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GRAVITY OF LOVE…

“The experience of survival is the key…to the gravity of love,” words from the song by Enigma. They provide ample antithesis to the central theme of Nolan’s epic creation, “Interstellar”; the tagline of which reads, “Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here… The end of Earth will not be the end of us.”
Two words – gravity and love; they seem to be resonate across worlds, across universes, across galaxies. Two words, that have made a continual presence in the movie which attracts astral justification to the title, in which a group of explorers try to twist the fabrication of nature by bending space and time to make possible a travel, and establish a commerce which is beyond the imagination of its spectator, beyond the perception of mankind.
But, its possibility is made probable by the film-maker’s remarkable imagination.
Love saves the day. It is the impelling influence, the propelling force. Dr. Brand, on board the Endurance, makes the movie’s most magnetic speech in which she puts forth her equal regard for both love and gravity as forces explaining different methods of attraction – “Love isn’t something we invented. It’s observable, powerful, it has to mean something…Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends the dimensions of time and space”… Indeed it does… And it could be the love for anything living or not…
Coop’s love for his daughter gears him up to jump into the black hole, thus leading him to save humanity. Love, that transfers him to the realm of Nolan’s imagination of the fifth dimension existing inside the black hole. The hyper-dimensional architecture of a never-ending stack of books in Murph’s room makes the viewer reminiscent of the paradoxical ‘Penrose’ steps drawn earlier in Nolan’s yet another masterpiece, “Inception”. A possible dream, an impossible reality, or simply put a higher state of existence, an extra-dimensional platform where all laws of science cease to exist and possibilities begin!
In the extra-dimensional Tesseract, Coop stands on one side of the bookshelf representing a point in the past and Murph on the other side as the other point in the future. Two points brought together by one bend in space and time as explained by Dr. Romily on a piece of paper, help the ‘Beings’ bend the fifth dimension as a way to communicate through time. This helps Murph solve the Gravity equation on a later stage in her life in Earth Time.
What would be the possibility of us as individuals, as species finding wormholes in the depths of space or simply evolving as a race and turning into the Beings, to place ourselves in dimensions of higher existence communicating with ourselves from a different plane making us realize that we don’t need to look up to the skies or make hand gestures searching for Beings to solve our problems? All we need is to believe that we are pioneers and that our greatest achievements cannot be behind us as our destinies lie ahead of us. Gravity and Time will serve as the external factors as Love and Faith become our internal.
Now the take away from this movie was the aspect of thinking, or to begin to think by pushing our capacity of imagination. This imagination which can be fuelled through a sense of creativity which is found within or observed around. Christopher Nolan made not be a scientist or cosmology but, his sense for capturing imagination leads to innovativeness towards his approach of film making, pushing the boundaries of creativity through story telling. This is like a domino effect that one aspect of knowledge leads upon other and other and so on till our imagination can create innovative approach to solve our needs. For me the lesson learnt beyond Love and Gravity was a method towards the approach of Creative Thinking.
In a Lazarus mission, where Lazarus in Greek stands for God is my help, Endurance, the spaceship symbolizes the power of love to endure and last, help Coop survive so as to establish the ultimate truth which is eminently known to be Murphy’s law, whatever can happen will happen…