My Moon, My Man
URGA MOTW
Moon
Another film that I've been quite anticipating this year... and it's got a very limited release. It's only screening at Palace in Adelaide, so get in while you have the chance.
This is a quiet, introspective scifi drama - it's not full of explosions and crazy action sequences, there's very little of the standard dramatic orchestral score, and almost none of the Hollywood cliches are followed.
In other words, it's a damn good refreshing film :)
Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is the lone operator on a dark side moon base, mining Helium3 for Earth's energy requirements. His only companion is a robotic intelligence called Gerty (Kevin Spacey, sounding very HAL9000 like), who is mostly a robotic arm, a huge mobile boxy terminal, and a small screen with basic smiley-face emoticons. Sam's 3 year contract is almost up, and he can't wait to get back to Earth to his wife Tess and 4 year old daughter Eve. However, while travelling out to one of the huge automated mining vehicles, he has an accident and appears crushed in his rover under the massive miner. Sam then wakes up in the base's infirmary and after a few days of getting himself oriented, he gets back to work. He manages to get outside and drives a rover to the accident site... and finds another him trapped inside another rover. When both Sams are back on the base and talking to each other, they try to work out what's going on.
And that's just the first half hour.
Story writer/Director Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie) has made this an isolating, haunting film, allowing you to feel Sam's lonliness and confusing. The music score (as I mentioned above) avoids the Hollywood sci-fi action movie cliches and is rather subdued but adds wonderful atmosphere to an environment where there isn't any :) Sam Rockwell plays two very different versions of the same character, and doesn't freak out even once. Would you?
Definitely worth seeing :)
9/10
Moon
Another film that I've been quite anticipating this year... and it's got a very limited release. It's only screening at Palace in Adelaide, so get in while you have the chance.
This is a quiet, introspective scifi drama - it's not full of explosions and crazy action sequences, there's very little of the standard dramatic orchestral score, and almost none of the Hollywood cliches are followed.
In other words, it's a damn good refreshing film :)
Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is the lone operator on a dark side moon base, mining Helium3 for Earth's energy requirements. His only companion is a robotic intelligence called Gerty (Kevin Spacey, sounding very HAL9000 like), who is mostly a robotic arm, a huge mobile boxy terminal, and a small screen with basic smiley-face emoticons. Sam's 3 year contract is almost up, and he can't wait to get back to Earth to his wife Tess and 4 year old daughter Eve. However, while travelling out to one of the huge automated mining vehicles, he has an accident and appears crushed in his rover under the massive miner. Sam then wakes up in the base's infirmary and after a few days of getting himself oriented, he gets back to work. He manages to get outside and drives a rover to the accident site... and finds another him trapped inside another rover. When both Sams are back on the base and talking to each other, they try to work out what's going on.
And that's just the first half hour.
Story writer/Director Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie) has made this an isolating, haunting film, allowing you to feel Sam's lonliness and confusing. The music score (as I mentioned above) avoids the Hollywood sci-fi action movie cliches and is rather subdued but adds wonderful atmosphere to an environment where there isn't any :) Sam Rockwell plays two very different versions of the same character, and doesn't freak out even once. Would you?
Definitely worth seeing :)
9/10