Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 23:14:46 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
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Subject: [WSFA] Interstellar - spoilers!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

We just got back from seeing it, in IMAX. (odd - the one we went to didn't
seem as big as, say, the one Bill Higgins and I saw Fantasia 2000; in fact, it
reminded me of Cinerama).

Goddamn, it lived up to trailer 1 for me. It's been a *long* time since I saw
a movie, or *anything* video that good. Blew away Gravity.

Now, admittedly. when my first wife and I saw 2001 first run in the theater in
1969, I walked out understanding it just fine, and didn't understand why
everyone else didn't.

But this ... I don't get why some reviewers (and others) refer to anything
mystical. That was a *fabulous* visualization of 4-spacetime, even the books
having a time dimension on the shelves. I can even go with love: we often see
what we expect to see. There's a great story from real life, about Count
Alfred Korzybsky (inventor of General Semantics), where he was showing someone
a folding chair, and explaining how it was not *just* a chair, but had a lot
of other properties, and went to sit in it... and it collapsed, but he didn't
fall down, because he was seeing *more*. They *say* that the 5-space beings
can't, or have a real problem, picking out a single point in spacetime;
Cooper, with love for his daughter, was utterly focused on that point in
spacetime... and so found it.

The only real issues I have is the radiation level around the black hole, and
esp. Gargantua. But otherwise, *damn*, this is good sf.

mark