This 2007 science-fiction thriller is a who’s-who of brilliant actors right before they made it big, and is basically Project Hail Mary’s older, emo cousin
From the article, explaining why they think it’s an “Atheists Worst Nightmare”:
Garland’s writing frequently reaches for this sort of inverse Spielberg effect, where secular revelation is inseparable from existential horror. Much like his later works Ex Machina (2014) and Annihilation (2018), which also combined highbrow philosophy with good old-fashioned schlock, Sunshine plays out as an atheist’s worst nightmare. Imagine: you’ve staked your life on rational science and journeyed into the very gut of the galaxy, only to discover something irrefutably Godlike, terrifying, awe-inspiring and utterly impartial towards your continued existence. Perhaps those sun-deifying ancient civilisations were right all along. The sun giveth and it taketh away, and if it decides our number is up, who are we mere mortals to argue?
From the article, explaining why they think it’s an “Atheists Worst Nightmare”:
Oooh Ray Comfort’s banana has nothing on this.
Edit: Also, “into the very gut of the galaxy”, for fuck’s sake, THE FUCKING SUN is not the gut of the galaxy.