The Pull of Gravity on Audiences...and a Lost 774
Award winning movie ‘Gravity’ explores the danger of being stuck in outer space, the struggle to survive in austere conditions, and, amid the chaos, the desperate attempt to get back home. Despite the film’s distant space setting, many of the themes, anxieties and emotions, may be closer to home than we think.
On the 8th of March 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight 370 going from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing mysteriously went off the radar. Air traffic control reports that they lost contact with the flight less than an hour after takeoff, somewhere near the gulf of Thailand. With 227 souls aboard, friends, families and loved ones can only watch, wait, and hope for the best.
As authorities try to uncover what really happened to the flight, news about politics and the pilots’ past arise. Many people believe that this may all be some sort of governmental set-up, and that they are hiding some important information from the press.
Other sources state that the 53-year-old pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, had something to do with the incident; his friends and family quickly turned down theories that he himself set the plane off course.
There is no hard evidence that any of these theories are true, and we must wait until this mystery unfolds before we can finally uncover the truth.
Could this simply be a flight gone wrong, or something much deeper than that? Hopefully, like the movie Gravity, there will be a miraculous homecoming.
By Alison Cox