Review of The Interstellar -- Movie

So starting off its not one of those films which explain everything to the viewer. Its more like your math teacher doing a problem on the black board and just "expecting" you to "understand" it. Does it bring back memories....yes yes it does. Well memories aside, towards the end, the entire movie makes complete sense. Each loose end is tied up perfectly, with a very pretty bow. So patience is a virtue (people with very slow internet speeds understand...don't' you).

The events of the movie takes place some where in the future where Earth is slowly turning out to be uninhabitable to humans. Our protagonist Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), is father of two, son Tom and daughter Murph (named after Murphy's law), lives with his family including his father-in-law, Donald.  He is an engineer by profession, but the current situation of man kind forces him to be a caretaker and become a farmer. He is a regular parent who goes to PTA meetings, and during such a meeting the teacher tells him that his son's score is low, hence he has to become a farmer. Cooper fights and asks why he cannot be an engineer. The reply almost gave me a heart attack, he says "We don't need engineers"(Being an engineer myself this quote stung pretty bad).

Meanwhile, Murph feels there is a "ghost" in her room, who has been trying to communicate with her. Cooper brushes this off until one dust storm the dust settles down as a binary code on the floor of murphy's bedroom. This leads them to a secret NASA station where he meets Professor Brand, his daughter Amelia (Anne Hathaway) and the very charming TARS. Cooper is told that Brand has a Plan A and a Plan B to save Earth or atleast the human species. Brand asks Cooper to pilot Endurance, a spacecraft, which will take him and others through wormhole to find a planet for the human kind to survive. Previously other astronauts had been sent through the same wormhole and three potential planets have been zeroed in.

Murph doesnt like it that her father is leaving her. And says the the "ghost" has asked him to stay. He leaves anyway and promises her that he'll be back. The mission starts off with 4 people - Cooper, Amelia Brand, Doyle and Romilly. The journey through space and the worm hole is absolutely breathtakingly wonderful visually.

The entire movie is just not about the mission there's actually some very emotional scenes between Murph and her father and your heart aches for them to get back together. Each of the planets that they go to increases their time on earth, like an hour turns out to be 7 years. The time you cannot loose because like Cooper says, whats the use of finding a solution after all the people on earth have died. So Murph's growing up as her father stays the same age. The discoveries they make has a lot of twists and turns and suddenly you start to wonder exactly how will it end? Can they save the human race? Will cooper see his daughter again? 

 

And most importantly who is murph's ghost?

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Something stinks.... Its garbage!!

Have you ever complained about the garbage that has filled your city? Have you ever blamed the government for not cleaning the streets? I guess you must be nodding your head quite vigorously by now. But let me ask you one more question. How did the garbage get there? The chocolate wrapper you see in front you. Was it beamed from outer space by some alien? If you believe in such things then you better stop reading now.

Let me tell you the truth. You threw that. Yes YOU. Why?? Because it was convenient. Because someone else will clean that. Or because you just dont care. Why should you worry about that. Lets just complain that the government is not good, there is too much corruption and all that.

Everyday when I travel I look at the roads, bottles, plastic, banana peels and what not. It makes me sick. Seriously guys, stop throwing stuff out and leaving it for someone else to clean. In school I remember my teacher telling me "Dont dirty the classroom. Do you throw garbage in your house as well". This concept stuck with me. Do you throw things around in your house. Do you sleep in midst of garbage. I dont think so. So why dirty your city. Treat your city as your home.

In buses people get hungry, they eat, and whatever is left over like wrappers, orange peels etc are flung out the windows. Its actually dangerous to pedestrians, as well as two wheeler drivers. And the funniest thing is this is done by very educated people (or so they say they are). Were'nt you ever taught that only throw garbage in a garbage bin. Or are you too lazy? Please carry the garbage home and throw it in a dust bin. So that it is carried away in a garbage truck and disposed properly. Actually beyond this you can blame the government. The job is done from your side.

Some people throw garbage in the gutter and drainage. So you believe that its actually a bin and somehow it looks like a gutter for rain water? Seriously dont make me laugh so much. My stomach hurts. They think its okay to throw in that. Just beacuse it has dirty water doesnt mean it can take your garbage as well. It gets clogged and the next time it rains there is going to be water logging and all the water will flow onto the road. Which will cause traffic jams. See the chain reaction. It just goes on and on and on.

So dont blame someone else.When actually the culprit is each and every one of us. When we do our part we can point fingers at others. Also whats the harm in being responsible citizens? Next time you want to throw something, think. All of us have been provided a brain for that.