Interstellar is not only a hard science fiction, but also a "redemption" about love.

Many people ask: Can Interstellar understand science fiction without understanding it? In fact, most of what you say is about science fiction. However, this movie can make people brush again and again, not only because of the hard science fiction in it, but more importantly, it can find the emotional voice of ordinary people. As long as you have the emotional perception of ordinary people, you can find the power to hit the soul directly in it.

"Survival" or "Destruction"

The film begins with two plans of Dr. Brandt Sr., and the earth's environment is deteriorating and facing destruction. NASA headed by Dr. Brandt Sr. wants to save the earth. Two plans have been made. Plan A is to emigrate on a large scale and build a space city, but this needs to overcome the gravity of the earth. The ability of human beings is not yet reached. Fortunately, Dr. Brand Sr. discovered the formula of gravity, which can control gravity and send people into space. But because the second step of the formula needs the data inside the black hole, it is impossible to get this data, so many people don't know that Plan A was just an illusion at that time. Plan B is interstellar colonization, which allows astronauts to take human fertilized eggs to the distant starry sky to find a home suitable for human survival. The protagonist Cooper is an astronaut in this space program.

Old Dr. Brand knows very well that it is impossible for humans to enter black holes to obtain data, so the premise of Plan A is untenable. So, at the moment he persuaded Cooper to leave his family and go to space, he knew it was a point of no return. The family thought it would be goodbye, but in fact they would never see each other again. Whether to do it or not, old Dr. Brand, as an insider, has suffered too much. In order to keep the fire of life for the earth and continue the genes of the earth people, his heart has already entered the point of no return in the life of the earth people.

Surrender to "reality" or embrace "ideal"

Cooper was originally an excellent astronaut, but he met the audience as a farmer. In the face of survival, all professional ranks are not worth mentioning, and everything makes way for survival. With the deterioration of the earth's environment, many plants can't grow, so the elites have become farmers. However, although his career has changed, his inner fire has not stopped. How did he choose when he listened to the call and came to the secret NASA to get the opportunity of space exploration? The reality is that underage children and wives die young, and only elderly fathers can rely on them. Daughter Murphy and her father have a very good relationship, and they try their best to keep him. Although he chose to follow his ideal, leave his family and go to space, is this necessarily correct? Sure enough, the space trip was frustrated many times and even fell into a black hole. The ideal gorgeous fireworks have been shattered, and the most precious years of accompanying children to grow up have been lost in reality. He regretted it. In the film, because of the mysterious power, he went back to the past through the five-dimensional space and returned to the moment when he left his daughter and walked out of the house. With tears streaming down his face, he solemnly told his daughter in a panic to stay and not let him go. This walk is farewell. Seeing this moment, I burst into tears. We have missed too many things in life. We thought it was just a long trip, but we didn't expect it to be a lifetime. Cooper misses children's lives. When he comes back, his 10-year-old daughter is already a dying centenarian. When you are frustrated many times in your life journey, do you want to go back in time, go back to the original moment and say, "I regret the last paragraph, time has been pinched off, let's start again."

Guarding "Home" or "Traveling"

Cooper's son, Tom, is a man who is obsessed with his native land. Although his hometown is no longer suitable for survival, although Tom has lost a son, his wife and youngest son have also suffered from respiratory diseases because of this yellow sand. Although many people in the town chose to leave, Tom chose to protect his home. Wheat can't be planted, okra can't be planted, and corn is dying one by one. He said that if we plant more crops next year, I believe it will be better. China has been an agricultural society for more than two thousand years. How many people are guarding their homes from generation to generation? They cling to their hometown, which is their belief. However, in the environment where the yellow sand is dying, can this hometown persist? Stick to it or run away, as if the answer is self-evident in the film. However, everything has two sides. Those who travel far away may have inner strength from their homeland when they are unable to move forward in difficulties. Have you ever had a moment when you hit a wall everywhere as an adult, full of disappointment with human nature, and brought you inner strength, which was the innocent belief of your childhood? In the film, it is because of Cooper's son Tom's insistence that she keeps a childhood cabin for Cooper's daughter Murphy. Murphy, who has become a scientist and worries about gravity "great events" every day, listened to the mysterious call of her childhood when she was helpless in the face of gravity equation, and found the key data to understand the equation in her childhood cabin, becoming a great hero to save the earth. My father's long journey, my daughter's insistence on science and my son's insistence on his native land seem to be three irrelevant choices, and finally they met in the home where they lived together. Father Cooper desperately searched for the key data in the black hole, but could not complete the data transmission in the five-dimensional space. In the end, he believed that his daughter could feel his love and would never leave the watch he gave him when he left. In the "home" guarded by his son Tom, he used gravity to complete the data transmission to the watch, which became a key link in solving the equation and finally saved all mankind.

