Real fears of the future, brilliant music and fantastic imagery create a kick-ass sci-fi movie. Add the one true secret ingredient and you get something even greater – today’s streaming tip
Realistic visions of the future in sci-fi films are often frighteningly bleak and cold. They deliberately deprive us of hope for a better world and show us the worst possible ending to serve as a warning. But sometimes we forget that we still want to empathize. Interstellar, which can be streamed on Amazon Prime from today, allows us to do just that.
Because Christopher Nolan doesn’t just combine his realism and a memorial to the need for action for our generation with stunning images. He adds, via the lead roles of Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain, perhaps the most important ingredient for any memorable story: emotion that takes everything to a whole new level.
Interstellar on Amazon Prime sends its heroes on a mission into space to save humanity
Our planet is dying, and we are dying with it. Hardly any crops can grow on the dry, dust storm-ravaged Earth. Providing food is the top priority, which is why engineer and space pilot Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) has become a farmer against his will.
But now there is one last hope for humanity: NASA has discovered a wormhole near Saturn that leads to a completely new galaxy. A galaxy in which there may be habitable planets. The first researchers have already been sent there, now the task is to find them and their data and resettle humanity if possible.
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In order to give humanity and his children a future, Cooper is persuaded to accompany an expedition into space. His daughter Murph (McKenzie Foy) wants to stop him, because if and when her father will return is literally written in the stars. What awaits him is just as unclear. Cooper puts everything on the line: his life, his family and the hope of tomorrow.
Interstellar feels incredibly real and knows exactly how to break our hearts
Despite quantum physics and the theory of relativity, the lynchpin of the entire movie is not science. Even the exploration of the unknown takes a back seat. Not even the salvation of mankind is the sole focus. No, the survival of the entire earth’s population is constantly being weighed up. And against the simplest but most moving thing we all possess: Humanity.
The close connection between people carries the emotional core of the movie. In every, infinitely personal form. Between partners, between friends who have grown close to each other, survivors – and between parents and children. The intensity and authenticity of two father-daughter relationships really get to the heart of the matter and make even the most surreal circumstances tangible.
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None of these relationships are always easy or understanding. They are put to extremely tough tests and suffer from selfish, stubborn decisions. But this is precisely what makes them so realistic and draws us mercilessly into the heart of a story about the future and the cruellest losses – but also about love and confidence.
