Gravity (2013)
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The film is set during fictitious space shuttle mission
STS-157. Dr. Ryan Stone (
Sandra Bullock) is a
medical engineer on her first space shuttle mission aboard the space shuttle
Explorer. She is accompanied by veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (
George Clooney), who is commanding his final expedition. During a
spacewalk to service the
Hubble Space Telescope,
Mission Control in
Houston warns the team about a Russian missile strike on a defunct satellite, which has caused a
chain reaction
forming a cloud of debris in space. Mission Control orders that the
mission be aborted and the shuttle begin re-entry immediately.
Communication with Mission Control is lost shortly after.
High-speed debris strikes the
Explorer and Hubble, and detaches Stone from the shuttle, leaving her tumbling through space. Kowalski, using a
Manned Maneuvering Unit,
soon recovers Stone and they make their way back to the Space Shuttle.
They discover that it has suffered catastrophic damage and the crew is
dead from
Space exposure. They use the
thruster pack to make their way to the
International Space Station
(ISS), which is in orbit only about 900 mi (1,450 km) away. Kowalski
estimates they have 90 minutes before the debris field completes an
orbit and threatens them again.
En route to the ISS, the two discuss Stone's home life and the death
of her young daughter. As they approach the substantially damaged but
still operational ISS, they see its crew has evacuated in one of its two
Soyuz
modules. The parachute of the remaining Soyuz has deployed, rendering
the capsule useless for returning to Earth. Kowalski suggests using it
to travel to the nearby
Chinese space station Tiangong,
100 mi (160 km) away and board one of its modules to return safely to
Earth. Out of air and maneuvering power, the two try to grab onto the
ISS as they fly by. Stone's leg gets entangled in Soyuz's parachute
cords and she grabs a strap on Kowalski's suit. Despite Stone's
protests, Kowalski detaches himself from the tether to save her from
drifting away with him, and she is pulled back towards the ISS while
Kowalski floats away.
Stone enters the ISS via an
airlock.
She cannot re-establish communication with Kowalski and concludes that
she is the sole survivor. A fire breaks out, forcing her to hastily make
her way to the Soyuz. As she maneuvers the capsule away from the ISS,
the tangled parachute tethers prevent the Soyuz from separating from the
station. She spacewalks to release the cables, succeeding just as the
debris field completes its orbit and destroys the station. Stone aligns
the Soyuz with
Tiangong but discovers that its engine has no
fuel. After a brief radio communication with a fisherman on Earth, Stone
resigns herself to being stranded and shuts down the cabin's oxygen
supply to commit suicide. As she begins to lose consciousness, Kowalski
enters the capsule. Scolding her for giving up, he tells her to rig the
Soyuz's landing rockets to propel the capsule toward
Tiangong.
Stone then realizes that Kowalski's reappearance is not real, but has
nonetheless given her the strength of will to carry on. She restores the
flow of oxygen and uses the landing rockets to navigate toward
Tiangong, which is rapidly
deorbiting.
Unable to dock the Soyuz with the station, Stone ejects herself via
explosive decompression and uses a fire extinguisher as a makeshift thruster to travel to
Tiangong. Stone enters the
Shenzhou capsule just as
Tiangong
starts to break up on the upper edge of the atmosphere. Stone declares
that she is ready to head back to Earth, dead or alive. After
re-entering the atmosphere,
Stone hears Mission Control, which is tracking the capsule, over the
radio. The capsule lands in a lake, but dense smoke from an electrical
fire inside the capsule forces Stone to evacuate immediately. She opens
the capsule hatch, allowing water to enter and sink it, forcing Stone to
swim ashore. She watches the remains of the
Tiangong re-enter the atmosphere and takes her first
shaky steps on land. (Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_%28film%29)
