MOON

MOON. Duncan Jones, dir., original story. Nathan Parker, script. UK: Liberty Films UK et al. (prod.) / Sony et al. (dist.), 2009. See IMDb for details of production and distribution. Sam Rockwell, star, with Kevin Spacey featured.

Science-fiction art film, with Sam Rockwell in what is mostly a one-man show, with Kevin Spacey voicing GERTY, a truly helpful robot. See for GERTY as an OK robot working for a pernicious company and looking like a plausible industrial robot, with an "Emoticon" for a face: possibly with the default mode of "Happy Face." Cf. and contrast ALIEN and Ash as, ultimately, a highly unfriendly robot human. Note theme of whether or not a — SPOILER HERE — clone, even one with memory implants, is programmed or can act as a person with free will: it's a humane and humanist film, so, yeah, clones can surprise fictive persons like a pernicious company.

5. DRAMA, RDE, 27/II/10