Sunshine (2007) character relationship network mapped with AI analysis. Explore the connections, alliances, and conflicts between characters.
A physicist who plays a central role in the Icarus II mission. He advocates for investigating the lost Icarus I, survives a fatal spacewalk with Captain Kaneda, and later dons the only spacesuit to ar...
The pilot of Icarus II who skillfully maneuvers the ship during critical repairs and the mission. She remains aboard while the boarding team investigates Icarus I. Later, she is discovered alive but w...
The ship's engineer who initially opposes the course diversion. He joins the boarding party on Icarus I, sacrifices his chance to return by staying behind to open the airlock, and later critically rep...
A biologist remaining aboard Icarus II during the docking sequence. She calculates the crew's oxygen consumption, participates in the vote regarding Trey's fate, and is ultimately killed by the dereli...
The team's psychologist who sedates Trey after Kaneda's death and discovers the sun-scorched remains of Icarus I's crew. He stays behind during the rescue, opens the airlock for the others, and subseq...
The fanatical, severely burned captain of the lost Icarus I. He sabotages the original mission, boards Icarus II, kills several crew members, traps Capa, and confronts him inside the bomb payload, cla...
The captain of Icarus II who decides to investigate the missing Icarus I. During a critical spacewalk to repair heat shields, he stays behind to finish the repairs and is incinerated by a wave of sunl...
Capa's sister on frozen Earth. She builds snowmen with her children on Sydney Harbour and listens to Capa's final transmission just as the Sun reignites and sunlight returns to the frozen world.
The navigator who inadvertently damages the heat shields by overlooking a critical realignment. Overcome with guilt over Kaneda's death, he is sedated as a suicide risk and eventually takes his own li...
A communications officer who joins the boarding team on Icarus I. He opposes Capa taking the spacesuit and later misses the airlock during the rescue, freezing to death in space.
Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.
Capa's sister builds snowmen on frozen Sydney Harbour with her children.
Searle judges Trey a suicide risk after Kaneda's death and sedates him.
Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.
Trey overlooks the heat-shield realignment, and afterward blames himself for Kaneda's death.
Pinbacker boards Icarus II and kills Corazon during the ship's systems crisis.
Corazon calculates the oxygen limit and participates in the vote to have Mace kill Trey, although Trey has already died by suicide.
Searle discovers the charred remains of the Icarus I crew, while Pinbacker is revealed to be alive and responsible for sabotaging the mission.
Searle stays behind to open the airlock so Harvey and the others can jettison back toward Icarus II.
Trey overlooks the heat-shield realignment, and Mace had opposed the diversion that made the repair necessary.
Mace and Harvey join the boarding party on Icarus I and attempt to return to Icarus II.
Mace objects when Kaneda decides to divert Icarus II to investigate Icarus I.
Cassie remains aboard Icarus II with Trey while the boarding team investigates Icarus I.
Cassie angles Icarus II into Mercury's shadow while Kaneda conducts the external heat-shield repair.
Pinbacker attacks Capa, traps him in an airlock, and later confronts him inside the stellar bomb payload.
Corazon remains aboard Icarus II while Capa boards Icarus I, and she later calculates the oxygen limit affecting his mission.
A dying star forces a small crew to sacrifice themselves while carrying a final attempt to restore life to Earth.
Directed by Danny Boyle
Sunshine (2007) · 7/10 · science-fiction, thriller, horror
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