Boundaryless
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
When Xie Zidi, a 27-year-old data analyst and science fiction aficionada, heard professor Brand recite the first two verses of this poem by Dylan Thomas in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, she got chills.
“I could immediately understand that the use of this poem was to parallel the main characters’ struggle to mankind’s fight for survival—the film’s central plot,” she told Beijing Review.
