Sunshine

This is Danny Boyle's latest and greatest creation and I highly recommend it. Other films of his you might have seen would include Trainspotting, Millions, 28 Days Later and The Beach. 28 Weeks Later wasn't directed by Boyle, but he did produce it. This is definitely a sci-fi film, but it's not cheesy and nothing like Battlefield Earth. The Sun is burning out and Earth is going into another ice age. Earth has collectively come up with a way to change this by building a nuclear bomb the size of Manhattan, flying it to the Sun, and detonating it; effectively kick-starting the sun. This all sounds good, but something has to go wrong right? This is a Danny Boyle film. Well something does go wrong. Terribly wrong. What I failed to mention earlier is that this isn't their first attempt. This is attempt number two. The first mission was not successful and nobody really knows why. If you watched the trailer for this you might get a feeling of 2001: A Space Odyssey in the sense that they're in space on a mission and the ship kinda takes over. This isn't exactly what happens, but everything does seem to go wrong. Warning: Spoilers I'd love to start spouting off about the plot, but I'm trying to keep it all in here. There are a couple things I found interesting though. One is that the captain of the first ship went crazy from looking at the Sun. We also see the doctor, played by Cliff Curtis, becoming obsessed with looking at the Sun as well, but he doesn't go crazy. Yeah his skin starts peeling off from over-exposure, but he still has his wits about him. He stayed behind to save them all. Second, Harvey, the second in command after the captain dies really got what he deserved. The captain gave up his life for the mission to continue. The doctor decided to stay behind and make sure the rest of the boarding party lived. Harvey was the only person selfishly putting himself before the others. Harvey died. I think that was on purpose. Lastly, as always, things work out in the end. With Trainspotting and the 28 Days series things go crazy in one way or another, but work out in the end. I didn't know exactly what would happen while watching this, but as always, things worked out in the end. I'm sure a lot of people consider Boyle to be very pessimistic, but I think it's the total opposite. I think it's sort of similar to how Tarantino incorporates violence into many of his films when he's actually parodying it or making fun of it. You might also say it's in the same way that Kevin Smith incorporates themes and content into his films for his brother. So yeah, go out and see this. Rent it when it comes out on DVD. This is going on my top 10 list for the year.