I saw this on a 3D Imax. I... I just... can't...
- This film is monumental, historical, even. It puts some seriously revolutionary cincematographic ideas into practice that will be copied and imitated in the future no doubt. The opening 15 minutes sequence, the orbital cameras, the masterful use of 3D, the sound design, the emphasis on inmersion and first person perspective, one of the few "from videogame to cinema" influences that I think that has benefitted movies. Gravity will be studied in film schools, mark my words.
- This does not means that this movie is beyond reproach, for it has its weakness, mainly its script, but seriously, It is irrelevant on the big scheme of things. There are certain movies where the script must be done masterfully in order to work. This is simply not one of them. It could have been mute, for its most part, and it would have mattered little. Nasa speak, and people getting into stress situations doesn't bode for a much compelling dialoge, me thinks.
- This movie reminds me a bit of Ico. Its plot is simplistic, its dialoge almost non-existant and corny and times, and its message is a very straightfoward one: people finding the will to live, not to merely keeping theirselves alive by inertia. But this is a case where the storytelling superceeds the message. I do not share, whoever, the notion that there was some kind of religious message being hamfisted. At all. It was very poetically conveyed, and it wasn't a religious, but rather a deeply humanistic message. The couple of shoots focusing into the Ortodox icon and the Buddha statue were just a reminder of how faith, on its purest form helps with this kind of situation. Hence how Cuaron shot these scenes: same angle, same situation, different religious idols. They matter little. Faith is potrayed as useful resource for survival (she has to believe that she is going to get alive from this ordeal afterall to keep herself going). But it is faith on itself and how we humans employs what matters, while its specific subject of adoration is kept irrelevant during the movie.
- When I finished it watching Gravity, on the final scene, I was overwhelmed, on a catarthic state. I looked around the theater, and both my friends and I were on curling positions, our bodies were tense, tired as if we have just been there up there in the Soyuz, fighting for our lives, with our coats over our legs, trying to shield ourselves from the cold vaccuum of the space, shaking and trembling after a movie which was less of a movie and more of a shocking experience. But we were on Earth instead. On Earth. Alive. I felt a downpour of gratitude. Of inmense, trascendental gratitude, for just being alive, on Earth, where life is possible. Yes, this is a very simple message, but damn if it was not beautifully conveyed. Thank you, Mr. Cuaron.
