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Jeremy and Amy: I'm sorry for the delay, I did watch this the other night, but I've been up to my eyeballs in printing.
So. This movie is called MOON. It's about the sun! ha. No it's not, and it's really not about the moon either, except as the setting.
Guy is on the moon, manning a mostly automated mining station for a 3yr stint, his only companion the computer "Gerty". His wife and daughter are on Earth... He is going home in a couple weeks.... but he hallucinates a teenage girl in the station. Later, he goes to check one of the mining machines, and sees this same girl outside... and promptly crashes the vehicle. He wakes up in the infirmary, being tended to by Gerty. He is no longer allowed to go outside.. but he breaks a gas line on purpose so he can trick the computer into letting him. He goes back to the crashed vehicle, and find... HIMSELF!! INSIDE!!!! He brings this double back to the station, and then it gets interesting. I will not ruin it for anyone by saying any more... but it's a neat direction they went in, with LOTS of food for thought.
I will say though, that this is another "small" movie-- by that I mean, a movie that basically takes place in one spot, and tells one story, no multiple plots, explosions, etc. Just a good solid theme that gets fleshed out. The premise of this film is pretty novel, not something I've seen dealt with really at all, from the perspective they tell it. Definitely thought-provoking.... Wish I could say more but it'll ruin it.
The pacing was brisk enough at a short 97min, but it doesn't suffer because of it, it's just a short-feeling movie.
I will probably purchase a copy of this for my select library of films I'd care to watch more than once*. If you liked the philosophical questions movies like Blade Runner or the Matrix brought up you will probably dig this one too. I will warn you now: there is nearly no "action" in this movie. There are no big explosions or gunfights or anything like that, just a solid story. My one beef with this is the last scene, and the last line-- felt like it was added for people too dumb to get the rest of it. Kind of like "A.I."-- that was a great movie up until the end. If they would have rolled credits right after the ship sank in the sea, MASTERPIECE! but they lamed it up with a spoonfed happy ending. MOON's ending is nowhere near that lame, at all, just tacked-on and overly explanatory.
89 Tacoma points for a thought-provoking, interesting film with nearly no fluff. Refreshing! Stimulating! Etc.
* if anyone's wondering, my very short list of movies I actually liked enough to own on DVD is: Memento, Dark City, Stay, The Kingdom, The Bourne Trilogy, Fight Club, and No Country For Old Men.
So. This movie is called MOON. It's about the sun! ha. No it's not, and it's really not about the moon either, except as the setting.
Guy is on the moon, manning a mostly automated mining station for a 3yr stint, his only companion the computer "Gerty". His wife and daughter are on Earth... He is going home in a couple weeks.... but he hallucinates a teenage girl in the station. Later, he goes to check one of the mining machines, and sees this same girl outside... and promptly crashes the vehicle. He wakes up in the infirmary, being tended to by Gerty. He is no longer allowed to go outside.. but he breaks a gas line on purpose so he can trick the computer into letting him. He goes back to the crashed vehicle, and find... HIMSELF!! INSIDE!!!! He brings this double back to the station, and then it gets interesting. I will not ruin it for anyone by saying any more... but it's a neat direction they went in, with LOTS of food for thought.
I will say though, that this is another "small" movie-- by that I mean, a movie that basically takes place in one spot, and tells one story, no multiple plots, explosions, etc. Just a good solid theme that gets fleshed out. The premise of this film is pretty novel, not something I've seen dealt with really at all, from the perspective they tell it. Definitely thought-provoking.... Wish I could say more but it'll ruin it.
The pacing was brisk enough at a short 97min, but it doesn't suffer because of it, it's just a short-feeling movie. I will probably purchase a copy of this for my select library of films I'd care to watch more than once*. If you liked the philosophical questions movies like Blade Runner or the Matrix brought up you will probably dig this one too. I will warn you now: there is nearly no "action" in this movie. There are no big explosions or gunfights or anything like that, just a solid story. My one beef with this is the last scene, and the last line-- felt like it was added for people too dumb to get the rest of it. Kind of like "A.I."-- that was a great movie up until the end. If they would have rolled credits right after the ship sank in the sea, MASTERPIECE! but they lamed it up with a spoonfed happy ending. MOON's ending is nowhere near that lame, at all, just tacked-on and overly explanatory.
89 Tacoma points for a thought-provoking, interesting film with nearly no fluff. Refreshing! Stimulating! Etc.
* if anyone's wondering, my very short list of movies I actually liked enough to own on DVD is: Memento, Dark City, Stay, The Kingdom, The Bourne Trilogy, Fight Club, and No Country For Old Men.
