"The Moon" is a low-cost science fiction movie with basically only one actor, and the filming time is said to be only 33 days. In "The Moon", there are no large-scale scenes that are common in general science fiction movies, and there is no magnificent ultimate duel, but after watching it, there will be a touch of sadness and sigh.
The story structure of "The Moon" is very simple: the advancement of human science and technology has made it possible to explore a rock on the moon that will absorb solar energy and convert it into helium-3 gas. A US-listed company, the "Lunar Giant", has set up an excavation base on the moon to mine this kind of rock and send it back to the earth with rockets on a regular basis. In order to ensure the normal operation of the mining base, the "lunar giant" stationed a staff member and signed a three-year employment contract with it. So Sam worked alone on the moon, and only the robot Gotti accompanied him. Sadly, the real-time communication equipment on the base was damaged, and Sam could only contact the earth with the time-lag video tape, and the food was the same microwave food day after day. Fortunately, Sam has only two weeks left on his contract.
Those familiar with the operation of American companies can't help being surprised by such a setting. The manpower allocation of American companies has always been based on the importance of the task rather than the complexity. No matter how simple the work is, as long as the amount and coverage involved are large, a team of people will be sent to take charge, and then another team will be sent to take care of the former. A team of people. Moreover, although the United States has the most powerful force in the world, its people have the most vulnerable nerves in the world. An American who is lonely on the quiet and remote moon will definitely have a nervous breakdown on the second day of arrival, and needs the treatment of psychologists and drugs, not to mention the long three years. However, this is exactly the director's foreshadowing.
With only two weeks left on the contract, Sam began to hallucinate and had an accident while driving the maintenance truck to the excavation site. When Sam awoke in the medical room at the base, he couldn't remember all the details after the accident. The robot Gotti takes care of Sam's body carefully and asks him to rest on the hospital bed. But Sam got out of bed secretly and overheard Gotti's strange conversation with the earth. The Earth will send a rescue vehicle to the base, asking Gotti not to let Sam outside the base before the rescue vehicle arrives, and the communication between the two parties is obviously through the "already broken" timely communication equipment. So Sam destroyed the pipeline of the base when Gotti was not paying attention, and insisted on going outside the cabin to overhaul the shell.
As soon as he left the base, Sam drove the maintenance vehicle to the scene of the accident and found another damaged maintenance vehicle. Inside, there was a person who looked exactly like him and passed out in the driver's seat with serious injuries. After Gotti treated the seriously injured person, he said that this man was also named Sam. As a result, things became somewhat clearer. Sam, who was seriously injured and just awakened, had a previous burn wound on his hand, but the Sam who rescued him did not. Therefore, the previous Sam was the old Sam who was about to end the mission. As for the new Sam, he wanted to be a clone, and he must have been hidden somewhere in the base before he could arrive at the old Sam as soon as he had an accident. The question is, will Old Sam also be a clone?
Old Sam is also a clone. When New Sam was rummaging around for the hidden place where he had been hidden before, he broke the wooden model made by the old Sam's effort, and the two also had a physical conflict. Faced with the frustrated Old Sam, Gotti admitted that Old Sam was also a clone, and all the memories and knowledge about Sam were implanted by Gotti. The scene where the two Sams meet is not part of Gotti's programming, so Gotti decides to act in accordance with the established principle: to protect and take care of Sam with all his strength. And Gotti’s understanding that the so-called protection and care are not only limited to food and clothing and good health, but happiness and happiness are also necessary. This also means letting Sam know what he wants to know, even if it would violate the instructions on the other side of the earth. .
All the time, the longing for the wives and daughters far away on the earth has been a life-saving straw to support Sam through the long loneliness. Now, neither Sam knows where to go. The only thing they can do at the moment is to try to get in touch with the other side of the earth and make sure that the life-saving straw is still there before the rescue vehicle arrives. Since the communication within the base is disturbed, and there is no device to issue such a function, the interference must be placed somewhere outside the base. So, the two Sams drove two maintenance vehicles to search for them, and found three places where the jamming antennas were erected.
