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There is no one in the interstellar space.

When I was a child, I lived in a city with amazing heavy industry and gray sky. At night, except for the hazy moon, I can only catch a glimpse of Sirius and Venus swaying. The first encounter with the Milky Way was in the projection dome of the planetarium. The strangely shaped projector rotates quietly, and countless light spots are all over the head. Of course, this is not as shocking as the magnificent light band I accidentally encountered when I was walking on the beach a few years later, but it is enough to make me feel Kant-like when I was a child: it is not only the teaching of teachers and parents that makes people respect, but also the mysterious and attractive sky above me.

For a long time, I almost never let go of any books and movies about space and the universe. Today, I will still be excited about the rise of a movie, with starry sky and Nolan, and I can't ask for more. After months of attention, I finally got a glimpse of Nolan's space world built in Interstellar. A little too high expectations, the perception of the film itself is slightly complicated. Even though the face of space was bloodshot when watching the movie, I still feel a little sorry in retrospect. For Nolan, personally, this film should be better. Aside from personal criticism, I would like to give this movie a five-star evaluation, not as a fan of Nolan, but as a fan of the distant starry sky.

The end of the journey

The core of this film is a family drama, a story about love and commitment between father and daughter. The film allows the truest and warmest feelings and waiting of human beings to naturally penetrate into such a grand and tragic human epic as space immigration. Wrapping sincere feelings in grand narrative is exactly what Nolan is good at, and its manipulation and expression are undoubtedly superb. In this film, the sense of mission to save children and the future of mankind, as well as the deep affection between father and daughter for each other, constitute a classic drama conflict of unity of opposites, which almost always serves as the driving force for the protagonist to promote the plot.

The three-act propaganda of this film is inseparable from emotional clues. At the beginning, the life of father and daughter first paved the way for their feelings and necessary bedding. Cooper is a former NASA pilot. He used to support his family as a farmer in the deteriorating ecological environment, living with his father-in-law, a son and a daughter, especially with Murphy, a strange daughter. Inspired by the supernatural existence of "ghosts" in their daughter's room, Cooper's father and daughter discovered NASA and their secret plans. Cooper accepted Professor Brand's task, and his main motivation was still to protect his children and their future, but his daughter didn't approve. Cooper's departure broke the harmonious relationship between father and daughter, and the communication between them gradually disappeared with the insurmountable distance between father and daughter in time and space. They are separated in space and emotion.

In the stage of development and confrontation, Cooper and his party focused on the exploration mission of endurance, but suffered major setbacks one after another. Their responsibility for the mission gradually began to conflict with their commitment to their daughter. Due to the influence of black hole delay effect, Murphy grew up, assisted Professor Brand in theoretical research, and appeared as the central figure of the secondary line. The revelation of the whole plan has shaken his confidence in the future of mankind, and at the same time his ambivalence towards his father is increasing day by day. In the montage handover in the middle and late period, the lives of father and daughter reached a low point at the same time, and suffered a major crisis of life and death and trust, but they still struggled tenaciously in their respective time and space.

In the ending or solution, the double lines of Cooper and Murphy finally converge and unify in narrative and emotion. Cooper abandoned himself at the critical moment and chose to save Amelia and the future of mankind; Murphy recovered from his confusion and decided to return to the starting point of his feelings and memories of his father to find a glimmer of hope. But all roads lead to the same goal. Cooper, who was sucked into the black hole, found himself in a strange multidimensional world, reconnected with his daughter and realized his real mission. Murphy sensed his father's yearning, and with the help of the information transmitted by Cooper through gravity, he obtained the key data to control the theory of gravity.

Of course, the two people separated by time and space finally reunited, Cooper realized his promise to go home, and Murphy's theory saved mankind. After saying goodbye, Cooper once again embarked on a journey, carefree to Amelia's new home for mankind.

