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An evaluation on the Interstellar review by Robbie Collin

Robbie Collin is a British film critic, who is the chief film critic at The Daily Telegraph. Collin’s writing style is very professional, this essay is a really good read, which I would recommend to any film lover. In his essay the reader gets to know the director, his films, and of course about Interstellar.

In the first few paragraphs Collin starts off with a great statement: Nolan builds cathedrals in the age of shopping-centre cinema. His films are not all happy and easily understandable, but rather cold and his movies have a deep meaning. Interstellar is a film, which is not easy to understand in the end, it is very hard to wrap one’s head around what happened, but one can easily see that this film script comes from a great mind.

According to Robbie Collin, Interstellar is Nolan’s best film to date. In the film starvation strikes the world, and a team of astronauts have to find a new home for humanity. The main character, Coop (Matthew McConaughey) accepts the invitation to go with the team, in hope that he can find a better home for his children. The film, as Collin also mentions shows how time passes by on Earth, as the children grow up, but because the astronauts are in a wormhole, where time passes a lot slower, the main characters remain the same age, which is a shocking and sad part of the film, as Coop does not see his son and daughter grow up, only through video messages.

The film’s main topic is shockingly love, which one would not expect from a seemingly scientific movie. However, by the end, we clearly see that love is so strong, that it can even save humankind. Robbie Collin also mentions this, but he states that „the aim of the film isn’t to reduce love to a function of quantum physics, it’s to set quantum physics and love on equal footing”.

Collin writes a great quote from the film, which I think says a lot about the main character: „We used to look up and wonder about our place in the stars. Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.”. The dirt refers to the airborne disease that causes food crops to turn into powder, and therefore in the film people are suffering from lack of food. This is a very important quote, as in the film it is stated multiple times that Cooper, the former NASA pilot still have a desire to be near the stars. It is a very tragic part however, when Cooper decides that he goes on to find a new planet, and his daughter gets furious at him, because she does not want him to leave. This part gets even more tragical, as one continues to watch Interstellar, as the audience can see how Collin does not get to see his children grow up, his daughter does not even want to send him video messages, only when she is already a grown up. When the film ends all these scenes get meaning, which makes the ending very shocking.

In my opinion Robbie Collin’s essay is very strong, it does not spoil the film, while it is very informative. It captures the essence of the film, and makes the reader want to see the film, however if the reader already saw it, the review provides some new information, which one might have not known. All in all, it is a great essay about a genious film.

References

Interstellar Review. Robbie Collin. Retrieved November 18, 2014, from
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/11207268/Interstellar-review-a-feast-of-extraordinary-ideas.html

Robbie Collin. In Wikipedia. Retrieved December 2, 2014,from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Collin