Choose "rationality" of data or "sensibility" of love.

On the dilemma, such a proposition is reflected everywhere in the film. When Dr. Cooper and Dr. Brand Jr. reached their destination through the wormhole, there were three planets to choose from, all of which had signals from the first astronauts. After the nearest planet Miller was ruled out as uninhabitable, there are two more planets to go to, the planet of Mann and edmonds. However, their fuel no longer allows both of them to go, so they have to make a choice. Cooper is very rational. He believes in data, because Dr. Mann's data is better and constantly transmitted, which shows that this planet is more livable. Edmonds also sent data, but it was interrupted two years ago. Judging from the data, Cooper tends to choose the first one. But Dr. Brand Jr., the daughter of Dr. Brand Sr., prefers the second one because there is her boyfriend there. He believes in her boyfriend and the call of love. Data can be faked, but heartfelt love can't lie. Finally, as the audience thought, reason overcame sensibility, and Cooper went to Dr. Mann's planet. As a result, this place is full of fantasies and the environment is extremely bad. The data are all fabricated by Dr. Mann in order to survive. In order to create the illusion of livability and let the earth give away again, he can also go out smoothly. The result of this choice is very bad. Cooper was almost assassinated and the ship's fuel was running out. It is likely that this space exploration will be abandoned, and they have reached the most dangerous moment. At the critical moment, in order to save resources, Cooper sent Dr. Brand Jr. to the planet of edmonds. At the same time, he chose to sacrifice, but he also had a glimmer of hope to fall into the black hole, hoping to find out the data inside the black hole and save the earth with the last chance. Because of Cooper's rationality, space exploration almost gave up; But when he chose perfection and fell into a black hole, he didn't expect to die. He didn't die, but won life for people on earth. The dialectical view shown in the film, rationality is not necessarily more advanced than sensibility, and you may not get what you want, but when there seems to be no way out, you may gain greater vitality.

No one can save you except yourself.

One of the biggest suspense in the film is who put a wormhole near Saturn when the life of the earth was in danger, which opened a door to other galaxies for the earth. When Cooper fell into a black hole, who opened the five-dimensional space for him to transmit black data to the earth? This behind-the-scenes tycoon is very obscure in the film, and the audience is not clearly informed. Cooper fell into the black hole and entered the five-dimensional space, lamenting that there was never a savior and there was never "them". The tycoon in his mind has always been "we". This "we" refers to the earth people after a long time. At that time, people on earth gained new living space in the universe, mastered super advanced technology and were able to come and go freely in the universe. Perhaps the earth people left a back door for the earth people at that time after the distant years, looking back at the era of the earth's demise and with pity for their past. There is another paradox here. Many people say, if the earthlings escaped, why did they escape? People on earth come back to save people when they are saved? Save the people who died in the destruction of the earth? Since ancient times, many people have died unfortunately. Can they be saved? My understanding is that this is a kind of religious redemption. It doesn't matter who the hand of God is. The important thing is that the rescuer must have chosen to help, because he and the people on earth still have a chance. It's like in life, everyone wants to meet a noble person. In fact, if you don't live up to expectations, there will never be any noble people. Only when you are strong and turn yourself into a resource can noble people point out a way out for you. At this time, the noble is your resource, and you are also the resource of the noble. In the final analysis, you are your biggest noble. The ultimate reason why the earthlings are saved is because the earthlings themselves have not given up. I didn't give up in the face of disaster, and I didn't flinch when I was in trouble. Finally, under the guidance of love, the key data of the black hole were obtained and the people on earth were saved. Love itself is a kind of redemption. Your love for your children, your love for your ideals, your love for your hometown and your previous love can be redeemed. Only love can transcend time and space. Although this statement sounds like chicken soup, love is a kind of giving, and only giving can get it. This in itself is a dialectical cycle. Isn't this the ultimate salvation of mankind?

Fragmentation of Mermaid: Many people say that this film has gone astray since the protagonist fell into the black hole, and the front is full of exploration of the sea of stars, which is very hard-core science fiction. But falling into a black hole and coming back to life is not in line with scientific common sense. The placement of five-dimensional space saved the hero, and the induction of the hero and his daughter obtained the transmission of black hole data. A little idealistic. However, I think it is because of the second half that this film has won the emotional appeal of ordinary people. Science fiction movies can not only show hard science fiction, but also become popular science films with scientific and technological themes. It is precisely because of the injection of ordinary human emotions that this film has achieved great commercial success.