My blog reviews movies as political, historical or social commentary with intentional disregard for their artistic or cinematic value. One foe of American political scientists and economists is that they ignore movies as sources to inform them on changes in American culture, view exoticism as a hallmark of "foreigness" and, at the same time, impart American values and judgment to foreign movies.
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Interstellar. Christopher Nolan.
This movie (metaphor of another critic) is a cross between "Inception" and "Gravity" and not in a good way. Presumption is ridiculous: the civilization, which builds starships cannot genetically modify humans or at least corn to survive in lower-oxygen atmosphere. Yet, the same ubiquitous corn appears later on a space station. If it grows at the orbit of Saturn, can they grow enough on Earth? Space travel progresses but medical technology... not so fast. The whole movie is a mess of special effects, thin philosophy and even its battery of A-list actors cannot rescue it from a free fall.
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