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Mothership Movie: Sunshine

Mothership movie: Sunshine

My recommendation for this movie is to go in thinking of the Sun as an eldritch horror that needs to be appeased so that life on Earth can continue. There's a ritual circle to protect the ship (the solar shield), an arcane ritual for appeasing the Sun (the bomb), a wizard who knows how to perform the ritual to give it the best chance of working (Capa, played by Cillian Murphy), and at least one Sun-Cultist (and at least one other who seems to be heading that way).

Yes, the movie is set in a hard-SF setting, with excellent, if speculative, ship-design, but the overall feel? The Sun is absolutely an eldritch horror. Though since it is hard-SF, what about the physics? Well… at first I thought it was nonsense, but a bit of digging around the internet turned up that there is a theoretical particle that could result in the sun dimming, and it might be possible to dislodge it (I think?) with an explosion, but as none of this is actually explained in the movie, you're free to go with "magic ritual to appease the Sun."

Acting & Visual Effects: Excellent.

Writing: Quite good, so long as you're willing to accept the basic premise for the length of a movie.

Editing: Weirdly choppy, particularly in action sequences, which often makes them hard to follow. I think this was done deliberately, but I do not care for it.

Mothership themes: Ghost ship Unknowable eldritch horror Space Madness

Magnus Fears (top 3): The Desolation The Vast The Lonely (could argue for the spiral)