Symbolically on point

Rating: 10/10 (20 January 2017)

You're in space, your shuttle is broken. The rest of the crew is already dead, your commanding partner's corpse is floating forever into weightless oblivion, and you're alone, so freaking alone and scared, the only sound thing to do is just break down and cry while waiting for the inevitable oxygen depletion.
Yet, with no reasonable way of surviving, Dr. Ryan Stone still manages to drive it home in the most stunning rebirth parable that has ever come to life on film.
Being such a unique story about a woman's journey to personal deliverance, feel free to gush over not only Bullock's astrodoc, but this beautiful movie itself.
A win for the female portrayal, this film has a womb in which the heroine grows, it forms a safeguarding placenta around her, lovingly nourishing and healing the pain away until Stone is well and truly ready to let go of her emotional shackles and emerge crying and wobbly-legged into wet existence, with the first gasp of a newborn blinking against the first light.
In a rare case of silver screen transcendence, the character isn't the only ferocious female subject worth mentioning; Gravity itself is.