Yesterday we went to Dendy's in Newtown to watch the sci-fi flick Sunshine from director Michael Collins -- the director of classics like Trainspotting, Waldhorn of Death and 28 Days Later. Sorry, it was Danny Boyle and not Michael Collins.
Lars A and I were excited, partly due to the suspense and partly due to having ordered grande Latte to go at Cinque.

A quick synopsis of Boyle's Sunshine: somehow the hydrogen fusion engine inside the Sun has started to fail. Eight scientists are aboard the spaceship Icarus II and headed towards the sun whose payload is "an atom bomb the size of Manhattan". It may sound like the usual macho sci-fi BS but the unique combination of two central themes, namely fertility (think Kubrick's 2001) and garbage planet (Carpenter's Escape from New York), make this a very interesting contribution to the genre. Less talk than in the aforementioned movies and with a lot of inexplicable but meaningful action taking place.

Malene thought it was fairly stupid. According to her the style was in line with commercials for Diesel jeans or iPod. I would like to point out that I bought my iPod before watching the movie. So all the subliminal stuff that Malene (paranoid or not) saw in the movie must've had its effect on me at another point in time.

Just being paranoid? That's a central theme in the movie. My favorite scene in Sunshine is when the psychologist on board the spaceship is analyzing images of himself. Basically he's doing a quick and dirty version of the Voigt-Kampff test from Scott's Blade Runner. The implications in this scene are not followed up later in the movie and that's happening a couple of times in other situations. The viewer is given hints that something is wrong with the psyche of the space travellers headed for the Sun.

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