INTERSTELLAR
Director Christopher Nolan
Cert: 12A 166 mins
From the director of Inception and the Dark Knight trilogy comes a brilliant serious sci-fi tale, starring Matthew McConaughey as a scientist and pilot who reluctantly leaves his family behind on a dying Earth on a mission to try and save humanity.
The film crafts believable characters and their emotional lives carry the viewer through the story. As such, it should appeal not only to fans of spaceship films, but also to anyone who enjoys character drama, or exploring ideas for that matter.
Humanity’s future
Interstellar raises some big themes, in the context of an engaging story, such as science, life, death, time, and the future of humanity.
The film concerns itself with the search for meaning. Characters try to escape being defined by the passage of time (with the suggestion that love may be capable of transcending this), there’s a mission named ‘Lazarus’ (which evokes the idea of resurrection from the dead), and one character yearns for forgiveness after confessing his misdeeds. Elsewhere in the film, another character says, ‘Don’t judge me. Few men have been tested as I have.’
However, as Christians, we know Jesus, the creator of the galaxies, who became human, was tested in every way yet lived a perfect life, loved others as himself, died so that we can be forgiven, and rose from the dead, conquering sin and death, so that people throughout the world and throughout human history can be saved by repenting and believing in him. Not only that, but his love for his people transcends everything else (Romans 8.31-39).
