Starry journey, love is the pointer

Beaulah 2022-04-22 07:01:02

I would like to use two works to compare with this film, Isaac Asimov's "The Bicentennial Man" (Chris Columbus's film of the same name translated as "The Machine Butler") and Charles Columbus' "The Bicentennial Man" Sheffield's At the Eschaton.
The novel of "Two Hundred Years" has a flat tone. The robot played by Robin Williams in the film also has a simple expression at the beginning, but in the plain narrative and simple expression, what is shown and reflected is the passing time. The joys and sorrows in the story, every thing right and wrong, will make people let out a choked sigh.
In "Interstellar", we do not follow the macro perspective of the robot's time scale to watch all this, but follow the ordinary human Cooper, and feel the pain of one moment on the ground and seven years in the sky. Hyperion has a word used to describe this relativistic effect "time debt", which is really a debt, watching children grow up in a few moments, their own age, and then grow old, Matthew McCann The tears when Na watched the video of his children for 23 years were the small and helpless lament of human beings over the cruel passage of time.
The science fiction "End Times" is about the collision between a ruthless universe and a love that lasts to the death. The protagonist's obsession with love accompanies him to find a way to heal his lover until the end of time. The narrative of the story is grand, comparing the small love of human beings with the lifespan of the universe.
There is a similar interpretation of such love in "Interstellar", but compared to the simplicity and persistence in "The Last Days", "Interstellar" has added an individual's love and responsibility to the entire human race. Small self and big self, small love and big love, family and human beings. However, the film does not separate and oppose the two, but treats the two as two intertwined melodies. There are parts of separation, contradiction and conflict, but the real moving part is the resonance aroused by the unity of the two.
The first time the film made me feel this resonance was the separation of father and daughter. At the beginning of this section, the two were contradictory. Cooper's sentence "Please, don't let me say goodbye like this" brought tears to my eyes. It was a choice, and he made his own sacrifice. But at the end of the original simple separation of father and daughter, the film constantly cuts into the voiceover of the rocket ignition, the farewell to the daughter and the family, the farewell to the home and the earth, the beginning of the journey, the interweaving of different feelings, the sadness A bit more heroic.
There was a concern from the information obtained before watching the film. The film seems to have raised human nature to a height that should not be reached in a vast universe. As the film progresses, this concern is getting deeper and deeper. It's getting worse and worse, like people who are blindly groping in two unrelated dark spaces, with only unresponsive love in their hearts.
Until the black hole, the most beautiful celestial body in the film, after separating their worlds, they merged them into one.
This part is the most worrying part when watching the movie. The turbulent love seems to be out of control in the unknown space. A little carelessness will destroy the unshakable barriers of the universe, and let the overflowing feelings destroy the entire film.
I have to admire the screenwriter's superb skills. The ever-increasing predicament is also a node in the fate of mankind that is constantly being precisely positioned. The gravity that is not bound by time is the only force that changes this node. The persistent love finally responds again through the bond of gravity With each other, the whole human being was reborn with the trembling of the pointer, and the two melodies overlapped, bursting out the most moving and magnificent resonance.
At this point, my concerns have been dispelled, and this film is already a masterpiece, but I never imagined that the ending could be so deeply loved by me. Having experienced the tears of "Two Hundred Years", I had expected the arrangement of the father and daughter to meet like this, but I didn't expect that the aging Murphy would push away his father, who had been attached to his life all his life, and let him find the young Bran. A new home for Germany and humanity.
Like a stranger, Cooper walked out of his daughter's life and embarked on a new journey. Although the pain of the passage of time has not healed, the sunshine of the new world is waiting to bathe him.

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Interstellar quotes

  • Dr. Brand: Not sure of what I'm more afraid of: them never coming back, or coming back to find we've failed.

    Murph: Then let's succeed.

  • Young Murph: I worked out the message. One word. Know what it is? Stay. It says stay, Dad.