It's one of the most eyeopening movies of 2014. As it is part of the adventure and sci-fi genre, it is filled with exploration and advanced technology. A film directed and written by the talented Christopher Nolan, famous for the success of the Dark Knight trilogy comes the creation of

   
     If you haven't watched the movie, I will give you a quick summary of what happened. In the near future, earth has deteriorated greatly. Humanity is struggling to get by as resources are limited. Education is even limited to only those who pass the standardized government testing. Those who fail are left with an ominous future of farming agriculture in the dust filled world. Cooper, played by Matthew McConaughey is an ex-pilot and astronaut who is recruited by NASA to join a crew of scientists on board a spacecraft, the Endurance. Their mission is to search for a planet that can sustain life in another galaxy. An alternate way to save the human race was to find an equation relating to the fifth dimension and the ability to manipulate gravity. It is clear that after years of work and limited date about the universe, it still has little hope of being solved. Cooper quickly finds himself to have to decide between seeing his children again or finishing an almost impossible task that could save the human race.

     So how did this great film come to be? Well Nolan has stated in many interviews that a few past films have influenced the overall outcome of this movie. He was inspired by many previous sci-fi films such as Star Wars (1977), Alien (1979), and A Space Odyssey (2001). Many of which have impacted the set design and theme of the film. This was obvious to fans, some of which have were inspired to create some artwork that would link the two worlds. An example of this is shown below where the Imperial AT-AT Walkers from Star Wars Episode V is shown in a screen capture of Interstellar.

Fan Art

     I think it's obvious that this movie has many fans, including me. But why does this particular movie gather so much attention within the social atmosphere? Well to get it started, this movie was nominated for five Academy awards and even winning Best Achievement in Visual Effects. I can vouch for how visually pleasing this movie is.

     I also personally feel that this movie gives viewers a sense of reality to what is actually happening to our earth right now. With all the global warming scares, climate change and the growing rate of extinctions, it's possible that this movie might not be that far off from showing us our potential future. Before I get into depth into that subject, I want to talk about some certain aspects of the movie that definitely gives people some topics for discussion.

     The advancement of technology the society in this movie is capable of almost puts me in a state of awe. First of all, they introduce drones. DRONES! I mean we do have drones now but they are not as nearly impressive as the one in this movie. Meet Tars.

Meet Tars

According to Wikipedia, Tars is one of three former U.S. Marine Corps robots. His personality is programmed to be witty, sarcastic, and humorous. He is also programmed to be a suitable companion for the members of the Endurance. Seriously, how great would it be to have a robot companion who has access to all the world's knowledge. That could be very helpful when I'm struggling with a difficult assignment. Or if you want a philanthropist's view, it would be very helpful at a busy hospital.

      This movie also introduces space travel and cryo-sleep. First of all, SPACE TRAVEL! How can that not be exciting?! It would be amazing to be able to have the technology that allows people to travel from planet to planet and meet other life forms. I wish to be able to live long enough where space travel is possible, but I don't think that would happen for another century. And with space travel, comes the idea of cryo-sleep. Cryo-sleep in the movie is basically a chamber that allows the members of the Endurance to enter a

Cryo-sleep chamber

state of hibernation. Since travelling to another galaxy would take years, they would sleep their years away and would not age. If they didn't have that, I could imagine the members slowly going in crazy within a month. There's speculation whether this is possible, but as far as I have searched up, we really do not have the technology nor the scientific data to produce such an extravagant anti-aging device.

     New scientific theories are often discussed throughout this movie. They bring in the theory of the fifth dimension. The dimension we currently live is in the third dimension. It is space and our reality. Everything we see is with length, width and depth. With the fifth dimension however,

A space station created using the scientific laws based on the fifth dimension, which was used to save the humans of Interstellar.

it gets much more complicated. It basically allows time to be an entity, essentially allowing it to be something that can be manipulated. And since gravity is correlated to time it can also be manipulated. To get into the finer details of this theory is quite difficult to understand. Even I'm having trouble really grasping the idea of it. What I'm trying to say is that it's totally fine if you don't understand it either since most physicists are still trying to make sense of this theory. What the movie tells us however is that there are species out there that have evolved to become species of fifth dimension and that these species help the humans alter what is to come. It's not like we can fix the past but more on the terms of fixing what is more likely to happen. Therefore we can send messages to the present to help alter the future. It's really confusing, I know. It really blew my mind to think of this even being possible. But it's an interesting theory that is portrayed very well in the movie. By finding the scientific laws based on this fifth dimension, humans were then able manipulate the affects of gravity to create a cylindrical space station. It basically defies the laws of gravity.This allowed them to transfer all the humans on Earth to live on this space station, where they are able to live properly like the generation of humans before them.