This story is the true story of a father and daughter who really travel through time and space. Although the theme of "love through time and space" has been ruined by countless romantic and fantastic online novels, this movie can make people cry because it is so pure and true and so similar to our life. Cooper didn't hold the lofty ambition that "my journey is a sea of stars", but just wanted to finish the task quickly and return to her daughter as soon as possible to accompany her to grow up. In the critical autumn of mankind, Murphy's final choice of safe haven is still the place where he remembers most with his father.

200 1 There is an animated short film Father and Daughter, which is only 8 minutes long. The story is simple: the father left by boat after the last hug, and the daughter came to the lake day after day to watch her father return until she grew up, got married and grew old. Already the daughter of the old woman, she finally came to the dry lake, found the boat that her father left, and lay in it, as if she had returned to her father's arms.

The waiting of this life also spanned Murphy's life, but fortunately, she knew that her father never gave up. Even if it spans hundreds of millions of light years, his father is trying to wait for her. This belief finally supported her to see him for the last time.

For Cooper, all his insistence on commitments and tasks is out of love. The lighthouse of sailing, the end of the journey, will always be where my daughter is.

Two stars and an organ

As a sci-fi film with the theme of space, the display of celestial wonders is a glamorous coat of the film. Whether it's the beautiful halo of Saturn, the image of a nebula distorted by a gravitational lens in a spherical wormhole, the accretion disk spinning outside a huge black hole like a shiny ribbon, the monstrous waves on earth-like planets and the condensate in Wan Li, ice cloud, it's amazing or amazing.

Personally, it's a pity that the film doesn't present a fascinating close-up of the stars and the Milky Way. This may be the original intention of the director. Perhaps Nolan is not willing to please the audience in this old-fashioned way, but pays more attention to keeping the tone consistent through specific display methods. This seems to be a tribute to A Space Odyssey 200 1. Most of the shots about space are not shot from the human point of view. All we see is the quiet and empty dark space outside the spacecraft shell, which is cold and lifeless.

Although I didn't get a glimpse of the dazzling stars in the Milky Way, the lineup of this movie is really full of stars. In addition to Nolan's old partners michael caine and Anne Hathaway, Brand's father and daughter starred, and Cooper, the leading actor, was led by Matthew McConaughey, who was in the limelight in recent years. The only teammate salesman who can be regarded as a villain, Dr. Mann, found Matt Damon.

Needless to say, Matthew McConaughey's acting skills, with a deep and affectionate tone with a southern accent, are very suitable for Cooper's role positioning, and maybe it can be regarded as Batman's body double whose voice is deliberately lowered by Nolan. It is worth mentioning that Matthew McConaughey is the hero in the sci-fi movie Contact written by the famous astrophysicist Carl Sagan many years ago. Contact and this film are both space themes, which can be regarded as a milestone in the science fiction world. It is also a tribute to let Matthew be the male host.

Jessica Chastain, a middle-aged actor in Murphy Anonymous, is not famous. At least I haven't seen her work before, and she did quite well in a few limited scenes in the film. Murphy's childhood is full of personality and wisdom. Young actors Mackenzie Foy and Jessica Chastain are very similar, with 32 praises. Although old Murphy only had the last scene of the reunion between father and daughter, there was deep love in his voice, which was touching.

Because the film gave all the scenes to Cooper's father and daughter, the expressive force and presence of other supporting roles were greatly weakened, and personally felt that this team was a bit wasteful. Old actors will naturally have no performance problems, mainly the space to play and the setting of characters.

Professor Brand of Kane is gentle and mysterious. In this film, Professor Brand fabricated a scam of human migration for the greater benefit. This is a role that should be contradictory, but it doesn't get more performance, so it has to be interpreted as limited space or profound talent. The professor and his daughter Amelia are also father and daughter. Because there is no leading role, they have to be foil.

