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What to make of the poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" from Interstellar?

This is a poem by Thomas Dillane, dedicated to his father

By jackPublished 3 years ago 3 min read

"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night." This is a poem by Thomas Dillane, dedicated to his father. He was a poet of genius with a legendary life story. He was born a Christian, the son of a professor of English literature. "Good night" is both a Christian expression and a euphemism for "death." The whole poem is about, do not accept death calmly, although death is inevitable, but the old people should fight with death enthusiastically, resist the coming darkness of death.

Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know dark is right,Because their words had forked no lightning theyDo not go gentle into that good night.Good men, the last wave by, crying how brightTheir frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,Do not go gentle into that good night.Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sightBlind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,Rage, rage against the dying of the light.And you, my father, there on the sad height,Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.Do not go gentle into that good night.Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And the movie: if we understand the meaning of this song, we watch the content of the movie, actually watched the movie for many years, has been a little fuzzy. The theme of Interstellar is love and salvation, a desperate struggle with death and the demise of mankind. This is personal salvation and human salvation. This movie has a lot of seemingly fancy physics terms, but the core of the movie is still emotional, the most simple emotion: love. There are two parallel threads in the whole picture. One is the relationship between father and daughter, which is an individual human being.

One is that humans face extinction on an inhospitable Earth and have to explore other habitable planets. It's the totality of humanity. The emotional changes between the daughter and the father are interwoven with the thread that human beings fight against extinction to explore a new territory, which runs through the film. Murphy tried to prevent his father from leaving when he was a child, and acted as a partial stumbling block to human's exploration of the universe. However, the director made up for this hard wound in reality with an unrealistic "happy reunion" dramatizically in the ending: He made his daughter, who used to be a stumbling block, finally become a scientist, understand his father's pains, and let his father, who had been obstinate, finally get love in return. It gave him his family back. In the last moments of her life, her daughter took the initiative to let her father embark on a journey of exploration to save mankind. This is actually a circle.

The poem can also be seen as the voice of the daughter, who understands her father's passion for the unknown, which is the burning life. I understood my father's departure, which was to fight against human death. When we finally have to face death, the brave people are always shining at the last moment, suddenly think of the old man in "The Old man and the Sea". Combined with the poem, I think the director wants to tell the audience that the value of life lies in knowing that the eternal darkness is the end of each of us, but people should be "angry" at death, not give in to death, live out each person's shining place, and leave their own traces in the universe.

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