Sunshine (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Sunshine |
| Original title | Sunshine |
| Country of production | UK |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
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| Director | Danny Boyle |
| script | Alex Garland |
| production |
Bernard Bellew , Andrew Macdonald |
| music | John Murphy |
| camera | Alwin H. Kuchler |
| cut | Chris Gill |
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Sunshine is a film by the director Danny Boyle , which was shot in the UK from 2005 to 2007 and premiered in cinemas in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on April 19, 2007. It is a science fiction film , in the course of which a possible end of humanity is to be prevented.
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In 2057 the sun is about to go out. The solar winter comes , as a result of which the earth slowly freezes and with it all life and the hope for the continued existence of humanity. A multinational crew, consisting of eight crew members, is sent aboard the spaceship Icarus II to rekindle the fusion fire by detonating a bomb with the mass of Manhattan in the core of the sun .
The Icarus II consists of two main components, the actual spaceship and the bomb - always oriented towards the sun - integrated into the protective shield. According to the mission plan, this should be decoupled from the crew of the mother ship when it reaches the target sector in order to then reach the intended target area autonomously and detonate there.
When entering the orbit of Mercury , the crew receives a signal from Icarus I , believed to be lost , which had been sent out seven years earlier with the same objective but failed for unknown reasons. Under the leadership of the on-board physicist Capa, the team decides that two bombs are more promising than one and heads for the ship.
When the Icarus II changes course to get to the sister ship, the heat shield is damaged by a mistake by the navigator Trey. The captain of the spaceship is killed in the subsequent repair. Furthermore, the ship's oxygen garden catches fire and other systems of the ship are irreparably damaged, so that from this point on there is no longer any possibility of returning to earth and the dwindling oxygen supply of the Icarus II also endangers the success of the entire mission with the same number of people . Trey is then isolated in the infirmary due to an acute risk of suicide .
After docking with the Icarus I , the astronauts discover that the on-board computer was destroyed shortly before reaching the destination, rendering the ship inoperable. Then the crew probably committed collective suicide, driven by their captain Pinbacker, who, as can be learned from a video log, feels at this point in time as the executor of God's will and does not want to prevent the fatal fate of humanity.
However, before the crew members of the Icarus II can return to their ship, the airlock of the Icarus I is sabotaged and destroyed. Since the on-board computer is not operational, one of the four team members has to stay behind to manually open the exit hatch of the Icarus I. The ship's doctor Searle volunteers. Searle opens the hatch, causing the other three crew members - Capa, Mace, and Harvey - to attempt to reach their ship through a space exit. However, there is only one protective suit. Mace and Harvey therefore wrap themselves up beforehand with insulation material to protect themselves from the cold of space. During the flight, however, Harvey drifts and drifts around in space, where he freezes to death within a short time. Shortly afterwards, the ship's doctor who stayed behind went to the solar observatory of the Icarus I to expose himself to the unfiltered sunlight and burn himself.
In view of the lack of oxygen, the survivors of the Icarus II decide to kill one of their own in order to still be able to successfully complete the mission. The choice falls on the navigator Trey, who is also suspected of having committed the sabotage . But when Mace tries to kill him, he realizes that Trey has already cut his wrists and straightened himself with it.
A little later it turns out that Pinbacker is still alive and has fled on board the Icarus II . Pinbacker begins to sabotage the ship, killing the botanist Corazon. Mace gets trapped in the coolant and freezes when trying to restart the on-board computer. Pinbacker's interventions in the ship's and computer systems prevent the bomb from being launched automatically. The on-board physicist Capa then went on board the bomb to manually release it. Inside the sun, Capa detonates the bomb after a brief fight with Pinbacker.
Eight minutes later, in snowy Sydney , Capa's family noticed the sun suddenly getting brighter.
Reviews
For Sascha Koebner from film-dienst, the promising beginning of the film ebbed away in a “ conventional action dramaturgy that strips away any form of subtlety and philosophical interpretation with hectic cuts, plenty of 'fashionably' distorted shots and an oversupply of computer animation. “He also criticizes the many logic errors and draws the conclusion:“ As a new work by Danny Boyle, 'Sunshine' is a nuisance. "
Birgit Glombitza saw no technology-loving material battle, but a bold frenzy of images:
“Sunshine has become an idiosyncratic and bulky journey into light. A splendid hallucination, the imagery of Stanley Kubrick's Malstrom in ' 2001: A Space Odyssey ', in its cool, blue melancholy of Steven Soderbergh's SOLARIS and in its pulsating darkness of ALIEN . The siren-like on-board computer quotes the legendary HAL in 2001. And when someone acts as the creator of a new universe in the middle of the bombing process, this refers to the unforgettable dialogue led by Descartes that a bomb willing to explode with its human commander in John Carpenter's' Dark Star 'leads. "
For Wendy Ide from the Times , the film was especially visually impressive: “ Sunshine looks magnificent. Our first glimpse of Icarus II […] cowering behind its massive heat-reflecting shield, is breathtaking. “The script, which turns an adult film drama into a“ teen exploitation picture ”, is disappointing . So “Sunshine” is not the masterpiece that it could have been.
“Anyone who has ever been in a cinema spaceship knows that signals sent through space have a warning character. In Sunshine there is no alien waiting for the visitors, but at least a world saver who sees God's will in sabotaging the mission assigned to him. The appearance of the Icarus captain, who has mutated into a hybrid of spirit and matter, not only adds another visual highlight to Danny Boyle's fascinating end-time vision. With it, the intellectual content comes into play, which was still missing in his film about the masterpiece of the science fiction genre. "
Awards
- Award in the Best Technology category for Mark Tildesley (Product Design)
- Nomination for Best Actor for Cillian Murphy
- Nomination in the category of best science fiction film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Sunshine . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2007 (PDF; test number: 109 546 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Sunshine . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Criticism by Sascha Koebner on film-dienst.kim-info.de ( memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 18, 2007
- ^ Critique by Birgit Glombitza on Spiegel Online , accessed on April 18, 2007
- ^ Review by Wendy Ide on timesonline.co.uk , accessed April 18, 2007
Web links
- Sunshine in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sunshine at Rotten Tomatoes (English)