An artistic triumph

Rating: 10/10 (26 October 2013)

It is my prediction that this film will go down not as one of the best films of this year, but of any year. This film sets out and achieves the remarkable task of riding along with Dr. Ryan and looking out through her eyes as she works through external and internal challenges. Direct, spare, intelligent and triumphant. Movies have, in my humble opinion, been relegated to the exploitive and/or nakedly commercial. Stallone and De Niro star in predictable vehicles that look like excuses to pay off their vacation homes. Gravity, on the other hand, is a tight, tense, work of beauty and power. Tension and release - the elements of music, and humor and all great art. I cannot recall a film that created such a powerful experience for the viewer. There should have been seat belts in the theater.