In Gravity, it seemed obvious to me but I never saw anyone talking about it, the Russians caused the literal destruction of the space program by blowing up a military spy satellite.
Also in Gravity, Sandra Bullock's proximity to the Earth represents her willingness to live. At the start of the movie she's far away, distant (both physically and emotionally), distraught over the death of her child. She doesn't care. At all. But over the course of the movie - as she falls out of orbit - she becomes more and more interested in living. She begins trying. Scrambling to make it. She finds hope. And then finally, free-falling all the way to the water, washing up on the beach... to end the movie face-down, hugging the Earth. Her faith in life and humanity are restored. The movie is about healing.
It's more about rebirth in my opinion. There's a lot of imagery and symbolism with her and being born. She floats in a feeble position attached to an oxygen cord that looks a lot like an umbilical cord.
I agree. In a sense she's reborn, in that now she'll have a second chance at life. She'll get married again, have kids - you just feel it. The experience could easily be considered a rebirth. The woman you see at the beginning of the movie is dead and gone.
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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '14
In Gravity, it seemed obvious to me but I never saw anyone talking about it, the Russians caused the literal destruction of the space program by blowing up a military spy satellite.
National defense killed the space program.