The 2009 "Legend of the Moon" is just such a work.
The background of the film is set in the era when the earth has developed another clean new energy source—it does not come from the earth, but from the moon. The rocks on the moon absorb solar energy and then transmit it to the earth through "machines" built by humans. Just the beginning of this paragraph, there is already room for discussion. The urgency of environmental issues is becoming more and more important. Can human beings really find a new energy source that can be used sustainably? The R&D and development of renewable energy and bio-energy have not been satisfactory, and environmental pollution is also like the more and more serious cancer. Is the film only an illusion or a vision?
The extension from this point is the mission on the moon. There is no denying that energy is a huge business, especially when a certain organization takes the lead, it must be a monopoly. On the premise that all interests are first, the cost will be minimized as much as possible to collect the maximum profit. In the film, this kind of energy is to be collected on the moon, so energy companies need to develop the "business" in outer space-establishing a base on the moon. It is conceivable that this is an extremely costly investment. Therefore, all other costs and risks must be minimized. Human resources are often the most difficult issue. Training astronauts is a country. Class-level "courses", the manpower and material resources required will definitely annoy the benefit-first company. Therefore, the senior management has a compromise method: only "one person" needs to take care of it on the moon.
The most fascinating part of the film is precisely developed from this "one person" setting. It not only gives the audience the greatest space for reflection, but also provides the audience with an excellent "one-leg show." Sunrockiway, who has acted in "Suffocation" and "Shocking Mantra", is the protagonist of the film. He plays the astronaut who endures loneliness in the boundless space. From head to end, his performance can also be achieved. As the audience is getting better and better, the sense of substitution in watching the movie will become stronger and stronger, and eventually they will feel the complex emotions of the character's endless despair and difficult-to-choose contradictions. Even though there are some small characters in the movie, it can be said that from the beginning to the end, only the protagonist leads the whole play. Loneliness is often the most feared by human beings, and the film also shows this point well-working alone on the moon can be said to be the most extreme example. The protagonist endures the pervasive loneliness and is able to sustain it because there is still a place to survive. Hope, but it turns out that there is something more terrible besides loneliness-you will eventually have to face eternal loneliness. This place is a bit of the shadow of "2020", but what is different from the latter is that the film "Moon" does not talk about identity verification, but focuses on the point of loneliness and the sense of despair that is like a bottomless pond.
Probably, this is a set of science fiction films that make the audience feel the most desolate.
Yes, it has the shadow of various science fiction classics, but this film is not just a tribute. It has a keen sense of current affairs, gives the audience a real "foresight", and also explores the gloom of human nature, and it makes the most of loneliness. After watching this film, the audience will understand that loneliness is not the loneliest one. Nor is the huge gap after the noise.
Whether you are a fan of science fiction or not, this is also a work worth seeing.
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