"Moon" is a science fiction film made in 2009 on a small budget. There is only one leading actor, the shooting period is 33 days, and the total investment is 5 million US dollars. It is no different from "Avatar", but it is all about outer space. "A" staged a Chinese reality forced demolition in Zhangjiajie's space version of Pandora planet, "Moon" The background is not so far away, just in the moon in the not-too-distant future. In order to solve the energy crisis, human beings have set up an energy base on the moon to mine the unique helium-3 ore and send it back to the earth. Sam is the only staff member of this base and needs to work at the base for 3 years, during which time only the intelligent computer Gerty is accompanied by him. Due to the failure of the base's external communication equipment, Sam can only communicate with his wife and daughter through video recordings sent from the ground.
The story is irresistible repetition and loneliness from the beginning, the scene is simple, a little nostalgic sci-fi feeling, nothing is so advanced, sam's face is full of beards, repairing grass, carving wood carvings, jumping rope, running, drinking coffee from time to time and Gerty said a few innocuous remarks, like the female version of Iron Man in "Resident Evil 4" our Emmy, not without recording a work log, talking to himself.
Sam is three years old, but hallucinations due to prolonged loneliness, an accident at work outside, and he wakes up forgetting details. However, what is unexpected is that he found himself, another self, in the car that had the accident last time.
Then, there are two sams in the base, real or fake Monkey King? No. Both of them are fake. In order to reduce costs, the company uses clones to work after the real Sam returns to the earth. It looks like Sam and implants Sam's memory, which is also called Sam's name. In my heart, I was looking forward to Sam's wife and daughter. But it's just a substitute. The illusion was shattered.
The most loneliness is not that sam lives alone on the moon, not that he misses his wife and daughter day and night, but that he is deeply struck by the sense of non-existence. The most moving part of the story is that the fifth generation of sam was finally able to communicate with the earth instantly, dial the phone, and there was a 15-year-old girl, his daughter Eva, who told sam that his long-awaited wife had died , that was several years ago. And Eva has a dad by her side, really sam.
Reality is a terrible void. Wouldn't it be better if you didn't know you were living in fiction? A few days ago, I watched "13 Degrees of Fierce" (this translation is not good), and a person found out that the world he was in was only a virtual one, and even he himself was a virtual one. What kind of disillusionment would that be? Like Truman saw his world, a huge lie.
Another important role in the film is the robot Gerty, which is similar to the robots in "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Wall-E", but is completely different from them. The robot in "2001" sacrifices the protagonist in order to complete the program commands. A wonderful satire of human intelligence, and here, although there are mysterious footage of Gerty talking directly to the headquarters staff, but in this story, there is no violence, distrust, suicide, jealousy, and murder. On the contrary, it is warm, and the warmth in the sad and sad background is even more moving.
Some people say that this movie is praising human nature, and some people say that it depicts a non-human machine civilization like "The Matrix". I think it is too unreliable to say that the so-called praise is too unreliable. None of the protagonists is human, but rather The companies that represent interest groups behind it make people feel evil, and the machine civilization is even more difficult to fight. It is impossible to be excited about the ending "You are not a program, you are a human being". It's not a human story, it's a story for people to see, look at these inhumans, look at yourself, and reflect on it, my dear.
Of course, there is a sense of presence. This is the core, the deep loneliness.
Ps: There was a writers strike during the filming of the film. The writers' strike caused the shutdown of several films at Shepperton Productions. The director of the film, Duncan Jones, said that it happened to have other film shutdowns, so he was able to find some of the industry's top special effects producers to join this independent production. Cost sci-fi. Those outdoor shots that took place on the moon were shot with models, and all the outdoor shots were shot in three days.
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