Moon (film)

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Movie
German title Moon
Original title Moon
Moon.svg
Country of production UK
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Duncan Jones
script Nathan Parker
production Stuart Fenegan
Trudie Styler
music Clint Mansell
camera Gary Shaw
cut Nicolas Gaster
occupation
synchronization

Moon (or Moon - The Dark Side of the Moon ) is a 2009 British science fiction drama and the directorial debut of Duncan Jones . The American actor Sam Rockwell plays a double or multiple role as astronaut Sam Bell in the film.

action

In a future that is not precisely determined, about 70% of the earth's energy needs will be met by helium-3 , which is mined on the "dark side of the moon" - the side of the moon facing away from the earth - by several huge machines called harvesters. The largely automated conveying process now only requires a single human operator. On behalf of the world's largest producer of fusion energy, Lunar Industries Limited , the astronaut Sam Bell works in a lunar base built solely for this purpose. He is supported by an artificial intelligence called GERTY. After almost three years without direct contact with other people, he is fourteen days before his replacement. With his wife Tess and his little daughter Eve on earth, he is only in contact via video messages. A live connection to earth is not possible due to ongoing technical problems with a communications satellite. Sam is in poor mental health and hallucinates, leading to an accident with an off-base rover .

After the accident, Sam is rescued by his three years younger clone , which GERTY has now activated. After initial arguments, the younger and older Sam understand what is going on in the station and cooperate. With GERTY's help, they discover that there are hundreds of other clones besides them. These wait inactive in a secret basement of the base for their use. The “three-year contract” is also the life expectancy of the clones. After these three years, every previous clone in the supposed return flight capsule was destroyed. Clones are killed even if they can no longer do their job. The memories of the various Sam Bells of their family on earth are meanwhile about 15 year old copies of the consciousness of an original Sam Bell, who lives on earth with his daughter while the wife is long dead.

The company sends the "rescue team" ELIZA to clean up the consequences of the accident; the two Sam Bells must therefore fear for their lives.

The older Sam, close to dying, is brought back to the scene of the accident in the crashed Rover by the younger Sam in order to cover up what has happened to the "rescue team". In addition, GERTY is rebooted at its own request in order to prevent its memory from being read out and so that Lunar Industries learns about the processes. Together with the harvesters, the younger Sam destroys the jamming transmitters that are located away from the base, with which direct radio contact between the moon base and the earth was prevented until then. In doing so, he tries to convey the situation to a third Sam activated by him and GERTY after the "rescue team" has withdrawn. Even before the newest Sam wakes up, the younger Sam manages to shoot himself to earth with a helium-3 transport capsule.

In the epilogue, several news programs on Earth report in detail and in different languages ​​about the return of the clone to Earth. Lunar Industries' share price crashes on allegations of criminal activity on the moon , and the younger Sam testifies before a major governing body in Seattle. In a phone call, however, the allegation was raised that the "alleged clone" was a "crank or illegal immigrant", one way or another he belongs in prison, which can be interpreted as an attempt by Lunar Industries to cover up the incident.

production

Rockwell and Jones at a performance of Moon at the Tribeca Film Festival .

The film was produced on 33 days of shooting at Shepperton Studios and premiered in January 2009 at the Sundance Film Festival . It began showing in cinemas in the US in June 2009. The film grossed approximately $ 9.7 million at the box office; This was offset by production costs of around 5 million US dollars. The film has been available on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in the UK since November 2009 ; since January 2011 also in Germany. The regular theatrical release in Germany was on July 15, 2010.

synchronization

role German speaker
Sam Bell Dietmar miracle
GERTY Till Hagen
Tess Bell Katrin Zimmermann
Eve Maria Koschny
Thompson Tobias Kluckert
Overmeyers Dennis Schmidt-Foss
technician Johannes Berenz

Reviews

The film received mostly positive reviews from the critics. Rotten Tomatoes has a meta rating of 89 percent based on over 180 reviews.

In the lexicon of international film , the work is referred to as a " chamber play-like science fiction drama". Moon is a film that “with references to classics sets in motion a tense chain of associations around the question of uniqueness and originality, without, however, aiming at the philosophical depths of the role models. A genre film with a calm narration, especially formally convincing .

In Die Welt am Sonntag , Hanns-Georg Rodek praised the fact that philosophical questions could come to the fore, because "a tight budget that does not allow special effects orgies makes a clever fable ." He recognizes that the film is "the greatest of all philosophical questions" edit: "What actually makes a person? It appears here in all conceivable forms, as an original, as a clone and even as an electronic brain. "

Michael Althen of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung also sees advantages in the reduction in the use of special effects : Moon is “a smart old school science fiction film in which the sparingly used effects are only a means to an end.” Despite many recourse within the genre This gives the film a special boost because “the genre's favorite question about human identity [is] expanded to include an interesting variant. The one-man show by the impressive actor Sam Rockwell becomes a kind of two-men show, and the apparently small science fiction drama develops real added value. "

Wilfried Hippen from the daily newspaper is of a similar opinion and emphasizes the relation to well-known motifs in Moon: The film revitalizes "the beautiful old genre of space films with moonmobile, space suit and quotes from 2001 ". At the same time, however, he recognizes important variations so that something new can be created: "Now it is a principle of the genre film that what is known is varied and arranged anew in it, and in this sense 'Moon' is clever, exciting and inventive." The main actor Sam Rockwell manages to "play convincingly against himself, and the narrative twists and turns are so well prepared and concealed that even those familiar with the genre will be surprised to the end."

Martina Knoben from the Süddeutsche Zeitung finally again emphasizes the philosophical aspects of the film, although she misses additional elements: "The philosophical questions ultimately only form the stimulating background for an exciting psycho study and a somewhat less exciting thriller ." She also points out that Moon is a film that is not so much looking for the new, but rather an homage to past works: “ Moon does not lead to new, unknown territory, as James Cameron opened it so spectacularly in Avatar , Duncan Jones is more casual. The clone particles he uses, all the quotes from his favorite films, celebrate the originality of their makers. "

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Moon . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 659 K).
  2. ^ Moon (2009) , Box Office Mojo, Retrieved August 20, 2012
  3. ^ Moon. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
  4. ^ Moon at Rotten Tomatoes
  5. ^ Moon. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ^ Hanns-Georg Rodek: New Trouble in Space . In: Welt am Sonntag , edition of July 11, 2010, p. 5.
  7. ↑ Michael Althen: Bad Awakening . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , edition of July 17, 2010, p. 33.
  8. ↑ Wilfried Hippen: A chamber play on the moon . In: taz.de , July 15, 2010. Accessed July 31, 2013.
  9. ↑ Martina Knoben: A little space oddity . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , edition of July 15, 2010, p. 12.