Sunshine

I watched Citalopram 40mg this movie the other  night at Reactions to amoxicillin a friend’s house. The premise Clindamycin allergy was that What is amoxicillin used for the sun is dying and earth has launched a mission to give it a jump start by launching a nuclear weapon the size of Manhattan into the center of it. The idea itself is fairly ludicrous and the movie would have fallen on its face if they had relied on that gimmick but they didn’t. The movie was watchable thanks to the motivation this situation gave to its characters. They were on a mission to save themselves, their loved ones, and earth itself. That is what made the first two-thirds of the move very interesting and promising.

The last third of the movie was a disaster. They introduced an antagonist that was not believable at all which served to underscore the impossibleness of the already impossible premise. It felt like switching a car from first all the way to fifth gear. It practically ruined the first part of the movie.

All of that aside, I want to talk about something the movie did wonderfully. If you haven’t seen it and want to then read no further. Sunshine showed sacrifice in a very compelling way. It put the characters in a situation where they had to choose to go on. Most movies these days have happy endings. The main character succeeds in their quest, having to put it all on the line but surviving despite the odds. Most movies show humanity overcoming. We like to see this. I know I do. Very rarely does the main character put everything on the line and then lose everything. This is what happened in this movie. Everyone dies. I suppose the ending could be seen as bittersweet since they save earth in the process of dying but the movie did so little to tie us back to earth that when they finally did it didn’t work for me. I was emotionally tied to the characters, not to earth. They succeeded but they had to give everything to do so.

This idea is actually what made the movie worth watching for me. I am captured by the idea of sacrifice and having to go to the ends of myself for a purpose. I guess many people who work in a cubicle wish for this. We live such sheltered, safe, and happy lives in the U.S. that the “hard thing” is hanging a shelf on the wall or mowing the yard. Where is the adventure in that?  Granted I have to sacrifice my time to do these things but that is small in comparison to what I could be called to give.  What if we were put in a situation where we had to choose to put everything on the line knowing that we would not make it?  What would we do?

Brian