Responding to Review Gravity

The Empire review for the new film Gravity uses a less formal writing technique in comparison with the Toronto International Film Festival 2013 article as it uses more simple sentences and less complex words.

In the opening “let’s cut to the chase” is an informal opening and it implies that the writer wants to express his opinion earlier in the text and to say something truthful. The writer uses the word love twice which shows the writer is applying his opinion to the reader about the film. The fact that it is used twice shows that he is exaggerating his views about the film.

In the first paragraph the words “seeded” and “ripened” could imply now that the film is new, fresh and something different in the film industry. It is a metaphor for growth and shows it has been talked about and “hyped up” for years in the past.

The writer is clearly a fan of Alfonso Cuarón as he mentions his skills and talent for directing films and the plot to previous films highlighting that they have been about “horny Mexican teenagers, dystopian London and Hogwarts”.

“Be seated, don your 3D glasses and let it unfold” is the writer having the opportunity to tell the reader to go and watch the film. The “let it unfold” connotes that the film with do the talking and explain itself and that it will be a good cinematic experience.