Amelia's emotional vacancy has shifted to Edmund, the pioneer of exploration. She has her own selfishness like Cooper, but as the second hostess, there are really too few inner scenes. Interestingly, Amelia, who came from the family of an astronaut and a scientist, published a statement on the spaceship about "Love crosses dimensions like gravity". This part feels a little self-defeating Perhaps it is too strong for my science and engineering family, and some of it has played a role-it turns out that love is the fifth basic force, and the spaceship that loves to drive the engine sounds great. Well, I'm still a little girl. Just understand.

Romilly and Doyle, the other two crew members of Endurance, were the best earth scientists, and both of them were killed in the film. Doyle died a terrible death. He was the closest person to the hatch when the big waves came. When Keith, the robot, went to save Amelia, he carried forward the gentleman spirit of the lady leaving first, and was finally killed by the screenwriter, causing unnecessary losses. Romilly was actually very wronged, but the conscientious honest man was killed by teammate Dr Mann. Looking at the whole film, it can only be said that the two became heroes because of the needs of the plot, and Amelia finally had to wait for Cooper alone.

Dr Mann's transformation is also dramatic, but it is also reasonable, because he is crazy. As the only survivor of the early explorers, he was tortured to madness by loneliness and fear, so he first abandoned the bottom line of scientists and faked data to attract other people's help. After that, it is unreasonable to break through the bottom line of human beings. Now that you have been saved, you can honestly admit that others will not say anything, but you must kill all your teammates in the name of saving mankind. At least help Hathaway when you run away. At least one helper can reproduce human beings. When the spacecraft docked, an interstellar death was staged, which harmed others and others. Fortunately, the protagonist has a plugin.

These supporting roles sacrificed by the plot, and the vacancy caused by the lack of characterization are left to the robot TARSE to fill. TARSE's role is similar to HAL in 200 1 A Space Odyssey, but he is loyal to human beings. TARSE can come forward to save the United States at a critical moment by gagging and adjusting the atmosphere in his spare time. He not only completed the space docking under high-speed rotation with superb skills, but also measured the core data to save mankind. Such a robot with an unknown address and a happy running posture undoubtedly overwhelmed other supporting actors. Its importance and halo bonus have surpassed R2D2 in Star Wars, almost equivalent to Doraemon.

The plot and performance construct the skeleton of the film, and the rich image performance renders the beautiful appearance, while the soundtrack of Hands Zimmer further shapes the temperament of the film. At the beginning of the film, Cooper slowly stared at the cornfield, accompanied by the deep and solemn whistle of the background organ. Similar to the interpretation of Organ at Sunrise in the first paragraph of Richard Strauss's symphonic poem Zarathustra, a bleak and dark force began to spread.

The organ began to run through the whole movie, from the earth to space. The temperament agreement between organ and religious music and the close relationship in history make the whole film full of the theme of religious fate and redemption. The high power contained in the roar of the organ is as awesome as the projection of the vast and unknown universe in people's minds.

The recording of the organ in the film comes from a 90-year-old organ in a church in London. In the unique acoustic environment of the church, the timbre of the organ is particularly amazing. In addition, Zimmer has joined 34 string units, 24 woodwind units, 4 pianos and choirs. But obviously, these are all for the coordination with the organ, the proper contrast of the strings, the strange sound effect of the woodwind, and the repetition and alienation of the human voice, which render the interaction between human destiny and space more mysterious and detached for the unknown.

Three wormholes, black holes and everything about time and space.

From the setting of this film, we can see the determination to try to become a hard science fiction classic. The ecological deterioration without exaggeration is not far away now. The stagnation of science and technology caused by the decline of human beings and the abandonment of flashy design spaceships are all very real and reasonable. Active noise suppression in space and the crystallization of water and ammonia detected on the planet are also in line with scientific principles. The unexplained part is all pushed to "them", unidentified and unidentified earth donors.

For wormholes and black holes, two celestial bodies for which we can't get primary materials at present (the former even stays in theory), there will definitely be more room for directors to play. However, according to our existing knowledge, especially some widely accepted knowledge in the scientific community, many details are still quite different. Although the real behavior looks boring, the process of spitting is not boring.

