Gravity should be treated as a cinematic parable, not sci fi

Rating: 8/10 (6 August 2014)

Upon my first viewing of Gravity I found it entertaining and a bit on the slow side. It was very suspenseful, and I found myself ignoring whether the science was right or not and surrendered to simply enjoying it as a science fiction movie.
However, as I watched it a second time, by myself on a quiet night, I found so many deeper meanings to each scene. It was to the point where I was seeing the entire plot of this supposed space mission as an allegory to the healing the main character Ryan needed to process before moving on with her life after her daughter's death.
Every scenario has an explanation in regards to her freaking with and over coming this grief. In the beginning, Ryan stated that she enjoys the silence of space. She had no one back home, she doesn't really seem to have much excitement about being in space. She's anxious and seems to only have a vague understanding of what she should do. George Clooney's character we could see as her conscious, walking her through the process to being while again.
We only learn about the loss of her daughter after the unavoidable accident during their space walk. This symbolizes Ryan's loss of her daughter, and Clooney's character even says they couldn't have avoided the loss of their crew.
Ryan is forced to go through her journey through space alone because this is the only way she will be able to go on living, if she forces herself to survive.
Every scene, the seemingly horrible luck she has with the fire on ISS and nearly giving up hope and killing herself on the Chinese station is part of her fight to survive inside herself. When she has chosen to survive and live on, she tells Clooney's character to give her daughter a kiss from mommy.
The story is about the strength it takes an individual ( man or woman, as Clooney even started "ryan is a terrible name for a girl") to overcome the seemingly impossible. This is not literally a science fiction movie about a space walk gone horribly wrong, it is a story of survival simply for the sake of surviving, even after countless things attempt to spin you out of control, suffocate you, hurt you and drain all hope. Gravity is not titled after one of Newton's laws, it is the force which pulls us back together when we feel like falling apart.