All you have to do is look out for a little extra brightness in the sky. So if you wake up one morning and it's a particularly beautiful day, you'll know we made it.
Yes indeed. This slipped through the cracks with the major ticket buying audience. Not sure why? Danny got it perfect here for a Sci-Fi fan such as myself. And yes...great music.
Just flew a little too close to the sun. So close to perfect. Still the best sci-faction/fiction humans have created to date. Focus was narrow. Only reason it didn't kill at box office other than the late skin guy tie up loose ends portion. It just didn't quite flesh out. Right path, right arc, just seemed rushed for character development in the third act. Damen fine storytelling, on a massive philosophical construct, overlaid on me VS we. Im not worthy to be critical of this. Apologies for my lack of forbearance.
Yeah, like The Eagles in The Lord of the Rings, Variation n°15 in Dunkirk (actually based on the 9th of Elgar's Enigma Variations) or The Trio in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
"The only dream I EVER have is the surface of the sun. Everytime I close my eyes it's ALWAYS the same" - genius. The sound track, the deeper meaning so many missed because they couldn't get past the laws of science, a true master piece and perhaps the most UNDER RATED sci fi films of all times. When the Icarus I captain enters the story, people miss the Satan evil, verses God and the good metaphor that is so key in this story. I watch this movie often. I even designed the Icarus II in Lego digital designer 1650 pieces, and it is of the more prouder acomplishements of my life. The concept of the ship alone, which who knows hundreds of years from now may be used to save a star somewhere in this vast universe, inside another universe and so on..... Sometimes I put the extended D minor version of this song on and it just blows my mind, truly one of the most magical things humans have ever created IMO.....
Kevin Neely thank you! You made me realise that the thing I didn't like about the movie (the other freaky captain) represents something deeper than just an unnecessary and horrific supernatural "alien". First I thought, why going there? And maybe it was a little unnecessary, but i really like your view on it as Satan. Makes it much better than what I thought it was: just trying to add something "cool". Thanks! :)
I barely cry on movies but this... I almost cried my eyes and heart out. And even though I know how it ends, still makes me cry every single time. This movie is a gem; rare, beautiful and precious for those who understand its value. It's not just about the sun, it's not just about some scientists who wants to save the world... It's so much more. Incredible. And this soundtrack is the core of it.
I cry at the hearing of the soundtrack and the encounter with the Sun We all want to go home...no accident that Sun and Sol (soul) are similar Deepak Chopra used this song in his now video for the book "You are the Universe "
Sunshine is, without a doubt, the greatest, most emotional thing ever committed to film. Danny Boyle deserves every award ever made, and many that haven't yet been invented.
I agree--what an intense, existential viewing experience. I understand how other people may not like it (lightly or passionately so, considering the film's final act). But here we are & we're lucky to have felt how intense it could make us feel. Nothing's like the first time though, the awe.
I've never understood the people who gather like sheep to complain that a "bad guy" exists. Without that character, the movie would have no reason to exist. Everything would go perfectly in the first mission, and this mission would never happen.
Haha, I feel ya. They're not really like sheep though--most of the complaint is in the tonal shift, which for them isn't justified. I didn't particularly like the shift, but I didn't mind it too (in hindsight, what a brave & risky thing to do). Others, however, must have felt betrayed. Let's just say for many of those people, if Sunshine hadn't been as beautiful (2/3 along the way, they say), the final act wouldn't have "angered" them so. It's still an odd nod to Sunshine, in a way.
I agree. I always felt the "bad guy" had to exist. The film (to me) was about how if total darkness was the absence of everything was total light the opposite. Pinbacker said the last man alive would talk to god. The sun drove him insane. He was addicted to staring it, as was Trey, every time you saw him he was more burnt. If you take Pinbacker and the relevance to god/light/dark it would lose a major part.
As a matter of fact, Danny Boyle points out in the commentary that the characters, in fact, *are* starting to believe that the Sun is actually God. It happened to Pinbacker, Searle, and even Kaneda when he was outside of the ship, just before his death. And, in a way, you could easily make the argument that our star *is* God, as far as we are concerned. Without it, there would be no light, no heat, no life.
+rm187loco You obviously didn't watch the movie, did you? The main antagonist try to wreck the Icarus program because he believe that sun's exaustion is God's plan...
They need to make a sequel based on the premise that Cillian Murphy's character from the first film accidentally heated the sun up too much and the polar ice caps are melting/fucking everything up because the earth is too hot. Nicholas Cage could play the lead role and commandeer a crew of scientists embarking upon a mission to kamikaze a gigantic ice cube into the sun.