1. wormhole

Wormhole, also known as Einstein-Rosen Bridge, is a fictional concept, which refers to a tunnel connecting two points in time and space. Romilly's paper explanation in the film is intuitive, and another metaphor is to compare time and space to the skin of an apple, where insects make holes to connect different positions of the skin.

Wormhole theory benefits from Einstein's general theory of relativity. Conceptually, it is easy to infer that wormholes must be a dimensional world higher than three-dimensional time and space. Scientists have not observed the existence of wormholes, but they have done a lot of useful discussions in theory, such as the conditions for their generation and maintenance.

A mainstream view holds that wormholes are difficult to maintain because of their own unstable characteristics, and need negative energy to supplement them, and the larger the scale, the more unstable it is. Some researchers have made other calculation results, thinking that wormholes can exist without additional conditions, but the scale may be very small due to the contraction of high-dimensional space. Further verification of theoretical and experimental observations takes time.

If, by definition, a wormhole is actually a distortion of three-dimensional space-time, then this distortion is likely to produce huge gravity like a black hole. If we want to realize a wormhole through which a macro aircraft can pass, the curvature of spacetime near its entrance must be slow enough, otherwise the material trying to pass through it will be torn because of the different gravitational forces everywhere. To reach such a gentle entrance, its radius should reach dozens and hundreds of light years.

So if it is really such a wormhole, it will take hundreds of thousands of years for the aircraft powered by chemical fuel in the film to cross to the other end. If the delay effect caused by gravity change is included, it will be longer. So the wormhole in the film seems to be very different from what we think at present. The "they" of the five-dimensional creatures are really powerful.

2. Black holes

The public must be familiar with black holes. Like wormholes, they are all stars in science fiction, but there is much more research on black holes, especially Hawking, a well-known black hole researcher.

As a celestial body formed by the collapse of large stars under their own gravity, black holes have incredible gravity, and even photons can't escape the strong gravitational field near them. The most famous is the star-level Schwarzschild black hole, which is neither charged nor rotated. The critical surface of its outer layer becomes "horizon", which is a term appearing in movies. On the horizon, only objects moving at the speed of light can escape the attraction of black holes. The radius of a sphere surrounded by the horizon, called schwarzschild radius, is proportional to its mass. The core singularity of a black hole is hidden deep in the horizon. Under the gravity of the black hole, interstellar matter is attracted and hovers around the black hole, which produces radiation during acceleration and friction, forming a dazzling "accretion disk".

One of the executive producers invited by this film is Daniel Kiptone, a theoretical physicist with the same fame as Hawking, who has made outstanding contributions in the research fields of gravity, astrophysics and black holes. Inviting him to sit in the town is precisely to ensure that the scientific setting in the film is as close to reality as possible.

Thank you very much for pointing out some self-righteous mistakes about black holes in previous film reviews. The reason for the error is that Gargantua, a supermassive high-speed rotating black hole in the film, is subjectively presumed to be an ordinary stellar black hole. Here's just half a bucket of water to do science popularization.

Black holes can be divided into several types according to their mass. Micro-black holes are difficult to observe because of their small scale and poor stability. In interstellar space, relatively stable black holes can be divided into stellar black holes and supermassive black holes. The mass of the former is generally several times to dozens of times that of the sun, while the mass of the latter is as high as several hundred thousand to dozens of times that of the sun.

Generally speaking, stellar black holes are usually formed by giant celestial bodies collapsing under their own gravity. The reasons for the formation of supermassive black holes are more complicated. They often appear in the center of galaxies, such as the black hole with a mass of 4 million suns at the core of the Milky Way.

Stellar Schwarzschild black hole may have the highest exposure in popular science books and film and television works. It has the characteristics of medium mass, limited horizon size, high density inside the horizon and strong tidal force (gravity difference due to different positions from the center).

For supermassive black hole giant planets, because their schwarzschild radius is large but their mass is concentrated in the core, their average density is actually very small, and the tidal force outside the horizon is also very weak. So Cooper can cross the horizon without being torn by tidal force.

