Not OP but I thought it kinda sucked, and I love most Nolan movies.
Interstellar is really episodic, and has this really weird tone problem between fun space adventure and daddy/daughter basic communication breakdowns. The core of the story felt like “instead of therapy together I’ll just go save the world via spaceship and talk to you from beyond the pale”
Idk, I don’t hate it or anything, it just didn’t seem as good as the hype to me. Some cool visuals for sure.
“instead of therapy together I’ll just go save the world via spaceship and talk to you from beyond the pale”
That’s such an odd take to me.
Most hero stories try to depict some kind of heroic sacrifice, with the most common one being the sacrifice of their own life to save the lives of others. One of the major gaps in those stories is that they completely ignore the effects of the sacrifice on their loved ones, if they’re even depicted in the story.
In light of that, I really liked the way Interstellar showed the effects of his decision on his daughter. He wasn’t only potentially sacrificing his life, he was sacrificing his relationship with his daughter. It’s an extremely raw and painful thing to go through.
I have to say, I find it pretty offensive that you’d bring up therapy when talking about a situation where societal institutions have almost entirely collapsed due to a progressing environmental disaster. It’s really tone-deaf!
Fair enough! I definitely don’t remember that it was societal collapse, I saw the movie when it came out and hadn’t thought about it much since. I must’ve not given it the attention it deserves.
I also don’t love hero stories for the most part? I find it a little forced and cliche usually, including Nolan’s hero movies
Essentially all major crops in the world were failing due to an untreatable disease called the blight, similar to what’s happening right now (in the real world) with bananas. Society in the movie was still somewhat functioning but it was beginning to break down, and mass starvation, power outages, and dust storms (likely inspired by the dust bowl of the 1930s) were the norm. A plot element early in the movie focused on his feud with his children’s school for refusing to teach science correctly. There were strong signals that schools were close to giving up on teaching altogether due to a lack of belief in the future.
Hero stories are not everyone’s cup of tea and many hero stories are done very badly. Interstellar isn’t the best hero story (for me that’s Lord of the Rings) but it’s a pretty good one, as hero stories go. What I try to take away from them are lessons for my own life, and so I’m most drawn to flawed heroes and repulsed by super heroes.
Not OP but I thought it kinda sucked, and I love most Nolan movies.
Interstellar is really episodic, and has this really weird tone problem between fun space adventure and daddy/daughter basic communication breakdowns. The core of the story felt like “instead of therapy together I’ll just go save the world via spaceship and talk to you from beyond the pale”
Idk, I don’t hate it or anything, it just didn’t seem as good as the hype to me. Some cool visuals for sure.
That’s such an odd take to me.
Most hero stories try to depict some kind of heroic sacrifice, with the most common one being the sacrifice of their own life to save the lives of others. One of the major gaps in those stories is that they completely ignore the effects of the sacrifice on their loved ones, if they’re even depicted in the story.
In light of that, I really liked the way Interstellar showed the effects of his decision on his daughter. He wasn’t only potentially sacrificing his life, he was sacrificing his relationship with his daughter. It’s an extremely raw and painful thing to go through.
I have to say, I find it pretty offensive that you’d bring up therapy when talking about a situation where societal institutions have almost entirely collapsed due to a progressing environmental disaster. It’s really tone-deaf!
Fair enough! I definitely don’t remember that it was societal collapse, I saw the movie when it came out and hadn’t thought about it much since. I must’ve not given it the attention it deserves.
I also don’t love hero stories for the most part? I find it a little forced and cliche usually, including Nolan’s hero movies
Essentially all major crops in the world were failing due to an untreatable disease called the blight, similar to what’s happening right now (in the real world) with bananas. Society in the movie was still somewhat functioning but it was beginning to break down, and mass starvation, power outages, and dust storms (likely inspired by the dust bowl of the 1930s) were the norm. A plot element early in the movie focused on his feud with his children’s school for refusing to teach science correctly. There were strong signals that schools were close to giving up on teaching altogether due to a lack of belief in the future.
Hero stories are not everyone’s cup of tea and many hero stories are done very badly. Interstellar isn’t the best hero story (for me that’s Lord of the Rings) but it’s a pretty good one, as hero stories go. What I try to take away from them are lessons for my own life, and so I’m most drawn to flawed heroes and repulsed by super heroes.