Sunshine (Danny Boyle, 2007)

[Stagger Lee]

Any theories for Pinbacker's superhuman strength? I just watched this last night, but maybe I missed something: doesn't the bad guy hold the good guy (and girl, too, I believe) out over the edge of the cube with one arm? Is there some kind of warped gravity at play here? Or is this a nod to Batman?

[PfR73]

In the commentaries, they say that the cube, in order to create the explosion to reignite the star, has so much mass it actually has it's own gravity field like a moon or planet. The characters can walk on any side of it because the strongest gravity pull in the area is to the center of the cube.

[Stagger Lee]

Presumably the gravity would pull equally and uniformly over the six surfaces of the cube, correct? If they were hanging over the edge with their feet dangling the same direction as Pinbacker's, and they slid for a distance after having been dropped, that means that the pull of the cube's gravity is only significant enough towards the center of the surfaces to facilitate standing upright. If that's the case, how was Pinbacker standing near the edge as he dangled the two peeps over? And in any case, Pinbacker still held two people out over the edge with one arm. If the pull of the cube's gravity was enough less than our own that a normal man was capable of this, wouldn't we have seen some "moon walking"?