Sunshine

A film thats conceptually very interesting and in some cases, the actual film is interesting as well, a film that tries to examine the expendability we seem and are to eachother in highly important but also dangerous situations.

What and who is expendable?
My gripe with it is tho that it never concludes to anything, it never goes beyond Part in due to its 1 hour and 43 min runtime which could be used for character study but while a lot of the reactions are realistic and add to the theme of the fear of expendability, those characters aren't especially memorable and they forget to give 2 characters anything to do.

Some early deaths are interesting conceptually, the early deaths set examples of the terrifying nature of space and in the end the film is surrounded by fear yet it all feels clunky, it doesn't feel streamlined.
Maybe that is part of how everything can go wrong yet i think it feels weird.
Sunshine is formally interesting in both its editing and cinematography but its characters and themes sometimes left me feeling mixed.
Not bad, more in the territory of good but not great on a first watch.

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The science is all over the map to be sure, but there are not many sci-fi films that you don’t have to loosen the suspension on your disbelief, so let’s put that aside.
What makes this an interesting film are the ideas that are barely touched on. The crew of the Icarus 1 and its captain. What drove them to what they did? Did they do it willingly, or was it all the captains doing?
You get the idea that one of the Icarus 2’s crew could have gone down the same road, but he is dispatched before we know whether that was the case or not.
The action scenes are filmed in a very artist manner, so much so that you are never really sure of what you are seeing. I wonder if a more conventional approach would have made it a little more palatable for the audience, but then you’d lose a bit of uniqueness.
Still like it, just don’t love it and I feel I could have.

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