One-man show

Original title: Moon
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: fiction, drama, thriller, detective
Directed by: Duncan Jones
Cast: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey
Premiere: January 23, 2009
Budget: $ 5 million
Running time: 97 minutes

In this age of total computerization of cinema pure sci-fi, not intended to entertain the viewer infinite-paced action scenes so juicy explosions fit already recorded in the Red Book. Entertainment and a beautiful picture - all of this, of course, wonderful, especially when seasoned with sensible plot. But sometimes the overabundance of running around the adventures still tired. Then the soul is looking for stories of more peaceful, ordinary in shape and at the same time unusual in content. As if trying to satisfy this particular request to fans of fantasy, the British director Duncan Jones took his first tape, which in our area is known as "Luna 2112".

Operator lunar base Sam Bell works off a three-year contract, controlling production of the isotope helium-3. This substance is essential for earthlings, because in his time it has saved the planet from the fuel crisis. The process of extraction of valuable source of energy looks very funny: the wheels on the lunar expanses wonderful form harvester and sucks from the lunar surface sand. Neither give nor take - harvester in the extraction of Spice of "Dune 2"! Curiously, while shooting scenes outside the base cost without a computer special effects in principle. Here were engaged exclusively miniature models of equipment. And that was enough to ensure a realistic event.

It is realistic and captivating film. No alien monsters, and unseen monsters! In the center of the story - a man alone with his loneliness. Only a robot assistant is to keep him company, skrashivaya his drab existence. Yes rare conversations with their relatives. But once Sam is an accident, from which he rescues a man like him as two drops of water. In clarifying the relationship between them and the search for an answer to the question "who is whose clone is held by the remaining part of the film.

Another advantage of the film - an impressive actor playing Sam Rockwell, who laid out in the literal sense, for ten. Moreover, he had to portray two Semov Bello (and very different in nature!) Simultaneously, so more had to be almost constantly in the frame. For all the other characters are only sporadic and occur only in the video feed during a communication session with the Earth.

The ideological component "of the Moon 2112" - a serious life and times of human clones in the distant future - is not new and does not possess originality. However, its realization, from which breathes the atmosphere of good old retrofantastiki in the spirit of short stories by Isaac Asimov and Clifford Simak, inadvertently makes off his hat to the director. And let the background of "Solaris" and "Space Odyssey" this film looks a second time, but today no one else takes off, dammit!

One actor, a couple of miniature modelek and decorations - just as much as you need to depict a closed room. Minimalism "Moon 2112" on the background of a riot of colors "Avatar" seems a bold challenge to tradition, the bold experiment that could prove important - even with a minimum budget, you can remove the hard science-fiction movie!