In Sunshine the sun represents the future

[johnny]

This is the more cerebral interpretation. Does anyone else see this?

[nimue]

I'm not really good with symbolisms in movies... care to elaborate?

[johnny]

The future is wholly unknowable and so far most science fiction writers have come to the wall... but there can be a photon of information that gets through and that is all. As the empires of the earth ascend deeper towards the future empires of mind you can hear Searle's voice -

"Kaneda, what can you see?"

kaneda was a witness.
The sun is responsible for our future and it is also deadly. The sun is a giver of life and bringer of death as is the future we make. Sunshine is the story of mankind's struggle to save the future of humanity, this movie highlights the age old observed condition, life is a incessant struggle for existence.

Capa - "- and then a spark, will pop into existence, and it will hang for an instant, hovering in space and then, it will split into two, and those will split again, and again, and again... detonation beyond all imaging - the big bang on a small scale. - a new star born out of a dying one... I think it will be beautiful... No, i'm not scared"

[chero]

"Searle's argument is sound."

Or in this case, johnny's. Here is an LY for pointing out this interesting correlation!