“Do not go gentle into that good night.”

 Director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception) has ventured beyond the stars into the vast vacuums of space travel and multiple wormhole dimensions in his latest opus Interstellar

 The setting shows the Earth dying. Famine and extreme drought have caused a large scarcity of food and supplies. Farming has been made the most important job. Other advances such as technological breakthroughs, including NASA’s space travel programs have halted.

 When all seemed doomed to our world, ex-engineer and pilot, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is led to his destiny by a gravitational anomaly. After a day of travel he stumbles upon what he finds is the rest of NASA, who has yet to give up on mankind.

 He is tasked with the mission of going through a newly discovered black hole, which may be a portal out of our galaxy into a new one,with new possible habitable worlds. He and a group of other explorers face deathly odds by embarking on an interstellar voyage, with intentions of saving the human race.

 At first glance, Interstellar comes across as a Gravity type movie that delves into survival situations of being stranded in space. Interstellar decides to go beyond that in the genre of sci-fi space travel.

 With an almost 3 hour runtime, the film manages to confuse, amaze, emotionally wreck, and change the way the audience sees the universe. With ideas of harnessing gravity and bending the time-relativity laws that restrict humans from jumping through time, Interstellar proves it has the brains to compete with the truly immersive visuals.

 A dominant theme the film really clings onto is bravery. With the knowledge of possibly never returning to earth or even getting killed when traversing the wormhole, every character displays the kind of bravery that retells the importance in a mission such as this one.

 McConaughey’s lead role acts as the guide for the other astronauts: Brand, (Anne Hathaway) whose father is the founder of the mission. Doyle, (Wes Bentley) whose character might seem like the only one who keeps the main goal in mind, and Romilly, (David Gyasi) whose character balances out the group with his words and actions.

 Not only does the film base itself in the space following voyage, but also the earth, as time progresses with Brand’s father and Cooper’s children, who witness the fading of resources and supplies first hand.

 To me, this is where the film shines the brightest. Depicting the human emotional trials of being away from the ones you love and having to live in a world with no hope, Interstellar hits on every chord to give a sense of wonder and attachment to every character.

 As a whole, Interstellar is a film intended to be viewed from the beginning, in order to be rewarded with the Nolan-esc ending. Interstellar is a film intended to be taken with the most open and adventurous of minds. Finally, Interstellar is a film that challenges the aspects of human space travel, time relativity, other worlds, human bonds, and even love.

 Cooper: “We’ve always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible. And we count these moments. These moments when we dare to aim higher, to break barriers, to reach for the stars, to make the unknown known. We count these moments as our proudest achievements. But we lost all that. Or perhaps we’ve just forgotten that we are still pioneers. And we’ve barely begun. And that our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, because our destiny lies above us.”

 Interstellar earns a 9.5/10. It’s not Nolan’s most groundbreaking piece, but definitely a landmark film that shows honesty and astonishment in all that it is.