Interstellar

When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.

Why it stayed with me

Seeing it in IMAX made the experience physical, but what stayed with me was the moral weight of time: what parents owe children, what today does to tomorrow, and how hope can be engineered.

Key points

• Time is the real antagonist.
• A generation can inherit either courage or resentment.
• The film makes cosmic scale feel intimate.

Film details

• Director: Christopher Nolan
• Year: 2014
• Genres: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
• Runtime: 169 min
• Personal rating: 10/10
• IMDb: tt0816692

Cast notes

Main cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain.