Interstellar (2014)

Directed by Christopher Nolan.
Written by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan.

Storyline:

A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.

Main Characters:

1. COOPER - (hero)
2. MURPH - (ally)
3. TARS - (ally)
4. DOYLE - (enemy)
5. MANN - (enemy)
6. DR. BRAND - (goddess)
7. PROF. BRAND - (mentor)

​Milestones (FIRST ACT):

1. Ordinary World: Cooper is a corn farmer (and a former engineer), father of Tom and Murph. Their mother is dead. The world is a different place. Earth is running out of food and farmers are needed more than engineers.
2. Call for Adventure (00:19:00): Cooper, Murph and Tom follow a surveillance drone. Suddenly a dust storm covers up the town and a binary code of sand left on Cooper's floor indicates a coordinate. Cooper and Murph go after it.
3. Meeting the Goddess (00:26:00): Cooper is interrogated by a robot. The interrogation is interrupted by Dr. Brand who takes Cooper to the meeting room.
4. Meeting the Mentor (00:29:00): Prof. Brand tells Cooper he was at NASA and explains their current situation, the world's starvation and Lazarus mission.
5. Call for Adventure (00:39:00): Cooper is chosen by Prof. Brand to go on space, find a new planet for humans to live and save the generation of his children.
6. Crossing the Threshold (00:42:00): The rocket of Cooper is launched.

Milestones (SECOND ACT):

1. Set of Trial: They start the quest after the wormhole.
2. Making Enemy (01:05:00): Doyle and Copper have different opinions about Gargantula.
3. Set of Trials: Copper convinces the team to stay with Plan A. Dr. Brand must find the data before a huge wave hit them on the surface of the planet. Doyle dies and the ship gets waterloaded.
4. Crossing the Second Threshold (01:21:00): Decades have passed while they were on the planet. Murph and the people on Earth got older.
5. Atonement with the Father (01:30:00): Prof. Brand confess before dying that there is no chance that Plan A would succeed.
6. Making Ally (01:35:00): They wake Mann and have high hopes to have found a livable planet.
7. Belly of the Whale (01:41:00): Dr. Brand and Cooper find out by the message of Murph that
8. Approaching The Inmost Cave (01:48:00): Murph has a feeling that if she goes back to her old room she might find a solution to save her father and Earth. Mann confess that the planet is too cold for life and fight Cooper.
9. Resurrection and Elixir (01:58:00): Cooper finds the radio in the snow and screams for help. Murph changes her mind and tries one more to time to find the solution.
10. The Ultimate Boon: The Endurance explodes while Mann tries to get in.
11. Love in the Underworld: Cooper sacrifices himself so Dr. Brand would have enough fuel to find the last possible planet.
12. Approaching the Inmost Cave: Cooper falls into the Dark Hole.
13. Resurrection and Elixir: Copper uses Morse Code to communicate with her daughter in the past. She uses the code to break the equation that solves every problem.

Milestones (THIRD ACT):

1. Freedom to Live: Copper wakes up in a space center. Murph is famous and old. She gets frozen to be alive on the day they rescued Copper. She tells him to go after Dr. Brand.
2. Magic Flight: Copper goes after Dr. Brand.

Final Feedback:

The film is 170 minutes long. It actually has more than 3 acts - Two Inmost Caves, Calls for Adventure, Elixir and Resurrection. The picture feels to have a pretty good pace.