, and although it ranks lower for me on the overall list of Nolan's films , I still found it very engaging in all of its cosmic glory. As the movie zips through much of the Earth stuff so it can to get to the space stuff (often sacrificing character development in the process), we are progressively shown that this space journey, akin to 2001: A Space Odyssey , has a singular dominant theme beyond all of the visual grandiosity: Love. In a decisive moment in the movie, Brand, played by Anne Hathaway, declares, "Love is the one thing that transcends time and space." The transcendent bonds of love portrayed in Interstellar surface in multiple ways, but the most prominent connection is shown in the familial context, specifically between father (Cooper, played by Matthew McConaughey) and daughter (Murph, played by Mackenzie Foy and Jessica Chastain at different ages). What was...