"Interstellar" chat and why you need to see it

I think I was possibly one of the only people on the face of this Earth that wasn't excited to see Interstellar this month. For me, the trailer lacked a gripping storyline and looked just like any other space movie. Despite this, I felt I had to give in to the hype and see the movie that everyone was talking about, and I was delighted I did.

Set in the near future, Earth is looking bleak as ever as it struggles to sustain humanity. Crops no longer grow because of dusts that sweep the land, and because there are too many people qualified in the technologies and sciences, people must go back to basics and focus on farming and reproducing in order to maintain the human race. Cooper (played by Matthew McConaughey) is an ex NASA test pilot and engineer who has had to turn to farming to do his part for his family and the world. After being led back to NASA by an unknown form of intelligence sending him and his family coded messages, he is chosen to be part of a team of explorers sent into space to find an alternative world for the human race to live.
Even reading that description still doesn't interest me, and if, like me, you're still hesitant on seeing the movie, then let me say one thing. Not only are the special effects amazing and the worlds that the explorers find are truly realistic looking, but the movie really gets to you.  Watching the movie, I found myself shed a tear a handful of times and the underlying message really stuck with me even after leaving the cinema. Already, we can see that all the sought after careers are in the sciences, computing and technologies and each year there are less and less people wanting to take over the family farm. While there are (I'm sure) plenty of jobs in these fields, what happens to the people who would have previously spent their years farming and looking after the soils of the earth? The more years that pass, the more that deforestation occurs and global warming is still a massive issue that needs to be tackled in our society. Though I (hopefully) won't see anything like the scenes in Interstellar in my lifetime, I know that I will definitely see the extinction of many species we take for granted today and my children and their children might possibly see things not too different from things seen in the movie.
Will the world, like in the movie, wait until it's too late to do anything? Will we wait for extreme climate changes and food shortages before we decide to make changes? I don't think enough people are talking about this message that Interstellar is so blatantly shoving in our faces and we probably won't start talking about it until it's too late.
I feel like I'm sounding like a bit of a tree hugger right now (and maybe I am), but there's something about how this movie got to me emotionally that caused this little rant. Regardless of who you are or the type of movies you usually like to watch, you need to go see Interstellar. Watch the trailer here.