Chris Woo — 胡仲平

Sunshine, directed by Danny Boyle, is pretty much a great movie.  The premise sounds like an incredibly silly disaster movie, but it is crafted not for explosions and computer-generated mayhem.  The sun is dying and Earth sends two ships to reignite the sun by exploding a massive (and completely theoretical) nuclear device inside the star.  The Icarus I was sent some seven years prior to the movie but did not complete its mission and has since been lost.  The Icarus II was sent using the last of the world’s fissile material and is the final chance for human survival.

What follows is a relatively “hard” science fiction movie where actions have consequences, mistakes cost lives, and the lives of the few are measured against billions.  Above is my patented quality/time graph for Sunshine, and as you can tell I definitely liked the movie.  I recently picked up the bluray for cheap and it was pretty damn good.  Perhaps the best part is the two commentaries on the disc, one by the director and the other by Brian Cox, the film’s science advisor and a physicist working at CERN.  By far the best part is when Cox says that one of the characters mistakes the temperature of space for absolute zero, but derides her as a “botanist” so that makes sense.  Anyway, go watch it.  It’s pretty amazing.

And yes, there is a point on the graph where it breaks outside the axis.  It is that amazing.