15lial1
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Are you really alone? MOON (R), 2009 This blockbuster, ‘Moon’, is yet another superb sci-fi movie after recent works such as ‘Star Trek’. Yes, at first you may think that it looks boring and unexciting, but as you watch along you’ll realise that it’s deep and filled with emotional moments. Despite all the emotional moments, this movie is still covered with the repetitive expletives, making it a restricted movie for minors. The effects and the scenes in the movie looked absolutely astonishing, considering the low budget used. The moon base and the vehicles looked realistic, because after all, they were real. CGIs were rarely used in ‘Moon’, possibly only in a few scenes. Other effects and ideas like using duplicates of Sam Rockwell (as Sam Bell) were simply mind-blowing. At the start, Sam Bell (Rockwell) is close to reaching the three-year contract for his stay in the base on Moon, operated by Lunar Industries’ for mining helium-3 for energy use. Two weeks before his return to Earth, he suffers from various hallucinations, including the sudden appearance of a teenage girl. Another hallucination occurred while he was driving towards the harvester, leading him to crash his rover right into the harvester, causing him to lose conscious from a lack of oxygen. Waking from the infirmary in base, he shows no signs of anything that happened. He ignores the commands to stay in base by both Lunar Industries and the friendly sentient robot, GERDY, and creates a fake problem by cutting wires in base. Using this opportunity, he drives a rover away from base, and “surprise surprise”, a shocking scene happens. Surprisingly, the use of minor or supporting characters in this film is extremely rare. The appearance of all minor characters were limited to appearing in video messages, for example video messaging between him and his wife (Dominique McElliot), his daughter (Kaya Scodelario), and to the company’s base on Earth. The use of a sympathetic robot in the film also enhances the themes the film is trying to convey. Identity and isolation is hugely promoted in this film, reminding the audience that even clones have their own identity and feelings. They may look different on the outside, but inside we’re all different. Other themes of sci-fi were also conveyed, including the use of futuristic equipment, and dystopia, by controlling and using clones, and killing the clones when the three-year contract reaches its end. Moon is a fairly interesting film, but can be quite confusing and boring at times. It serves you with some of the newer themes of science fiction, and makes the audience to think of the issues that we may have to meet in the near future. I personally found the movie not as satisfying, as it does not discover themes in depth, and ends with a huge cliff-hanger. Rating: 7.5/10
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