A critical darling at the time of its release, Duncan Jones' directorial debut, "Moon," leaves behind an enduring legacy of a mid-budget sci-fi premise that asks timeless and prescient questions about what makes us human. In hindsight, the ultimate "twist" in "Moon" might be fairly predictable for those well-versed in standard space isolation genre tropes, but a vague foreknowledge of the same does not dilute the thrills this experience has to offer.
In fact, the laid-back, slow-burn nature of the narrative only serves to enhance the quality of what comes next, lending a new tint to the moral dilemmas faced by Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), an engineer stationed alone at the far side of the moon. Although Jones hones his focus on Sam's acute alienation and the disintegration of the self, "Moon" provokes multidimensional discourse about artificial intelligence, the unchecked rise of monstrous capitalist structures, and the ever-thinning line between organic and implanted memories.
In fact, the laid-back, slow-burn nature of the narrative only serves to enhance the quality of what comes next, lending a new tint to the moral dilemmas faced by Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), an engineer stationed alone at the far side of the moon. Although Jones hones his focus on Sam's acute alienation and the disintegration of the self, "Moon" provokes multidimensional discourse about artificial intelligence, the unchecked rise of monstrous capitalist structures, and the ever-thinning line between organic and implanted memories.
- 3/27/2023
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
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