Sunshine (2007)
May. 19th, 2012 02:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ayascytheSo I watched Sunshine tonight and I'm not ashamed to admit that I watched mostly for Chris Evans (and the soundtrack - which is, btw, a thing of utter beauty). What I didn't expect was that I'd end up loving the movie just for Evans' character alone. I mean, the movie is in itself a little bit like a piece of art, the way it's shot, some of the pictures just take your breath away. It's beautiful and slightly surreal and yet so realistic. There's one scene where you can just see Mercury in front of the sun and it ... makes you feel awed, just like the characters in the movie feel at that moment.
And then there is Evans as Mace, a guy that comes off as a little bit like an asshole at first, because he starts a fight with Capa the main protagonist and says things no one wants to hear. But that's the thing: he doesn't hesitate to speak out unwelcome truths. He puts things out in the open that no one else dares to, he's rational and he gets shit done. Because whereas many of the others let their emotions get in the way, or their crazy obsessions with the sun, he never, not once, loses his focus:
And oh, I was sold right there, right at that moment, because I knew he'd do everything for that mission, give everything, his body, his soul, his morals. I fell a little in love with him just for that. And he does give everything, his body, his morals, his life.
Despite knowing what I was getting myself into, it was painful to watch him die. This is a movie where you can guess after ten minutes that no one will make it out alive. I knew Mace would die, probably later than the rest, but he would die. And then he goes and tries his very best to fix Icarus' mainboards, goes back into the icy water, again and again, and I was squirming on the couch, physically unable to watch it, because it was so awful. Especially because I had this crazy piece of headcanon formed up that freezing to death is the one way he never wanted to die, the one thing he's afraid of. There are various scenes in the movie in which he's confronted with the cold and he always seems rather unsettled by it. Or maybe that is just the Steve Rogers/Chris Evans connections speaking, I don't know. Anyway. It was awful.
So, Sunshine is really worth the watch, not only but definitely also because of Chris Evans. Even if it will leave you depressed afterwards. And with depressed I mean A LOT. And, oh, I might have forgotten to mention it, but Capa, the guy Mace constantly fights with? Yeah. UST all the way. (There's fanfic on AO3, it's not just my imagination!)
Also, new head canon: Icarus is totally JARVIS' sister programm.
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Date: 2012-05-19 05:41 am (UTC)You too, huh?
Gotta go now, but I'll try to come up with something more coherent when I'm back from feeding the kitties...
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Date: 2012-05-19 08:08 pm (UTC)But I think it's a really beautiful movie, with or without Evans (although he definitely helped ;)).
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Date: 2012-05-22 08:09 am (UTC)Danke. Sehr vielen Dank. Als hätte ich nicht schon genug Filme zu gucken. *schmoll*
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Date: 2012-05-22 06:13 pm (UTC)Gern geschehen. Bin's gewöhnt. Magst du dem Club beitreten? Er hat schon jede Menge Mitglieder. :p
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Date: 2012-05-23 05:50 am (UTC)