Saw INTERSTELLAR. In lieu of anything like a review, I am posting the following. If anyone wants to discuss the movie or my post about it, send me some gravity waves and we can agree on coordinates. For me, the one thing that transcends time and space is lunch with a friend talking about an imperfect movie with lots of interesting ideas in it. After all, it sucks to be alone on any planet, but I would much rather be Brand than Mann. Regardless of how cute he was when he was Ripley. But I digress.
If Eisenstein (not Einstein) posits that A+B=C, then INTERSTELLAR is Pudovkin. A+B=AB. With A and B being made up of fractions of the following. (And this not necessarily disparaging the film’s parentage. If anything it is probably an explanation of my perception of it. Either way, the cat is now dead. But again, I digress.
Actually, this could be the beginning of an infinite digression, so if you are coming with me, best mind the Event Horizon
A+B=AB with A and B being fractions of the following in no particular order or proportion, as time and space are irrelevant to 5th dimensional beings:
- 2001
- 2010
- 3001
- Demon Seed
- Silent Running
- Close Encounters
- Sunshine
- Gravity
- Mission to Mars
- The Black Hole
- Soylent Green
- The Astronaut Farmer
- Flatland
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Event Horizon
- The Andromeda Strain
- Contact
- The Abyss
- Solaris (Tarkovsky)
- Solaris (Soderbergh)
- Stalker
- Moon
- Oblivion (Kosinski, sadly NOT McHenry. Damn you Morgan Freeman!)
I reserve the right to continue to add to the list as long as I am still transmitting. Even though you have probably aged far beyond me at this point. But that is only due to the fact that I moisturize regularly.
If anyone wants me, I’ll be waiting at Milliways.