Alchemy

Rating: 8/10 (12 January 2014)

hooray for cauron's golden globe.
"gravity" is about the stone that goes thru fire water etc and tempered into the diamond that fell to earth birthing humanity
after all isaac newtons theory of gravity was based on his alchemical studies
incidentally sandra bullocks' characters' name is stone
as i commented on previously re: spike jonze's "her", we need at least a couple, few generations of the technology age to be able to comment on it's effects let alone produce great art about. this has created the vacuum in any discipline or genre the last couple decades.
we've left the eternity of nature for the eternity of technology and intelligence but w "gravity" we're dealing w the eternity of space
we grappled w nature for a very long time, being isolated in it, it's relentlessness bearing down on the thoughtful, producing mighty works we've all benefited from
the rural spaces, the endless country. but space? the ultimate rural address
cauron takes the most basic function of reality and makes us grapple w it's loss. humanity isn't close to being done and neither are it's arts
when we finally begin to live within and without technology and space deep inside and outside of ourselves we will produce and begin to know a renaissance surpassing any that europe wrought in the arts or industry
we're finally creating new archetypes and myths that will serve us well making a more balanced species and world out of the furnace of old superstitions, and refined into the brave new freaking world we deserve and are creating
and like "her", "gravity" is about physics and meta-physics
brave new film making