So we finally made it to see the movie. I felt that judging by the posts made here, this was one movie that My SO and I would want to see on the big screen. And it was; a beautiful film full of imagery, relationships, and universal ideas.
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I have a couple of moments in the film that I would like to comment on.
The first is when it came down to decide which planet to choose. The female doctor was conflicted because on one hand she had all the empirical data suggesting that Dr Mann’s planet was habitable; He sent his beacon, and he was “the best of humanity” as she claimed. On the other hand, ‘Edward’s’ planet was the destination of the man she was once in love with. Now, the immediate reaction to this dilemma is to go with the objective/empirical data, because of course the woman is crazy, right? And it is possibly just wishful thinking, and/or emotional reasoning. But then the female doctor begins her monologue on love, and I thought this was very important. I am paraphrasing here (very badly I’m sure), but it was something along the lines that we (humans) did not invent love, that it is an essential part of the universe, and has most likely been around since the dawn of the universe (or is infinite). And with this, her love for him had to mean something in terms of the pivotal choice about to be made (strings, the inter-connectivity of love, and what-not). She understood that the men would have difficulty wrapping their decision making around this (OSIT), but I felt she proposed an intriguing argument. And I remember thinking at the time that something bad would happen on Dr Mann’s planet, and of course it did. GUYS!!
The take home here is that we should listen to our women more, no matter how crazy they seem to our subjective little male minds. Part of the Knights and Ladies theme we have here…Or maybe this is just for me, and I am picking up on this because I need to listen more and take into account the woman’s point of view.
The other part of the movie I would like to discuss is the Tesseract scene. Wow. I thought that was as good of a visualization of a tesseract as could be done on film - as far as how a 3D individual would experience a 4D like landscape. I liked the way he figured out (by accident) how to manipulate the physical world, by using his emotions (i.e. anger, pain, and sadness) for leaving his daughter, to knock books off the shelf, and that he was Murph’s (his daughter's) ‘ghost’. Then ‘plucking’ on the gravitational strings to manipulate the dust and the second hand of the watch in order to communicate was a cool effect.
It has been said before on this thread, but the idea that gravity and love are interconnected through the diminsions/densities was pretty unique for Hollywood and sci-fi, and I believe it to be the most powerful message taken from the film. This certainly does correlate with some of the same things the C’s have been saying.
I highly recommend this movie; it will not disappoint. Even those that are not sci-fi fans will be entertained and will take something away from it, IMO.
Edit: Clarity