Interstellar
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Interstellar 2014

★★★★★

Rewatched 25 Nov 2023

Interstellar greatly benefits from rewatches, allowing you to pick up on so many details and ideas in that first act that come back in the script later on. In the grand scheme of Interstellar's near three hour story, the deep space exploration and unfolding twists on each planet Cooper explores certainly overshadows the heavily grounded drama and exposition of the first act. But upon revisiting Interstellar after that impactful rewatch I had back in the summer, I was so engrossed by the state of the world Christopher Nolan sets up early on. There's some really specific writing and moments that indicate how terribly bleak living on Earth is at that exact moment. The small development towards Timothée Chalamet's character as he's set up to be part of a future generation of farmers is fascinating, contrasting heavily with Cooper's engineer/pilot dreams. Coop's father-in-law represents a bygone era, with that one line delivery of "it felt like something new was invented everyday" carrying a lot of weight with it. Even the simple visuals of dust everywhere impacting the small town farmer life works so well. Maybe it was cause I had a couple jello shots in my system but I was really feeling immersed in that bleak first act, the stakes of Cooper's mission are definitely elevated thanks to it.

A masterpiece through and through. Impossible not to feel something when Cooper is watching the videos from his children decades later.

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