Interstellar

We thought most all those questions worth pondering, and so we had some great discussions after the movie. However, be warned that the movie does a very uneven job of communicating insight on these questions, and, as the reviewer notes, its primary theme is that humankind is the ultimate savior of its own problems, even to the point ***SPOILER*** of revealing we evidently progress to the level where we can create our own interstellar black holes and then interlace them with three dimensional time travel realities—wow, we’re an awfully nifty species, given enough time to evolve sufficiently! ***END SPOILER***

There’s even a nod in this film to Stephen Hawking’s theory that gravity is the most crucial and creative force in the universe. In summary, a high rating as an enjoyable, clean film with some incredible eye candy, but also a low rating as an accurate worldview that rightly reflects the reality that God has created.

And, in the end, it was Cooper’s leap of faith, driven by love, that enabled him to save humanity while seemingly sacrificing his own life in the process.

If anything, the film has more Christian allegories than not, if one bothers to actually pay attention to the details of the film. But, that’s just my take on the film.

Funny that they went scientifically accurate for the ‘no noise in space’ but then all out for a more hokey approach for the latter half. There was another book or film or something I couldn’t put my finger on, when he was in this fifth dimension and trying to contact his daughter and seeing himself in the room.

Score-wise, Hans Zimmer’s music wasn’t as overpowering as I thought it would be—his recent scores are like hitting one on the head with a blunt instrument. Though things did get drowned out needlessly by the score and sound affects all hammering away without restraint, but I managed to get the dialogue that has been reported as being inaudible.

So all that said, I wonder if the novelisation will explain things better—or not…

In short, “Interstellar” is a good film. I definitely wished I had seen it in IMAX though as the visuals are stunning. Its a bit of a long film but not out of the ordinary for a Nolan film. I would recommend seeing it for sure.

Our hope however, is in the one true God who made the stars and galaxies by speaking. He loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son as a substitute sacrifice, and whoever trusts in Him receives eternal forgiveness and adoption as sons. Our hope is true, and unlike the people who walked out of the theater back into their dark realities, in The End we will not be disappointed.

Remember, these are extremely intelligent scientists (and one engineer) who have the ability to “put two and two together.” So, Miller’s okay signal says the planet is fine for 23 Earth years. Then it dies, which it’s said can only mean that the beacon was destroyed. They get there. Each hour on the planet is estimated at 7 years. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that this means the beacon was active for no more than 3½ hours before being destroyed.

Under normal circumstances, scientists would rule out a planet with forces strong enough to destroy a spaceship and the beacon contained in it in less than four hours as a “best choice” to begin colonization. Due to the difference in time passing, this world should have been the last to be investigated, rather than the first. Yet 4 extremely intelligent people (and two robots with advanced artificial intelligence) couldn’t come to this conclusion, and one very intelligent person couldn’t figure out that thousand-story-tall+ Tsunami means uninhabitable planet.

Of course, the result of this decision is the death of one of their crew and 23 years of fuel expenditures, which then reduce their options. They can either check out one planet, then head back, or check out both and not have enough fuel to head back. Without the failure of these people to grasp the gravity of the situation, the situation with Mann would have then been avoided.

Also, the time-paradox where Cooper starts himself on this journey after reaching its end cannot be ignored.

But, there is also a reason that I rated the film Very Offensive morally. Beyond all the swearing, this is a film that ends up advocating the deification of humanity. Nolan didn’t make the choice to just leave God out of the equation. Instead, even the “higher beings” alluded to initially turn out to be the human race in its final stages of evolution. The message of Cooper’s final encounter with the black hole is that mankind has evolved beyond time and space. They have become masters of time and space—a race capable of creating the tesseract in the middle of a singularity. Ultimately, they have become gods.

Even deeper than that, the protagonists are all dismissive of the supernatural, in general. While in the beginning of the movie, there appears a chance that the idea of God—or at least higher beings—might be left open, the final message of the movie is that there is no God except mankind. For those who have seen the movie, while in the black hole, Cooper says to TARS (one of the robots) “They didn’t bring us here. We did. There is no “they,” he goes on to explain the core theme of this movie—which is not, as people seem to believe, finding a new planet to populate. The core theme is the deification of humans—through the process of evolution.

Between that and the profanity, I consider this movie to be very offensive in terms of the Christian worldview.

And it’s not like you couldn’t get lost in the stupidity of the movie, but it was so painstakingly boring that it actually was torture sitting there. If I wasn’t in one of those full experience theaters where the surround sound was ridiculous, that was the only thing that sustained my attention and made me not run out of there screaming, warning everyone else not to go in there! Trust me, don’t waste your time.

The other thing is, it is so far fetched and so far away from God’s design, you walk out of there thinking weird. It was just a very weird movie that left me feeling twisted and warped in their psychotic idea of entertainment, that everyone I saw walking out looked dumbfounded, like what the heck did we just watch?!

God help any of us Christians that can find that entertaining to even think what they were saying was true. Ridiculous!