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lastmod: "2021-09-12T22:47:44.0000000+01:00"
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author: patrick
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date: "2014-12-09T00:00:00Z"
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- /uncategorized/film-recommendation-interstellar/
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title: Film recommendation, Interstellar
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I’ve just come back from seeing [Interstellar], a film of peril and physics. This post will be spoiler-free except for sections which are in [rot13].
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I thought the film was excellent. My previous favourite film in its genre was [Sunshine], but this beats it in many ways, chiefly that the physics portrayed in Interstellar - relativity, primarily - is not so wrong that it’s immediately implausible. Indeed, some physics-driven plot twists (such as *gvqny sbeprf arne n oynpx ubyr*) I called in advance, which is a testament to how closely the film matched my physical expectations. My stomach nearly dropped out when the characters realised what relativity meant for them.
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This is one of few films whose outcome was truly tense and uncertain for me. Characters were reasonably well-developed, and Michael Caine was in it. Good long story, told at the right pace, and there weren’t too many concessions made to the plot. (By which I mean, it felt like things often happened as they would in real life, rather than just to make a good story, and I had genuine feelings of empathic frustration when reality intervened in the plot.)
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The film lasted perhaps seven minutes too long, in my opinion. *V gubhtug vg fubhyq unir raqrq jvgu gur cebgntbavfg qlvat bhgfvqr Fnghea, naq uhznavgl'f shgher hapregnva ohg thnenagrrq gb pbagnva tbqubbq.* I think it’s made to cater to USA audiences rather than British ones; we Brits tend to like emotions to be portrayed with subtlety in films. There were several places I thought the ending was going to be very different: *gung Pbbcre jbhyq qvr ba gur sebmra cynarg; gung gurl jbhyq fynz vagb gur oynpx ubyr naq qvr; gung Zhecul'f oebgure jbhyq xvyy Zhecul jura fur oenaqvfurq gur jngpu*. My favourite ending would simply have been the film without its last scene.
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Additionally, a little too much was made of *ybir genafpraqf gvzr naq fcnpr*: while I can believe one irrational person saying this, it stretches the imagination for an entire team of scientists to think it.
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I should stress that those are pretty much my only problems with this film, and they’re all pretty minor. I loved the soundtrack; the visual effects were astonishing (vaguely reminiscent of 2001: A Space Odyssey). I’d go so far as to say that this film is beautiful, not just in a visual sense but in an arty sense: its spirit is pure, or something like that. Very much worth the price of entry, at a little under £3/hr.
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[Interstellar]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(film)
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[rot13]: https://rot13.com/
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[Sunshine]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_(2007_film)
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