It's for me
an honour to make my first review about such a great movie like Gravity.
Alfonso and Jonas Cuaron (father and son) tell us a survival story where two
engineers from NASA are trying to repair the Hubble telescope. Everything goes
all right until an accident happens, a spatial debris destroy the spaceship and
its crew leaving only two survivors, Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and Matt
Kowalski (George Clooney). Then a rush start to arrive to the ISS
(International Space Station) and get back to Earth alive before the air
reserve of their backpacks run out.
The plot is
as simple as direct. The movie keeps you tightened since the very beginning
until the end, there is no time to relax oneself. The acting of the actors is
superb, take for sure that you are going to suffer as much as the protagonists
do. In addition the soundtrack composed by Steven Price is really helpful to
make you feel the loneliness, despair and stress that the protagonists do. A
magnificent mixture of acoustic and electronic music was placed in order to
make you feel as if you were adrift in space. Nowadays it is commonplace to
find many movies in 3D format. Some directors are really skilful with this
technology while some others don’t use it properly and it becomes a strategy to
earn more money. Is this movie worthy to be watched in 3D format? Absolutely,
thanks to this format Alfonso Cuaron transmits a strong feeling of vertigo and
makes you fear for your own safety.
That’s the
analyses of the movie above, but what about the science in the movie? Well, I
must say this movie, contrary to most of the movies set in space, is really
respectful with the physics laws of nature. Gravity and inertia are the real
protagonist all along. The behaviour of these titanic forces are properly
represented. Ryan and Matt have a constant struggle against gravity in order to
not fall down to Earth. At those heights the force of gravity is so weak that
allow any sort of object to float. The effect is the same outside and inside
the ISS. Meanwhile in many movies gravity appears again when the characters get
in the spaceship and allow them to walk on the floor as it happens on the Earth’s
ground. Another example is when the debris hit against the spaceship. It never
stops or decrease its speed because there isn’t any medium in space so there
isn’t friction forces as well. Furthermore, the filmmakers were able to offer a
spectacular scene when the spaceship is destroyed by the spatial debris without
using any sound or any explosion of fire. Fire blows up very often in action
movies but it isn’t realistic at all in movies set in space. Because the space
is completely and utterly empty, there’s no air so there isn’t oxygen as well
to spread fire and sound can’t be transmitted in the void. The models of the
spacesuits, the spaceship and the ISS shown in the movie are very well
detailed. In fact all the aspects of the movie were so carefully taken that it
is hard to put it in the science fiction genre because everything which
is told in the film could happen.
What could
you expect of this movie? It’s a very emotive and exciting movie about survival
with breathtaking images of our beloved planet. The respect for physics laws of
nature is taken to the extreme and the visual representation of space
technology and NASA models are extremely detailed as well. The 3D technology
takes you the nearest the most of the people will be from outer space. The
filmmakers put the technology at the service of the film, not the opposite. In
my view the experience offered by this film is highly recommended. Don’t let it
go!
Interesting links:
File of the movie on imdb
Information about the ISS offered by ESA
Interesting links:
File of the movie on imdb
Information about the ISS offered by ESA
I wanted to put a link to the NASA web page but due to the lapse in federal government funding,the website is not available. I will actualize the post when it was.