CAN´T BEAT THE VIEW

in·spi·ra·tion [in-spuh-rey-shuhn]
noun
1.
an inspiring or animating action or influence
2.
something inspired, as an idea.
3.
a result of inspired activity.
4.
a thing or person that inspires.

George Clooney  played Bruce Wayne, Seth Gecko & Danny Ocean. He has been on the director chair also. And one of the most important things in any line of work  is... You must not forget your inspirations. The people that helped you, shaped you or showed you around when you were young. Sandra Bullock shares that same line of work. She did what most actors can´t. After a very successful action movie (SPEED) and after a successful comedy (Miss Congeniality) she didn’t get typecast. When she won an Academy Award( The Blind Side ), she said " artist´s who inspire me". None of their filmologies is or will ever be predictable. Both star in a very unique movie.

. . .GRAVITY

"Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. "from IMDB


Crafted, Written and Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Who I think makes a better movie every time he directs. You can see how he has grown as a storyteller. And the best pay check is growth. And if you do the same things for a 10 year period, but better. There´s a  progress and a development. Not just loving what you do, but YOU MUST GROW.

GRAVITY is not 2001 A space Odyssey, it is not Alien, it is not Kubrick´s or Ridley Scott´s space. It is indeed a whole different experience. I saw it on 3D on IMAX and it really is like you are out there. To me, the best movies are the ones that you don’t think you are seeing a movie. ITS REAL. IT´S MAGIC.

As GRAVITY, is the central character on the movie and the way it affects, sound, speed, smell, touch even our mind. There is no life in space. ITS NOT POSSIBLE. There you got your villain. Your constant. The main theme is inspiration. not just some one that teaches but someone that inspires. That some one that knows how good we are and let us realize it. Makes us look at the mirror. And realizing we are capable of anything we want.

The ease with which Sandra Bullock and Clooney play their parts is just magnificent. Not trying to be funny. Not trying to steal each other sentences. No matter whose line is it. It is for the movie. As flying objects pass around, we fill this emptiness, the cold,  inside the mind, inside the helmet, inside a space ship,  in space.

No classical music it´s Hank Williams, no monster in every corner, oxygen is low. To me the best scene is, when Sandra Bullock cries and  we see this ONEdrop as it floats away on zero gravity as everything else goes out of focus. We can see  a flipped reflection on Sandra Bullock. Its breath taking.

If its GREEN its Cuaron´s. A green mist, Marvin the martian, Ping pong rackets, chess game pieces, every single little detail every little piece of has an importance. It makes it real , It makes it believable. When you see a movie, inside an apartment, does the fridge make it a house??? No, it’s the magnets on it, that make the fridge seem real. The little details that make it humanized.


FROM TOTAL CHAOS TO PERFECT PEACE
The silence and noise are the key ingredient for this movie soundtrack. It makes it more dramatic.  Moving objects tend to make us dizzy. This movie is not the case. I´ve seen movies where the editing is so bad, you get confused on whats going on. I can´t even imagine the script or the pre production sketches for the movie. It must´ve been a planning nightmare, but in the end it is worth the money your paying to see this movie.

The movie transpires the ambient of confusion to that of calm in just one second. From total mayhem to a tranquility state in just a few frames. As the rookie astronauts gathers confidence to do what she must do. She relies on the voices in her head. But not the ones that diminish her, but the ones that are uplifting. Is it worth it? do you want to live? Then do it!

This movie will be compared or trivialized or even marked as a bad copy or rip off of some other movies. But what we are, comes from inspiration what we leave will hopefully leave inspiration to others. To stand on the shoulders of gigants. So Cuaron´s work is not to match or compete with any other filmmaker. It stands alone. On its own. He got inspired, got his ingredients and use it with the best modern tools possible to make a groundbreaking visually astonishing  tribute to all the people that have inspired us.

“not forget your inspirations”
I catch my breath.
I left the theatre
In peace and quiet.

Bravo Cuarón!