     The theory of relativity also comes into play as it causes time changes with where each character is. Basically, when Cooper enters the world of another planet, time could either go slower or faster on there. This is evident when they checked the planet Miller to see whether it could sustain life but time there actually went a lot slower. Spending a whole hour there is equivalent to 7 years on Earth. This obviously affects the relationships between characters since Cooper will age a lot slower than his own children. He even returns to the spacecraft from that very same planet to find out his daughter is now his age. With his promises of returning back by the time his daughter turns to his age is broken, his relationship with his daughter is also broken.

Approaching dust storm

      With all these new technology being brought to life in this movie, I can't help but contemplate how it was necessary to use them to save all of humanity. So as I said before, this was a mission to save the human race. The earth has come to a point where we are all out of resources. Within the first thirty minutes of the movie, okra has gone into extinction. I'd be pretty sad because okra is in fact my favorite vegetable. Characters in the film are facing constant dust storms since the world has gone to dry. And with these dust storms, they are pretty dang crazy! This obviously can impact the health of the characters, which it did. The second generation of children are facing serious lung problems due to all the dust inhalation. It even caused the premature death of Cooper's grandson, one he never met due to the mission.

     Going back to the fact that this society is struggling, I'd be furious to discover that the government is secretly funding NASA. Even though NASA has done great things, the world is literally at the brink of extinction and they are obviously not prioritizing the people. If anything, the people have the right to know about it. The mission after all was to save all of humanity. But as it was discovered later in the movie, the initial mission was to regrow the population at another planet across the galaxy. There's clearly a lot of secrecy between everyone, even between the NASA scientists. It is evident that this society is very desperate to return the Earth the way it was before, such as the state our Earth is at right now. When it becomes clear to the citizens that the world is at a lost, it causes chaos. So maybe in this aspect, it was best to keep it a secret. In my opinion, I think the government should have told the citizens the truth and construct a plan for them to follow so that they can avoid the possible chaos that may ensue. But obviously, most governments don't even do that now.
   

An accurate representation of how I felt after the movie.

     It makes me skeptical to think that this could actually be possible, from the technology to the actual event. I will state that the earth is indeed facing a global crisis. NASA today is making great advancements in technology and is constantly gaining more knowledge about the universe around us. But some questions will always come to mind: are we capable to unlock all the mysteries of the universe? Will we be intelligible enough to evolve into a five dimensional species? Are we faced with  an unavoidable end? The answers are unknown. But what can happen and what will happen are two very different statements. What we can do now as human beings is to take the factual knowledge represented within this movie and apply it to our current society, and see what we can improve from there. We are an intelligible species and we can amount to great things. In this case, the right question to ask is whether I will live long enough to see where the future will take us and whether that will happen.
   

      Being from such a strict household, my parents used to always nagged me about what was I doing on the computer. They often warned me about "internet predators" and not sharing personal information foolishly. But since I am older now, they know that I would never share any of my personal information unless it was very necessary. Such as on Facebook, most of my privacy settings are set so that I can only see them, and the rest of my settings are where only my accepted friends can see them.  Even my tagged photos are set for my eyes only because 1. it's either a bad picture, & 2. I don't think my Facebook friends need to know where I  was Friday night with my real friends, (unless of course you're friends with those same friends of mine so then you can see them.) For those friends settings, they can only see photos of special events that happened in my life. I don't want to end up being one of those people where you search up your name on Google and you see a bunch of links to all your information! That would actually make me very scared. Putting my private information out for the public to see, is just buying a one way ticket to the the police station cause somebody 'stole' my identity. I gotta thank my parents for always being strict for this one time.

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Khadijah dislikes her teacher a lot and rants on about him to make herself feel better. But guess what, teachers are human too! They have feelings and thoughts just like everyone else but people seem to forget that. It was very inappropriate for Khadijah to have tweeted those rude comments about her teacher, because that's cyber bullying. Except in this situation, it's not student to student, but student to teacher. Very rare!

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