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Climate change is coming, and it's serious. None of the traditional folk remedies--switching to a Prius, recycling your eggshells, or taping the Bon Jovi set from the Live Earth concert--will avail you now. The earth is breathing its last, because the sun is dying: such is the premise of the new Danny Boyle movie, "Sunshine," which turns its gaze upon a group of astronauts who have been dispatched to set the problem right. Their task is to explode a stellar bomb, "with a mass equivalent to Manhattan island," on the surface of the sun. The effect will be, we are told, "to create a star within a star," a plan that has not succeeded since the union of Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland.
The spaceship that bears our heroes is called the Icarus II. There was an Icarus I, but it failed to keep its appointment, for reasons as yet unknown. The two vessels share the same mushroom-based design: a vast, curved shield to fend off solar glare, and, tucked safely behind it, a long modular stalk in which the astronauts live, breathe, and philosophize. There are eight of them, and such is their youth, ethnic diversity, and all-around funkiness that one shudders to think how they might hail a passing alien: "Greetings. We come from Planet Benetton." Hippest of all is Capa (Cillian Murphy), a physicist with eyes of ocean blue. I found it moving to...
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