So, I’m gonna try something here. I’m going to try and do a post about a movie once a month (to be easy, I’ll dedicate the 10th of each month to blogging about a movie).

*WARNING!  HERE BE SPOILERS*

Okay, so, today’s movie is Sunshine.  Sunshine is a 2007 sci-fi movie directed by Danny Boyle and stars a variety of different actors like Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne,  and Chris Evans.  Anyways, the film is set in 2057 and focuses on a group of astronauts and scientists who are attempting to send a bomb into the Sun.  Yes, a bomb.  And now you ask, ‘why the hell would anyone want to blow up the Sun?’  Well the Sun isn’t exactly the target of the bomb, it’s the Q-ball (a particle that physicists say are remnants from the Big Bang) which is causing the Sun to “die” at a extremely fast rate.  Now if the Sun dies, there goes the Earth and all it’s inhabitants.  So this bomb is meant to blast out all the Q-ball particles and essentially create a star within a star.  Star-ception anyone?  But then we find out that this is the second attempt and crew sent to throw a bomb into the Sun?  What happened to the first crew?  Well they never came back, nothing was ever heard from them again.  I smell foreshadowing.  So as expected, everything goes wrong and people die.  And then, the most amazing and visually astounding four minutes and twenty seconds of cinema history occurs.  I am of course talking about Capa’s jump from the Icarus II to the Stellar Bomb (here’s a link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clG_1sqOsBs).  Everything about the scene was perfect!  The acting, the cinematography, the special effects, and the music. Oh. My. God. The music.  Let me just say that John Murphy created a masterpiece with his song Adagio in D minor, also known as the Surface of the Sun.

But now to my real point.  Why was this film so under-the-radar?  I just don’t get it.  Many people will point to the third act as the movie’s kryptonite, but I would argue that it was an essential part of the film.  Sure the whole turn from normal sci-fi to religous-slasher was unexpected, but it helped to serve Sunshine’s look into religion, human psychology and the limits we are capable of pushing to when everything and everyone is counting on us.

Let me know what you thought about the movie in the comments!  And don’t be afraid to disagree with me 🙂

“At the end of time, a moment will come when just one man remains. Then the moment will pass. Man will be gone. There will be nothing to show that we were ever here… but stardust.”  Pinbacker – Sunshine