2007 · sci-fi · thriller
Sunshine (2007)
Directed by Lee Chang-dong2h 23m2007
Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.
Our read: Sunshine (2007) (2007) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme sci-fi / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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