By: Henry Chen

With an unlikely setting in the near future year of 2067, the Earth becomes so devastated that only corn can grow. Former NASA astronaut Joseph Cooper embarks on a mission through a wormhole near Saturn to a massive black hole, exploring planets for habitability, finally dropping into the black hole and ending up in a Tesseract structure, or space with five dimensions. The person who made Cooper go on the mission, Brand, knew that there was a possibility of the astronauts getting back, but he needed to prove something. Cooper gets out of the Tesseract when he uses special communication through time manipulation in the Tesseract. In his transmission of data, he told his daughter the proof of the thing that Brand wanted to prove. This brilliance of Cooper shows how Cooper could have ended up in the Tesseract because of future humans who don’t want to have the human race destroyed. At the end of the film, because Cooper spent time near and in a black hole, he aged so little that his daughter was dying when Cooper came back.

This movie represents how much the human race has sacrificed to achieve more peace and fewer deaths, whether due to illnesses or another human. Interstellar teaches us not to focus on the results of the sacrifice but on the sacrifice itself and how to stop it from yielding more loss. The film also conveys the message that how people have to trust themselves, not just their actions but themselves as a whole.

Contrary to what some people would think, Interstellar does not portray how much technology our world has but how much it can grow. It shows us that as long as we can persevere, anything is possible because miracles do happen as long as people are brave enough to initiate a chain sequence. The good thing is that Cooper does have the guts to do that, resulting in two survivors rather than two deaths.