Moon: Sam Rockwell, Alone, and Duncan Jones's Debut

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 10:00:00 +0000

Moon opens with an advert. A clean corporate voice explains that Lunar Industries has solved Earth’s energy crisis by harvesting helium-3 from the far side of the Moon, and that the whole operation runs quietly, cheaply, almost automatically. Then the film cuts to the man who actually keeps it running, and spends ninety minutes showing you what “almost automatically” costs a single human being. Duncan Jones’s 2009 debut was made for around five million dollars, shot on a soundstage in England with models and miniatures rather than digital vistas, and it remains one of the most quietly devastating science-fiction films of the century’s first decade.

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Moon: Sam Rockwell, Alone, and Duncan Jones's Debut