Sunshine (2007, Danny Boyle)


Sunshine is the film with all its conventional possibilities of a closed plot in which the scenes tend to give the sense of completeness of the narrative. Somewhat surprisingly, however, the conventional ending of the film is haunting but optimistic. The science fictional and apocalyptic motifs of the film show us how every character achieves quieter maturity towards the end of the narrative. The human sacrificial theme is iterated periodically and the confrontation of scientific and religious stand points reveals the triumph of the scientific endeavor that is impossible without human interference. The symbolic scene of the ending that connects the character's later nightmare to the beauty and the peacefulness of state of his mind at the moment intensifies the necessity of Sun's existence for the survival of humanity. The final moment of the character revelation is coincided with his message that is reviewed by his wife on Earth and is not with any sense of ambiguity and bizarreness. Review By Morad Sadeghi