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Moon (2009 film)
2009 sci-fi film by Duncan Jones

Moon is a 2009 British-American science fiction film directed by Duncan Jones (in his directorial debut) and written by Nathan Parker from a story by Jones. The film follows Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), a man who experiences a personal crisis as he nears the end of a three-year solitary stint mining helium-3 on the far side of the Moon. Kevin Spacey voices Sam's robot companion, GERTY. Moon premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and was released in selected cinemas in New York and Los Angeles on 12 June 2009. The release was expanded to additional theatres in the United States on 10 July and to the United Kingdom on 17 July. A follow-up film containing an epilogue to the film's events, Mute, was released in 2018. A third installment, a graphic novel called Madi: Once Upon A Time in the Future, was released in 2020.

Moon was modestly budgeted and grossed just under $10 million worldwide but was well-received by critics. Rockwell's performance found praise. The movie won numerous film critic and film festival awards and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Film, and won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 2010.

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Plot

In the near future,2 Lunar Industries has made a fortune after an oil crisis by building Sarang Station, a facility on the far side of the Moon to mine the alternative fuel helium-3 from lunar soil, which is rich in the material. The facility is highly automated, requiring only a single human to maintain operations, oversee the harvesters, and launch canisters bound for Earth containing the extracted helium-3. Sam Bell nears the end of his three-year work contract at Sarang Station. Chronic communication problems have disabled his live feed from Earth and limit him to occasional recorded messages from his wife Tess, who was pregnant with their daughter Eve when he left. His only companion is an artificial intelligence named GERTY, who assists with the base's automation and provides comfort for him.

Two weeks before his return to Earth, Sam begins to suffer from hallucinations of a teenage girl and a bearded, disheveled man. One such image distracts him while he is out recovering a helium-3 canister from a harvester, causing him to crash his lunar rover into the harvester. Rapidly losing cabin air from the crash, Sam falls unconscious.

Sam awakes in the base infirmary with no memory of the accident. He overhears GERTY having what appears to be a live chat with Lunar Industries management. Lunar Industries then orders Sam to remain on base and informs him that a rescue team will arrive to repair the harvester. Suspicious, Sam manufactures a fake problem to persuade GERTY to let him outside. He travels to the crashed rover, where he finds his unconscious doppelgänger. He brings the double back to the base and tends to his injuries. The two Sams start to wonder if one is a clone of the other. After a heated argument and physical altercation, GERTY reveals that they are both clones of the original Sam Bell. GERTY activated the newest clone after the rover crash and convinced him that he was at the beginning of his three-year contract. GERTY confirms his memories of his wife and daughter are implanted.

The two Sams search the area, finding a communications substation beyond the facility's perimeter which has been interfering with the live feed from Earth. GERTY helps the older Sam access the recorded logs of past Sam clones, showing them all falling ill as their contract expires. Later, the older Sam discovers a secret vault containing hundreds of hibernating clones. They determine that Lunar Industries is unethically using clones of the original Sam Bell to avoid the cost of training and transporting new astronauts, as well as deliberately jamming the live feed in order to prevent the clones from contacting Earth; clones who believe they're entering the final hibernation at the end of their contract just before their final return to Earth are in fact incinerated. The older Sam clone drives past the interference radius in a second rover and tries to call Tess on Earth. He instead makes contact with Eve, now 15 years old, who says Tess died "some years ago". He hangs up when Eve tells her father (offscreen, identified as "Original Sam" in closed captioning) that someone is calling regarding Tess. After he returns, the older Sam begins displaying the same symptoms as previous clones as they begin to deteriorate.

The two Sams realize that the incoming rescue team will kill them both if they are found together. The newer Sam convinces GERTY to wake another clone, planning to leave the awakened clone in the crashed rover and send the older Sam to Earth in one of the helium-3 transports. But the older Sam, having learned that the clones are designed to break down at the end of the 3-year contract, knows that he will not live much longer. With his health rapidly declining, the older Sam suggests that he be placed back into the crashed rover to die so that Lunar Industries will not suspect anything, while the newer Sam escapes instead.

Following GERTY's advice, the newer Sam reboots GERTY to wipe its records of the events. Before leaving, the newer clone reprograms a harvester to crash and wreck the jamming antenna, thereby enabling live communications with Earth; he also brings along a canister of helium-3 to provide him with funds once he reaches Earth. The older Sam, back in the crippled rover, remains conscious long enough to watch the launch of the transport carrying the newer Sam to Earth. The rescue team is successfully fooled after finding both a newly-awakened clone in the medical bay and the corpse of the older Sam inside of the crashed rover.

The helium transport arrives at Earth, and over the film's credits, news reports describe how Sam's testimony on Lunar Industries' activities has stirred up an enormous controversy, and the company's unethical practices have caused their stock to plummet.

Cast

Robin Chalk appears as Rockwell's body double in portraying the Sam Bell clones.

