As difficult as it is to grasp the nature of a black hole
and its all-consuming gravity, Interstellar
(2014) also traces the powerful yet mysterious gravitational pull of human
love, including that utterly unfathomable condition we know as “being in love.”
We fall in love, which is an
expression that presupposes gravity. Yet such all-consuming attachment may not
even in principle have as its object our species itself. Even falling in love
may be dangerous—just look at Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
The full essay is at “Interstellar.”
