Fartingbob wrote:Film: Sunshine
Director: Danny Boyle
Rating: 5/10
This movie would have been great if they hadnt tacked on the pointless scary man killing folk at the end and just stuck to the majestic tone of the first half.
Ratt wrote:Fartingbob wrote:Film: Sunshine
Director: Danny Boyle
Rating: 5/10
This movie would have been great if they hadnt tacked on the pointless scary man killing folk at the end and just stuck to the majestic tone of the first half.
I just watched Sunshine so to dig this one out...surely, the psycho at the end is necessary to fully represent the themes of the movie? One theme is mankind's extreme vulnerability - to the universe killing us by snuffing out the sun, and the mission to save us being so easily derailed by human errors and internal strife - and the other theme is the hope and optimism that science can ultimately persevere over every challenge, but not without religious fundamentalism always trying to trip up science, even at the very edge of extinction. The psychotic saboteur is the living embodiment of our irrational self-destructive urges that motivate apocalyptic christianity, muslim fundamentalists, etc.
What I am saying is that it's not nearly as gratuitous as, for example, the third act of Hollow Man which has a very similar psycho but whose motivations are much less believable than in Sunshine.
Personally, I can't remember the last time I felt so humbled by a scifi movie, probably not since seeing A Space Odyssey.
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