Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Sunshine: Spoilers Herein

I have no idea what I think about this movie. I feel like I need to watch it about fifty more times before I can decide what I think about it. At the end, I was crying, and I have no idea why.

Here's the plot:
"The Sun is being destroyed from inside out by a type of highly stable form of matter that renders nuclear fusion impossible, by turning common matter on its own kind. The only hope is to send a team of astronauts to detonate a massive, highly energetic bomb, able to destroy this strange matter and restore Sun's natural state."

This is a psychological movie more than anything else. It gets inside you somehow. The entire idea of a group of people flying into the sun - for some reason, the way they deal with it, it's not just another science fiction aversion of impending apocalypse story. It's about what the end of everything will do to you. These people are on a mission to save the entire world from becoming an icy rock in the middle of space, and they're flying a mission into the sun. It's... I don't know. I don't know how to describe it. You should watch it, maybe, and then you'll get why I can't really talk about it because it's beyond words.

It's a beautifully done movie, with some really interesting cinematic effects - I particularly liked the flash frames (you'll know what I mean when/if you watch it). Also interesting to note is the fact that their golden space suits were designed after Kenny's head from South Park. It's true. It's on IMDB so it must be.

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