The movie "Moon" gave a very gloomy and negative view of the future. One that many of us would most likely not want to live in. This gloomy and negative view is also shared in other films we studied such as "Things to Come." In fact, surprisingly this movie had many things that seem to be derived from other films we viewed. For example the clones seemed as if they were straight out of "Primer" and the over-ruling body was reminiscent of the film "Brazil." We will never know if these similarities were intentional, or maybe they are just things that many sic-fi films contain.
What "Moon" does though that most science fiction films do not do is that it made no effort at all to romanticize the future, not even in the slightest ways. Even in movies like "Blade Runner" there were gadgets and gizmos that seemed were worth having, but in "Moon", nothing of the sort. Just and empty, lonely, gloomy out take of what the future holds. The reason this movie can provoke audiences is the message it is trying to convey, but that is another story for another day.
Matt, what is this?
ReplyDeleteThere are no clones in Primer.
The "over-ruling body" in Moon is a private company (Lunar Industries) while in Brazil it was the Federal Gov't. Big difference.
What about the future in Things to Come is negative?
Did you sleep through this film like some of the others?
Matt, I have no idea what you’re talking about but you’re sick to its okay.
ReplyDeleteUntil we realized that the Sam’s were clones who had to die after three years, I didn’t really consider moon to be that pessimistic of a view on the future. Sam wasn’t just in isolation because that’s how everyone is in the future – he was doing an important job gathering renewable energy. It isn’t some sort of future job either; there are people in Alaska or North Dakota right now who stay in the middle of nowhere for months or years at a time, to do jobs like this. On top of that, the advertisement that opened the film actually portrayed a fairly positive future for a lot of people. So I don’t think it was an overall dystopian view of the future as you implied.
ReplyDeleteI see what you mean Nate. Moon was different in that it didn't really try to make a comment on the future. I think you could even say that Moon was like the present just with different technology. Even though the advertisement did try to make it look positive there was still an underlying pessimism, I think just because Sam seemed to be a pessimistic character. Anyway, these are pretty much the same things that we deal with in the present.
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