In this era of scribbles of technological special effects and the taste of visual blockbusters, "Moon" turned out like a spicy chili pepper, penetrating the depths of fans' senses, wanton stirring people's increasingly rigid movie-watching taste buds. As the first film work of advertising director Duncan Jones, it took only 33 days to shoot, a meager production cost of $5 million, and a cast of only 7 voice actors, plus that highly oriented theme, which undoubtedly eclipses many of the so-called "blockbusters" nowadays. With its absolutely advantageous cost performance, "Moon" can be described as an unprecedented satirical feast both on and off the screen.
The title "Moon" already oozes an inexplicable sense of poignancy. The cold outer space environment and the dark mechanized equipment set the tone and style of the plot perfectly. Especially at the beginning of the film, after listening to the ding-dong piano solo and entering the pale and sparsely populated cabin, a sense of "alien"-like fear arises spontaneously. From the very beginning, the director was putting pressure on the audience, and a huge spring scale sank little by little.
In the name of the future world, in fact, "science fiction" is just a layer of sugar-coated packaging on the outside of the "moon". What really touched the hearts of the audience was the epic of blood and tears that was wrapped tightly and full of humanity. With the help of the "cloning" system, the second half of the film is filled with the most realistic portrayals of the protagonist: the sorrow of a wanderer and the pain of other wells seem to be his eternal nightmares, constantly gnawing at his fragile heart. As a clone, although he has the memory of his body, he cannot control his own future. This infinite magnification, which is free from subjective feelings and objective reality, is a heavy punch to the chest of all audiences.
Since childhood, we have been taught to care about the motherland and love our homeland. There are countless excellent works by literati and writers at home and abroad in ancient and modern times to describe nostalgia and wandering. This kind of cramming teaching makes us seem to be accustomed to this kind of feeling, and frankly speaking, it is numb. "The wonderful thing about things is that you can only really experience them if you have experienced them." This sentence is the best interpretation of such strange feelings as nostalgia. For a lucky person like me, who has never left his hometown, it is impossible to know that kind of pain. For those wanderers who linger in foreign countries, the "moon" is undoubtedly the most lethal tear gas bomb.
In the middle and late stages of the film, the clone SAM had a phone call with "his own daughter" and asked a lot, and learned that his body was still alive, his beloved wife had passed away, but his daughter had already grown up. Sam couldn't bear it any longer, hung up the phone, raised his head and shouted at the distant earth: "It's enough!" It's enough! (It's enough... it's enough...) " At this moment, inexplicable pain surged like a dam, and the reactionary force of the huge spring scale knocked heavily on the hearts of every audience member. In life, no matter how many things you think you'll get if you're determined to take them for granted, they'll all be gone in the blink of an eye.That sense of loss is like holding you up in the sky. When you can reach the treasure, it tells you that these things are fake, and then slams you down.
The controversial subject of human cloning has long been used in the same way, indifferently. In different places, they all throw a question to the audience: "If there really existed a cloning system, how would a clone be defined?" The entire cloning system is not the sole pillar of the film's theme. Let the three elements support the film at the same time, thus becoming a more three-dimensional ideology.
With the memory of the ontology, everything in the ontology's past, the clone is such an orphan abandoned by time and space-they have a bittersweet past, but no future. Just like the replica SAM in the film, the clear images in his mind are all from real memories, but the difference in identities makes him only exist in a lonely space station, looking forward to it three years after three years. Looking forward to the ending that does not belong to him at all, looking forward to the impossible future. When the poor clone SAM discovered all this, his grief was far more than the three years of loneliness. And when another SAM returned to Earth, he faced insults and frame-ups from the company. If there is such a thing as human cloning in the future, the academic contradiction between human rights scientists and scientists may lead to a third world war.
SAM is just a symbol for that clone with no future.For modern society, worrying too much about this kind of future will happen in advance, and some people say that director Duncan Jones is too worried. However, when we are willing to dig a little deeper, we can find that the apocalypse Duncan Jones gave us is far from worrying about this technology.
He worries about people's hearts. As in the film, cloning is used as the core system of the turn. But at the end of the film, we find that everyone on earth, including everyone on earth, seems to be ignorant of this near-perfect technology. In other words, this is a state-secret-like top technology. But why not announce the birth of this mature technology to the outside world but quietly use it in business operations? We don't know. We can only assume that maybe the SAM in the film has been lucky enough to discover his special life experience by chance. But what about beyond SAM? How many people can guarantee that this technology is not used in other fields? If you are thinking about it now, or if this technology has already been used, how many of you are the real "ontology"?
Through this unease that haunts the whole film, Jones tells us that the human heart is such a terrible thing. For the sake of profit, there's nothing we can do. We can't hire too many SAMs. Let's use human cloning technology. " When the group of leaders in high-rise buildings seemed to care about their subordinates, they made such a decision. Behind it is the depravity of human nature and the lure of money. If they had a trace of humanity, they wouldn't keep these cloned SAMs in an endless loop. If they could imagine the torment of SAM for a little while, such a tragedy would not have been brewed!
There is an inconspicuous artificial intelligence in the film, which gives people the impression of only two words: "stiff". People are made to feel too dead by the design's strong mechanical sense and the expression display.I also thought that this artificial intelligence may be the biggest villain in this film; it is it that restricts SAM's actions and makes him fall into this abysmal cycle of doom. Ironically, the most humane thing in the whole film is this artificial intelligence! If it had a heart, it would have been broken long ago. When it reminded SAM to turn off its recording library and ensured that there would be no problems, the warmth of brotherhood slipped into my heart instantly. Such a bunch of smart programs with only iron sheets actually infected me. "We are not programs, we are flesh and blood." When SAM said this to it, the theme of the entire film was sublimated. It turns out that the artificial intelligence in the film is the most transparent "people", while on Earth, the employees of Caiyue Company are all "programs" programmed for money.
At the end of the film, the director only gave us a few seconds to explain the changes caused by SAM's return to the earth. We don't know what happened to him afterward. But if there is one tragic character in the film, it is Sam's body.Regardless of whether he knew about this mechanism or not, he could definitely imagine what the grief would be like if he became a clone and experienced three years of toil and couldn't return home.
What "Moon" brings us is not only the wonderful future experience in those 90 minutes, but also the triple reflection on our life, human nature and human heart. In any case, the budding Duncan Jones will definitely use his future works to add to all of Duncan's philosophy, allowing his unique thinking mode to develop and mature. "Moon" is a visual feast for the senses, a good movie. In the field of thought, it is a shocking revelation of the future world step by step, a reflection on life.
Fortunately, we are all in control of our future, and the day we live in is the tomorrow hoped by countless people who died yesterday. Thank you for my life, my past, my future.
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