Gravity.

"Nibby" (nibby68)
09/16/2014 at 20:57 • Filed to: None

I had to watch Gravity for homework for a visual class. Spoilers galore below.

So, there's a lot of symbolism. We learn quickly that Sandra Bullock in the movie is dependent on George Clooney and she just aimlessly floats around in space tethered to him because she has no control of her life. He's in control and serves as a parental figure for her. The tether serves as an umbilical cord. The first time she removes her spacesuit, she goes in the fetal position.

The space ships act as sperm and the Earth is the egg. Space debris are the equivalent of vagina dentata.

We don't know much about her other than all she does is work and her young kid died recently. She's going through grief and the loss of a loved one. She has no real reason to return to earth, especially after Clooney dies. He appears in a dream of hers and she is revitalized. She comes back down to Earth, standing on her 2 feet and independent. Also, if you break a shitload of stuff, you will succeed.

DISCUSSION (18)

macanamera > Nibby
09/16/2014 at 20:59

Can we talk about why she couldn't hold onto the rope? They were in space.

Nibby > macanamera
09/16/2014 at 21:01

She's bad at even being a baby. Babies grab onto anything.

Axial > Nibby
09/16/2014 at 21:02

I love assignments that tell me to speculate on bullshit that probably never even crossed the writers' minds!

Yes, Shakespeare clearly was making a penis joke every single time he used the word "will." Clearly.

JGrabowMSt > macanamera
09/16/2014 at 21:03

I'm far more interested in why Houston didn't know about the debris soon. Oh right, any more advanced warning and there wouldn't have been a movie.

In all seriousness though, having done many many many sound design projects and classes, the sound design of Gravity is one of the absolute best things that's been churned out by Hollywood in a long time.

When the next version comes out without audio, I will absolutely buy that one to watch as well.

I even met the sound designer for the movie, and a friend of mine was an ADR tech on it. Seeing your friends names in movie credits is pretty wicked cool.

Nibby > Axial
09/16/2014 at 21:03

Will

macanamera > JGrabowMSt
09/16/2014 at 21:05

Houston to Sandra Bullock -

"Hold on, we are still trying to figure out this space thing. It went all the way around the Earth so let's see what happens now."

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > Nibby
09/16/2014 at 21:05

I remember watching it for the first time. I only put it on because it was posted to youtube and I had nothing to do on a Thursday night. I fully expected it to suck, thinking about how two hours of aimlessly floating in space could possibly get amazing reviews. I pretty much assumed critics were suck Clooney's dick again. I walked way fairly surprised that it didnt suck, and was in fact pretty good.

Axial > Nibby
09/16/2014 at 21:08

There's one way to cheat at the "Penis Game."

Alfalfa > Nibby
09/16/2014 at 21:11

I'm usually the snobby film guy who likes all the critically-acclaimed films that most "normal" people don't understand.

That being said, I was very underwhelmed by Gravity.

Nibby > Alfalfa
09/16/2014 at 21:22

Me too.

The Transporter > Nibby
09/16/2014 at 21:27

If you disregard all of the movie's attempts at forcing you to like the main characters, the fact that the Chinese space station isn't scheduled to be launched until 2020 while the STS was decommissioned in 2011, the fact that the MMU was used only a couple of times in the early 80s and never used again, the fact that the MMU lacks the delta-V to perform the orbital plane change from the Hubble's high altitude orbit to the ISS's orbit by at least one order of magnitude, the fact that orbital plane changes aren't something that can be "eyeballed", and the fact that the EMU wouldn't have enough oxygen and power to keep an astronaut alive long enough to complete an orbital plane change especially since most of its oxygen and power had been depleted during a long and strenuous EVA, it's actually a very watchable movie.

Nibby > The Transporter
09/16/2014 at 21:29

There were plenty of those moments where I was thinking "Yeah, that's not right at all."

Like how her oxygen was at 1% for so long.

The Transporter > Nibby
09/16/2014 at 21:31

It's like in an action movie where the good guys have 10 seconds to defuse a bomb that stretches on for over a minute.

Nibby > The Transporter
09/16/2014 at 21:36

Exactly.

f86sabre > The Transporter
09/16/2014 at 22:47

Kinja'd!!!

You had this as a kid didn't you?

The Transporter > f86sabre
09/16/2014 at 22:51

Still have it.

f86sabre > The Transporter
09/16/2014 at 23:04

good man.

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > The Transporter
09/17/2014 at 01:53

I eyeball plane changes all the time in Kerbal space program.