INTERSTELLAR

      The earth is slowly crumbling. Our very own home will soon turn to dust. The human race needs to find another place to live. Interstellar, packed with numerous scientific ideas, gives an enthralling plot along with the actual problems we are currently facing. Although it may seem yet like another sci-fi movie, it sets its foot right on its track, with a good representation of the conflict between human’s pursuit in science versus its emotions.

The movie touches not only scientific elements but also human imperfection. Set in the future, it begins with an interview with some elders who lived in a rural place in America. They talked about how there were constant dustbowls in that area due to nearing of the earth’s end. Then the actual story fades in, beginning with a lovely family with the main characters Cooper the dad and Murph the daughter who solved the mystery of the poltergeist causing the sudden gravitational anomaly in their house. Cooper, a former NASA pilot, got invited for the expedition on finding an inhabitable planet where humans can survive. Saddened by the news, Murph was hurt. This event leads to a longer series of events that coincided with love and time, deeply piercing through a tough decision that changes everything between them.

       

 Although somehow melodramatic, the emotions portrayed in the movie were realistic as it might actually be experienced by astronomers who are willing to go out there for us, and as well as how people on earth who are waiting for them to come back. Cooper never really wanted to leave his daughter but he had to because he wants to save her generation even though it might only be a fifty-fifty chance. As he travels through space, he could not stop thinking about his family especially Murph. Murph, on the other hand, waited on earth until she reached her dad’s age when he left her, trying to solve the mystery all this time. They had to strive through the distance between them, both finding ways to solve the problem with the inevitably passing time that as Einstein proved, is faster on earth compared to that when on outerspace due to the gravitational time dilation.

       Though somewhat appalling, one must watch this movie with an open and curious mind. With technological advances on the go, little do we know that we are slowly destroying our planet. Okras are in its brink of extinction, corns are the only left root crops, and only a few farmers are out there to take care of what’s left from nature. As comparison to the movie, global warming continuously arise, human garbage is running out of place in the environment, places that were never flooded are being flooded, and the Antarctic is slowly melting. Sooner or later, we will have to decide on whether to save this planet or move every single one of us to an earth-like planet. We must rethink twice, however on that thought: should we look for another planet because mankind was born on earth but was never meant to die here, or what if earth is actually the only planet we can call home, must we think not as individuals but as a species in order to save ourselves?
We must start thinking now. Time lost can never be regained for although it can be warped and distorted in space-time, we, humans can never control it because time is intangible just like love.

The answer lies in our hands.