Sunshine

Sunshine is that film where the Sun is dying and they send a team of scientists and astronauts to reignite it with a giant bomb. I remember seeing it in the cinema when it first came out and loving it. But it's been a while since I watched the whole thing; some of it was on TV a few months ago and I caught the ending plus a few other scenes here and there but that's it. It's visually stunning and it has one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard. It was also directed by Danny Boyle, the guy responsible for movies like Trainspotting and 28 Days later. I only bring it up because there are some things about it that still really bug me.

How the flying #$%@ were they able to enter the Sun? How for that matter were they able to even get close to it? Their ship has a heat shield which seems to be made out of some kind of super-reflective material while everything else is just stuck to the back of it. At such a close distance, wouldn't the entire vessel just melt. I get that Earth has spent all of its resources and money building this thing and that if it fails then they'd be shit out of luck, but I don't understand how any amount or combination of Earth's resources would ever be able to take on the Sun when Earth itself supposedly won't stand a chance in a few billion years when the Sun decides to go red giant and swallow us up. Also bear in mind that they explain how this is the second attempt at reigniting the Sun. The first ship disappeared out in the middle of nowhere, which means that everything used for the second mission is just the leftovers from building the first.

What really bugs me though is how after (spoiler alert) the shield disintergrates, the remaining characters enter some kind of freefall into the heart of the Sun inside the bomb which for some reason is still intact. Is it colder inside the Sun or something? And how come when the hull breaks open the physicist guy doesn't die instantly? Also how is he able to like reach out and touch the Sun and why does that fireball stop right in front of him? They were talking about how space and time break down because of the extreme gravity at the centre of the Sun, but he's still moving around and looking awestruck during this strange event and for some reason he isn't even blinded? What the fuck?

Good movie though.