Between Dark Knight movies, Christopher Nolan made The Prestige and Inception.
The result was another creative success.
Here was a director with an eye for stories that were both populist and complex.
Theyre wildly different films set in wildly different genres, but there are common bonds between them.
For one thing, they could be read as Nolans films about being a film director.
But theres something else going on here, too.
InThe Prestige,Nolan presents himself as a kind of invisible magician.
Nolan admitted as much in one of the featurettes onThe PrestigesDVD:
The Prestigeis very much about filmmaking.
Its also intended to suggest how the film itself is spooling its narrative out to the audience.
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Nolan pursued this idea further inInception.
As many writers pointed out at the time of the films release,Inceptionis another film about filmmaking.
A leap into the unknown
Compared toThe PrestigeandInception,Interstellaris notable for its unusual lack of cynicism.
InInterstellar, Matthew McConaugheys Cooper is, at least initially, unclouded by negativity.
Hes loving father to his son and daughter and has a particularly close relationship with the latter.
The main thing gnawing away at Cooper is an unfulfilled dream.
But then an encounter with Dr.
In fact, it is so staggeringly humanist, wed argue thatInterstellarcan be read as aSecular End Times Myth.
The film is about parents and their children, Jonathansaid.
When I started writing it, I didnt have any kids.
Will the mission be a success?
And what effect will being away from home have on his children?
Having children, Nolan told theNew York Times, absolutely fine-tunes your sense of time and time passing.
Theres a desperate desire to hang on to moments as your kids grow up.
AsInterstellaropens in cinemas, the natural question arises:what will Nolan direct next?
Which is all the more interesting considering the similarities betweenInterstellarand hisMan of Steelstory.
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