Christopher Nolan's Interstellar is a philosophical parable about time, love, and the unknown boundaries of the Universe. The film amazes not only with it's visual effects, but also with the way it combines scientific theories with deep human emotions. However, few people know that the spirit of this film can be felt in one unusual animated project that was released six years ago.
It has the same large-scale ideas, but with a much darker shade, reminiscent of the nightmarish visions of Howard Lovecraft.
We are talking about one of the episodes of the animated series Love, Death & Robots an animated almanac in which each episode is a separate story, ranging from absurdity to horror. Particularly noteworthy is the episode Beyond the Eagle Rift, one of the most frightening and profound in the show.
Beyond the Eagle's Rift is the seventh episode of the first season of Love, Death & Robots, and follows Tom, the captain of the Blue Goose. The Blue Goose is a cargo ship that is sent wildly off course due to a miscalculation.
When he arrives at the Saumlaki station, it turns out that due to time dilation, only a few months have passed for the crew, but centuries have flown by on Earth. This is far from the only discovery that Tom makes on board the station, while simultaneously restoring relations with his former lover Greta.
The heroes face the terrible consequences of a navigation error, falling into a trap where reality dissolves into illusions. As in Interstellar, there are motifs of separation, space that spares no one, and the truth, which can be more terrible than any lie. Well, and not without "gags" with time, of course. If you like space travel, philosophical reflections on the fate of man and plot twists that make you think, this episode is the perfect addition to Interstellar.
