cruising

[cris]

I was sent out to Silicon Valley on President's Day weekend. Previously, I joked with the Consulting Director that my mom must have gotten a hold of her e-mail address as that had to explain why I kept on getting assignments within spitting distance of family. Fortunately, my folks accepted that the purpose of the visit was work and that they

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[silas7]

Fascinating.

[ayun]

Dude, did Sunshine go totally off the rails in the third act or what?

[cris]

yeah, I know, right?

but I kind of got a sick feeling in my stomach at the beginning with the psych officer getting all hippy about the soul cleansing effects of the Sun and light and blah blah blah; and I was thinking, "Alex Garland isn't going to insert that sort of psychobabble in a script wihtout making it pay off later. Not if The Beach is any indicator."

But I kinda wasn't expecting the payoff to be naked.

you know what would've been better? Icarus I has some kind of Space Flu. Team two picks it up after visiting the wreck, and has to decide if they can return to Earth and save themselves, but possibly die before getting back and fuck everyone over; or continue the mission and definitely die along the way and still possibly die before they complete the mission.

[ayun]

I would've been totally on board with a more sensible version of sun-crazy - think of the Plains Indians sun dance, or Meso-American wacky-worship. But that was one of the most jarring endings to a film I've ever encountered in my life.

Space Flu would've been way better, but a fairly typical conundrum (save yourself or save everybody but possibly save nobody). I was hoping for a riff on "if you look, you go blind." The suicide of the Icarus I crew made so much sense in the context of the film that I would've been perfectly happy to see the same sort of story play out with characters we'd actually met.