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Greatest film ever made.

posted 9 years ago by mikebos
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Where to even begin with this? The music? The cinematography? The incredible emotion from every single actor in the film? The incredible beauty of the scenery? The overload of incredibly powerful scenes? The ultimate battle between science and god, relying on a few tiny human beings to accomplish something beyond our greatest comprehension?

Even the final sequence alone - Capa is locked in a room at the hands of Pinbacker. Pinbacker has sabotaged Icarus II the same way he sabotaged Icarus I, by sabotaging the mainframe. Power is down. The dying Mace (the alpha) is on the floor, on the commlink, telling Capa (the beta) that he has to find a way to manually send the payload into the sun, no matter what, as Pinbacker's sabotage has rendered the automated systems dead. "FIND A WAY." Capa uses the tools in the room to blow the airlock and literally remove all oxygen from the entire ship, blowing everything, dead bodies and all, out into space, just so he can get through the door. Then, when he's literally 4 minutes away from launching himself out the door and through space to hopefully be able to reach the payload, so he can manually release it into the sun... He falls over. He's trying in vain to get back up, through a flurry of tears and blood inside of his helmet... He knows if he can't, the entire planet... the entire solar system... will die. *beep*

[–] Lucy9596 9 years ago

I agree with everything you said. Great film, maybe not the greatest though.

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[–] masterofpuppets79 9 years ago

I agree 100%! This is one of the GREATEST films alongside Interstellar.

[–] mdjb1 9 years ago

I agree that it's a great film, certainly not the greatest though.

My feeling is it will grow in stature as time goes by. Several elements of the film are quite unique.

[–] bandit837 8 years ago

Wouldnt say its one of the greatest films ever made but it is up there in my personal favorites. Its a beatiful film and the Mercury scene is one of my favorite scenes in recent films.

[–] PrivateBozz 8 years ago

I love your post!

The more I'm thinking about this movie, the more I love it. I've been watching it a lot in the last days and can't get enough of it for some reason.

The emotion, the sheer epicness of what they are witnessing so close to the sun, what it does to them.

Capa's final scene where the power of nature/god meets the power of science, they come together and he's standing just in between, his hand lifted in a greeting.

The fact that humanity is practically saved by solving contrasts, by reconciling nature/god with science.

Mace's sacrifice, his pure will and strength that make him push through all that's thrown in their way, and how his energy captures Capa and gives him the power to overcome all obstacles.

This intense feeling of fulfilling one's purpose, to come undone in something so immense.

Danny Boyle is an atheist, but in his commentary he's talking about the sun as god or nature, and there's something extremely spiritual about the things that are happening in this movie.

They're not only on a journey to the sun, everyone's on their own private journey to become something, and they all come to a fulfilling end. The deaths are all so freakin beautiful.

Alchemy is not only the art/science of making gold from lesser metals, it's also a process that is taking place inside the adept - by working with the materials he's also working on turning himself to 'gold'. That's what's happening to these people. They turn to gold, which is practically the sun.

And the Icarus I distress signal is so creepy and haunting, perfect. As are all the sounds in the movie, they stay with you.

Searle's face. Kaneda.

The small hints to their back stories and their personalities, like how Mace has lost his way at the start of the movie and pulls himself together. That the wild waves are calming him down more than the forest. Capa's dream. Capa's nervousness when he's putting on the suit for the first time while Kaneda's doing it with total routine.

The whole mercury scene, the music, their faces.

The garden.

There's SO MUCH I love about this movie.

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Never forget, that God isn't finished with me yet

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