Thursday, 3 March 2016

Reasons Why most Nigerians do not like the movie "Interstellar", a highly educative science oriented movie with intelligent storyline and awesome CGI Visual effects.


Interstellar is a 2014 science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and Michael Caine. The film features a crew of astronauts who travel through a wormhole in search of a new home for humanity. Brothers Christopher and Jonathan Nolan wrote the screenplay, which has its origins in a script Jonathan developed in 2007. Christopher Nolan produced the film with his wife Emma Thomas through their production company Syncopy and with Lynda Obst through Lynda Obst Productions. Caltech theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, whose work inspired the film, was an executive producer and acted as scientific consultant. Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, and Legendary Pictures co-financed the film.
The film was a box office success with a worldwide gross of over $675 million, and received positive reviews from critics, who gave particular praise to the film's science fiction themes, musical score, visual effects, and the performances of McConaughey, Hathaway, Chastain, and Mackenzie Foy. It received several awards and nominations. At the 87th Academy Awards the film won the Best Visual Effects award and was also nominated for Best Original Score, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, and Best Production Design.
With all the success and the academy award winning masterpiece, why are vast majority of Nigerians and other third world nations' citizens hate watching this movie? The major reason according to what I've heard and observed is that most third world nations are being ruled by corrupt governments exploiting on their citizens for their own interest, thereby discouraging intelligent ideas in moving the nations forward industrially. The second reason is that most if not all third world nations citizens are extremely religious with different religious beliefs thereby encouraging religious bigotery and terrorism. well, since science and religion are not on the same page, it is odvious that religious people are not interested in watching this kind of movie since it will go against their religious beliefs and ideologies. The third reason is that most people lack scientific knowledge. it is simply because of the major reason, "corruption", and the second reason, "Religion" or may be some people are not just science oriented.
One has to attain a certain level of reasoning and understanding before knowing Interstellar is a nice movie. Most Nigerian folks won't like the movie, the concept is too large for them to grasp just as most of them think Inception, Contact and Prometheus were boring. It annoys me when I see conventionally absurd opinions about movies people tend to dismiss as MASTERPIECES in this day and age. It's like Nigerians are falling behind intellectually. If you've watched a movie like interstellar and still dont know what a proper masterpiece looks like, then you are either one of the victims of corruption and religious extremism, which dosen't encourage you to develop yourself, since political corruption and religious extremism and radicalism hinder progress in science and technology. They impedes your intellectual development and advancement. Vast majority of people in developed nations love watching Interstellar and other movies like it because they have attain higher level of scientific knowledge and understanding. Well, reason being they are being governed by little or non corrupt governments and they don't take their religious beliefs to an extreme because they are open minded and curious people. these encourage advancement in their educational system in every area including science and technology