3/4/14 update: Gravity got a lot of love at this year's Oscars, including a best-director award for Alfonso Cuarón and well-earned nods also for cinematography and film editing. Looking back at the movie now, I have two big thoughts. First--no, it cannot happen for real. The space-debris disaster scenario and the orbit-hopping from shuttle to station to station are not physically possible. And second--that artificiality is far less important than the deeper realism of Gravity, which does an exqu
