As we watch the harrowing circumstances of Dr. Ryan Stone as she attempts to survive, we might ask ourselves, Is it worth it? Stone, as a non-traditional hero, asks herself such a question in numerous occasions in the film. Just when we think that Stone has surpassed the one challenge before her, we discover a tragicomic twistthe manual needed to start the spacecraft isnt written in English. This twist is followed by another, and other. As we watch Stones efforts to survive, we are reminded of Murphys lawAnything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Indeed, just about everything that could go wrong in space does, and thus is the drama of Gravity as Stone seeks to right the course of the universe. There is another drama here and this relates to how we mightas viewersreflect on the events in the film. Both Camus and Sartre reminded us of the fact that our lives are surrounded by moment after moment of the absurd. Granted that we are not astronauts surrounded by deadly space debris and other unforeseen dangers in an alien and hostile environment, yet we likely do have our own senses of how the absurd plays itself out in our sometimes more mundane lives. Watching Gravity may do little to explain why Murphys law is so prevalent in our own lives. It may, however, give us necessary perspective about the many, many things that are beyond our control.