"A "default slasher flick" ignores the ideas of allegory, metaphor, and symbolism by definition. Clearly, this doesn't.Of course there's the allegory, metaphors and symbolism present but it's such a distinct change of tone that it doesn't match with the rest of the film. Obviously from a thematic point of view, it works perfectly but there has to have been a better way for that final scene to play out rather than have everyone getting smoked in grizzly ways which, to me, totally invalidates the Eli Roth comment because if he had something to say, he could have done it without showing a solid 5 minutes of Mace freezing to death. To me, it felt as if someone realised that this film may sink without a trace unless they put some action in it and that's what led to Pinbacker's assault.
The film does spin abruptly towards the abstract, but the God vs Science metaphor is threaded deeply into the mythos of that final act. It's a riveting collision of the morality of the first acts and the deterministic philosophy of the opposing meta-forces.
Dude, The Matrix is your favorite film, so I'm expecting you to put a little effort into the analysis of the film. Sunshine was not a wide-release, and therefore, it wasn't a big-budget, macho, action/sci-fi flick (nor was it trying to be). Danny Boyle is not Eli Roth. He has something to say, even if he isn't willing to spell it out for the viewer.
A common criticism of Danny Boyle is that his films' final acts are awkward tangents that spiral away from the crux of the original plot. This is completely, utterly incorrect. The final act in a Boyle film has everything to do with the theme of the movie. "
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