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Come see Interstellar presented on 35mm film on the big screen in L3!

Christopher Nolan has multiple long-length box office hits, but none of them have hit me quite as hard as Interstellar. This movie has many commendable attributes: breathtaking cinematography, a stunning cast, incredible pacing, and yet still builds on this with an inspiring storyline. 

Set in a future on Earth where food and other resources are running out, Cooper (an ex-engineer and NASA pilot turned farmer) leaves his family to venture through a mysterious wormhole with fellow astronauts in hopes to find a new habitable planet and save the future of mankind. What I find with a lot of sci-fi movies is that they lack depth and emotion, with a more action-packed focus, however this movie captures that uncertainty and high-stakes atmosphere, translating that emotion to the audience exceptionally well. The dystopian world portrayed is well humanised, with the typical thought of a (debatably not so) far future provokes thought of over populous cities ridden with technology, robots, and AI (at least for me), but this movie breaks that expectation and delivers an unfamiliar and realistic story. Amidst all of this, my favourite aspect of this film is the relationship that Cooper (Mathew McConaughey) has with his daughter, Murphy. Their deep connection provides Coop with the motivation to complete this mission and avoid Murph’s generation being the last to survive on Earth, and in the end, it’s this raw human love that we see is yet another force bound by nothing. The idea of extraterrestrial life is also touched upon by Nolan, but again defying that sci-fi expectation of a gruesome creature invading our planet, and rather an incomprehensible ‘they’ with a will to help human life survive. Christopher Nolan has a reputation for directing hard-to-follow films, like Tenet or Inception, but demanding your full attention, Interstellar is a rewarding watch with a well-thought-out plot. Be sure to bring a tissue or two as this film is a real tearjerker that will leave you revisiting the thought of it for days. [Holly Beaumont]

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