Gravity Provided a Grave Situation

Rating: 8/10 (3 April 2018)

Gravity is a lot like Open Water, Castaway and other tragedy movies in which a person is stranded in a dire situation. I'd say the monumental difference is that in the other movies the people were at least on Earth. I can't even imagine being stranded in space: limited oxygen, no water, no food, infinite darkness--that's stuff of night terrors.
But that was the situation Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) was in and her reaction was not unlike most anyone's would be: abject fear. This movie was intense throughout and if you can put yourself into that situation it makes for very heart-racing event.
What I thought was most amazing about the movie was how they were able to create a frightening and desperate scenario with little-to-no noise. They set it up at the beginning by stating that sound doesn't travel in space, so when catastrophe struck it was visual only. It was quite awesome.