• Tabitha ☢️[she/her]@hexbear.net
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    14 hours ago

    Interstellar is like Neo-Posadism minus Marxism. The premise was awesome. Climate apocalypse and space travel. But the movie doesn’t have humanity solve either of those problems. Instead it pops it’s collar and says *don’t worry bro, the market Marxist space aliens some scientists a famous shirtless hot actor guy fuck you who cares the green guy behind a curtain made a worm hole or something".

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      40 minutes ago

      I thought the bigger issue was the premise. If earth is in a climate apocalypse, and we have extremely advanced technology that lets us bring life to far out planets, then why are we leaving earth? Can’t those same technologies be applied to saving the earth people?

      The whole “we have to go space” feels like manifest destiny and the desperate urge of capitalism to expand.

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      14 hours ago

      I have a feeling Chris Nolan goes into films with some specifically detailed poignant character moments in mind, and then he just hastily weaves a plot to tie them together. It’s interesting to watch at least, but maybe too high brow(?) to call entertaining

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        For Interstellar, at least, I’d say it’s incredibly low-brow. The resolution is just “the power of wuv saves humanity!”, which is extremely simplistic and easily understood by the masses.

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          Well I meant mostly the talking parts which we were told to care about but most people forget