The debut film from director Duncan Jones, son of popstar David Bowie, is a science-fiction film with a nod to the heroics of 2001: A Space Odyssey among others. It was praised by scientists for its generally realistic depiction of what life would be like on the Moon. The film was written by Jones along with Nathan Parker who wrote the film specifically as a film for Sam Rockwell to star in and it was a film that many felt was snubbed by the Oscars.
Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is nearing the end of his three year work contract at the lunar mining base on the Moon. Lunar Industries are mining Helium-3 from the moon to meet the energy needs of the planet and seem to be very profitable from doing so. With no live link to Earth he speaks to his wife and daughter with delayed video messages and his only companion is an AI machine called GERTY (voiced by Kevin Spacey). Sam starts to suffer from loneliness as he starts to hallucinate but how many of the images are actually real?
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| Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) |
In a bizarre coincidence I watched this film straight after Ridley Scott's Blade Runner which Duncan Jones said would be the spiritual descendant of his next movie which is believed to be a semi-sequel to Moon. Clearly looking at some of the same questions as Scott's film I actually think Jones does a great job in questioning our existence and our reality in a more engaging way than the lauded Blade Runner ever did. For a debut film this is a very impressive effort.
3.5/4 Thoughtful clever sci-fi drama
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