Interstellar, spoke to me about Zen Buddhism in some ways, Speaking about attachment to material things in the world giving us pain and exerting control only causes things to work against us(Mountain sized waved, environments, even ourselves - Dr "Mann" aptly named is symbolic for human nature. I also saw that its about coming to terms with the fact that we do not have control over things before we are put on a path to success(transcendence), epitomized to me in the scene where they had to match the rotation of the space station spiraling out of control ; symbolic for coming to terms with giving up control as a means to progress.(breaking the cycle that will utlimately lead one to oblivion)
Along the lines of breaking the cycle, if you look at interstellar's rendition of the blackhole, it looks like a spherical object rotating with a disc bisecting it, looking it from a perspective one can say the bisection is symbolic for breaking a cycle. (the blackhole itself in a lot of ways is an embodiment of the unknown and the lack of control- no one knows where it leads and what will happen. This is in line with the idea of relinquishing control to break the cycle. Supplementing this is also the emphasis on a lot of things being cyclical, the space ship itself can be juxtaposed to the Dharma wheel of twelve spokes, I googled it and found http://buddhism.about.com/od/basicbuddh ... elinks.htm. The living quarters in in the middle looks like a man caught in the middle of it , spinning with the spokes like the cycle of samsara. Additionally I saw a juxtaposition between science and faith/spirituality/love - things we cannot prove , the latter being transcendent and the former being ephermal. This is evident in how cooper's character at the end (who's an explorer) stayed young whilst his daughter, murph (who embraced science to solve the gravity equation) aged and waned. Its interesting how the atypical representation of giving up control is a means for us to progress is aptly depicted in this film.
Along the lines of breaking the cycle, if you look at interstellar's rendition of the blackhole, it looks like a spherical object rotating with a disc bisecting it, looking it from a perspective one can say the bisection is symbolic for breaking a cycle. (the blackhole itself in a lot of ways is an embodiment of the unknown and the lack of control- no one knows where it leads and what will happen. This is in line with the idea of relinquishing control to break the cycle. Supplementing this is also the emphasis on a lot of things being cyclical, the space ship itself can be juxtaposed to the Dharma wheel of twelve spokes, I googled it and found http://buddhism.about.com/od/basicbuddh ... elinks.htm. The living quarters in in the middle looks like a man caught in the middle of it , spinning with the spokes like the cycle of samsara. Additionally I saw a juxtaposition between science and faith/spirituality/love - things we cannot prove , the latter being transcendent and the former being ephermal. This is evident in how cooper's character at the end (who's an explorer) stayed young whilst his daughter, murph (who embraced science to solve the gravity equation) aged and waned. Its interesting how the atypical representation of giving up control is a means for us to progress is aptly depicted in this film.
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