I don’t go out to watch movies;
it is too much work and often a bout of déjà vu for I have seen too many of
them in my hay-days. So went to see G R A V I TY primarily because all the
critics were unanimous with their superlative reviews. It turned out to be a
case of déjà vu, I had been there, seen it all in parts to make it whole. It
is not really science-fiction deep in future but a case of contemporary
narrative albeit in outer space. The 3D effects are mindboggling, attention to
details in outer space accurate and production values the very best. Yet I was
not swayed. I hear people are making beeline for repeat views, beats me! I am
really foxed.
Years back there was a movie
‘Yadein’, it had one actor (Sunil Dutt) and one set and long monologues with
other voices. It won Grand Prix at Berlin festival. I found it clichéd; this
movie also has more or less one set but two actors and no story. It is one
slick Discovery channel disaster documentary and after a while, when the
special effects wear you out, boring.
I even found one incident jarring
and it happens to be the pivotal event in the narrative. You see in space there
is no effective gravity therefore nothing exerts constant pull except constant thrust
from nozzles. In this case Sandra Bullock was entangled in loose cables while George
Clooney was attached her through a long strap. Now here is the problem, George
says cut me off the strap I am pulling you away from the cables. There is no effective
constant force like gravity out there space therefore how was he pulling her
away?
My rating ***
