{"id":4151,"date":"2013-10-07T19:28:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T00:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2013-10-07T19:28:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T00:28:18","slug":"critic-at-large-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=4151","title":{"rendered":"Critic At Large: Gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gravity<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is a dazzling achievement that should cement director Alfonso Cuaron’s reputation as one of the most visionary filmmakers working today. The story it tells is a straightforward one; two astronauts (George Clooney and Sandra Bullock) must figure out a way to survive after a horrible accident in Earth orbit. That’s it; no aliens, no fancy starships, not even another human. The only company these two have is the Earth itself, which looms in the background in breathtaking resplendence. The rest of the movie is a white-knuckled exploration of zero-gravity physics.<\/p>\n

Gravity<\/em> doesn’t have the emotional or thematic heft of Children of Men<\/em><\/a>, Cuaron’s other masterpiece. But that’s okay because Gravity<\/em>‘s currency is spectacle. Both Clooney and Bullock deliver fine performances, but the movie could feature Paris Hilton and Justin Bieber and those first 15 minutes would still be awe-inspiring. This is a movie that demands to be seen on the biggest screen possible. It demands to be seen twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gravity\u00a0is a dazzling achievement that should cement director Alfonso Cuaron’s reputation as one of the most visionary filmmakers working today. The story it tells is a straightforward one; two astronauts (George Clooney and Sandra Bullock) must figure out a way to survive after a horrible accident in Earth orbit. That’s it; no aliens, no fancy […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-23-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-14X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4152,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions\/4152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}