Gravity Movie Analysis

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Gravity is a motion picture about survival in space. Sandra Bullock’s character is Dr. Ryan Stone, a medical engineer on her very first shuttle mission. In her first shuttle mission, she is accompanied by retiring astronaut Matt Kowalski, who is played by actor George Clooney. The worst is to come when a debris from a Russian anti-satellite missile hits their space shuttle, soon the pair gets themselves withdrew from their shuttle and stranded in space with no connection to earth or rescue. As Stone is stranded in the abysses of space, she is faced by her difficult past that makes her considered surrendering all out.
The director of Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón does an excellent job of portraying the danger, desperation and isolation of space throughout
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Another similar factor is their daughters plays a major role on their mentality, emotionally, and their decisions in the movies. In Gravity, Sandra Bullock’s character confesses to her partner, George Clooney that her younger daughter died in school playground accident. While she is hallucinating, the thought of her daughter breaks leading to her attempting to kill herself. However, she does not go through it as Clooney tells her “your kid died doesn’t get any rougher than that, still it’s the matter you do now.. Starting living
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However, Interstellar had an unforgettable moment of visuals and cinematics. That unforgettable cinematic was the ‘Tesseract’ scene. In the Tesseract scene, McConaughey enters the end of the black hole into the fifth dimension. Once his entrance to the fifth dimension, he is able to see his daughter from the past. Unable to directly communicate with her, he begins to communicate through the book shelf using binary code and gravity.The scene exhibits his daughter library in an infinite loop, each consistent of her past, present, and future time

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