The storyline is not complicated, and it even looks a bit old-fashioned. A team of astronauts on Earth flew to the sun in a huge spacecraft to use a nuclear bomb to ignite the sun, which was beginning to die. However, the plot setting of the movie did not fall into the stereotypes. The astronauts on the spacecraft knew their mortal destination very early, and even a major turning point common in genre films appeared in the later stage of the film: a green sprout appeared on the spacecraft, marking the There is hope that they will return to Earth with a happy ending. However, the director brutally stifled this hope, both handsome guys and beauties died one by one, no rhetoric before death, no hero appeared to save the entire spaceship, the only thing that is gratifying is that human beings are not extinct, they have finished rekindling the sun task.
The first thing worth mentioning is the style of the whole film, which is different from the realism of ordinary films. This film is completely stylized. Watching many scenes in isolation will make people feel uncomfortable and at a loss. In the background of the story of flying to the sun, it seems very appropriate. To give a few examples: the camera often makes the audience look directly at the sun, and the whole picture becomes bright and dazzling, and all other details are lost. This is something that ordinary movies generally cannot and dare not do. The crew of the spacecraft took turns watching the sun through the viewing windows, and the close-ups of the astronauts' glasses here make them appear to be burning in flames. In order to make the audience more aware of the heat and light of the close-to-burning sun, many shots are treated with reddishness, highlights, and overexposure. When I met the mad captain of the first Icarus, I mostly used high-contrast shooting. The captain's burned body was in the dark part, while other scenes were relatively bright and even dazzling. When the crew boarded Icarus 1, there was even a quick montage of photos of the deceased crew members, giving viewers the impression that their ghosts were still on board.
Stunning visual effects, sci-fi creativity worth mentioning. The nuclear fusion of the sun is gradually slowing down, and the temperature on the earth is getting lower and lower. In order to rekindle the sun, after the first spacecraft flew to the sun without any news, mankind concentrated all the available nuclear fuel on the earth to create a super nuclear bomb and a spacecraft that could fly to the sun. Several astronauts drove this spacecraft, spent 4 years, brought enough food, and a greenhouse that could produce enough oxygen, flew over Venus, Mercury, and came to the edge of the sun, projecting a nuclear bomb to the center of the sun and detonating, to save the entire human race. The idea itself is already too spectacular and too creative. And the director made all this visually more impactful. At the front of the spacecraft is a huge metal umbrella composed of countless metal blocks, which reflects the strong light and heat of the sun and shields the spacecraft hidden behind. Any object exposed behind an umbrella and facing the sun directly ends up being a puff of smoke. You can't help but feel awe as you watch this massive ship fly away from Mercury to the more massive, burning red star. You can get a glimpse of it by looking at this poster.
In front of the sun, such a huge spacecraft made by humans is so insignificant, and such a highly protected spacecraft is so fragile. The road to the sun was long and hopeless. Can humanity be saved? Can they return to Earth? The sun is so brilliant, yet so deadly, so scorching hot. It is the source of our human life, but when approached it becomes a burning hell. Different from other high-intelligence creatures facing outer space and civilization in other sci-fi movies, in this movie, human beings face the sun, the source of life, and the fear of approaching the sun is intertwined with the gratitude of human beings for the sun for a long time. together. This emotional implication has been present throughout the film, facing the sun, the crew in the film seems to be fascinated by this behemoth, in other words, the sun is so bright and brilliant that they seem willing to embrace this 4 years The celestial body that we face every day, devote ourselves to it, and even be directly burned and melted into it. After being destined to be unable to return to Icarus 2, the psychiatrist on the spacecraft calmly walked to the observation room of Icarus 1, adjusted the light intensity to the maximum, and directly scorched himself in the sunlight.
What has to be mentioned here is the name of the spaceship: Icarus. In the ancient Greek mythology, the person whose wings were burned by the sun because of flying too high has clearly implied the destination of the entire spaceship, and they will eventually be melted by the sunshine. After the captain successfully closed the last piece of metal in order to save the spaceship, when he was getting closer and closer to the sunlight that would vaporize it at any time, he turned to face the sun. At this time, the psychiatrist asked him anxiously: Captain, what did you see? ? What do you see? The captain didn't answer. I thought it was very strange at the time, but later I realized that what the captain saw would be seen by the psychiatrist himself. The captain couldn't describe it in words. At the end of the film, in order to complete the task, the physicist resolutely drilled into the nuclear bomb and ignited the nuclear bomb by hand. In the process of igniting the nuclear bomb, we can see that the director has once again strengthened this theme. Inside the huge nuclear bomb, square The metal block is activated and lit up. Physicists see such a gorgeous scene at the end of life. Seeing that the nuclear bomb was successfully ignited, they think that human beings have been saved and can continue to survive. The smile on their faces, I think it is both Glad to have successfully completed the mission, gratified to embrace the brilliance of this moment, and to explain the mystery of what the captain saw before he died.
The whole film has a unique style, with an almost poetic expression to the image. The plot arrangement is reasonable, completely abandoning the traditional routines in general genre films, full of thinking about human nature, cruel consideration of morality and philosophical speculation. To save the crew of Icarus 1 at the risk of threatening the fate of the entire human race, or to just brutally abandon them to complete the mission? Risk the loss of the entire crew or murder one of them to save all of humanity? From this we can see that the director's intentional arrangement, the enthusiastic physicist and the calm and rational co-pilot often conflict. The co-pilot did not die in the sun but in the icy water, while the physicist ended himself in splendor, igniting the sun, interesting contrast. In order to save the whole ship and all human beings, the captain first sacrificed his life. The crew members who had been guilty of their own mistakes solved the moral problem by suicide. The botanist died guarding the green plants that had just sprouted. The coward Harvey died in the icy space before others and was quickly vaporized by the sun, and the psychiatrist took the initiative to embrace the fascinated sunlight. Every death is justified. The plot ignited the audience's hope many times, but again and again went to despair. In the end, the movie is told by a single flash of the sun to tell the whole earth: the hopeless destruction of Icarus 2 and its crew is the hope of all mankind and the frozen earth.
Speaking of which, I have to mention the director of this film. You can see his works and you can not like his films, but he is definitely not a mediocre talent: Trainspotting, 127 Hours, 28 Days of Change, Beach...
It's a pity that the rating of this movie is not high, it hovers around 7-7.5, what makes me not satisfied is that the crazy captain of the No. 1 ship did not fully explain it, leaving a lot of questions, which makes people strange His immortality, and his crazy mental state of intense dialogue with God, and the final outcome seems unclear. left some regrets. However, it is an unforgettable work in my mind as a whole.
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