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发帖数: 60932 | 1 Moon DVD now $4.99 on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Moon-Sam-Rockwell/dp/B002T9H2MO?Subscript
Science fiction can encompass many genres--suspense, horror, action-
adventure, romance, even comedy--but director Duncan Jones's Moon doesn't
fit neatly into any of them. This smart, provocative film has no aliens or
cool spaceships, and the effects (mostly consisting of model vehicles
lumbering across the lunar surface) aren't all that special; instead, the
material is character- and story-driven, centering on an excellent,
multilayered performance by Sam Rockwell. The scene is some undetermined
point in the future. Rockwell plays Sam Bell, an employee of Lunar
Industries, the company responsible for mining a fusion energy source called
Helium-3, which is vital to Earth's efforts to reverse a serious energy
crisis and can only be found on the far side of the Moon. Sam is all by
himself, and as he nears the end of his three-year contract, the solitude is
starting to get to him ("Three years is a long haul," he says. "Way, way,
way too long. I'm talking to myself on a regular basis"); his only contact
with his wife and daughter back home comes through the occasional video
messages he exchanges with them, while his sole interaction on the Moon is
with GERTY 3000, a computer voiced by Kevin Spacey (and an obvious parallel
to 2001: A Space Odyssey's HAL 9000). Things start to go seriously sideways
when Sam crashes his vehicle while out inspecting one of the giant Helium-3
harvesters. He comes to in the base infirmary, seemingly none the worse for
the wear; but an unnerving surprise awaits him when he goes back to check
out the accident site, and the resulting complications occupy the rest of
the movie. Fans of 2001, Solaris, and other cerebral sci-fi will enjoy
figuring out what's going on; others will find it slow-moving and tedious.
Either way, Moon, which was made quickly and on a relatively low budget, is
well worth a look. --Sam Graham
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