To be honest, I had never seen a hard sci-fi flick like Interstellar in the theater. This and the Martian was the exception. When I first saw the teaser trailer for this movie, I was like I had to see this. Who here isn't like Coop. One of my favorite hard sci-fi movies.
It's got great writing - the story is mostly about the characters as all good drama should probably be.
Mark Twain: (Criticizing a story an amateur sent to him) God help you son. You have a style before you have a story.
People like good stories. It goes back to ancient times - maybe prehistoric.
Some of the highlights are the principle's office scene when Cooper is scolded by some school drone with a political agenda that is more important than the truth. Sound familiar? Kudos to the writers and to the principle for having the courage to speak out.
Also the science, though speculative is within the realm of marginal possibility in some areas. Except one does not survive passage through a black hole's event horizon - according to people who know. Something about the "tidal forces" of all that gravity ripping any sort of conventional matter to atooms. Other parts of that scenario are possible. If one got close to the edge of an event horizon time would likely slow to almost a standstil- which means that those in normal space would age much faster.
The
deus X machina is applied, but tastefully. The plot is vaguely similar to a plot line in Gene Wolfes'
Severian Series . Gravity is a huge question mark in physics. Unlike the other fundamental forces of the universe, gravity is little understood. We don't really know what it IS...
If one miracle is possible, many miracles are also possible.