A few thoughts on Interstellar

Verdict on Interstellar: A gorgeous at times trippy ride through our known universe and beyond but filled with too many WTH moments and plot holes bigger than the Grand Canyon. Laudable that Christopher Nolan and his co-writing brother wanted to tackle the big question of LOVE as a thread bigger and stronger than anything else the world has to offer in particular the love between a parent and a child yet wrapping that in a lot of mumbo jumbo quasi scientific jargon or perhaps even barely scientific to the uninitiated, which is most of us, feels like a bit of a cheat. If we don't understand too well we'll simply assume that they know what they are talking about and won't question too vigorously. That sort of thinking bugs me because it points to a desire to remain deliberately opaque in order to float above the viewer's understanding. It didn't really work for me, I couldn't leave my critical brain behind let's face it a lot of the film simply did not make sense, black holes, gravity, time warps, "possessed" library, tesseract etc...What did make sense was the bond across the distance although even that left me strangely detached. I should have been responding in a more emotional way, either the film was too manipulative on that score or I've become progressively desensitized, still not sure.