Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: I think you're interpreting these films more literally than I do. Spoilers!

[quote name="Pirate DVD Review"]Interstellar is a very loose adaptation of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUNZMiYo_4s">Cat's in the Cradle</a> by Harry Chapin, a song about fathers and sons and our subjective perception of time. It's been a few months since I saw the movie but I'll try to recall a few examples. [quote]My child arrived just the other day He came to the world in the usual way But there were planes to catch and bills to pay He learned to walk while I was away And he was talkin' 'fore I knew it, and as he grew He'd say "I'm gonna be like you, Dad You know I'm gonna be like you" And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man on the moon When you comin' home, Dad I don't know when, but we'll get together then You know we'll have a good time then[/quote] At the start of the film, both of Matthew McConaughey's children want to be like him - his son a farmer, his daughter an engineer. They "catch" a robot plane, a drone, so they can sell the parts to pay the bills. McConaughey misses much of his children's lives because he goes away on a journey of unpredictable length, one which eventually brings him to the tesseract - a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_cradle">cat's cradle</a>" in space and time. Along the way he has a little episodic adventure with a man on a moon played by Matt Damon. If you really wanted to work at it I guess you could try to match up little boy blue with the drowned astronaut and the silver spoon with the vaguely spoon-shaped silver lander but that's not really the point of the exercise, it's just digging into a different sort of literalism. We're not trying to crack the DaVinci code of the movie so much as get on the right wavelength to connect with it emotionally. It worked for me, your mileage may vary. Cloud Atlas is trickier. I think you'd have to be open to the idea of enjoying a preachy SJW circlejerk to begin with to get anywhere with it. I was riveted the whole way through.[/quote]