I just stepped out of the movie house after watching Danny Boyle's latest movie "Sunshine", and I must admit it is one of the best films I've watched recently. The premise of SUNSHINE is that in 50 years from now the Sun is dying. It is no longer providing the energy and the light that mankind needs to survive on Earth. The entire global community pools its resources to send a mission into space to deliver a bomb to reignite the part of the Sun that is failing. The story concerns the eight astronauts and scientists who lead this mission. On their journey towards the Sun the crew stumble upon the ship that was sent on the same mission seven years previously, the Icarus I, drifting in space. From this point on things start to go very wrong and it’s about how the crew react under the enormous pressure of their endeavor to save mankind.
It's a beautiful "psychological science-fiction thriller", scientifically sound, great characters and wonderful directing (the story and directing is so compelling, I didn't notice the visual effects). I guess what I find interesting in the story is the idea of "travelling towards the sun". I guess I always dreamed and wondered what it would be like and seeing all of it in the big screen is such a wonder. Danny Boyle in an interview about the movie said: “Traveling to the Sun is great visually, but also very interesting psychologically,” he explains. “We wanted to make the film as psychological a journey as possible. There is the question about what happens to your mind when you meet the creator of all things in the universe, which for some people is a spiritual, religious idea, but for other people it is a purely scientific idea. We are all made up of particles of exploded star, so what would it be like to get close to the Sun, the star from which all the life in our solar system comes from? I thought it would be a huge mental challenge to try and capture that.”And capture it he did....kudos to Danny Boyle, Alex Garland and Andrew McDonald.
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