Gravity
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Gravity (Gravity)
Directed by: Alfonso CuarónCast list: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney
Country: United Kingdom, USA
Year: 2013
Genres: Science Fiction / Thriller.
Runtime: 90 min.
Languages available on DVD and /or Blue Ray: Spanish, English, French, Others.
Classroom activities available in: English.
Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. The two have the difficult task of trying to get to another satellite with whatever equipment is on hand, and from there ultimately back to Earth. Through the process, they are often on their own without the other leading to an extreme feeling of isolation which leads to individual questions and ultimate decisions about their own mortality and what may be best for the other at the expense of oneself.
Educational Grades: Secondary school, 12 to 14 / Secondary school, 14 to 16 / Sixth form college / Further education / Further Edu, mature students / Higher Education.
Subjects: English language / Social Science, Geography and History / Design and Technology / Contemporary world / Earth Sciences.
Topics: natural resources, wealth and poverty, commerce, consumption / women (and/or violence against women) / means of transportation and /or traffic safety education / medicine, health / world of work, employment relationships / human relations, psychology, sociology.
Links
Conversation with the film's science advisor (English text)Outer Space Treaty (text in English)
Report About Collision Frequency of Artificial Satellites
Aerospace Vocabulary
International Academy of Astronautics Web Site
