Love x Space x Time

Didn’t I say I’d be back to talk about Anne Hathaway??

So, Interstellar is one of my favorite movies, coming in right under both Kill Bill movies. Honestly, anytime you get an interesting and unique story combined with some good science fiction, I’m hooked. Think Stargate (all of them, especially Universe!) Star Trek (except Deep Space Nine. I wasn’t too keen on that one, but Voyager — OH BITCH!) Gravity, The Expanse & SOLOS. Interstellar is a movie that haunts me. If you haven’t seen it—spoiler alert—the movie is the idea that a highly evolved form of the human race created spatial and temporal anomalies in order to save a past version of itself from extinction on a dying Earth, in a nutshell.

Another reason I love the film is, simply, the way Anne Hathaway’s character describes love. She describes it in the context of astrophysics:

“Love isn’t something we invented. It’s observable, powerful… Maybe it means something more, something we can’t yet understand. Maybe it’s some evidence, some…artifact of a higher dimension that we can’t consciously perceive. I’m drawn across the universe to someone I haven’t seen in a decade, who I know is probably dead. Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.”

Now, if you know me, you won’t catch me talking much about love, but this shit here gets me every time! To liken love to gravity; to theorize it as some massive, dimensional force that we’ve yet to fully understand is just mind-blowing!

The great thing about SOLOS is its premise: Deep, thought-provoking, and real conversations with self. In the “Leah” episode, Hathaway is once again grappling with love, space and time; having an internal struggle between self-love and the love she has for her mother. Leah is having to talk with her past, present and future selves about her motives to time travel; not just talk with, but be brutally honest with herself. This episode shows how important it is to have uncomfortable conversations with ourselves; to excavate and exhume those emotions and feelings that we often bury deep.