Sunshine (2007)

Sunshine (2007)

Release Date: 27 July 2007 (USA)
Quality: DVDRip
Language: English
Runtime: 107 min
Director: Danny Boyle
Company: DNA Films, Ingenious Film Partners, Moving Picture Company (MPC)
Movie Info: IMDb
Cast: Cliff Curtis, Chipo Chung, Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rose Byrne, Benedict Wong, Chris Evans, Troy Garity, Mark Strong, Paloma Baeza, Archie Macdonald, Sylvie Macdonald
Genre: Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Watch: Trailer
Size: 700MB

Plot: The crew of the Icarus II is sent into deep space to reignite the sun, after the failure of the first mission, Icarus I, seven years prior. It takes 16 months for them to get close to the sun, as mentioned in the introduction voice over by Robert Capa (Cillian Murphy). As the ship nears the sun, solar noise known as "the [communications] dead zone" begins to interfere with radio communications to Earth. As the ship encountered the "Dead Zone" seven days earlier than expected, the crew is now left with just 24 hours to collect all of their individual thoughts and send each of them off to their loved ones in a last message "packet".

Capa has difficulty in finding his words, and makes several different attempts at his message, accidentally "running out the clock" on fellow crew member Mace (Chris Evans). This results in a fight between Capa and Mace, which lingers as open animosity between the two, despite Mace's apology. Icarus II's captain, Kaneda (Hiroyuki Sanada) forces Mace to relax with a relaxing video. Afterwards, Mace and Capa seem to become friends again.

The ship has an oxygen garden to provide both food and carbon to oxygen recycling during the trip. It is noted that while the ship is only about 2/3rds of the way to its destination [the sun], the garden has been producing oxygen at better than expected rates - the ship already has enough oxygen stored up for the delivery, and a quarter of the return trip.

The crew Psychiatrist, Dr. Searle (Cliff Curtis) is looking out from the ship's viewport at the approaching sun one day, and is curious what it would be like to experience the unfiltered view. The ships computer (Chipo Chung's sensual voice) warns him that he can only tolerate 3.1% of the actual light, so he accepts this and sets the system for 30 seconds of viewing at this 3.1% rate. The result has some kind of effect on Searle, who begins to spend many hours in the viewing room, repeating his exposures to the sun so often that his skin eventually peels away and sores cover his face. It is never clear to the audience if Dr. Searle is possibly addicted to this exposure, possibly believing it to bring some form of enlightenment, or is perhaps trying to determine if visualizing the star was a possible reason for the demise of Icarus I's mission. Throughout the movie, you can see Searle's continuing deterioration from spending too much time looking at the sun.