"That's relativity, folks."
Sure, it's 'flawed' (a word many critics are apparently obliged to include in their reviews), but being overlooked for a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars is criminal. What is the use of a Best Picture category if such obvious achievements in filmmaking are overlooked? No, instead we get The Theory Of Everything and American Sniper.
I'm willing to forgive the film its sentimentality, and it suffers from too much talking (a common problem with many movies). But this over-explication is also forgivable, given that the cost of production dictates that it must attract a large audience without alienating them in the process of viewing it. Or perhaps I'm just apologizing for a film I had been anticipating for about 18 months and cannot admit that my high expectations have not been met. Who really knows at this point?
Any griping about "the science" and "what Interstellar gets wrong about ____" is always going to be misplaced. This is Christopher Nolan we're talking about here. He takes whacky ideas that may or may not be based in some kind of reality and uses them to tell stories about people. Is Inception about the science of dreams and the ethical implications of sleep hacking? No. Is Memento about the neuroscience of memory problems? No. Is The Prestige about how a rich magician could get Nicola Tesla to build an impossible 'transportation' machine? No. Er, maybe. Who really knows at this point?
In conclusion, I will watch this movie more times in the future. Or, since time is a flat circle, I am already everywhere at once watching this movie in the infinite nowness of the Present.
PS: Bleep blorp black holes.
PPS: I loved that Nolan included interviews from Ken Burns' The Dust Bowl.
