Review of Sunshine (2013) by Sarfaraz A — 06 Nov 2013

Sunshine - British science fiction film, directed by Oscar-winning Danny Boyle. Starring my favorite Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Hiroyki Sanda, Mark Strong, Cliff Curtis and more. Sunshine was written by Alex Garland - while Danny Boyle selected actors from different countries. Film received multiple awards nominations and won few of them.

Events take place in 2057 in the space - Icarus-II carries bunch of astronauts and scientists off to a mission in space - carrying nuclear-bomb to destroy G-ball and re-ignite the dying sun of its light. Cillian Murphy plays the physicist on board with utter knowledge about payload-mission. A miscalculated resetting of angle of Icarus-II in parallel to sunrays - this make Icarus II vulnerable to approaching sunrays. Ultimately, it damages much of oxygen supplies and minimum hours to complete the 'payload mission' in time.

Danny Boyle has cited inspiration from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and no doubt, anybody who sees the film could realize it. I am an enthusiast about space-exploration. This is first film in huge gap since last watching 2001: A Space Odyssey - I have always been on the look-out for closer work on the subject, and where else to look farther than Danny Boyle's broad space-research story in Sunshine. Boyle explained in his interview that he had to churn out method-acting from the cast. Demonstration of frustration and anxiety from among the cast, in the nick of critical events, leading to sensitive decisions to-be-taken without any further alternates; are all that verify Boyle's level of forced-extraction of acting from the actors.

Film offers claustrophobic scenes, suspense and distrustful that grows, after citation of previous Icarus-I behind the mercury.

Brian Cox an English professor of physics was consultant on the matters relating to physics. Sun is said to lose its light in billion years not by 2057 - but most of it should be in good faith to bring audience taste of space-life.