"SC-S33/W1-Movie Diaries |Your Favorite movie of all time(Interstellar)

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In Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’, the empty, sterile void of space serves as a back drop to the most profound of human experiences: the steady, insidious theft of time. And while the visuals are truly epic, and Zimmer’s cathedral organ scores elevate it to stratospheric levels of operatic drama, it is a masterwork primarily because of the way it views infinity through the eyes of a broken father.

When Coop leaves his daughter Murph to save humanity he doesn’t just struggle with the ravages of time, that insidious ticking of the clock where a second equates to years, his real opponent is the agony he can see on Murph’s face as his own face age’s 23 years before his eyes and video’s go by at a blistering rate.

It is, quite frankly, emotional devastation in its purest form.

The stroke of genius for ‘Interstellar’ though is the film’s core thesis: love isn’t an artefact of evolution it is a physical force capable of transcending dimensions. The universe’s fifth dimension allows gravity and love to merge where the father can reach across time and space proving even a phantom in a childhood bedroom can save mankind.

‘Interstellar’ is my favourite film because it encourages us to all look up and acknowledge that the universe’s true mystery is not light years away, but in the bonds between us. We know everything else will be stripped away but love will always remain and have the capacity to come back to us.

For me, the influence Interstellar has exerted on me goes further than just the academic or even emotional, but both! Pre-film, I always conceptualized time as a line-a ticking clock; a limited measurement of days and years. Interstellar jettisoned that into the abyss and opened my eyes to the terrifying, and indeed, beautiful concept of relativity.

It has taught me a life lesson that time isn't a unit of measurement, but an entirely finite, precious resource.

I viewed time as a commodity- one hour equals seven years on an alien planet- and in doing so has imparted on me a chilling awareness of my own mortality and the irreplaceable nature of the present, remaining forever a sobering, unrelenting reminder that time is, the only thing you can't acquire through effort.

Secondly, Interstellar has taught me how to redefine my perspective on love. In a world and culture, which is so adept at rationalizing human emotion - specifically love, which is often referred to as something that we need to try to logicalize - Interstellar bravely takes the stance, what if that’s not true? It puts forth Dr.

Brand’s bold claim of love, not as just an evolutionary imperative or a social contract, but as a tangible entity that has the capacity to surpass time and space; a fifth dimension!

The thought alone has reorganized my world, brilliantly reconciling the terrifying insignificance of man's place in the universe with the utter, crushing significance of human connection. Although we may be infinitesimal specks in the vastness of the cosmos, it is a movie that reminded me that we carry an infinite amount of gravity within us in the form of our love.

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Even though the film, as a whole, is stunning in every aspect of visual design; whether it is the jaw-dropping execution of the Gargantua black hole or the thrilling docking maneuver of the Endurance, the greatest and perhaps most heartbreaking scene of Interstellar takes place not in the void of space, but within the limited parameters of a computer screen.

My favorite scene of all time (and in my opinion, one of the greatest ever made), occurs shortly after Cooper’s return from the aborted mission to Miller’s water world. Due to astronomical time dilation, just a few hours in space for Cooper is twenty-three years on Earth.

Seated,alone in his spacecraft, Cooper plays back decades of recorded messages from his family.

This scene sees Nolan weaponize relativity: We see a true tour-de-force of acting as Cooper’s joy at seeing his son on screen soon morphs into ragged, breathless sobs, watching him grow into a man, fall in love, lose a child, despair, and finally, say goodbye for the last time in a heartbreaking exchange.

Following this emotional rollercoaster, we then get the heartbreaking glimpse of Cooper facing his daughter, Murph - a woman now exactly his age when he left her.
The moment is perfect; taking a complex concept such as astrophysics and transforming it into the raw, visceral pain of human anguish.
It’s a scene that, aided by Hans Zimmer's mournful, ticking piano soundtrack, takes the tragedy and kicks it into overdrive by reminding us of nothing more than a father’s decision and the irrefutable consequence.

No aliens, no explosions, no epic spaceships, but a profound, shattering human drama.

In essence, the true brilliance of Interstellar comes from its ability to utilize the sheer expanse of the universe as a magnifying lens to highlight the inner workings of the human heart, leaving me awestruck by the cosmos, but more so, yearning to cherish the inhabitants that populate it.
It's my favorite film, not for inviting me to gaze upwards in wonder at the heavens, but for encouraging me to look around me, and embrace the love that lies in front of me.

I invite @peacemike @okereblessing and @bossj23