Of course, without the extra care of five-dimensional life, even if he can escape the plasma grinding in the accretion disk, Cooper captured by the black hole is likely to face the fate of being torn into noodles by tidal force, which is vividly called spaghetti by astrophysicists.

Another feature of the black hole in the film is its high-speed rotation. According to the solution of general relativity, this black hole should be a kerr black holes. The drag effect of reference frame due to its high-speed rotation will lead to amazing time delay effect, up to 60 thousand times in the film.

If for a black hole without rotation, the gravitational delay formula comes from relativity:

T_0 = t_f * square root (1-r_0/r), (where t _ 0 is the time when the observer is in the gravitational field, t_f is the normal time when he is away from the gravitational field, r_0 is the schwarzschild radius, and r is the position where the observer is away from the gravitational body), the planet surface far from the horizon will not have a particularly huge delay effect.

It is worth mentioning that this kerr black holes has two layers: an oblate sphere, a spherical horizon and an annular "singularity". These structures are considered to be similar to some features of wormholes. Maybe "they" cleverly let Cooper avoid the singularity in this way and send it to Jupiter. The part between the two layers of a black hole is called the energy layer. According to theoretical research, part of the rotational energy of the black hole itself can be obtained by putting mass in the energy sphere opposite to the rotational direction of the black hole. This is the origin of the name of the energy ball, and it is also the basis for scientists to draw energy from kerr black holes. Cooper's plan to let Amelia escape in the film should be based on this. By giving up two spacecraft, endurance adds extra kinetic energy to escape from the black hole and reach Edmund's planet.

But for this galaxy with a black hole as its core, some unreasonable places lie in the design of several planets. There are periodic waves and knee-deep calm places on the water planet. The setting of the weak tidal force of this black hole seems to be somewhat inconsistent, otherwise the planet itself will be greatly affected. In addition, even if the radiation of the accretion disk can warm the planet and keep the liquid composition of water, it will be in close contact with the interstellar matter flying all over the sky. Besides, sooner or later, it will be sucked into the accretion disk and turned into dust.

Later, scientists learned from a painful experience that a planet like Tucao would not produce life. Then the question comes, why take the planet next to the black hole (Dr. Mann's planet is also within the influence range) as the object of investigation. Could it be that even the top scientists have neglected the importance of stars to life and the power of black holes because of the retrogression of human civilization in such an era when all the people are farming? Or the previous investigation has given people a new understanding of black holes, but the experience of endurance is obviously a blow to this childish or arrogant self-righteousness.

3. Gravity and causality

Strictly speaking, these contents will not be loopholes in the future. After all, these things are beyond the current cognitive range of human beings, but the interpretation of the film is not convincing.

So far, scientists have not figured out the thing of time, and even they are still debating whether it is true or not. After all, the dimension of time is so special that everyone is very cautious when dealing with scientific problems. However, the five-dimensional creature set in this film obviously ignores this point. It is easy to throw Cooper into the four-dimensional space, make him wake up and become a ghost to promote his behavior, and of course, feed the law of causality to the dog.

If Cooper had not accepted NASA's mission, he would not have entered the black hole and guided his past self to NASA, so all this had to happen. Every link is a cause and a result. This contradictory time loop continuum is a variant of grandfather's paradox of time travel, which has been active in various works involving time travel for decades, such as back to the future series, Harry Potter III and so on. Of course, this kind of treatment has consistently solved the contradictions in the film, successfully saved the foreshadowing and achieved emotional perfection. As for the explanation, ask high-dimensional creatures.

Another somewhat hasty detail lies in the last communication passage between Cooper and Murphy. In addition to hitting the bookshelf, Cooper, who was hiding behind the bookshelf, actually gained the skill of gravity control. The film did not give any explanation for this. Then I saw Cooper suddenly understand God's will, and realized the moves of one Yang finger and six pulse Excalibur. Bit by bit, the sand in the room uniformly discharges the binary code, and the second hand of the watch dances with Morse code. Cooper's son Tom has just been set on fire by his sister. He came back to theory angrily, but Murphy stopped him with a wristwatch with a twitching pointer, as if he had been pointed at a hole.

