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The point where I just couldn't anymore

posted 8 years ago by cheminaismac
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Throughout this movie there were many, and i mean many moments where I thought to myself: Well that's obviously just not possible. For instance i know that space is a vacuum and you can't travel through it even if you have that tinfoil stuff wrapped around you. You would have to seal every whole in your body and I'm pretty sure that didn't happen...
But for the most part i could just go along with the ride and enjoy the movie.

However, what the *beep* was the ending. The whole movie Boyle seemed to be going for a very scientifically plausible movie. They seemed to put huge emphasis on the processes needed and that the science made sense and although there were obviously wrong moments, they never threw logic away altogether until the ending. Like, am i missing something here, that was not possible, you cant hold your hand up to THE SUN. Like why did Boyle make it that way? I guess it was probably metaphoric and although it provided us with a truly beautiful it's still a pretty dumb way to end a movie which is constantly referencing physics and science. A metaphorical ending just seems out of place. So either way i don't like the ending.

If it is possible (which i reaaaaaaally doubt) I would love to know.

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[–] zender8584 8 years ago

Despite all the exploding bodies, boiling blood and instant freezing in the Sci-Fi horror cinema genre, this doesn't happen. Google 'space exposure' for more reading. Being out in space with just your tinfoil longjohns is not ideal, but it is not instant death as many movies would have you believe.

The ending does take some poetic license. We are told humans ~50 years in the future can build a device that not only can withstand the temp/pressure/gravity inside the sun but creates a tiny big-bang. This explosion distorts space-time. For example, the Icarus II computer mentions that it cannot calculate the probability of success because the number of variables is infinite. Anyway, the explosion slows time enough that Capa witnesses the particles being born and can touch the sun. Is this really possible? We don't know it's NOT possible, since we can't currently test it.

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[–] BlackWolfRising 8 years ago

That bothered me too, and still does. While I was watching the scene I kept thinking, "No, no, he'd have died long ago. Just from the heated air. His lungs would turn into charcoal."
Another part of me was thinking, "The Sun is the ultimate campfire. It's fire, that's all. You can touch fire, for a second or two."
Another part was thinking, "Yes, and fire consumes oxygen. He'd suffocate before the heat got him."
Finally, my Inner Bard said, "Come on, nobody was there to watch, no communication to or from the ship, this is going straight into the Akashic Record and people on Earth are dreaming it collectively! Dreams speak in symbols, the whole movie is one long metaphor!"

"What?! WHAT??!?! WHAAAAT!! The Glove is losing its touch!!" — Chief Blue Meanie

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[–] snagletooth 8 years ago

28 gees (the sun's gravitational pull at its 'surface') isn't going to seriously distort time flow.......