On Sunday morning, I got up at seven o'clock. The whole dorm was sleeping, or on the verge of waking up. It was cold in the middle of the mountain. I jumped on the minibus anxiously and rushed to watch the first Interstellar show of the day.
I read on Weibo earlier that this is a movie that focuses on family affection, but when people in a movie theater, white-collar workers in suits, young women dressed in fashion, and students with textbooks all show up in the movie theater without shame. When I was still sobbing softly when the lights were on, and walking towards the real world outside the door with tears in my belongings, I felt that this movie was actually about love. And the way it is told and the love itself is so moving that even the busy residents of this city that never shows weakness are willing to stop for 169 minutes for it, and are willing to quietly wipe their sincere tears in the dark corner.
Of course, as others have told you, the most salient thing about love in movies is family. I don't know about Nolan's family situation, but I think he should have a daughter in order to shoot such power. I used to think that separation was the most painful thing, it was the sadness of not being able to say goodbye, the heart was broken, it was Cooper who hugged his daughter and frowned and shed tears, it was Murph who rushed out of the house only to see that his father was gone The car kicked up the dust all the way. It is inevitable to think of the picture of me saying goodbye to my parents and staying here alone. Later I learned it wasn't. The cruelest thing is that Cooper is sitting in the boundless universe twenty-three years after the earth and watching the messages from these years. It is a momentary life, the gains and losses of his children in the twenty-three years, he got it a few seconds ago, After a few seconds, it was lost in an instant, and it was he who laughed and then burst into tears immediately; it was the child who said on the other side of the screen, I don't know if you can hear it, I don't know if you'll come back, I don't know if you're still alive , they told me that I should put you down, but he couldn't do anything about such pain; it was the wall built by the creation of the universe, the time warp, or simply, the powerlessness and loneliness of two places pondering their own knowledge.
You have to admit that distance, or isolation, is the killer of love, and time is the sinner that eliminates everything, but family love is really the purest relationship in the world. Long Yingtai took this into consideration in "Watching Off". After all, all love is for the purpose of getting together, and only family love can lead to separation.
So this expedition is different from the previous two-hour space tour on the screen. Everyone is saving the earth, and this rescue is simply a journey of love.
But it is the journey itself that manifests another kind of love, or its paradox.
Cooper starts from his love for his children and is willing to save all mankind. This is a process of extension, but maybe what he loves from the beginning to the end is the individual, not a human concept. Opposite Professor Brand and Dr Mann, they are willing to sacrifice people on a planet, sacrifice themselves, sacrifice relatives, sacrifice teammates, just to save mankind. What they love is a concept, a collection of human beings. The paradox, then, is that, in their view, specific people should be sacrificed to complete the collective, but are the sacrificed individuals themselves part of the humanity they aspire to save? If so, then this love of collections or concepts is itself dehumanizing. Is this contradictory feeling no longer in line with our concept of love, or has it surpassed the ego and entered a more eternal and noble realm of love? Or maybe there are thousands of kinds of love in this world, and the love of Cooper and Professional Brand is not the same kind of love, and it is not contradictory in itself, but just happened to be on the opposite side of this journey to save the world?
I don't know if this is the central point of Nolan's thinking. But I think he implicitly gave his own attitude and even the answer. One of the most ironic aspects is that Dr Mann keeps talking about sacrificing individuals in order to save the future of mankind, but he does not hesitate to send wrong signals to mislead others in order to find the company of others.
Behind such a presentation, I think Nolan himself admires people themselves, and has special feelings for people and each individual. Cooper, which he created in Interstellar, is also such an individual hero, always reminiscent of Bruce Wayne he created. They all inevitably become part of Hollywood's personal heroes, but there is always a little bit of the most painful sacrifice in human nature, which makes their lonely struggles have a kind of shocking sadness. When Cooper's landing craft slowly disengaged from Endurance, he smiled willingly behind his helmet, just like the last Bruce Wayne of Dark Knight hurried away on a motorcycle, his dark cloak blown by the wind. Perhaps this kind of sadness makes us feel so empathetic, and it is related to the inherent vanity of human beings, or to look at it positively, it has something to do with the mentality that we hope that everything will be rewarded. We are saddened that no one has written a biography of such a struggle, and we are glad that there will always be someone who understands their motives. Interestingly, both of them are motivated by people, while Wayne's choice is the generalized people, while Cooper's choice is the unique individual. At the end of the Batman trilogy, Gordon read a Tale of Two Cities to Wayne, this time Nolan chose Dylan Thomas, do not go gentle into that good night, not the best dedication to Cooper. But every audience in front of the screen may know that such sacrifices have achieved true nobility.
But when I think about it again, Nolan is not without feelings for the collection of humans itself. The mysterious power "they" that implements the first half of the story turns out not to be an alien high-level crowd, but ourselves, the one who saves the world, who travels through time and space, and who cracks the code, is ourselves. Nolan restrained but sincerely praised mankind. We are not only great for protecting our homeland, but also for the courage and determination to go out and explore. Cooper's dissatisfaction with the textbook denial of landing on the moon is in fact his sincere love and praise for the quality of human beings who are uneasy about the status quo and have the courage to explore.
This is perhaps the perfect logic Nolan is looking for for this film. We are great because we love each irreplaceable individual, and we are also great because of people.
So what about love. I think it's wise not to spend too much time on it. It's moving enough for Brand to be alone on a desolate planet for the person he loves. In the film, Brand asks Cooper, what is the social utility of loving a dead person. And she herself made the best annotation for her own problem. Too many times we whimper that we no longer believe in love, but the irony is that such ubiquitous setbacks haven't stopped humans from blindly desperate time and time again.
What struck me the most was that at the end, Murph asked his father to set off again, and he asked in confusion, where to go. At that moment, I thought the passion of all this would slide into nothingness. But she said, Brand. All questions are answered, all nothingness is vanished, and all journeys are reborn with meaning.
gorgeous.
We always keep going because of love.
The Hollywood Reporter's title for Interstellar seems accurate to me, Interstellar's Odyssey. "Odysseus came back, not to stay, but to start anew."
I don't remember where I read an article about Wilde, the author wrote, and Wilde taught her. "True love goes deep, and I should always have hope."
Yes, we should believe that one day you will see the face of the one you love, no matter if that day you finally settle down after a long ups and downs , or about to step into the silence of death. You should go and always have hope.
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