Production

This is the first feature film directed by commercial director Duncan Jones, who co-wrote the script with Nathan Parker.3 The film was specifically written as a vehicle for actor Sam Rockwell.4 Rockwell almost turned the film down and Paddy Considine was an alternate choice.5 The film pays homage to the films of Jones' youth, such as Silent Running, Alien, and Outland.6 In an interview with Wired.com, speaking about those films, Jones stated it was his "intent to write for a science fiction-literate audience" and that he "wanted to make a film which would be appreciated by people like myself who loved those films".7

Jones described his interest in the lunar setting:

[We] wanted to create something which felt comfortable within that canon of those science fiction films from the sort of late seventies to early eighties.8 For me, the Moon has this weird mythic nature to it. ... There is still a mystery to it. As a location, it bridges the gap between science fiction and science fact. We (humankind) have been there. It is something so close and so plausible and yet at the same time, we really don't know that much about it.

The director described the lack of romance in the Moon as a location, citing images from the Japanese lunar orbiter SELENE: "It's the desolation and emptiness of it ... it looks like some strange ball of clay in blackness. ... Look at photos and you'll think that they're monochrome. In fact, they're not. There simply are no primary colours." Jones made reference to the photography book Full Moon by Michael Light in designing the look of the film.9

Moon's budget was $5 million.10 The director took steps to minimise production costs, such as keeping the cast small and filming in a studio.11 Moon was produced at Shepperton Studios, in London,12 where it was filmed in 33 days.1314 Jones preferred using models to digital animation,15 working with Bill Pearson, the supervising model maker on Alien, to help design the lunar rovers and helium-3 harvesters in the film.16 The Moon base was created as a full 360-degree set, measuring 85–90 feet (26–27 m) long and approximately 70 feet (21 m) wide. The film's robot, GERTY, was designed to be bound to an overhead rail within the mining base since its mechanical tether was critical to the story's plot.17 The visual effects were provided by Cinesite, which has sought cut-price deals with independent films.18 Since Jones had an effects background with TV advertisements, he drew on his experience to create special effects within a small budget.19

To save further on production costs, Jones re-used several set pieces from an abandoned movie based on the BBC TV sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf.20 These include the sleeping quarters and the corridor of the "secret room".

Release

International sales for Moon are handled by the Independent sales company.21 Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group acquired distribution rights to the film for English-speaking territories.22 Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group was considering making Moon a direct-to-DVD release; however, after Moon premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in January 2009, Sony Pictures Classics decided to handle this film's theatrical release for Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group.23

Sony Pictures Classics distributed the film in the United States in cinemas,24 beginning with screenings in selected cinemas in New York and Los Angeles on 12 June.25 The film's British premiere was held on 20 June 2009 at the Cameo Cinema in Edinburgh as part of the 63rd Edinburgh International Film Festival. Jones was present at the screening along with other key crew members. The full UK release was on 17 July.26 The Australian release was on 8 October.27

A high-resolution, 4k remastered version of the film was released on 16 July 2019 for the tenth anniversary of the film.28

Box office

Moon grossed £700,394 from its domestic release,29 $3.4 million from its North American release and $9.8 million worldwide.30

Critical reception

Moon was generally well-received by critics. Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 90% of critics gave the film a positive review based on 191 reviews, with an average score of 7.5/10. The site's consensus states: "Boosted by Sam Rockwell's intense performance, Moon is a compelling work of science-fiction, and a promising debut from director Duncan Jones."31 On Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 based on reviews from critics, the film has a score of 67 based on 29 reviews, considered to be "generally favorable reviews".32 Damon Wise of The Times praised Jones' "thoughtful" direction and Rockwell's "poignant" performance. Wise wrote of the film's approach to the science fiction genre: "Though it uses impressive sci-fi trappings to tell its story—the fabulous models and moonscapes are recognisably retro yet surprisingly real—this is a film about what it means, and takes, to be human."33

Duane Byrge of The Hollywood Reporter applauded screenwriter Nathan Parker's "sharp [and] individualistic" dialogue and the way in which Parker combined science fiction and Big Brother themes. Byrge also believed that cinematographer Gary Shaw's work and composer Clint Mansell's music intensified the drama. Byrge wrote: "Nonetheless, 'Moon' is darkened by its own excellencies: The white, claustrophobic look is apt and moody, but a lack of physical action enervates the story thrust." The critic felt mixed about the star's performance, describing him as "adept at limning his character's dissolution" but finding that he did not have "the audacious, dominant edge" for the major confrontation at the end of the film.34

Roger Ebert gave the film 3½ stars out of 4, saying:

Moon is a superior example of that threatened genre, hard science-fiction, which is often about the interface between humans and alien intelligence of one kind of or other, including digital. John W. Campbell Jr., the godfather of this genre, would have approved. The movie is really all about ideas. It only seems to be about emotions. How real are our emotions, anyway? How real are we? Someday I will die. This laptop I'm using is patient and can wait.35

Empire magazine praised Rockwell's performance, including it in '10 Egregious Oscar Snubs—The worthy contenders that the Academy overlooked' feature and referred to his performance as "one ... of the best performances of the year".36 Rolling Stone magazine ranked the film at number 23 on their Top 40 Sci-Fi Movies of the 21st Century, finding that "Duncan Jones' debut feature keeps you wondering whether its hero - played by an on-point Sam Rockwell - is losing a battle with what appears to be his "double" or if he, is, in fact, losing his mind ... this sci-fi indie does a helluva lot with very, very little".37 Digital Spy said it was an "incredible low-budget science fiction movie", opining that Jones' direction of the film "brilliantly explores ideas of identity while mixing in some practical VFX spectacle to boot. This is perhaps one of the best sci-fi films of the 21st century".38

