Fiction, crisis and future: Interstellar’s case

Abstract

This article takes literary theory as a basis to formulate its thesis, more specifically, it departs from the line of thought known as ecocriticism to examine the film Interstellar by Christopher Nolan. This movie is taken as a cultural document that uses diverse narrative tools to expose the tensions generated amongst diverse systems of values when facing extreme environmental situations. The film’s cornucopian perspective, the romanticization of the colonization, the conquest, and the explorer will be explored in the present analysis. Last, the article concludes by summarizing the cultural aspects that are highlighted and that serve in the construction of a discourse and a particular projection of the future.