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Reinterpretation of Sunshine

posted 11 years ago by pfnuesel
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After several viewings of this film, I think I got together a complete and hopefully coherent interpretation of the film, which is not so obvious, since the plot pretends to be of a straight-forward science fiction/horror movie. But there's much more to it, it's actually a social drama.

So here's my interpretation: Given that the crew are a bunch of scapegraces, they are not sent to save the sun from whatever the sun's pretended to be doing. Instead, the mission is to send the biggest idiots of humanity in outer space and to be burnt by the sun. An undertaking with a complete success, in both cases.

[–] SloppyJ30 10 years ago

Scapegrace: rascal, knave, poltroon, scoundrel, beggar, liar, rake, scullion, blackguard, libertine, rapscallion, scum, etc.

I'm glad I popped by. Learned me a new word, I did.

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I have meddled with the primal forces of nature and I will atone.

[–] rpgn 10 years ago

So they spend hundreds of millions of dollars to send a handful of people no more flawed than your average soap star to complete a pretend mission that used all the earth's remaining materials? Maybe you should have been on the ship too... ?

[–] hrstar24 10 years ago

Not gonna lie, I lol'd

[–] MoviemanCin 9 years ago

That makes absolutely no sense at all.

Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and / or doesn't.