¡gracias...Mr Cuaron

Rating: 10/10 (14 October 2013)

Gravity is the best film I have seen in my life.Right from the opening act, where Clooney's space walking Kowalsky & Bullock's Stone admire the beauty of the Earth from the silence of the space till the final act(I don't want to give it out), this film is an achievement of the highest order. In fact, Gravity is one of those rarest of rare cases, where Cinema takes the form of Art. Not since Avatar or more recently Ang Lee in his Life of Pi, has anyone used 3D so brilliantly that it actually transcends the dimensions of "make believe". The music score by Steven Price are to give you goosebumps. Emmanuel Lubezki's cinematography seamlessly captures the effects & the emotions on the faces of the actors & the results are the best seen in a long long time.Clooney as usual is at his cool avatar but its Bullock who is the star of Gravity. As the lonely mother who has lost her child untimely, & a first timer in space, another catastrophe is too much for her to handle, and Bullock is just brilliant in that. This is where the father son(Jonas Cuaron, what a talented guy!!) screenwriter duo step in. The journey from drifting in space with no one to help you out,hear you out to back home on earth is so masterfully crafted that yes you start rooting for them. But Gravity's ultimate brilliance lies in the fact that while we do root for our space walker/worker duo to come back home,we also think that such a glorious death might just also be just fine.But eventually do they both get back in one piece? Gravity, talks about survival, human willpower & hope like no other film since Danny Boyle's criminally under appreciated 127 Hours. Neil Armstrong had famously said after landing on the moon "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind". Such a thing happens here in Gravity also albeit in a metaphorical manner. I have rated 10/10 stars for Alfanso Cuaron's Gravity. But how do you count the stars in space?? Mr Cuaron...this film of yours is for the history books.