A. O. Scott, chief film critic for The New York Times wrote that Jones directing "demonstrates impressive technical command, infusing a sparse narrative and a small, enclosed space with a surprising density of moods and ideas". Scott said that like most of science fiction, the film "is a meditation on the conflict between the streamlining tendencies of technological progress and the stubborn persistence of feelings and desires that can't be tamed by utilitarian imperatives", while also asserting that "the film's ideas are interesting, but don't feel entirely worked out..the smallness of this movie is decidedly a virtue, but also, in the end, something of a limitation".39 Moon also received positive reviews at the Sundance Film Festival.40

Reception from the scientific community

Moon was screened as part of a lecture series at NASA's Space Center Houston, at the request of a professor there. "He'd been reading online that we'd done this film about helium-3 mining and that's something that people at NASA are working on", says Jones. "We did a Q&A afterward. They asked me why the base looked so sturdy, like a bunker, and not like the kind of stuff they are designing that they are going to transport with them. I said 'Well, in the future I assume you won't want to continue carrying everything with you, you'll want to use the resources on the moon to build things' and a woman in the audience raised her hand and said, 'I'm actually working on something called mooncrete, which is concrete that mixes lunar regolith and ice water from the Moon's polar caps.'"41

In the 2013 October issue of the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, academics ranked their top brain science movies of all time; their database being compiled by cognitive science researchers who are also movie buffs. The database, called the Cognitive Science Movie Index, ranks films for quality, relevance and accuracy in the field of cognitive science. On their top 10 lists of brain science movies of all time, Moon appears at number 5 on the quality list, number 9 on the accuracy list and number 3 on the relevance list.42

Accolades

Awards
AwardDate of ceremonyCategoryRecipientsResult
Austin Film Critics Association Awards15 December 2009Austin Film Critics Award for Best FilmMoonNominated
BAFTA Awards4321 February 2010BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or ProducerDuncan JonesWon
BAFTA Award for Outstanding British FilmStuart Fenegan, Trudie Styler, Duncan Jones, Nathan ParkerNominated
British Independent Film Awards446 December 2009BIFA Award for Best British Independent FilmMoonWon
Douglas Hickox AwardDuncan JonesWon
BIFA Award for Best DirectorNominated
BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent FilmSam RockwellNominated
BIFA Award for Best ScreenplayNathan ParkerNominated
BIFA Award for Best Technical AchievementClint MansellNominated
Tony NobleNominated
Chicago Film Critics Association4521 December 2009Most Promising FilmmakerDuncan JonesNominated
Edinburgh International Film Festival4628 June 2009Best New British FeatureMoonWon
Empire Awards4728 March 2010Empire Award for Best Sci-Fi/FantasyNominated
Espoo Ciné International Film Festival4829 August 2010Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in GoldDuncan Jones, Stuart FeneganWon
Evening Standard British Film Awards498 February 2010Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising NewcomerDuncan JonesNominated
Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Technical AchievementTony NobleNominated
Fantastic'Arts5031 January 2010Jury PrizeDuncan JonesWon
Special PrizeWon
Gaudí Awards511 February 2010Gaudí Award for Best European FilmNominated
Hugo Awards525 September 2010Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation - Long FormNathan Parker, Duncan JonesWon
Irish Film & Television Awards5320 February 2010IFTA Award for Best International ActorSam RockwellNominated
London Film Critics' Circle Awards545518 February 2010ALFS Award for British Director of the YearDuncan JonesWon
ALFS Award for British Director of the YearNominated
ALFS Award for British Film of the YearMoonNominated
National Board of Review of Motion Pictures5612 January 2010NBR Award for Best Directorial DebutDuncan JonesWon
NBR Award - Top Independent FilmsMoonWon
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards5722 December 2009Overlooked Film of the YearWon
Saturn Awards5824 June 2010Saturn Award for Best ActorSam RockwellNominated
Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction FilmMoonNominated
Seattle International Film Festival5914 June 2009Golden Space Needle Award for Best ActorSam RockwellWon
Sitges Film Festival6011 October 2009Best ActorWon
Best FilmMoonWon
Best Production DesignTony NobleWon
Best ScreenplayNathan ParkerWon
Writers' Guild of Great Britain6122 November 2010Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best First Feature-Length Film ScreenplayDuncan Jones, Nathan ParkerWon

Sequels

Jones released a follow-up film, titled Mute, which serves as a spiritual successor to Moon. It was released on 23 February 2018, as a Netflix exclusive. In the film, on a TV broadcast of a court trial, Sam Bell and several of his clones are all seen in the courtroom, identifying themselves in an "I'm Spartacus" allusion. A third installment, Madi: Once Upon A Time in the Future, was released as a graphic novel in 2020.

See also

Notes

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