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Fair enough! I definitely don't remember that it was societal collapse, I saw the movie when it came out and hadn't thought about it much since. I must've not given it the attention it deserves.
I also don't love hero stories for the most part? I find it a little forced and cliche usually, including Nolan's hero movies
Essentially all major crops in the world were failing due to an untreatable disease called the blight, similar to what’s happening right now (in the real world) with bananas. Society in the movie was still somewhat functioning but it was beginning to break down, and mass starvation, power outages, and dust storms (likely inspired by the dust bowl of the 1930s) were the norm. A plot element early in the movie focused on his feud with his children’s school for refusing to teach science correctly. There were strong signals that schools were close to giving up on teaching altogether due to a lack of belief in the future.
Hero stories are not everyone’s cup of tea and many hero stories are done very badly. Interstellar isn’t the best hero story (for me that’s Lord of the Rings) but it’s a pretty good one, as hero stories go. What I try to take away from them are lessons for my own life, and so I’m most drawn to flawed heroes and repulsed by super heroes.