I absolutely agree! Sunshine is a touching and very tough film to make! It combines great humanity and convincingly shows a scientific leap of faith...Sunshine is well-told, the characters are fleshed out keenly, and the startling science is brave, bold, aesthetically compelling and the tension is palpable even as it ventures into metaphysics which is the most human way to involve the audience in deep science by having characters that one can relate to or at least admire or empathize with into the most stressful, compelling tension-filled situation. At every moment in the film, the viewer sees the humanity of the astronauts and the decisions they are faced with...fluent story, superb direction, intuitive cast...best scientific and most thrilling and dramatic solar scenario onscreen....superior science fiction....the visuals were breathtaking, the people were compelling, and the moment of Mercury passing was the moment that allows the audience to take a moment and ponder the beauty and magnificence of Sunsine.
I would favor it over many darker and less involving peril-in-space works before and after because of the unique combination of humanity, physics plausibility albeit a large leap, and philosophical boldness in telling the story where imagination becomes, as Einstein once said, more important than knowledge.
I absolutely agree! Sunshine is a touching and very tough film to make! It combines great humanity and convincingly shows a scientific leap of faith...Sunshine is well-told, the characters are fleshed out keenly, and the startling science is brave, bold, aesthetically compelling and the tension is palpable even as it ventures into metaphysics which is the most human way to involve the audience in deep science by having characters that one can relate to or at least admire or empathize with into the most stressful, compelling tension-filled situation. At every moment in the film, the viewer sees the humanity of the astronauts and the decisions they are faced with...fluent story, superb direction, intuitive cast...best scientific and most thrilling and dramatic solar scenario onscreen....superior science fiction....the visuals were breathtaking, the people were compelling, and the moment of Mercury passing was the moment that allows the audience to take a moment and ponder the beauty and magnificence of Sunsine.
I would favor it over many darker and less involving peril-in-space works before and after because of the unique combination of humanity, physics plausibility albeit a large leap, and philosophical boldness in telling the story where imagination becomes, as Einstein once said, more important than knowledge.