Unmistaken one of the best 'alternative' movies.. The end scène has a personal meaning for me. Completing your life purpose. The fulfillness on his face and accepting his faith in the favor of so many more, or in case of the sun, a wonderful person that will be great. Don't be afraid of your place in society
I love Adagio in D Minor. However Capa's Meets The Sun fit this scene much better. It was surreal and peaceful and felt like on the cusp of death there was serenity because, despite all they went through, they made it.
sunshine is an amazing movie you guys should all watch it the music is so emotional and its so detailed honestly it must of taken days to finally complete the entire soundtrack! GG the people who made the movie it's the best! :-D
I can only hope that this is playing in my head when I meet the makers again. Wouldn't be the first time. Last 13 years have been a gift. This is as fresh in my mind today as it was then. Time stretched out soon after I stopped breathing, and realized I couldn't force my body to. Still the bridge in the percussion, from lub dub, to thump, thump, thump ad nauseum as an escalation, is the way I process that adrenal fear and physiological response. It wasn't necessarily fear, or excitement, but something else between. Transition. It felt like it was all going to be ok. Just wasn't quite Wasn't a religious man then, and still am not despite the experience though. Barely grazing the surface about that smallest and largest moment in time. Wish I had the talent to remix it just a whisker... Tiny touch of build in the percussion/bass and its volume between steady, but heavy thick heartbeat to limited tachycardia as the O2 got thin. All that aside. Best 4 minutes in science faction in film I've ever encountered. If you know a better 4, feel free to let me know about them. Enjoy what you've been given. But don't fear the end. It'll be alright in the end. Live well and full until then.
Great video! I love this beautiful, touching, poetic movie... It’s a masterpiece which definitely has Ray Bradbury spirit in it... Golden apples of Sun... Love all the characters in the movie, and Cillian's Capa is great...The music in the movie is incredible. Thank you!
I have a real problem with this scene. Cassie also had the same nightmare about the surface of the sun. In fact in her case we are told its the only thing she sees when she closes her eyes. I cannot fathom why Capa is the only one we see having this lovely enlightening moment whilst Cassie is almost certainly huddled in a corner somewhere terrified and traumatised as she dies.
Nice, empathetic view. But shortly before that, Cassie looks at Capa in a relieved manner & tells him to finish it. All throughout the film Cassie seemed to have had a heavy heart, but in that scene she looked "light"--like the brightness became clarity for her. I feel it's okay to think that Cassie had her own beautiful moment, it just wasn't shown.
in this scene, capa is everyone in the crew. he embodies all of them. for all they´ve been through, they managed to save humanity (and all of life on earth). they must die, but they get to touch the sun. capa is the best choice for this scene, because he´s the one who was in charge of the very bomb that makes this happen, he has the closest connection to it.
People always say the third act of this movie is wack, which it kinda is, or at least it was incongruent and kinda silly. But nothing can even touch the ending, ever. Capa witnessed the raw power of creation, after all of the bullshit, all of the violence, Pinbacker, his issues with Mace (who just wanted him to fucking do it and trusted him to do it in the end). A stellar bomb, a new sun, and the survival of humanity. Wow.
"The third act" wasn't even an issue until people made it one. For me it was just thriller done very well it's not horror like folk claim it is. Pinbacker was to build suspense and represent the religious aspects not generic jump scares or something you would see out of Hollywood. No brutal killings (except for one backstab). Cillian Murphy is an atheist previously was an agnostic before this film so it makes sense for him to be "the science guy" versus him. And also the fact that the movie keeps the backstory of Icarus 1 a mystery for the most part is such a plus (although you can pretty much assume something drastic happened). Sunshine might be the most intense film ever.
Watching CinemaWins's video on "Sunshine," I thought I recognized this piece from somewhere. It turns out, it was used in one of the "X-Men: Days of Future Past" trailers.
Tchernobyl: people dying in agony being exposed to radiation The Sunshine: some dude enjoying it like laying on a beach It is a great show, violating even more physical laws than another film The Core ;-)
The reactor made a small star and he was looking at the most pure form of energy a baby red giant can make must be so beautiful you wish you were apart of it
A highly underated genre movie, and, in my opinion, an honourable if distant second to the very greatest sci-fi film of them all: '2001, Space Oddysey'.
Loved the movie... but still annoyed that with a Payload falling toward the sun while spinning at incredible speed... he's just standing there right in the middle unaffected by any type of forces :)
I think the explanation was that the bomb warped gravity and time to the point where essentially he has a second to view the surface of the sun before being overtaken. Presumably he is then consumed by fire at an almost infinitesimally slow speed relative to the rest of existence and experiences a death that is agonizing beyond belief, but small price to pay right?
Exactly. He has a gigantic hydrogen bomb going off, all those sparks are hydrogen atoms fusing into helium, behind him and the sun break through in front. The gravitational waves from both and the fusion process just changes the unbelievable in the possible for a microsecond that seems like forever.
Hani Najlah The Sun eventually killed him. From what I gathered off lurking internet forums, Cappa could touch the Sun momentarily just because the radiation from the Sun combined with the radiation from the bomb and created some sort of temporal rift in space and time. Essentially, the Sun had a brain fart. But then the Sun remembered it was the freakin' Sun, and then burned Cappa to ashes. And then disintegrated the ashes.
John Murphy lifted it from himself in "The Suicide Squad" and also "Kick-ass" most likely will in Guardians 3 as well. Sneaking a variation of it into stuff is like a signature for him now.
I remade this song from scratch for better audio quality and cut a video from the movie: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FWmCKhBmFVY.html
Sad that he never made one to begin with. This was as Sci-Fi as "Being John Malkovich", "Donnie Darko", "Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind" or "Melancholia" Weirdo artsy pretending to be Science Fiction.
