giovedì 13 novembre 2014

Gravity - 2013

It's a survival film, with only two actors, and four more giving only the voice. It's all in space, and I don't like space-suits. Matt (George Clooney) is a veteran astronaut, very at ease in space. Mission Specialist dr. Ryan (Sandra Bullock) instead is not an astronaut, she's something between a doctor and an engineer, up there to repair-upgrade some equipment. Because of a Russian incident, they are hit by lots of debris, and from that moment things become very tough. First she's loose and floating in space, but Matt comes to the rescue and brings her back to the Explorer, then they decide their  best chance is to reach a Russian space station and use a thing there to go back home. The thing can't be used to return to Earth, so Matt plans to use it to reach another place, a Chinese space station, this time, but before they can do that, they have to enter the russian station. They can't catch it well, but Ryan gets entangled in its cords, and she catches Matt. For some reason, he tells her that she can't help him, that he's risking pulling her away with him, although I don't see why, just like I don't see why people in space float away. If there's no air, and nothing is touching him, and nobody pushed him before he just let go, why he keeps floating away? Shouldn't he stay still? Oh well, I know nothing of these things, so these are not critics, just things I don't understand. On the same line, I'd have thought that she had stopped him, that they were both stopped, and she only needed to move him towards her position for him to slowly move her way by inertia... I suppose I really know nothing of these things...
Anyway, Matt decides he can't make it, so lets go and leaves Ryan alone, encouraging her to keep believing she can do it. She was in a real panic, but manages now to enter the russian space station. She tries to move that sort of shuttle, but its parachute's cords are stopping it, so she wears a russian suit and goes out to entangle the damn thing. When she's out, debris come again, not hurting her, but actually helping her by freeing her shuttle. So she enters and tries tomove towards the chinese station, only to discover she can't move, there's no fuel. She's very near the point of just letting go, giving up, relaxing there and wait for the death that will reunite her with the daughter she had and that died 4 years old. She has some sort of spiritual experience, where she sees Matt again, and talks to him, and he helps her. She decides she doesn't want to die, and uses the landing system of that shuttle to move towards the chinese station, which is slowly moving towards the orbit. She ejects herself from the russian shuttle and moves herself with the help of a fire-extinguisher. Aboard the chinese station, she heads towards Earth. A fire goes on inside, and she lands on a lake, so when she opens water fills it in and it sinks. She gets out, but she's too heavy. She takes off her suit and swims ashore. She made it, she's alive.
I don't know, it's not generally my kind of thing, and I'm sure if Ryan had been played by someone else I would definitely not like it, but since I always liked her there's at least something.
I liked the scene when she took the space suit off the first time, after all that it was almost like being reborn. It's certainly very well done, Alfonso Cuaron knows what he's doing, because 90 minutes of film pass quickly enough, half of it with two people, and the other half with just one.
Very good film, although I tell you I'm just not fond of space-suits.

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