1921 Distant Echoes

The movie is over.

Melodious and sad piano music flowed slowly in the screening room, the lights were still not on, the whole audience remained dark, and the list of production staff was slowly appearing on the big screen

"Director: Christopher Nolan", "Writers: Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan", "Producer: Emma Thomas", "Producer: Ranley Hall"......

The minimalist white font slowly unfolds on the black screen, just like the black and white keys of a piano, with a tenacious and gentle power in the silence, allowing the surging emotions of the audience to slowly settle down, and that subtle and unique experience maintains a rare quiet.

They need a little bit of time.

Graham anticipates the end of the movie: Cooper and Murphy finally meet again, and Tom becomes a handful of loess, but Graham does not anticipate the true ending of the movie: Cooper and Murphy are separated again, because Murphy has a home of his own, but Cooper's home has been completely destroyed in the torrent of time, and his only recourse is Brand, so he embarks on a journey to find Brand in the vast universe.

Is this a happy ending? or a sad ending?

Graham couldn't find a perfect way to put it, as it was when he watched "Love Crazy": they came together after all, but they no longer seemed to belong to each other.

What is the so-called homeland? It should be a space built by the bonds between people, where there are memories and presents that belong to each other, and each "today" is cast to eventually constitute a future that belongs to itself and each other, and there are still traces of each other in that magnificent blueprint. But if this bond is irreversibly divided and alienated by time and space, then does the homeland still exist?

People are still those people, but things are no longer those things.

Cooper's memories are real, and Murphy's memories are also real, but in the reversal of the black hole's gravity, Cooper and Murphy's memories are greatly dislocated, and eventually each becomes a virtual illusion in each other's memories

Cooper remembers Murphy as she was still eight years old, she didn't even understand Einstein's theory of relativity, and he had to go back to his daughter because that was his promise.

Cooper in Murphy's memory is still thirty-one, absent-minded by the death of his wife and the turning point in his career, believing that her father will definitely come back because he promised her.

In reality, Cooper, who is still less than thirty-five years old, has finally returned home after the thrilling experience of interstellar, but the world he knows has been completely destroyed, so is his "existence" still a real existence? Or is he a wisp of geisms floating in space?

In reality, Murphy, she is one hundred and one years old, has a huge family of her own, and has become a hero admired by everyone on the space station, she still remembers the memories of her childhood about the farm, but it was more than 80 years ago, so, is her "memory" still real?

Cooper and Murphy are still each other's most concerned family, but they are strangers who don't know each other, because they have both missed each other's most thrilling years, and the memories and promises that were once buried deep in their minds have become a symbol in a mirage.

So, does the "home" defined by Cooper and Murphy still exist? Murphy chooses to embrace death in front of her family, she is no longer Cooper's daughter, she is the head of the whole family, she has her own support, and Cooper, who is alone, goes to space to find the only partner who has experienced interstellar travel with him, but does the bond they have established through time and space still have the original meaning?

Brand, can it be Cooper's home?

At the end of time travel, will they eventually become alone? Is it true that all human beings are like this, coming alone and walking alone, this path of life, in the end, will eventually have to go on their own, all the fetters of all homes, in fact, are just a covet and extravagant hope?

Everyone knows that time is powerful and ruthless, but it doesn't seem real or accurate, is there an emotion that can overcome time and space? It's like the connection between Cooper and Murphy completes the communication through the five-dimensional space, allowing the other to return to each other's side again.

"Love", this powerful force is indelible and unstoppable by time, it can overcome everything and build bridges and bonds between each other......; When light is still reversed and distorted, when the theory of temporal relativity leaves indelible traces on each other's physiological and neurological levels, can "love" still maintain its original freshness and vividness?

Cooper still loves his daughter.

Murphy also still loves his father.

The bond never seems to have been broken, but in the social and ethical framework, in the long river of time, they are no longer destined to accompany each other. All life, all things, all deeds...... Even all emotions and memories, whether physical or spiritual, will eventually be turned into powder under the huge effect of time, and will eventually cease to exist, so what should human beings do at this time?

Isn't it true that human beings are lonely after all?

About time. About family affection. About bonding. About the homeland. About the social structure. About Interstellar. About loneliness, about hope, about commitment, about the future, about survival, about choice, about life, about the universe...... And, about yourself. Under the vastness of time and the universe, the insignificance of human beings has been magnified to the extreme, and even a sense of helplessness has begun to arise, and then it has fallen into a state of confusion and confusion, unable to extricate itself.

Countless thoughts were surging in my mind, one after the other, rushing out, but all the thoughts were question marks, one question had not yet had time to be solved, and then another question popped up, and then one after another, and finally I got into a pile of question marks, so that there was no way to react, and I just sat in the chair in the screening room.

Graham knows that he needs a little time, a little time to calm down, and many, many times to digest, the theme of this film is family affection, but the mother/body is "time", through the collision and adventure of family affection, the power of time is amplified to the extreme, creating endless possibilities.

It's even deeper and more complex than Inception.

The first viewing was not yet complete, and the subtitles of the staff behind the scenes had not yet been screened, but now Graham couldn't wait to watch the second time, and he had a hunch that he might need to watch it a third or even a fourth time, because there were so many question marks in his mind.

But the difference is that it's not because you can't understand it, in fact, the core theoretical knowledge of "Interstellar" is not so complicated, even if you don't fully understand it, it won't affect the understanding of the movie, which is more down-to-earth than "Inception";

"Time" alone can give rise to countless side events, not to mention that Graham has a reason to go to the cinema again

Blue Rite Hall.

The whole film is magnificent and majestic, vast and profound, pushing the power of time and space to the extreme, and every frame is magnificent and exquisitely amazing, but what always lingers in Graham's mind is Lan Li's eyes:

The reluctance and sadness in his eyes when he said goodbye to Murphy and left Earth, the sadness and bitterness in his eyes when he realized that he had missed twenty-three years after returning from the planet Miller, the perseverance and determination in his eyes when the Standby was detonated and fell into a high-speed rotation and was about to be destroyed and had to be desperate, the tenderness and perseverance in the eyes of the Ranger when he separated from the Standby and said goodbye to Brand forever, and the loneliness and hope in his eyes when he left the space station again to embark on a journey when the end came……

All of it, it's all about the eyes.

Those intricate emotions, Lan Li did not use too many fancy skills to modify and interpret, just through a look to complete the conveyance, the inner belief carved out little by little, invisibly outlined the growth arc of the character in the audience's mind, moved and shocked slowly seeped out.

No matter how magnificent and majestic the picture is, no matter how shocking and moving the story is, Graham can never forget Lan Li's eyes, which are the eyes of a father, the eyes of an ordinary person, the eyes of a human being, not a hero or a great man, but he can easily break all his armor and hit the softest part of his heart.

The end credits are still scrolling slowly, and the thoughts in Graham's mind are still surging, and it is estimated that they will not stop for the next forty-eight hours, but when the lights in the screening room are slowly turned on, Graham finally broke free from the sea of countless question marks, and realized that this is the premiere of "Interstellar", and they have just finished enjoying this rare masterpiece of emotional resonance, and the excitement and excitement erupt in this way.

Stand and applaud.

It's just two simple actions, but all the excitement and happiness in Graham's chest are vividly displayed, and the smile on the corner of his mouth can't help but raise a big arc, he likes such moments, to be precise, he loves such moments, because the movie makes him feel extremely real.