Moon (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/
A very interesting film indeed. I think the best thing going for it is it's ... I think elusiveness is the best way I have of explaining it. It nudges at a lot of interesting ideas about identity and the like, but it doesn't give any answers, which I think it good because any answers would have been trite, and they're the sort of non-answers where you can tell thought has gone into it.
From an acting point of view, I plan on holding this up as evidence that Sam Rockwell is a really good actor. I happen to think he's awesome, but other people don't seem to agree. Kevin Spacey, given that he was 1) playing a robot and 2) was totally off-screen at all times did a bang-up job too.
The film also cheated in a wonderful way, because it started out pretending to be a straight up sci-fi horror, and then turning into a sci-fi thriller, and finally into some sort of bizarre philosophy/thriller hybrid, with some horrific, if not horror, undertones.
I love that they didn't spend hours on 'which clone is the real Sam Bell?' but that it did cause friction at the beginning between Sam 1 and Sam 2. I love that Sam 1 shows signs of the intelligence that Sam 2 shows later on that he loses, due to clone fade (or whatever they're calling the limitation they've put on the clone's lifespans), when he tries to see if Sam 2 had a scar on his hand too. The effects for the clone fade are very well done (see also Sam Rockwell's ace performance) and it's really cool that what we think at the beginning is him just getting a bit spaced because he's been on his own for 3 years, is the start of the clone fade.
I also loved that when Eva calls for her Dad, it's Sam Rockwell's voice that we hear replying, because the original Sam Bell apparently made it. I'd love to know if he gave his permission for the cloning or not.
Kevin Spacey does a bang up job of being possibly sinister, and being the world's only evasive computer, only then you realise that it's not being evasive, it's trying to follow two bits of programming that have started to clash with each other. The scene where GERTY offers to reboot and wipe it's memory so the other two can go free, and then Sam 2 takes the kick-me sign off was deeply heart-warming, in an odd sort of way. Actually, that sums up the film really well, deeply heart-warming in a very odd sort of way.
Through out the film, Danny, who I was watching it with, was complaining about why Sam, either of him, wasn't contacting the world's journalists, was very pleased with the ending.
A very good little film.
A very interesting film indeed. I think the best thing going for it is it's ... I think elusiveness is the best way I have of explaining it. It nudges at a lot of interesting ideas about identity and the like, but it doesn't give any answers, which I think it good because any answers would have been trite, and they're the sort of non-answers where you can tell thought has gone into it.
From an acting point of view, I plan on holding this up as evidence that Sam Rockwell is a really good actor. I happen to think he's awesome, but other people don't seem to agree. Kevin Spacey, given that he was 1) playing a robot and 2) was totally off-screen at all times did a bang-up job too.
The film also cheated in a wonderful way, because it started out pretending to be a straight up sci-fi horror, and then turning into a sci-fi thriller, and finally into some sort of bizarre philosophy/thriller hybrid, with some horrific, if not horror, undertones.
I love that they didn't spend hours on 'which clone is the real Sam Bell?' but that it did cause friction at the beginning between Sam 1 and Sam 2. I love that Sam 1 shows signs of the intelligence that Sam 2 shows later on that he loses, due to clone fade (or whatever they're calling the limitation they've put on the clone's lifespans), when he tries to see if Sam 2 had a scar on his hand too. The effects for the clone fade are very well done (see also Sam Rockwell's ace performance) and it's really cool that what we think at the beginning is him just getting a bit spaced because he's been on his own for 3 years, is the start of the clone fade.
I also loved that when Eva calls for her Dad, it's Sam Rockwell's voice that we hear replying, because the original Sam Bell apparently made it. I'd love to know if he gave his permission for the cloning or not.
Kevin Spacey does a bang up job of being possibly sinister, and being the world's only evasive computer, only then you realise that it's not being evasive, it's trying to follow two bits of programming that have started to clash with each other. The scene where GERTY offers to reboot and wipe it's memory so the other two can go free, and then Sam 2 takes the kick-me sign off was deeply heart-warming, in an odd sort of way. Actually, that sums up the film really well, deeply heart-warming in a very odd sort of way.
Through out the film, Danny, who I was watching it with, was complaining about why Sam, either of him, wasn't contacting the world's journalists, was very pleased with the ending.
A very good little film.