sabato 6 febbraio 2016

Moon - 2009

Too boring for me. It was interesting at some point, but it went on so, so slowly...
The story isn't bad, it's kind of intriguing. Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is the only one working on a lunar base. He has a three year contract than he'll go home. His job is to keep the station working properly: the object is to mine for some material the moon is rich of and send it to Earth. One day he has a bad accident outside. When he wakes up in the infirmary he hears the computer talking to Earth, receiving orders to keep him inside the base. This alarms Sam because communications were supposed to be down. He damages something on purpose to have an excuse to go out. He goes where he had the accident and finds a man inside the vehicle. He brings him to the base and when he wakes up there are two Sam Bell walking around on the station. They are both real and they both think they're the original Sam, but soon understand they're not. They're both clones. They could not contact Earth because somebody had put big transmitters some distance from the base to jam his communications, so that he could not contact home and learn the truth. The older clone is at the end of his three years work, and discovers that this has happened many times before. After the three years period they are told they're going back home, but instead they are incinerated and a new clone is revived. He also manages to contact home by going outside the interference-perimeter. He wanted to talk to his wife Tess, but a young girl answers the call saying Tess died 'some years ago'. She's Eve, the daughter he remembers just born but that is now fifteen. This is not the only shocking news: her father is there, in the house with her, which means that the original Sam Bell has gone home.
A rescue-team is arriving to repair the machines and also dispose of the body in the vehicle, so the two Sam realize that they'll be both killed if found together, so older Sam goes back to the crashed vehicle: his health is very very bad, so he goes to die where he can most help the other Sam.
Younger Sam orders the computer to revive a new clone that will meet with the rescue-team, while he plans to go back to Earth. He uses a capsule destined to the transportation of the mined material and returns to Earth. We don't see his return though. We know that he broke one of the transmitters, so the new clone will be able to contact the planet, and we hear news reports informing us that he arrived and made his story public. We don't know, though, how it will end for him and for the company that created these clones in order to save money sending new people over the years. In the station there were lots and lots of clones ready to be revived at the right time. The story was yes intriguing, but too slow, and I'd have liked to learn what happened after his return!
One last thing: I understand movies based in space has to be slow, they all are, but is it really so necessary to be this slow? Do they think that if things move on a little more quickly we won't feel like we are in space anymore? Isn't it possible to have a compromise between veeeery-veeeery-sloooow and action-faster-than-light ?

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