Fantastic films deserve high praise.
Almost everyone remembers where they were when they watched Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar for the first time. I was on the couch of my parent’s new home, sitting quietly with my dad as we processed the scope of the film. Although, admittedly, the film’s pacing did make me zone out a few times throughout the almost three-hour-long runtime (a problem I have with many of Nolan’s films), I did appreciate the sensationalism and emotional depth of the universe Nolan desperately wants to make sense of.
There is a lot to appreciate about this sci-fi epic. Throughout Interstellar, Nolan argues for sentimentality throughout the film in the push and pull between the scientific and the emotional. Whether or not Interstellar is Nolan trying to balance his own obsessions with time and space through his love for cinema and his family, there is something profound about this film, and filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino have praised it.
Author: Alyssa Miller
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