The lead character is Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a former NASA test pilot who goes into farming while the world is in crisis due to widespread starvation. Every year, a new disease decimates crops and resources are getting less and less. Cooper is a widower with two kids, son Tom (Timothee Chalamet), 15 years old, and daughter Murph (Mackenzie Foy), 10. Cooper discovers something with Murph and he is offered to be part of a mission that might save our planet and all its inhabitants. The father-daughter relationship is very vital to this movie. Matthew just won the Oscar for “Dallas Buyers Club” and he does great work her that might get him nominated again. The heart of the film is in his promise to his daughter to come back and he has a wordless heart wrenching scene here. He gives his all to the role with amazing sincerity. There are some touching moments in the film that might even make you cry, particularly the sacrifices a parent makes for his children.
Nolan does his best to ground the film on hard science with complex mathematical and scientific ideas that some viewers might not easily understand, but there’s also something metaphysical, which he has done in “Inception”. This will explore the idea of how much time passes with the people on a new planet they’re exploring as against the people they left on our planet.
The special effects showing the visual poetry that is outer space, the interior and the exterior of their space ship called Endurance, and the beautiful bleak icy landscape where an unbilled A-list Hollywood actor suddenly appears, are all awesomely rendered. It gives you an idea how to pass through a black hole or a wormhole. The special effects surpass that of “Gravity”.
Aside from Matthew, Anne Hathaway also does well as Amelia Brand, whose dad, brilliant physicist Professor Brand (Michael Caine), leads the project that got Cooper. The film’s final stretch will not be easy for the viewers with its twists and this is where you either like or dislike the movie. But there’s no doubt it’s a great piece of filmmaking. Everything in it is first rate. It runs for almost three hours but there is no boringga factor at all.
