Grave is when you can't say thanks

Rating: 8/10 (25 October 2013)

Grave is when you can't say thanks.
"I'm the sort of character who's got to have an anchor. I want to be around immovable objects." That was part of the answers of the Irish singer Paul David Hewson, known worldwide as Bono, in the very extensive interview by Jann S. Wenner, one of the founders of Rolling Stone, which is published in the issue 986 November 3, 2005. (Also in the official site of this award-winning journalist www.jannswenner.com) I suspect that like this lead singer, many of us like to know where we are stand, knowing the ground beneath our feet. As much as we seek change, at the end of the day we all want to return to that space we know well. And we know it's always there. It is the site that doesn't move. At the end of the story, we like to come back to our refuge, our corner ... our anchor.
I made this long detour to say that I'm fascinated and want to tell you to go to cinema to see the last Sandra Bullock movie: Gravity. Of course, this is my opinion, and the film might be a waste, as one friend of mine think. To him it seemed bad at acting, in narrative (awful monologue, according to him), in plot and everything. A trash. I would argue the opposite. Maybe it's a matter of taste. Or maybe not. For there say that everyone sees things with different lenses.
In my view, I'm not an expert in films, the film is a staging of modern man (I'm also including the women, just in case). It's as if the director (an artist) would say: look, no matter how far you've come with your power, your money, your knowledge, your science and your inventions, you have no control of everything. You're not as powerful as you think. So, be grateful with what you have and try to make peace with life, with others, don't be bitter or afraid... in the end, you always need your neighbor, although he doesn't think like you, or speak different language.
Gravity is a journey into space, but I think it is also a journey into us. After that chaotic, bumpy and harrowing journey of Dr. Ryan to space, back to earth she's no longer the same. I must say that I also loved the George Clooney character, the veteran commander Kowalski. It's a realized man, at peace with himself and his life. A happy man able to give his own life for others (she, in this case). A man capable of service and sacrifice (something unthinkable for our politicians, regardless of their color). I don't want to talk about the stress experienced during the hour and a half of the film. I don't want to talk about the plot. I just want to end by saying that the end of this film is beautiful. Nothing like coming home, nothing like returning to what is firm and steady as a rock, where nothing is relative, but safe and will hold ... And nothing like being thankful.
Just one question to finish To Whom do you think Dr. Ryan Stone says thanks? Go to the theatre to watch Gravity. "Thanks."