Missing the point entirely

Rating: 9/10 (5 January 2015)

Those who have seen this movie and complain about its vapidity and lack of intellectual scope..Well, is it me or are people today uneducated ? Or just dim?
Gravity is a modern mythological journey, it's about loss, depression, spiritual redemption and ultimate rebirth, rich with symbolism for those who can actually see and discern. It's Phoenix rising from the ashes, Ulysses..the technology is simply the vehicle to convey the story Here are a few signposts: The image of space itself, without direction, an airless void suited to Dr. Stone- no coincidence to her unfortunate name. Someone in a spiritual wasteland since the death of her only child, who, when she is at work 'just drives', no particular direction or motivation. in a spiritual wasteland..
Clooney's character would be Mercury, the winged messenger, facilitator of transcendence, sometimes described as Trickster which he literally is in this situation. When Dr. Stone is about to give in and give up the ghost so to speak, he comes to her in a dream, and offers the option of returning home. Her final journey from Tiangong, translates as 'temple' in Mandarin, is marked by fire and water. She has to save herself from drowning and shed her 'space' skin like the mythical snake before rising to the surface, preceded by a little frog swimming before her - another nice little touch of mythology- the frog symbolizing transformation and rebirth, being born in water and living on land. The last words of dialogue in the movie from Dr. Stone are 'thank you' She repeats this directly to the earth as she is holding on to fistfuls of sand. The last image we see of her is one of her rising like a colossus standing on two feet for the first and only time in the movie, then taking a few tentative steps like the newborn which she now is