Breathless at the movie Gravity

They all said it was good. It has rave reviews. "The best thing to come out of Hollywood in years" said Danny Leigh on BBC programme Film 2013. So Beverley and I went, on a rainy afternoon, to see the movie Gravity. It is good. It is clever. It is tense. Watching it in 3D is quite amazing - the teardrop was something else... It is also very sad. For me, the power of the movie is not just the amazing special effects, it is how the characters respond to the big issues of life and death. There are only two actors in the movie - George Clooney and Sandra Bullock who is terrific - she and Claire Danes (of Terminator and Homeland) both do woman-under-stress very well. There is lots of high emotion, images of re-birth and spirituality, religious metaphors and icons aplenty. When faced with death and the prospect of meeting her Maker Ryan, played by Sandra Bullock, says "Pray... I don't know how to pray, nobody ever taught me". She learns. Fast.