As I sat glued to my chair in a Napa XD theater, the overwhelming nature of the film took control of my cognizance and intelligence and tried both to their core. Numerous times during the show, I felt an urge to go to the bathroom, but the fascination I had with what was happening on screen defeated that humanized need. No one in modern cinema, besides Christopher Nolan could do this to an audience member. Every time I see a Christopher Nolan film, I feel like he has outdone himself, but that theory is always proven wrong when his next film is released. When first viewing the trailer, I wasn’t incredibly intrigued, but I guess “don’t judge a book by its cover” is an appropriate moral to be used because every inch of this picture was utterly outstanding.

     Influenced by Stanley Kubrick in every fashion, one can notice the many parallels between 2001: A Space Odyssey and Interstellar. Both films; however, take a strikingly different approach from one another on the subject matter of space roaming. Surprise after surprise, followed by yet another surprise is how this film plays out. A future American society is practically doomed and a red-blooded American Farmer and former NASA pilot (McConaughey) is called on by the U.S. government to conduct a mission across the universe and into another realm of life. As the world on Earth grows older and older, he does not age as quickly and his mission soon becomes trying to return back home to his children. Numerous scientific theories are exemplified in the film including one that will have the viewer never look at cinema in the same way.

     I have seen this film four times already, once in XD digital, once in IMAX 70MM (by far the best), and twice in regular theaters. I understood the film better and better as I saw it again and again. The electrifying cinematography and sound engineering are wonderfully choreographed and will leave you begging for more even though the film is nearly three hours long. The musical score by Hans Zimmer is absolutely beautiful. The acting is Oscar-worthy in my opinion. But by far the Directing is out of this world. I still think 2001: A Space Odyssey is the greatest sci-fi film of all time, but Interstellar is the closest a movie has ever gotten in surpassing Kubrick’s masterpiece. Now, that only makes me wonder what Nolan has in plan for his next work of art.

A+