Through the Screen · Interstellar · 5 min
Love across dimensions
Interstellar dares to ask whether love is something that crosses time and space. Three scriptures already say so.
Through the Screen · Love across dimensions
In Interstellar (2014), Dr Brand argues that love may be something we perceive that goes beyond time and space. Christopher Nolan built the film on real physics: his adviser Kip Thorne, later a Nobel laureate, spent weeks holding him to the rules, because, Nolan said, “the audience can feel whether there's a rule set”.
The film's twist is that “they”, who build the way home, turn out to be us. Is that an answer, or does it only move the question back a step? Who built the universe the tesseract sits in?
Qur'an
“Among His signs is that He created for you spouses… and placed between you love and mercy” (30:21).
Hebrew Bible
“Love is strong as death” (Song of Songs 8:6, JPS 1917).
New Testament
“God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God” (1 John 4:16, WEB).
And time: the film's father and daughter are separated by it; al-Awwal and al-Ākhir, the First and the Last, are not.
