"Interstellar Exploration" is a thoughtful, challenging, and ingenious film that pays attention to details. It is also a film that deviates from popular and traditional. The concept and results of the film are very mature. James Gray's film is a meditation about father and son. It highlights the emotional alienation that is common in male relationships—all grafted into a story of outer space exploration, and at the same time This story also has extended meaning and interpretation to the theme.
The film looks more like a documentary filmed by National Geographic, but the charm of this film comes precisely from this lengthy rhythm, thanks to the film’s realistic and poetic imagination of interstellar travel. "Interstellar Exploration" did capture the lyrical and elegant temperament of Kubrick in "2001: Space Travel". The use of light, photography and setting of the film are realistic and elegant, creating a sense of unfamiliar beauty, just like appreciation. A landscape painting makes people understand the ineffable poetry, which is also the most valuable part of the film.
