Interstellar Providence and Love
Sometime after the New Year, I had a chance to check out Interstellar and I have to say it was some good sci-fi storytelling. I enjoyed the way the visual effects artist put into the film their concept of what theories from astrophysics, which were woven into the storyline (wormholes, black holes, time dilation, etc.). But, what I think captures the attention the way a family would be affected being immersed into the films grand narrative. Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is a former pilot for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), who lives out his retirement as a farmer growing corn. He struggles to make it as Earth undergoes an ecological meltdown, the land is unable to produce, and certain crops go extinct. Murphy (Mackenzie Foy/Jessica Chastain/Ellen Burstyn) is Cooper’s 10 year-old daughter. She is named after Murphy ’s Law, but not in the sense that “anything that can go wrong, will go wrong,” but in a positive sense that “whatever can happen, will happen.”