You Are My Sunshine, My Only Sunshine.

It was last Thursday evening that we met and after dinner, we strolled to a nearby theater, having no idea which movie to watch.

Somehow, when we reached the ticket counter, the trailer of Sunshine appeared on the big plasma screen. The good visual and special effects along with the mystery involved made us decide to watch the movie.


It is 2057 and eight scientists of men and women are being sent on a mission to the Sun, to save our ailing star from imminent death.

The only way to save the sun is to send a bomb the size of Manhattan Island into the sun via their spaceship Icarus II. If you study Greek Mythology, you will realise that anything to do with the universe is named after a greek god -- Apollo, Mercury, Jupiter, Pluto etc.

Icarus is the Greek character that flew too close to the sun and his wings melted causing him to plunge to his death. So now you roughly know what happened to Icarus I, the first spacecraft on the same mission 7 years prior to this. It had mysteriously vanished.


But please note that the mission for Icarus II is not to search nor salvage Icarus I but to safe the future of Mankind by saving the sun.

I laughed at the plot of saving the sun. In my unscientific mind, I was yelling to the crew, "Do you know how big the Sun is? Even a nuclear bomb the size of our Earth will not affect the sun. On the other hand, the Sun's small flare burst can dehydrate the Earth within seconds."

Plot aside, I decided to just let go and enjoy the movie. It's going to be a mystery, isn't it?


The mission went smoothly until they were within the point of no return. The point where they lose communication contact with Mother Earth.


In the loneliness of Space travel, there was a sense of belonging when Mercury was seen orbiting the Sun.

And in that loneliness and sense of belonging, a familiar stress signal was detected. It was from Icarus I, the ship they thought had been destroyed in the first mission.

Here comes the predictable event. Yes, they decided to divert to Icarus I and get its payload (The Bomb) so that now they have double the chance of exploding the Sun from the inside.


Watch the movie and enjoy the mystery. How did they manage to fly from one spacecraft to another without a spacesuit? Yes, you can hold your breath for that 15 seconds or yes, you can withstand that minus 35 degrees for a moment. But looks like the producer had forgotten about air-pressure! Your lungs will explode once you fly through a vacuum.

The scientists were jettisoned into space -- one with a spacesuit but two without!!! They must have come not from Earth but from the planet Krypton.

I solved the mystery of how a fifth being managed to enter Icarus II.
Took me two puzzling hours after I reached home to realise the answer.

It was a good movie.
There was mystery and suspense but with predictable ending.

The night at the movie brought me a smile.

Baby,
we met and it's not
Thunder, Lightning nor Rain.

It's SUNSHINE.