Enter, stellify (The Interstellar experience)

Enter, stellify

                                       The Interstellar experience

I try to stretch my legs between the closely constructed theater seats. This theater must be in Lilliput, not here. I won’t be having time for this once the movie starts. Last time, when I was watching Inception, my friend’s niece began to cry for an ice-cream. And before I could get one, the movie got half melted. It seemed like I got pushed into an unconstructed dream space. I couldn’t understand anything after that, except the fact that, the child started crying for popcorn.Well, that's not gonna happen this time.

I get excited as the WB logo appeared. “Excuse me”. I look up to see the voice coming from a somewhat familiar face. She is wearing glasses and her hair tucked in the back like a pony’s tail. I adjust my legs a bit so she could pass through. She shows me her ticket, “i-12” she says in a mild voice and shows the same alpha-numerals in the seat. “Oh, sorry”, I move to the next seat. Ha, now I remember her. This girl complained about me and my friend to the teacher, that our chit-chats during the class are disturbing her. She was in my physics tuition during my schooling. Even our teacher consults with her on some topics. A rare blend of intelligence and beauty. Perfect.

I take my pen and mark three X marks on my wrist. Mission 1-Find a way to talk to her.  Mission 2- Make a good impression. Mission 3-Get her number. I turn to her. “Hey, your face looks familiar” She gives me an odd look. “I think we were in the same tuition, remember me? You took seminar on….” I  try a little harder. “Ya, I know you” She frowns. “I corrected your test papers once and our teacher used to talk about you”. “He did?” Wow, surprise me. “Ya, he told me that even Einstein can’t teach you physics” she takes a pause “And you got 17 marks out of 100”. She turns to the screen without even a smile. The protagonist is speaking about something called Murphy’s Law. So, this is what the teacher consulted with her. Great. Mission-1 accomplished.

I turn to the screen; they are following a rocket or something. “It’s an Indian surveillance drone” the protagonist declares. I hear someone clapping in the front rows. The protagonist seems to have swallowed a frog, without the subtitles I would have been lost by now. He then reveals that his wife is dead. The usual Nolan’s touch. Let it be Cobb, Dent, Bruce or Leonard, his characters respect their women and love their families. Seems that he wants decent men and dead wives. One less trouble for the protagonist, I guess. There is a sandstorm and now the protagonist finds the co-ordinates from the…. what? Dust? What the hell is happening? I turn to her, “ennachu?” (What just happened now?). She looks annoyed “someone is giving the co-ordinates in binary” Someone? “So is this about aliens?” Even through her glasses, I could see the frustration in her eyes. “Ok” I turn away from her. Never ever turn towards her again.

It’s fun to see a familiar face, Michael Caine. After being a butcher, architect and professor, now he finally found a way to the  NASA! The protagonist leaves our planet, in search of other potentially habitable worlds. As they circulate in the space and move through the worm hole, time difference starts to work out- between my mind and the movie. By the time I understand a concept they tell, a 10 minutes passes and when I catch up with those 10 minutes another 15 minutes passes. As a relief the screen goes black and it’s time for popcorn. I couldn’t resist myself, I turn to her again “ennachu” (What just happened now). She removes her glasses, smiles sarcastically “What’s your physics mark in school final exams?”

Many people said that Nolan has used humor in this film more than any of his previous films. But, I feel the real humor, Nolan standing somewhere in this dark room, seeing my face and laughing his heart out, remembering his own phrase from ‘The prestige’. 'It’s the look on their faces'. God, I hate puns.

The movie goes at a steady phase but I just couldn’t follow.Now the characters in the movie move towards the first planet ….. now they are moving to the next one where there are frozen clouds …. now we reached Miller’s planet…..now we are passing through a black hole…..it’s all black now…..now we are in a 5 dimensional space…Good God ,where am I now? A space station? What just happened? How old am I? I see three x marks in my wrist. Missions?? What’s that? Mission 1- go to miller’s planet. Mission 2- go to Edmunds……..what? Where the hell am I?

I hear claps around. This is definitely not a space ship; not when the people around you, goes out of the door without space suites. And not when u r sitting in a seat smaller than a grave. A black screen in front of me shows “A film by Christopher Nolan”. I turn to my left to notice a girl staring at me. Maybe she knows me. She is wearing glasses and has a ponytail. Do I know her?  She comes near me and whispers   “Ennachu?”