Interstellar: The meaning
The movie Interstellar begins with a scenario where nitrogen in the air is ever increasing compared to oxygen. This brings a catastrophic failure of the corps worldwide. Environment changes along with the changes of vegetation caused deadly dust storms that frequently covered the remaining vegetation. This threatened the production of the corn, the only grain that was still sustaining.
NASA, in its new avatar, was operating covertly, as wasting taxpayer’s money may not be viewed kindly by the barely surviving population.
NASA’s primary mission was to ensure that the rest of the humankind are to be evacuated from the failing earth via the massive spacecraft they built in their facility. The question was how to launch that massive spacecraft defying gravity (Plan-A)
NASA believed that there was a slight ray of hope for the humankind as some higher Intelligence (or, future humankind) has placed a traversable wormhole near Saturn. Wormhole is a tunnel in space-time which provides an expressway out of our galaxy. NASA believed that it would eventually help humankind to escape this galaxy and to establish themselves in a suitable planet outside our galaxy. For this purpose, NASA harvested a bank of fertilized human embryos that can be used to ensure humanity’s survival – after everyone on Earth is wiped out or the plan-A fails (Plan-B)
Going beyond this scientific and technical mumbo jumbos, let us see the things in the light of simple and mundane perspectives.
Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), the central character, who is supposed to carry the Endeavour mission to evaluate the Plan-A utters a strange sentence: “We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.” Movie also repeatedly talks about the lack of 5D perspective in the earth. 5-D is probably a plane of existence where you are aware of everything (The Theory of Everything??). We managed to convert our earth so stale and mundane that it became the battlefield of existence in a strictly 3D framework. 3D framework, which was derived for the convenience to manage a tiny place like earth has become a major hindrance to creativity. So much so, officially, the government suggests that Apollo mission was a sham and Man never landed on the Moon!
Anne Hathaway’s character Dr. Amelia Brand says: “Love isn’t something we invented. It’s observable, powerful, it has to mean something… Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space”
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