Old Sam's health was very poor and he kept vomiting blood, so he went back to the base first to find out when the moon mission started and where Sam was going after the contract was completed. With the help of Gotti, Old Sam found past computer files and knew that the first Sam started working on the moon about ten years ago, and every three years, Sam who completed the mission would enter a space capsule. Depart back to earth. Old Sam immediately took the mobile communication equipment and drove the maintenance car out of the interference signal range. Old Sam dialed the phone at home and saw a young girl in the picture. The girl is fifteen years old. She is Sam's daughter. His wife has passed away many years ago, and off the screen, a person who is called the father by the girl is standing there. Old Sam cut off the communication.
After returning to the base, Old Sam found the location of the space capsule returning to the earth, and the pipeline of this space capsule was obviously not enough for the equipment to fly to the earth. On the ground on the side, there is a hidden door leading to the base of the base. After the new Sam returned to the base, he went down to the secret door with the old Sam. Sure enough, there were other clones inside, and there were at least hundreds of them. Another fact has also surfaced: more clones are placed under the base, and these clones will not have a chance to leave. Settling the sick old Sam, New Sam secretly opened the record of the mobile communication device and saw the conversation between the old Sam and his daughter. In any case, at least there is a daughter on the other side of space, which is worth living.
New Sam found Gotti and asked him to wake up another clone. Otherwise, when the rescue vehicle arrived a few hours later, both the old Sam and New Sam would die, and the company would not let the clones live. New Sam’s plan is to wake up another clone, kill him, and then settle back in the repair car where the accident occurred. Let Old Sam squeeze into the rocket transporting the rock back to Earth, and he himself continued to station at this lonely base. Despite the embarrassment, Gotti agreed. After all, the scene he didn't want to see was the killing of these two Sams. However, Old Sam’s body is too weak. He knew that he could not survive the three-day arduous journey back to Earth. Moreover, he also knew that New Sam could not be able to kill the awakened clone. Old Sam knew very well. Sam, he is Sam.
So, in the few remaining hours, New Sam sent the old Sam back to the repair car where the accident occurred, and Gotti implanted Sam's memory in the brain of another cloned human. A few minutes before boarding the rocket returning to Earth, the last thing New Sam did was to modify the travel coordinates of the excavator. So, the rocket lifted off, the old Sam swallowed his last breath in the maintenance vehicle, the rescue vehicle arrived, and the new clone woke up from the hospital bed and asked: What's wrong with me? The excavator broke the jamming antenna and restored the base's timely communication. The final narration sounded and New Sam returned to Earth, exposed the use of human cloning, took Lunar Giants to court, and caused the stock price of Lunar Giants to plummet.
What is human nature? Robots know it, clones know it, and people on earth know it, but "corporate" doesn't know it. When people gather together and act in the form of a business, humanity is wiped out. Although the law gives an enterprise the identity and responsibility of a "legal person", the enterprise is not a person after all. No matter how humanity is used for packaging and promotion, the maximization of shareholders' interests is the only principle of conduct. In the United States, tobacco is prohibited by law in any form of advertising. However, Philip Morris, the largest tobacco company in the United States, spends an astonishing amount of advertising fees every year. What do they advertise? What they advertise is all kinds of charity behaviors, all kinds of human care, let people know that they are a socially responsible, people-oriented enterprise. Are they? If so, they should stop selling tobacco, stop tampering with various scientific research reports, or at least change their propaganda to "I am a murderous company."
"The Moon" is a short-form movie, without great grief or climax, but it reminds people of things that are almost forgotten. If you love someone, you must be sincere and treat the other person as a person, a living person, and a person just like yourself. Moreover, every behavior of an enterprise must be examined with a magnifying glass, and a high degree of suspicion must be required. In the United States, when individuals and companies have litigation, judges are often biased towards individuals, and the penalties for companies are often aggravated. This may not be completely fair, but the basic assumption behind it is reasonable: the original impulse of the company is to make money , Even if it harms justice, it will not hesitate. In front of huge companies, individuals are too weak to even collect evidence at a disadvantage. To deal with such an organizational form, it is acceptable and necessary for the law to lean the balance slightly toward the individual.
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