Since Cooper has such magical power, why didn't he send a message to identify himself at first? Quite simply, time and space are continuous, and history cannot be changed, so it can only be repeated. If you stand on the side of the screenwriter and try to explain, you can only regard Cooper's skill as a gift from the five-dimensional creature, which limits its use.

The key to human life and death in the whole story is firmly in the hands of Cooper's father and daughter. Cooper's wise SHEN WOO, narrow escape, Murphy's fortitude, ice snow cleverness, father and daughter's hand in hand, its profit breaks gold. On the other hand, old professors who cling to their inner choices, astronauts who betray their teammates, helpless pioneers and people struggling on the earth can probably guess irresponsibly. If "they" are really the future of mankind, then they must be descendants of the Cooper family.

Sishuigou and starry sky

"We are all in the ditch, but some people look up at the stars." Wilde said so.

Since the wild times, human beings have never stopped looking up at the starry sky overhead. Distant stars have been guiding and witnessing the growth of human civilization, bringing us closer together.

At the beginning of the film, the endless green fields in front of the protagonist, and at the end, the boundless stars that the spacecraft rushed to represent the images of the two poles of human civilization-the ancient homeland and the new ideal hometown, the interstellar travel condensed by agriculture and the most advanced technology at the beginning of civilization, the past and the future.

Cooper's adventure began in this field and ended in space. Behind him are countless people who want to look up at the stars in the mud; What he reached was the frontier developed by the wisdom and will of countless pioneers. Cooper's bones are still boiling with uneasy blood. He opposed the school's denigration of the Apollo program and the persistence of mankind. Cooper's chest is beating the future of children and mankind.

Professor Brand is reciting a poem by the English poet Dylan Marles Thomas:

Don't walk into that beautiful night gently,

Old age should burn and revel at the end of the day;

Anger, anger at the disappearance of light ...

When Professor Brand made this final roar on his deathbed, the human migration plan was on the verge of collapse, and Cooper on the other side of the star was entering a death trap. Dylan couldn't find a good translation of this poem. Perhaps it is because the burning words in the original poem are difficult to convey accurately in rhythm, but the spirit is far from that of the ancients thousands of years ago.

Facing the quiet darkness of death, the most authentic desire of life will burn out. This poem by Dylan is not only the stubbornness and unwillingness of Professor Brand, but also the struggle of Cooper's life, and it is also the last struggle of human beings for their destiny: "Human beings originated here, but they will never stop here." This is as thrilling, heroic and tragic as all great exploration stories, but it is closer to life. This is a desperate struggle for civilization to cut off its retreat, mixed with hope and despair.

However, even if the human beings in this film have a bright ending, they can't help but feel sad about it. After crossing the other side of the Milky Way and reaching the end of the stars, my father finally returned to his family who was still worried about him. The house that has been preserved as it is, but there is no blue sky and green gauze tent outside the house, and there is no resting place for relatives. It's warm, but at the same time it exudes a little desolation.

I don't know if this movie is a metaphor for the theme of love and protection, but I can vaguely understand the similar fetters between man and the earth. Wandering around the world, leaves fall to the roots, even the first mountain where the fox died without fruit, there is always more comfort of belonging than leaving home under the broken mountains and rivers. It is a hero to explore, conquer and colonize, but at the present level of science and technology, it still takes time to get out of the house; At the same time, the human home is at least sick and incurable. If you don't get the help of the nobles like in the movie, open the portal at close range and attach an introductory handbook of science, I'm afraid you will lose your pride in the end, but you will be sad. Perhaps, sooner or later, we will face leaving. I hope we can have enough time to prepare, and I hope this reason is not our own.