Short film review of Interstellar
Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction film co-written, directed and produced by Christopher Nolan. Set in a dystopian future where humanity is struggling to survive, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through a wormhole near Saturn in search of a new home for humanity.
I think this film not only shows the rigorous scientific spirit, but also expressed profound humanistic feelings, and I want to talk about the love between between the father Cooper and his daughter Murphy.
The film begins with the family’s daily life. Cooper pick Murphy up from school as usual, taught her things and watched a baseball game. However, the abnormal gravitational phenomena brought them to a place which belonged to NASA. Cooper decided to go to the universe to save people on the earth, while Murphy never thought that her father would leave her. The contradiction arose. Murphy did not say a word to Cooper after that, even when Cooper left. For years, Murphy rejected to send videos to her father. Even after years, she still blamed her father why he left her. Back to Cooper’s point of view, after he went to the universe, ever step and action of him always indicates his love of Murphy, he always counts the time that they need to get to another planet and counts the fuel they need to go back to the earth, even his daughter did not contact him for years.
There was a really impressive scene in the film that when Cooper chose to input data to the watch, the robot asked Cooper what if Murphy never come back for it, and he said, “She will. Because I gave it to her.” All these evidence strongly shows the love between Cooper and Murphy.
At the end of the film, I was not only touched by the love between father and daughter, but also could feel the strong idea that Nolan wants to bring to us, which is love is the thing that can travel through time and space.
