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Gravity together with Special Effects As Art

by Laura Scanlon

My ideal moving painting includes (A) British accents, (B) long skirts, together with (C) spousal human relationship proposals. At to the lowest degree that’s my husband’s surmisal. I similar to intend that these elements exactly occur to popular upwards oft inwards the films sought out yesteryear those alongside sophisticated taste.

My husband, on the other hand, goes for scientific discipline fiction, explosions, together with auto chases.

When nosotros went to meet Gravity, then, it seemed to to a greater extent than probable to survive enjoyable for him. But it captivated both of us, together with mayhap me the most. I gasped together with clutched my spot every bit the photographic tv set camera outset panned to demonstrate the basis every bit seen from space, the dark vastness of the universe beyond, together with the characters, thence tiny together with vulnerable, floating betwixt them.

I tend to intend of particular effects together with a skilful plot to survive mutually exclusive. Special effects, it seems, are inserted yesteryear moving painting makers also lazy to arts and crafts a skilful story, for moving painting watchers also dumb to appreciate one.

In Gravity, though, particular effects blend seamlessly alongside the even together with the characters. The particular effects allow yous to experience every bit though yous are sharing Sandra Bullock’s harrowing ordeal together with experience alongside her the depths of her loneliness. And for the height-averse similar me, the moving painting instills a fervent wishing never, ever, to larn out one’s ain dearest stratosphere.

What’s more, though, I intend the particular effects are the story. More than plot or character, the moving painting communicates the beauty of the earth, the grandeur of the universe, the fragility together with preciousness of human life.


For I volition behold thy heavens, the plant of thy fingers: the Luna together with the stars which thou hast founded. What is human being that thou fine art mindful of him? or the boy of human being that thou visitest him? (Ps. 8:4-5)

I’m no philosopher, but I’m quite certain that’s skilful art.

Laura is a Catholic Christian, a mother, a part-time lawyer, together with a recovering overthinker. She writes monthly hither at on books together with culture, together with blogs regularly at This Felicitous Life. 

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