Brooke Butler

This show has a good atmosphere, even has a good cast. Unlike some of the others, I don’t mind the political issues being intertwined. My problem though are three things that just ruin the entire plot. First, that the political issues take over the entire plot. Second, that plot points are left stranded and forgotten or compressed into a dizzying mess. And third, that the show has little to do with actual demonology. I get mixing in some new things for a fresh take, but this reads like another regurgitated CSI show with demons used as the exchanged word for serial killers. And there aren’t actual demons at work. Just crazy people. It kind of bums you out when you expect one thing and get another.

You will either love this movie or hate it, and it entirely depends on your personality. I watched this with my mom, so sure she’s love it, but she was bored to death and didn’t understand concepts I grasped easily. This is because I have a strong adoration for cosmology and theoretical physics. I find something new, an intricate clue I’d missed before, every time I watch it. It reminds me of my other favorites in that way : Cloud Atlas and Inception. If you love science, probabilities, concepts that are theorized but currently unproven - such as black holes acting as memory cards for everything, gravity being wieldable, and literally bending spacetime like with wormholes - this is a film that will resonate with you. This movie speaks of glorious possibilities - the unification of relativity and quantum mechanics - the ultimate theory of everything. Once you grasp that - you see the intelligent beauty in its creation. It’s greatest secret is undoubtably the message that “ though much we’ve perceived in the past was nothing more than science fiction, theory and human brilliance has made it our reality.” There was once a time where the earth centered all, space and time were stagnant entities dictated by newton, and computers were magic. All of this had been tested and proven otherwise. That’s what I get from this movie. The eagerness and wonder for advancement, the possibilities physics offers, things that very well maybe true. We assume we’ll be spaghettified near a black hole, but like many things this could be false. We’ve never tested it. It’s a possibility- even a small one - that there’s some truth to this depiction. Who knows? That’s the beauty of science. It’s the beauty of Interstellar.