آفاق سينمائية
Volume 12, Numéro 2, Pages 300-316
2025-12-15
Fanaticism, Terrorism, And Divinity: Apocalyptic Visions From Soderbergh’s Solaris (2002) To Boyle’s Sunshine (2007)
Authors : Souhali Hichem .
Abstract
This paper examines the intersection of mystical aspirations, divine conceptions, and fanatical transformations in two significant science fiction films of the 2000s: Steven Soderbergh's Solaris (2002) and Danny Boyle's Sunshine (2007). Through comparative analysis of these cinematic works and their literary foundations, particularly Stanisław Lem's seminal novel Solaris (1961), this study explores how celestial bodies function as catalysts for existential crisis, religious awakening, and apocalyptic visions. The research demonstrates how both films employ space as a transformative environment where scientific rationality gradually yields to mystical fanaticism, ultimately questioning the boundaries between divine revelation and psychological breakdown. Using Terry Eagleton's Marxist cultural criticism as a theoretical framework, this analysis reveals how contemporary science fiction cinema processes real social contradictions through fantastic displacement, reflecting late capitalist anxieties about collective action, individual agency, and spiritual meaning.
Keywords
Science fiction ; fanaticism ; divinity ; apocalypse, ; adaptation studies, ; Solaris ; Sunshine.
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