I've seen this movie twice since it came out in theaters. After seeing it for a second time I understand it much better. Gravity is a metaphor for birth. The woman has no reason to live because her daughter died, so she wasn't really living. Then the debris comes and she is conceived, and Clooney is the mother, he keeps her alive, and helps her to become a human again. He dies but his image is still there, as we saw in the hallucination scene. He shows her that there is something to live for, even if you have nothing. A baby has nothing, they don't have any attachments when they enter the world because they haven't met anybody yet, and that is how Bullock enters the world. In the end she comes out of the lake, wet and weak, not having anyone, but yet she still understands that she has a reason to live. Throughout the film there are so many obvious signs that help you get the metaphor, and the most is this scene when she finally gets back into a ship. If you haven't already, I highly recommend that you see this film, it's worth it, just trying to find all the connections back to the birth metaphor.
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