Of science and imagination

Yes, this is about Nolan's latest. It's also about Disney's latest. This Saturday, I saw two movies; both awesome. Interstellar and Big Hero 6.

Interstellar is about the future where our planet has literally turned to dust and schools have rubbished achievements like Apollo Space Mission to keep the last generation of human population in dark about the glorious past and the inglorious past that resulted in this present. While many of my friends (all of them engineers) are laughing at the walking-in-and-out-of-black-hole-feat that Nolan makes

Matthew McConaughey achieve, I see a powerful work of imagery excellently portrayed on-screen.

The story also ticks "a world with more than three dimensions" off my bucket list. Nolan loyalists

voice their disappointments about implausible track of the movie only because they expect absolute 

logic from the master filmmaker. Agreed. But since my knowledge about the black holes and laws

governing it are next to nil, I saw the movie as a story, and in stories there is no need to adhere to any

laws. Full marks to Interstellar. 

Big Hero 6 is a 3D cartoon film about a naughty genius who is astray until his good boy elder brother

dedicated to help the humankind dies. Then the genius uses his knowledge of robotics to avenge the 

death and the story is classic good v/s evil. Now, the lead robot Baymax is a balloon-like bot, made 

of carbon fiber, which is an extremely strong and light polymer used in aerospace auto-motives. 

This, in a way, validates the incredible amount of flying sequences this fat bot does in most of the 

second half. The use of laser beam to shred army of micro-bots and use of liquid metal embrittlement 

aide the young hero and his gang in their victory. Now considering the fact that the movie was

mostly watched by primary-school kids, like my cousin with whom I watched it, & most importantly

is a cartoon, use of science is not really needed. Thus the movie aces with kids despite a few technical

terms thrown here and there. And so, full marks to this movie too. 

JJJ