Moon

17 July, 2009

I thoroughly enjoyed certain parts of this film, and was thoroughly bored during others. The music was overt and unbecoming, and certain computer generated sequences looked a bit like Tron. But the bouts of pure isolationist madness were quite beautiful. And the flatness of it… the dullness of the picture… was really quite stunning. I enjoyed the places where we simply saw Sam going quietly insane.
The HAL re-visioning in the form of GERTY was interesting in that it was offensive to everything the sci-fi genre seems to hold dear about AI- that is, that it is inherently evil and never working towards the best interests of the protagonist. A bit of an interesting switch-up.
The overall plot leaves something to be desired, and should have left more to the imagination, but the individual scenes worked quite well. It is almost a collection of moments, rather than a cohesive piece.

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