Gravity: Learning to Let Go and Live Again (Philippians 3:13-14)

Dr. Ryan Stone is adrift in space, untethered from everything—her spacecraft destroyed, her crewmates dead. She has been adrift emotionally far longer: her daughter died, and she has been going through the motions of life ever since. Floating in the void, she must choose whether to give up or fight for a life she is not sure she wants. Paul writes: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal. Stone's journey from death-wish to desperate will-to-live happens in zero gravity, where she must literally let go of the dead to reach for the living. The film's final image—Stone crawling from water onto land—is baptismal rebirth. Sometimes we must release our grip on grief before we can grasp life.