In which LOVE was the universal constant ALL ALONG.
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writers: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Bill Irwin, John Lithgow, Wes Bentley, David Gyasi, Casey Affleck, Josh Stewart, Topher Grace, Mackenzie Foy, and a secret
Runtime: 169 mins.
2014
Director Christopher Nolan has been something of a hot button issue lately. Ever since the cultural zeitgeist that was The Dark Knight released to rave reviews and ravenous ticket sales, Nolan has had a legion of devoted fanboys. I use that term particularly: I here consider fanboyism the state of devoting oneself to a cultural property to the point of ignoring and/or actively seeking to debunk that property's flaws. Not every Nolan fan is a fanboy, though he certainly has plenty--to the point of alienating many of those on the fence about his work. Understandably so. When you try to have a conversation about the quirky blemishes of a director's craft, only to be stonewalled with denials and insults again and again, I can see how you might sour on the director in question.
Thus a party of so-called anti-Nolanites has arisen, critical of Nolan's work, but more critical of the culture surrounding it. Meanwhile the Nolanites fire back with increased vitriol, and the fence-sitters shake their heads, possibly falling off the fence due to vertigo. The talking point at the center of all this hooplah has, of course, been Interstellar.
