Gravity

Watched an amazing movie yesterday, Alfonso Cuaron directed Gravity. Starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, it ran a chill through my spine when I watched the hour-and-a-half edge of the seat thriller. No doubt the movie has been released in a 3D form as a 2D one would not have done justice to the science drama.

When I came to know initially that the film is just an hour-and-a-half long, I had a brief disappointment as I am used to watching movies no less than two-and-a-half hours long (thanks to Bollywood). But believe me, when you watch the movie you won’t regret its short form. It is worth more than its length.

My husband is a great reviews fan. He never goes for watching a movie in a theatre till it is really worth a watch. That means nothing less than a 3.5-star out of 5 will do for him. So, when he learnt that Gravity was given a 4-5 stars in most of the reviews, he had to run for it and I followed. 

The whole movie is an out-of-the-world cinematic experience (quite literally). Though, I heard later that many of the physics laws were not taken into consideration, but you can give that much leverage to a fantastic film. After all, it was just a film. The aim of any film is to give good entertainment to its audiences (which it has done brilliantly) and not to prove or disprove any physics or other laws.

Hats off to Alfonso Cuaron and his son with whom he wrote the screenplay of the film. The first 15 minutes are just awesome. Why? Because it is a one-shot scene for a whole 15 minutes and the first cut comes after this much time!!! Amazing na. I believe it is the longest shot scene in any film so far.

And now coming to the great performances, Sandra Bullock is awesome as ever. George Clooney has a short but memorable presence. But, I was saddened when he decided to float away in darkness in the movie as I wanted him to survive. Anyways, that’s what was supposed to happen and Bullock finally survives after a lot of struggle and comes back HOME, that is earth.

What this movie made us learn? Well, I learnt one thing for sure. If a first time space-walker can survive in space without any help and can make her way back home successfully, we on earth are much lucky that we are already here. So, surviving here should be much easier as we have a lot of help here in the form of our family and friends. She didn’t have anybody to ask for support after Clooney went away but we have so many of our loved ones to look forward to when we are down. 

So friends, since this movie has taught us so much, it deserves to be a blockbuster and I am sure it will break all the records made so far by any movie in the world. Wish it all the best!!!

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