THE GRAVITY OF GRAVITY
In
spite of Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón,
2013) was one of the most acclaimed films in the 86th Oscar’s Award Ceremony,
I think it is not the masterpiece that everybody says it is. Even though I enjoyed it very much and I like
it, it can be only qualified as “entertaining”.
Please
allow me to explain myself just before you start to shout that I don’t know how
to appreciate a good movie.
I
must recognize that the cast is good and they perform very well, since the only
thing that Sandra Bullock needs to do is breath hard and George Clooney
performs perfectly the role of George Clooney. A least the result is convincing!
Furthermore, I don’t have any complain about the film’s scientist exactitude.
In my opinion it is a good film in this sense although a lot of blogs and web
pages have done a complete research about the film’s mistakes. I don’t mind
them. I don’t want to pretend I’m an expert in Physics. So I won’t waste time
on it.
My
main point is that the movie pretends to be poetic and it includes a bunch of
metaphors, which are quite obvious and simple. Talking about life, death,
resurrection, evolution through a “space story” is very easy. Moreover, you are
not going to do it better than Kubrick in 2001:
A Space Odyssey (1968). The movie
neither is dramatic. I mean, it is not more dramatic than films such as Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979) or Outland (Peter Hyams, 1981). That kind
of atmosphere and fear about loneliness and being forgotten in space is not
something new. The feeling I had after having watched the film was that it was
only a scene of a film, not an entire movie.
So,
if you decide to watch Gravity I’m
pretty sure you are going to enjoy great FX but there is no anything else. To
its favour, it only last about 90 minutes.
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