Be an astronaute : it' sucks!

!WARNING SPOILER!

 

I choose to talk about the film “Gravity”, I have seen it few weeks ago and I really enjoy it.

Start at the beginning, I’m gonna explain the synopsis. As you can imagine, “gravity” deal with space and astronaut, nevertheless, I’m sorry if I disappoint you but there isn’t any alien. Elsewhere have you seen the film?

During the film there are only two characters, the doctor Ryan Stone, interpreted by Sandra Bullock, and Matt Kowalski, a veteran astronaut on the verge of retire and who do his last trip into space interpreted by George Clooney. Sometimes we can hear the voice of the technician stay on earth who are giving instructions, but that’s all, there is only two actors in the whole movie.   
In my opinion it’s a very dangerous choice, but it’s works in this film… Anyway I will explain this later.

At the beginning it’s just a very runs-into-the-mills’ mission, but whereas the two character are outside the space’s station, a technician informs then that Russian blew up one of their own station earlier and debris from explosion are turning around earth and approach quickly the place where there are so they must get in the station to protect themselves.

Unfortunaly they don’t have the time and the doctor Stone is protected away from the ship, turning on herself again and again, unable to stop because of the gravity 0 and she faints. When she wakes up, she is alone, lost in the dark, she can see nothing, she calls the station but nobody answer because she’s too far and continues to drift into space. But fortunately Matt found her, indeed as he’s a confirmed astronaut he can move in space thanks to thrusters but it is the only one to be equipped.

They return to the shuttle and discover it is pulverized; Stone and Kowalski are totally alone, left to themselves in the universe. The deafening silence around them tells them they have lost contact with Earth - and all chance to be saved. Kowalski decides they must go to an another station to take a module and return on earth. But the station is far away from them and they have to let them drift to join it because Kowalski can hardly propel them, because thrusters are almost empty.

Gradually Stone panic, especially as each breath, it consumes a little more some oxygen reserves largely eroded when drifted. But Kowalski calm her. As there are approaching the station Kowlaski propel them one last time they drift in the right direction.

They knock on the station, but failed to hold on to anything. Stone Foot’s hangs in extremis in cables and she manages to catch Kowalski. But he took too much speed and leads Stone with him, unfortunalty it’s too late for him, he can’t be save then he forces Stone to let him go to save her. While he fatefully recede away from the ship she promises to come back for him.

And that’s all I’m done with the synopsis. Now I want to explain why it’s excided me so much.

First of all it was a terrifying film, however there’s no blood, no psychopathic murderer or monsters eating people. But throughout the film, I was terribly tense, because of the atmosphere, and it’s very strong what the director could done. This is true when you think about the space you imagine the ships that go faster than light, aliens, adventure, the last borderland of the human being. But that’s not what is really space, or not yet. Actually we are completely alone in space, if you have a problem anyone can’t do nothing, not even us, we are utterly powerless in space. We are lost in the immensity, into cold, darkness, nothingness, unable to move or breathe, knowing that we are going to die alone however the earth it’s just in front of us, so close and yet so far, unattainable. And this is more terrifying than any serial killer in my opinion.

The fact that there are only two characters into the film reinforces this feeling of loneliness, it starts instead of the characters, I can not count how many times I was hanging onto my chair while Stone is caught up in extremis before disappearing into space. And when George Clooney die, I cried, OMG I cried so much, not because is sad,      
But because she held, but she could do nothing, and he knew it, and he very calmly dropped the cable, the only thing that could save him from a horrible death because he knew it was the only thing to do, he was already doomed but he could still save her.

Contrary to what some people say I think there is a depth in the film, these images from space, these senseless clouds, these incredible visions of our small planet, in this his incredibly worked, and that return, according astronauts who have seen the film, what they saw up there and made ​​you want to apply for the next mission. Nothing on the meaning of life, or it then incomplete paradoxical: Survive.