Shudipto Dip

I haven’t read the books but the film is just masterfully constructed. Dennis Villineuve directed even the most cliched stuff such as visions and flashbacks so well that the one or two little plot conveniences that stood out were forgivable. He managed an ambitious project beautifully and to me, this felt like the peak of film directing.

For its genre, The Guilty holds the top position with the acting. The plot conveniences might bother some who seek for something more realistic. But climb that barrier and you have all that you need in a thriller.

Movie Review: Interstellar Interstellar, Nolan's answer to 2001, is surely an odyssey incarnated in space to rocket back to earth. Be it story, score or sublime visuals; this movie bags it all. Any given minute from the film implies to the well-crafted storytelling ;from the slothful​ pace to the buildups to the climax and finally to the epilogue. The movie took DeGrasse Tyson's quote on reinhabitating our planet in lieu of terraforming others and aced in visualizing that. The story revolves around a group of talented astronauts and astrophysicists living in a reimagined world scarred by dust bowls and crop blights. And they should do what they must to not let mankind die on Earth by finding them a new home. The quotes in this movie hit home-run. The effort of upholding the farmers by saying "We did not run out of planes and television sets. We ran out of food" is really appreciated. The quotes on love or social bonding or even Dr.Brand's recitation of the poem 'Do not go gentle into that good Night' constantly makes us realize the only supreme forces we are bound to. Facts in their debates like 'Lazarus had to die to come back from the dead' gives us some never-before-explored perspectives. Even a sentence as simple as "Those aren't mountains. They're waves" is a satire of the grim future in and of itself. Saying that the movie is a visual masterpiece or that it has a soothing soundtrack doesn’t quite provide justice to its enigma. Of course, Hans Zimmer delivered again, this time with church organs. Yet he managed to create something minimalistic that perfectly blends with the rush of the Earth as well as the frightening silence of space. It left people grieving later on, wanting to experience the score in a Dolby atmos theatre. And the visuals are like Florentine art to the eyes. Hiring a registered physicist proved handy, because years later, the concept of the looks of a blackhole matched more with the movie's than anything else. But that's not all folks (pun intended). Lead actor Matthew McConaughey snapped out of the circle of playing himself and killed the course. The selection of names from books and myths like Lazarus or Gargantua brings much symbolism, as if they weren't already deep enough. And they pulled off adding a comic relief without characterizing it to be dumb, thus avoiding a cliche. I could go on, but its more fun discovering the easter eggs by yourself. However, there is a big however. The movie hovers around the pinnacle of physics, even though its pop science. Hence, there lies an ever lasting complaint from the people not so well-versed in that area. The astronomical jargon thins out the eligibility to enjoy the movie, by a significantly large margin. Amongst other drawbacks, adding up the aspects of emotion in a total sci-fi film seems to be a waste of screentime for more coherent viewers. Concepts like transcendence of love through space-time, or the quantifiability of connection between a father and a daughter might prove to be too cheesy and out of domain. Personally, i felt Nolan's effort to cram up all too many concepts just lay flat. And his approach for a commercial film by inserting a fistfight between two astronauts was too desperate. Nevertheless, the fistfight scene was surely outshone by the visuals of the alien planet. The movie felt like a nigh perfect one for me, as it did for the bulk of the audience. And I'd totally recommend it to my fellow cinephiles. As thought-provoking as it is, this movie will not disappoint people who ask the really big questions,the ones that matter ;that I can say.