“Sunshine” and “Event Horizon” brings deep madness to horrific horizons

Millions of miles from Earth, the spacecraft receives a distress call – so its crew changes for investigation. Follow the disaster. This is the preparation for foreignBut it is often used in science fiction stories, including 1997 The horizon of the event and 2007 sunrise.

sunriseIt was in the news since director Danny Boyle He revealed that he was originally hoping to start a trilogy; This never happened, because it is like The horizon of the eventHe decreased at the box office. But both of them sunrise and The horizon of the event Since then I have gained a new appreciation, and they share enough similarities to make the dual science fiction horror feature excellent.

Both films excite that foreign “Mysterious Transition” as a plot of conspiracy; Both films are made in the non -distant future (The horizon of the event He was appointed in 2047; sunrise In 2057). Both films occur in uncomfortable worlds of our solar system, with The horizon of the event In the orbit of Neptune and sunrise Near the surface of the sun. Both films discover that the call call comes from a ship that everyone believes on Earth has lost; in The horizon of the eventIt is the luxurious ship, while sunrise‘s Icarus II He discovers his predecessor, Icarus.

Moreover, both films include characters that transform from ordinary men (if they are strange) to the evil bad guys who move in an outward manner. Both films are ridiculed by mockery, including distant space nuts: The horizon of the eventSam Neil, and sunriseMark is strong.

But there are some major differences as well. While the exhausting crew on board the search and rescue ship Louis and Clared in The horizon of the event On a secret mission from the top, chase the long address ship, Icarus Crew sunrise It is in the most prominent task of all times: the launch of a giant load in the sun of death, in the hope that it will rule it and save everyone to the house from a frozen death.

Scientists and astronauts who were trying to save the planet from some of the end of the world have been a modern theme for about 20 to 25 years. Nucleus He came out in 2003 and related to the feverish pursuit of mobility in the amazing center of the land and restoring the rotation of the nucleus. A few years ago, we had the battle of the asteroid films in Deep effect and Harmjdon. but sunriseWhose central struggle raises the elements of 1961 The twilight area The episode “The Midnight Sun”, takes itself more seriously than the story of the Medium Day of Resurrection.

At the beginning sunriseWe learn-thanks to the voice of Cillian Murphy as Icarus II Physicist Kapa, ​​a man who deals with a bomb that prepares to change humanity more than Obnheimer – that the previous task was lost seven years ago. Capa and Company was now crossing for more than a year, and they concluded at the moment of making or fracture to prevent comprehensive extinction.

Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland carefully raises the first part of the story with hints of the next horror. Ship naming Icarus and Icarus II It is a little heavy-very close to the sun and all-but the mood on the Kaba Salama ship in general in the beginning. Certainly, the ship’s doctor, Searle (Cliff Curtis), is very obsessed with staring at the sun, and certainly, the engineer, MACE (Chris Evans), is somewhat anxious. But even when you transfer the task to the “dead area” that will cut off all external contacts, things seem to go well.

Even, of course, they pass mercury and pick up a distorted movement from IcarusSomehow still work all these years later. The debate about whether any crew is alive or not – a reason that crew members feel more depth than others – because of a point of discussion when CAPA decides that the circumvention deserves all this effort to pick up IcarusDeserted load. Their mission is the last opportunity to save the land, so if they can get two The bombs are ready, which makes the possibility of success greater.

However, controlling their path explains the domino effect of disasters Icarus IIIt quickly weakens the mission of the most important space – before they face the sudden human element that will end their torment.

while sunriseThe science approach may not be completely based on the facts, The horizon of the event Fully Fantastical goes as soon as things begin to get out of bars. We need to survive the sun, but it is also frightening for many reasons, all of which are natural. Hot weather! It is fiery! You will burn you to brittle!

The horizon of the eventand On the other hand, he imagines that the black hole can force the lost ship on hell – then spit it to our dimensions with all complete feelings and a desire to torture and physical torture anyone who dares the move.

It is a very coordinated idea and support for production design, imagining a spacecraft not only withdrawn from HR Giger ( foreign A hat there), but also hieronymus bosch and Hilraizer. the Icarus Ships are much more utilitarian (and during artificial intelligence Icarus II Sometimes it contradicts the crew, it is always very polite on this topic), but they have a major added feature: a surveillance room that allows the crew to enjoy their radiant destination with the help of carefully calibration candidates.

There is the madness of Strong, Icarus Captain Pinbacker (John Najjar Dark star A hat there), take. Since we do not really meet it before it becomes a reckless mixture of solar energy from the missionary and Faridi Kruger, we cannot say if his mind is in a good place before he goes to space. in The horizon of the eventWe are dealing with the character of Sam Neil, Dr. Ware, with a post-traumatic disorder after his wife’s death in suicide-and we get a seat in the front row for his full perfect.

However, the biggest contradiction between these self -deformed men may be their final intentions. Dr. Ware becomes related to the cursed ships he designed, and he is determined to withdraw Louis and Clared A crew to hell with him.

This is completely terrible, but the twisted motivation for Pinbacker may be worse. He believes that the sun that dies is part of God’s plan to end humanity. He also believed that God is talking to him directly, and that any of what God has started in the movement must be challenged or changed.

“Tell me that I will all take us to heaven!” He insists, explains why he sabotaged Icarus And why is it determined to do the same with Icarus II –Ensuring a specific death for everyone on Earth. It is a lot of heaven talking about such a demonic man, as the flame from the surface of the sun waves on the horizon.

Against all difficulties, both of them The horizon of the event and sunrise Look on their way to happy ends, but something like hope. The horizon of the event Bids are bids to Dr. Ware and the inhabited bowl, but it allows some of the traumatic characters to survive. in sunriseAll travelers perish the space, but this implicitly, a successful bombing began to start the sun, and this earth will be saved.

For years, movie makers even outside the original director Paul Ws Anderson have talked about the deeper search The horizon of the eventworld. The fans may never eat the legendary of the film Scenes lostIt is supposed to be proven because it is very extreme, but there are sequences, and Recently, a TV series It was put up as possible projects.

as sunriseThat the last mention of Boyle of the trilogy was a surprise. No details were given beyond the indication that the ideas of the screenwriter Alex Garland were “between planets” and “extraordinary”, which interestingly indicates that they have exceeded the most obvious additions: a Prequel after Pinbacker and its crew, or a supplement that sees the Earth from solar winter. (We are still watching eagerly any of these.)

We may not get more The horizon of the event or sunrise. But both films as they make a very science fiction offer-and you can rest assured, there will always be new stories about picking travelers between stars who take distress calls and fly directly to a deeper chaos.

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