--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, "ravenadal" <ravena...@...> wrote: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhIB0mqbPiE > > http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/movies/50384927.html
very slight spoiler for MOON, if you catch it. That review is a shite misreading IMO. If the movie calls back to any older films it's ROBOCOP. The movie is less about man misusing technology than it is humanity misusing humanity. Like ROBOCOP was about the dehumanization of Detroit factory workers, the corporation in this film treats people like chattel slaves. > > Lonely man in the 'Moon' > > By Duane Dudek of the Journal Sentinel > > Posted: July 9, 2009 > > "Moon" is one small step for mankind. > > It puts the fiction back into science fiction, not because it's unbelievable > but because it's a life-size and plausible portrait of our daily gravity. > > Too many genre films are virtual, superheroic variations on arbitrary themes > and are slaves to the digital technologies that allow them to portray > anything. > > The less-is-more aesthetic of "Moon," by comparison, is a reminder that true > creativity is a function of ideas and imagination. In much the same way we > take for granted the fact that science drives our lives in countless and > invisible ways, "Moon" takes a satisfyingly pragmatic approach to the > extraordinary. > > And in the process, it puts a human face and heart at the center of its > universe - a man in the moon, if you will. > > Sam Rockwell portrays the only human employee at a lunar factory where his > companion is a HAL-like computer named Gerty, voiced by Kevin Spacey. > > For technical reasons, Rockwell cannot communicate directly with home; he > sees his daughter grow up in tape-delayed messages from his wife and watches > old sitcom reruns. Rockwell is just two weeks away from completing a > three-year service contract and returning to Earth. If he is going a bit > buggy, talking to his plants and seeing things, these seem a reasonable > response to his isolation. > > Unless, of course, they represent something else. > > Perhaps things are not as they seem. Perhaps he is not really alone. Or > perhaps he is more alone than he knows. > > Lunacy runs in the family of director Duncan Jones: His singer-songwriter > father, David Bowie, imagined all manner of star men, space oddities and > spiders from Mars. But if there is an apple-doesn't-fall-far-from-the-tree > quality to the material, the approach has its roots in the golden age of > science fiction. > > The miniatures, matte paintings and digital effects do not dazzle; like > Rockwell's space suit worn with use, they add a scruffy realism. The way > Jones' camera looms over cramped spaces like a surveillance video adds a Big > Brother feel to the piece. > > And the edgy, slightly crazed Rockwell, practically the only actor in the > film, is a sympathetic, cautionary figure howling at the moon. > > "Moon" is not about the dangers of technology, but mankind's misuse of it. > > Even before President John Kennedy vowed to make landing on the moon a > national priority, the exploitation of it for war or profit seemed > inevitable. "Moon" portrays such possibilities, in service of some greater > good, as the banal oppression of the very qualities that make us human. > > E-mail: ddu...@... >
