FREE ON YOUTUBE Duncan Jones - Moon 

FREE ON YOUTUBE Probably I belong to the science fiction traditionalists and consider the 70s to be the last good decade of this genre. And of course I am wrong, like all traditionalists. Duncan Jones' Moon proves that. This is one of those science fiction pearls that doesn't want to offer a battle of equipment, it's an idea! With a budget of five million, the film seems quite modest and its title seems like a bow to the time when the moon was still a noble goal of American space travel. For Jones, space is a metaphor for the loneliness of its only protagonist. Perhaps his inner emptiness is as great as his outer emptiness? Sam Bell is the name of the astronaut and is played by Sam Rockwell. For three years he has been working on the moon and supervising mine work for a large corporation. On the moon's surface the element helium is extracted, which supplies mankind with clean energy. Sam's only companion is an intelligent calculating machine that even helps him to cut his hair: her name is Gerty and she even has a dozen different emotional states. Actually, Sam's pad on the moon looks like a geek's flat share: Somewhat decayed, with note messages and a table tennis table. The photos show that Sam also has a family. In former times the surfaces of the moon station were white, like the ones from the SciFi movies of the 70s, now they are yellowed. Too much does not happen. We witness Sam's everyday life. Once he has an accident with one of the harvesting machines, which mine helium, but is supplied by Gerty. Knowingly violating the base's layout, Sam returns to the scene of the accident and pulls a second injured Sam out of the cockpit. Now he's dealing with a doppelganger, but who could take the resulting problems more lightly than Sam? However, the classic philosophical questions of the genre about the origin of existence or the will of artificial intelligence are to be enjoyed with caution in Moon: they remain postmodern references to the classics of the genre without significance for the plot. Almost everything in Jones' film points to something; if you wanted to collect quotes, you'd have to go through Moon a few more times. Finally there is the showdown: the clones recognize the senselessness of their being and ally themselves with Gerty against their creator. Moon develops into a Western in the finale and we realize why Sam acts so casually...