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This visually stunning cinematic work by Danny Boyle is a chillingly sad and somber depiction of a future mission to keep the sun alive. The cast does a very good job of creating realistic human emotion in the circumstances they are under. A team of international professionals embarks on a mission to drop a city sized nuclear bomb on the sun to keep it from burning out, and in turn, save earth. During the last attempt the ship disappeared, now Icarus 2 is the last chance there is. The film develops a more upbeat and thrilling edge during the final quarter, balancing out the slower yet ethereal build up. The soundtrack, done by John Murphy, perfectly fits and adapts with the movie in an animated way.

I’m a fan of many of Danny Boyle’s films, specifically Trainspotting and Shallow Grave.

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The direction is captivating and the cinematography is astonishing. Some of the digitally rendered scenes of the sun were incredibly beautiful, as was the soundtrack. I suppose the fact that I saw this movie in  Without giving away the ending, the only part of the movie I was not fully impressed with was the final scene as I found it too cliché. Although some find the beginning of the movie too slow, I recommend it to anybody that thinks they will enjoy the imagery and is interested in the gripping ending.

My name is Aubrey Durand and I’m from San Francisco, California. I was born in Providence, Rhode Island but my family moved to Bainbridge Island, Washington off the coast of Seattle when I was 2 years old.

this is a baby picture of mine:

The summer before I started high school, my family moved again to San Francisco for my dad’s work. I’ve played soccer my whole life and also play the piano and the guitar. My sister is a sophomore at Brown University, and my dogs name is Becky. I have no previous experience with astronomy aside from informal star gazing, but have taken biology, chemistry, and 2 years of physics.

At this point, I think I will most likely major in Neuroscience. I became really interested in the human brain years ago when I read a few books by a famous neurologist named Oliver Sacks. The two books were Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, and The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat. Both of the books are a collection of odd neurological cases.

I hope to learn a lot more about astronomy during this class because I have never studied it but find it very interesting. I’m most excited to learn about black holes because they aren’t completely understood. Here is an interesting article I came across recently describing the debate between physicists regarding black holes and calling into question Einstein’s theory of relativity: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/science/space/a-black-hole-mystery-wrapped-in-a-firewall-paradox.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0n