The movie Interstellar left my mouth agape the second it began with its stunning graphics, and kept me drawn in with everything more it has to offer. The movie represents the scarcity of life, the fallibility of people, and the driving force of love in anything but a cliche execution.
This movie presented a scary possibility of the denial of space and its importance, yet the possibility of needing it for humanity. It poses the possibility that even reaching a place beyond Earth to live is even within our realm of possibility.
The movie feels real in an impeccable sort of way, where so much time and care were put into not only the information of the movie, but the graphics and scenes. The inside of the station, the rockets, the planets, the wormhole, the black hole (which is famous for its accurateness) all represent some sort of care. Some sort of passion. A passion that exists within the people who pursue a goal in which they are proud to pursue, and that want to best accurately represent this. This goes for our characters in the movie.
Cooper, most notably, thinks indefinitely about his children and family. He is a father that knew how to raise them, and who knew how to comfort. He knew how to let them pursue what they wanted whilst instilling within them a curiosity that often gets lost too quickly. Amelia too, has a moral but love driven mind, and balances her goals with both rationality and the heart. The other characters provide so much to the story, with each bringing a perfect balance to the other almost like the movie in itself was considered as a difficult math equation.
It’s beautiful in every sense.
I wanted to focus more on the movie’s soundtrack however.
Interstellar perpetuates an issue we know very well, and it is the passing of time.
In a short time the world will end, and in a short time family will be lost. This theme was presented very early into the movie, so when the music kicked in when Cooper and the team first went up into space, I clocked the ticking of each second passing.
Subconsciously, the ticking of the soundtrack brings fear. It may not be recognized, but even in the smallest moments, the sound directors knew exactly how to make the viewers hold their breath, and clench their fists.
On Miller’s Planet, an hour there would be 7 on Earth. Each second that passed On Miller was clocked by a silencing tick; no dialogue. Each tick was an hour that passed back home.
The subtle fear, the ingenious clock tying back into the watch that was given to Murph, Cooper’s daughter, before he left for space was almost the basis of the movie because of the soundtrack. Even when Mann tried to kill Cooper, and simultaneously when Tom punched the man trying to tell their family to move because the smoke was too dangerous for them, the ticking was there. It echoed, reverberating and telling the truth of the limited time that they had. People refuse to change, and people have their selfish reasons for their actions, but all that does is chip away at our precious seconds.
Now, the famous track of Interstellar is telling as well. It was introduced within the first 10 minutes of the movie, being the backing track of Cooper’s chase scene with his son Tom, and Murph. To relate and not use that track beneath the Black Hole scene is another call-back to the simple fulfillment at the beginning of the movie, and the fear and lack of fulfillment from something much grander. How love fuels the best moments, and how love leads to everything else.
Even despite the constant ticking of each second that passes us by.
