Alfonso Cuarón's space disaster movie in three acts harks back impressively to the early days of cinema
The wonder of Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity – wonder being entirely the right word – is that the full spectrum of state-of-the-art digital special effects, CGI and 3D technology have been harnessed together in revolutionary ways to tell a story whose hallmarks of purity, clarity, brevity and, above all, simplicity, are the foundational virtues of the infancy of cinema. It may be the newest great movie around but in some ways – the best ways – it feels like it's among the oldest.
It's also the least real: almost everything apart from Sandra Bullock and George Clooney is digitally inserted: the tender, vulnerable Earth below, the measureless cosmic void, the zero gravity, the space-debris hurricane that strands the two astronauts outside their broken shuttle – all fake, just like King Kong.
No matter. Cuarón is not here...
The wonder of Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity – wonder being entirely the right word – is that the full spectrum of state-of-the-art digital special effects, CGI and 3D technology have been harnessed together in revolutionary ways to tell a story whose hallmarks of purity, clarity, brevity and, above all, simplicity, are the foundational virtues of the infancy of cinema. It may be the newest great movie around but in some ways – the best ways – it feels like it's among the oldest.
It's also the least real: almost everything apart from Sandra Bullock and George Clooney is digitally inserted: the tender, vulnerable Earth below, the measureless cosmic void, the zero gravity, the space-debris hurricane that strands the two astronauts outside their broken shuttle – all fake, just like King Kong.
No matter. Cuarón is not here...
- 11/4/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
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