{"id":531,"date":"2007-04-23T00:27:35","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T00:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2007-04-23T00:27:35","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T00:27:35","slug":"film-reviews-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"Film Reviews: Sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday night, I was able to see two new films that are playing at the moment: First 2\/3 of Sunshine<\/a>, and Last 1\/3 of Sunshine<\/a>. While sharing some superficial similarities, they were two very different beasts.
\nFirst 2\/3 of Sunshine<\/i> (directed by Danny Boyle, written by Alex Garland) was an intense, considered science fiction film. It tells the story of a group of scientists travelling to the sun in order to reignite it and thereby rescue life on earth. This premise was used to explore humanity’s relationship with technology, our human limitations and our responses to the exposure of these limitations. Of particular interest were the analogies drawn between technology in the physical sense, spaceships and computers and so forth, and technology in the social sense, such as mission parameters and chains of command. A winning multicultural cast delivered excellent performances which embodied the tensions existing between what is human and what is mechanical. The sun itself was used as a multipurpose metaphor, representing enlightenment, purpose, and the integration of our multiplicity into a single new order of being. The tropes of a disaster film added excitement and tension, and the character studies were fulfilling, although the decision to avoid forcing characters to follow through on a key moral dilemma (can you suppress your humanity and become mechanical for the greater human good) was a disappointment. Nevertheless, First 2\/3 of Sunshine<\/i> was a solid film, limited only by a curtailed final chapter which did not show the resolution of the long mission.
\nLast 1\/3 of Sunshine<\/i> (directed by Danny Boyle, written by Alex Garland) was vastly different. Also set on a spaceship near the sun, it was mostly about a blurry murderer with a skin condition. Last 1\/3 of Sunshine<\/i> was a substandard imitation of Jason X, the “Friday the 13th” movie in which serial killer Jason Voorhees wandered around a spaceship dismembering people. Incoherent, visually frustrating, and completely charmless. Avoid at all possible costs.
\nIt is worth noting that First 2\/3 of Sunshine<\/i> and Last 1\/3 of Sunshine<\/i> are playing as a double feature. Fair warning: any enjoyment you might receive from First 2\/3<\/i> will be stomped into the ground and then spat on by Last 1\/3<\/i>, and sad as it is to say, First 2\/3<\/i> just isn’t good enough to make the whole trip worthwhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday night, I was able to see two new films that are playing at the moment: First 2\/3 of Sunshine, and Last 1\/3 of Sunshine. While sharing some superficial similarities, they were two very different beasts. First 2\/3 of Sunshine (directed by Danny Boyle, written by Alex Garland) was an intense, considered science fiction … Continue reading Film Reviews: Sunshine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-8z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}