Anyone see the film Interstellar?
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I really enjoyed this movie. Did anyone think it had a lot of cool mystical themes (I know it wasn't really intentional). I loved the idea of higher dimensional beings and Love being a force in the universe. Did other people have the same reaction as me?
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It was an enjoyable movie for me, but I felt it tried too hard to blow the mind it only sort of got there. Not like watching Space Odyssey for the first time (or walking in on a VHS viewing of Legend fifteen minutes late while tripping balls until the end).
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I enjoyed it very much!!! what a trip!
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I hated the film, but I did enjoy the conceptual aspects. As far as the movie itself goes though, I was really shocked at how 'jumpy' (choppy transitions between edits) it was. Every time I see MM now I think of Rust from True Detective. It's actually interesting, if you've seen both Interstellar and TD you'd notice both actually allude to the idea as time and space as a single sculpture in super position, and all places matter ever occupied were visible as a 2D Projection. If anyone here hasn't seen True Detective, I would advise to go watch it immediately.
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I hated the film, but I did enjoy the conceptual aspects. As far as the movie itself goes though, I was really shocked at how 'jumpy' (choppy transitions between edits) it was. Every time I see MM now I think of Rust from True Detective. It's actually interesting, if you've seen both Interstellar and TD you'd notice both actually allude to the idea as time and space as a single sculpture in super position, and all places matter ever occupied were visible as a 2D Projection. If anyone here hasn't seen True Detective, I would advise to go watch it immediately.
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@Takamba said
"It was an enjoyable movie for me, but I felt it tried too hard to blow the mind it only sort of got there. Not like watching Space Odyssey for the first time (or walking in on a VHS viewing of Legend fifteen minutes late while tripping balls until the end)."
LOL, that reminds me of the most mind-blowing cinematic experience I ever had. In my salad days, a bunch of us were at a friend's house in the country, had picked an absolute shitload of mushrooms and made some insanely strong tea out of it (god knows how many per person we were imbibing). At some point, the classic movie *Night of the Hunter *came on the telly. If you've never seen this film you owe it to yourself to do so - it's always in the top 10 list, and bids fair to wrestle with Citizen Kane for top spot for some critics. Great, great film. Well, you can imagine the result. Absolutely riveting, and it took on insanely vast cosmic dimensions while we watched it
Interstellar is certainly a gripping and entertaining movie, well worth watching. However, my immediate reaction to it, as an s-f fan, was annoyance that when there are so many brilliant s-f books out there, they chose to make this epic movie with a fairly shitty basic story that's full of holes, and not even particularly scientific (as it was advertised to be).
It's actually just very well-made classic Hollywood "fimmily family fummily" (cf. Magick Without Tears) schmalz with a thin layer of gee-whizz science and some great fx. There's not an awful lot that's transcendent about it - it just reinforces our monkey instincts for family and companionship.
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"Contact," which also had McConaughey, involved time and space distortions as well. And so I have a new theory about the movie "Contact" now.
I was pleasantly surprised at the whole, "'They' are 'us;' we are the inter-dimensional beings helping ourselves" thing - new twist, unseen before, with definite mystical undertones.
It was a bit heavy-handed with it - lots of explanation for the audience. But I mean, hey, I remember walking out of "Matrix III" thinking, "How perfectly gnostic! How did they just totally pull that off?" The guys walking out in front of me hated it. It was totally lost on them: "What in the hell was that?"
So, I can see why.
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I thought it was good as a Hollywood movie, but also a very dystopian and depressing vision of our future. The suggestion that we are not meant to save the planet, we are meant to leave it, and basically suggesting that wiping out every other species on the planet through environmental catastrophe is an integral part of our evolution certainly fits with the Neoliberal kamikaze philosophy.
It seemed to present the coming evolution of man as a sentimental secular humanist trapped in a never-ending k-hole (that's what the tesseract looked like to me anyway).
I'm not sure if it was intended as a warning of the hell we are driving ourselves toward or propaganda from the Black Lodge to drive us all to consume more and hasten the coming environmental apocalypse.