4 Tantalising Clues In The New Interstellar Trailer

4. Everything Sucks

There's been hints of this in the previous marketing materials for Interstellar, but this is the first time we've got official confirmation, and not just rampant fan speculation: the Earth is screwed. Literally and figuratively. In the film we see sandstorms affecting everyday life and forest fires breaking out without anyone flinching, suggesting these sorts of apocalyptic natural disasters have become so regular as to be part of life. Not ideal, though, which'll be why Michael Caine's scientists keeps babbling on about everything being terrible, and Anne Hathaway's astronaut also mentions that the human race is on the edge of extinction. Urk. We're also screwed in a more figurative sense. "We used to look up in the sky and wonder about our place in the stars," Matthew McConaughey begins the trailer, narrating in those soft Southern tones that have gone around from romcom-smug to True Detective-profound, "Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt." The trailer is chock full of images recalling the various Apollo missions, in an age when the US government has all but given up on space travel. Not only has the human race failed to travel to space out of necessity, but also we've lost our ambition somewhat. Social commentary!