Mankind was born on Earth.
It was never meant to die here.
Interstellar is a 2014 Sci-fi/Adventure movie
directed by Christopher Nolan.
The plot of this movie can be summarized in
a single sentence as A father trying to save
his children ends up saving the whole human
race.
In this video, I’ll be discussing how Interstellar
portrays the themes of love, mankind and hope.
The plot is based in the future where a disease
is killing the food crops and plants and the
earth is becoming uninhabitable.
NASA is conducting secret research to transport
the human population to other habitable planets
in distant galaxies/universes.
The protagonist,Cooper, is a pilot and an
engineer who along with other researchers
and scientists goes to space to find habitable
planets and save humanity.
His love for his children drives him greatly.The
story unfolds as they travel to different
worlds and discover the truth that has been
kept from them.
Cooper, driven by his love for his children
and hope for humanity saves humanity.
To witness how he does that, I suggest you
watch the movie.
When Cooper decides to go to space to save
his children, his daughter Murph insists him
to stay but Cooper leaves anyway to find a
solution to the dying earth as he doesn’t
want his children to die.
As his journey progresses he is filled with
the fear that he might never see his daughter
again.
He regrets that he might have just abandoned
his children to die on earth all by themselves.
This fear and regret of abandonment fuels
his desire to get back to his children.
It reinforces his love towards his daughter.
And the love between him and his daughter
plays the key role in saving all of mankind.
Hope is one thing that never leaves us.
No matter how much we deny it, no matter how
bad the circumstances are, we tend to be hopeful.
The universe is unpredictable, however, it
grants a probability for everything to happen.
In the movie interstellar, Cooper talks about
how we humans have always been scientists,
explorers and pioneers.He laments how once
humans used to look at the sky for their places
among the stars but now in the dying planet
how everyone has been finding their place
in dust.
Being a human is a gift although many of us
don’t get to realize it properly.
From the very start of civilization, we have
invented and discovered tools and methods
to overcome the difficulties and obstacles
that come in our way.
We have tried to make things better.We’ve
never abandoned hope.
In the movie, despite seeing all the sadness
and deaths around him, Cooper never lets his
hope die.
He believes that mankind is never meant to
die on earth as it is earth where mankind
was born in the first place.
He is optimistic about humans as the entities
who will overcome the problems and save each
other.
This hope combined with his love for his daughter
drives him to ultimately save all of the mankind
Hence,Interstellar beautifully portrays the
theme of hope with mankind and how hope has
kept us all alive and thriving.
At the present the whole world is facing a
deadly virus.
We as individuals of mankind are collectively
fighting against it.
There are people out there sacrificing their
days and nights away from their loved ones,
just like Cooper was, to save all of humanity.
In times as such, the best we can do is to
not lose our humanity, to not lose our hopes.
