Gravity is a 2013 science fiction thriller film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who also co-wrote, co-edited, and produced the film. It stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as American astronauts who attempt to return to Earth after the destruction of their Space Shuttle in orbit.

When Stone tumbles into the void it symbolizes the darkness in our lives and how it can consume us. The film incorporates spiritual themes both in terms of Ryan's daughter's accidental death, the will to survive in the face of overwhelming odds, as well as the impossibility of rescue.

SPACE.com partner collectSPACE.com posed that question to Cuarón and Bullock in a recent interview, where the director and actress gave their impressions of the meaning behind "Gravity." "Gravity is a major, major character in the film," explained Cuarón. "More specifically, microgravity."

For some scenes, the actors were filmed as they swam through their moves underwater. For others, they were hooked up with a 12-wire suspension system, and then filmed with robotic cameras while puppeteers pulled their strings. (The harness for the wires had to be made just right to fit under Sandra Bullock's skivvies.)

Top 10 Facts About Gravity!

• The Moon stays in place because of gravity.
• Isaac Newton discovered gravity.
• Gravity causes the tides in the sea.
• Gravity saves our lives!
• The larger the mass of an object, the more gravity!
• In the whole universe, black holes have the biggest gravitational pull.

Isaac Newton's 1687 description of gravity was considered scientific law until Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, published more than two centuries later. Newton had explained gravity as a force that instantaneously acts over a distance. The result is a pull between any two objects in the universe.

In “Life Without Gravity,” Robert Zimmerman explains the challenges that living without gravity brings to astronauts. Weightlessness is uncomfortable at first for astronauts. It poses special problems for muscles, bones, blood, and even for eating food. Astronauts get used to living without gravity over time.

3 Gravity presents us solely with images of Earth from space: the ultimate image of a borderless world indeed. Only in the final scene, when Dr. Stone (Sandra Bullock) lands in an uninhabited place on Earth, does the film bring us back to the real pos- sibility of starting anew by forging new frontiers.

Gravity isn't just a movie, it's an experience. It's an experience of sight, it's an experience of sound and it's an emotional experience, as well. This film makes you feel like you are drifting among the stars, instead of just showing you a story set in space.

“The mystery of gravity is that it is an attractive force –it's actually very weak compared to the other three main forces, but while the others can be both positive and negative and cancel each other out, gravity is attractive, and therefore cumulative, with no way to cancel it out.

Newton's law stated that every object in the universe with mass attracts every other object in the universe that has mass. This force is proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between their centers.

Far more than just discovering the laws of gravity, Sir Isaac Newton was also responsible for working out many of the principles of visible light and the laws of motion, and contributing to calculus.

Gravity is what holds the planets in orbit around the sun and what keeps the moon in orbit around Earth. The gravitational pull of the moon pulls the seas towards it, causing the ocean tides. Gravity creates stars and planets by pulling together the material from which they are made.