Sunshine

My favorite movie is called Sunshine. It's about the future, when our sun is starting to die. It's oxygen is slowly running out, doomed to supernova, demolishing all planets and life forms, potentially leaving a black hole in its wake.
The story is about a group of astronauts who go on a suicide mission to try and refuel the sun, carrying tons of oxygen through space. This mission takes years and years to complete, intentionally flying directly towards the sun, hopefully to save our solar system from certain death.

Over the years, some of the people become obsessed and overwhelmed by the magnitude of what they are doing. And the Sun drives them completely insane. Something so real and present throughout all of human existence...something so grounded in our lives, ...but we can't even look directly at it. So some of these men start staring at the sun (in a room with protective glass). They start staring... with more awe, wonder and obsession... than any human being has experienced. They began completely obsessing over this "God," this mighty thing that gives life and takes it away. This mass that we base all of our time on, all of our existence is played out in front of... and they had to fly directly into it. Head first. Piercing the only real God human beings have ever had with the hopes of saving it.

The name of their space ship is the Icarus 2. Icarus 1 disappeared and was assumed to have failed their mission.
Icarus is the name of the Greek god who was made wings of wax and feathers, but was warned not to fly too close to the sun. He ignored the advice, and drowned in the sea after his wings melted.

The men who go insane on the way to the Sun try to destroy everything. They believed they were sent from God to stop it, so that they can finally die and go to heaven, and escape the pain and despair of life. They think by destroying the only hope humanity has, that when everyone finally dies, that they will step away from the fear and distress of existence.

There were ones who chose NOT to stare at the Sun, and chose to focus solely on their duty to the earth, and not their duty to themselves or their fears. They were the ones who focused past the imminent death that awaited them. They remembered that when they actually touched the Sun, that it would create life. Not destroy it. In return for their sacrifice, they would witness something no other human could possibly dream of seeing: the creation.

"When a Stellar Bomb is triggered, very little will happen at first -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."


They used their lives to create more life. And their fear of death vanished.