By: Chloe Rocha

‘Interstellar’, written and directed by Christopher Nolan, is a film that mainly follows the life of Cooper and his daughter.

This movie is full of twists and turns that will leave you questioning what will happen next. At the beginning of the movie, it shows the world in a near-future, where the environment has been degrading and making earth uninhabitable. With intense dust storms, the health of all of humanity is rapidly declining.

This causes Cooper to desperately search for a way to keep his family safe from these conditions. After discovering a gravitational anomaly in their home, it leads them to a secret NASA facility where they meet an old professor who is searching for a planet to replace earth.

Cooper and Professor Brand work to put together a crew who will explore space for a planet that could potentially be inhabitable for human life.

The crew that was put together consisted of Dr. Brand, Doyle, Romilly, and Cooper. With Cooper exploring space, this meant that he would have to leave his family behind on earth for many years, which causes his daughter to begin to resent him because of feelings of abandonment. The expedition that they embarked on is to 3 different planets that other astronauts went to several years prior to see if people could survive on them. Throughout their exploration, they discover the true intentions of the people they meet on the way.

At the end of the movie, you will start to understand and put together the pieces that weren’t clear before and start to see the bigger picture. Small details that you saw at the beginning of the movie, that maybe you didn’t think much of in the moment, will tie together and reveal a bigger secret.

I really enjoyed watching this film because it made me start to think and also question the things that are unknown. At first you may think that this movie is just a movie about space, but I think that there are many underlying themes within the movie that you can only really see when you look closely.

The themes of love, sacrifice, and the concept of time, were all explored during this film.

The movie is approximately 2 hours and 50 minutes long, but the movie was so enticing that time flew by while watching it.

If you are interested in watching this movie, you can view it on some platforms, such as: Netflix, Amazon Prime, Paramount plus, and Apple TV.