And if you think that’s complicated, that’s nothing compared to the In the Shadow of the Moon ending. The two Sams see the chamber with racks of sleeping clones. Do we think that is the original Sam? Moon is a slow-paced film that follows the astronaut and his 3-year work assignment.

Once every 3 years, the operator on the Moon is replaced with another. Sam's grief in the movie is visceral when he learns he is a captive slave, a clone, and that his life is a lie, that the woman he loves is dead, and that he has been usurped by another father figure. Sign in or sign up and post using a HubPages Network account. One of the best sci-fi's I've seen recently.

Just before the shuttle from Earth arrives at the base, the second Sam Bell clone drives the close-to-death first Sam Bell clone out to the stalled harvester, and puts him in the harvester ready to be found by the shuttle crew. As the audience, we are made to confuse Sam1 with Sam2. What Time Will'The Craft: Legacy' Be On Demand? 3,960, This story has been shared 3,892 times. The second Sam would, in my opinion, "fight the system" and incriminate the company instead. Lockhart would like to stay home to take care of his pregnant wife (Rachel Keller) but duty calls, so he heads to a crime scene with his partner Maddox (Bokeem Woodbine). They locate a jammer tower that stops all out bound signals. At one point, another character explains Rya’s mission with a thought exercise. This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. Hey Aethelryth :) it's a stunner of a movie, isn't it? Sam1 is still in the rover and is going to complete 3 years of service. I often think of calves crying for the their mothers, having been torn away from them, to be turned into veal calves ... also the victims of large unfeeling corporations. hey, it’s girdy not gerty.

The film opens with an infomercial about Lunar Industries, a corporation that has solved the Global Energy Crisis by finding a way to extract Helium-3, a cheap, abundant and reliable energy source, from the Moon. When the lunar cycle reaches exactly the right point, its gravitational forces react with electromagnetic pockets and theoretically creates a kind of bridge to another place entirely.
Gerty's concern for Sam also appears smewhat amoral. Even admitting that large corporations are wholly free from ethical considerations, would the cloning technology really be cheaper than training new personnel for the job? Although he doesn't yet accept it, this is the moment when the first clone realises that he must be a clone, because if the model was started before he arrived, then there must have been another Sam Bell on the base previously, and whether the original model-builder was the real Sam Bell or a previous clone, it means that he is not the first, and is therefore a clone himself. Moon’s cast has Sam Rockwell as the lonesome astronaut on the Moon, he’s brilliant.

Kevin Spacey plays the voice of the robot GERTY on the Moon station. Lockhart is overcome with grief with the realization that he killed his own granddaughter in 1988, but Rya assures him everything is going to be OK. After Rya says goodbye to her grandfather on the beach, she explains via voiceover she has been traveling back in time to systemically murder key figures in a hate movement called the “Real America Movement,” in order to prevent a civil war that breaks out in 2024.
GERTY helps out, because he’s an AI with a good heart. This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service.

Sam's story seems wild and unbelievable, and even if it is true he is threatening the stability of this world and its cheap and abundant energy, so the common voice (or perhaps just the common voice of belligerent radio hosts) is content to dismiss his story, and dismiss him; to sacrifice a single scapegoat (or in this case a long line of enslaved, conned and then murdered clones) for the sake of the comfort of the masses. Moon was set in a near-future where the world's energy crisis had been solved with the mining of helium-3 from the lunar surface. When Will 'The Report' Be on Amazon Prime? Let’s break it down. I didnt understand why they needed to kill the clone if they can just put him inside the closet and tell him that he is going to earth... why both kill him in the harvester and put him in the stasis? When the clone finally reaches his grown daughter she calls to her dad. We then see Sam in the base's infirmary being tended to by the robot Gerty who takes care of Sam's day-to-day needs and helps maintain the base. Great Hub! Then comes the first flash-forward of the film, nine years in the future to 1997, where Lockhart meets the serial killer, Rya, again. 'Lake Mungo' Is The Unnerving Found Footage Masterpiece You Need This Halloween, Stream It Or Skip It: 'Bad Hair' on Hulu, a Scary-Funny Satire in Which a Woman's Weave Goes Wild, 'The Believers' Is The Scariest Movie You've Never Seen, David Byrne's 'American Utopia' Offers Optimistic Protest While Mixing New Music And Talking Heads Classics, Stream It Or Skip It: 'Bruce Springsteen's Letter to You' on Apple TV+, a Documentary Capturing the Boss in a Contemplative Mood, Disney+ Puts Modern Twist on Cinderella With Upcoming 'Sneakerella' Musical, Shawn Mendes Shares His Life on Tour With Emotional 'In Wonder' Trailer, How To Watch 'It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' Online in 2020, Stream It Or Skip It: 'Over the Moon' on Netflix, an Animated Extravaganza That Aims for the Stars, Stream It or Skip It: 'The Witches' on HBO Max, a Roald Dahl Remake That's Too Close to the Original, 'The Witches' Remake Embraces the Dark Ending Roald Dahl Wanted, Stream It Or Skip It: 'Equal' On HBO Max, A Docuseries On The Early Pioneers Of The LGBTQIA+ Rights Movement, Who Are 'The Boys In The Band'? Lockhart’s brother-in-law and boss, Detective Holt (Dexter‘s Michael C. Hall) is already on the case, though he fails to notice the puncture wounds on one of the victim’s neck. A question is still unanswered though: why was the second Sam awaken by the system (or Gerty?) Moon is guaranteed to make grown men and women sob like a lost child, unless you have a heart made of pure, cold stone. The Robot on the Sarang moon base is called Gerty, which is possibly a nickname or an acronym but is never explained in the film. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Stream It Or Skip It: 'Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine' On Netflix, A Viral Comedy Star Puts On A Variety Special, 'Borat 2' Enjoys Very Nice Opening Weekend, Sacha Baron Cohen Hits Back at Trump: "I'm a Professional Phony Like Him", Stream It Or Skip It: 'Serious Men' on Netflix, an Indian Satire About the Silent War Between the Haves the Have-Nots, Streamin' King: 'The Shawshank Redemption,' The Most Beloved Of All Stephen King Movies, Bong Joon-ho’s 'Memories of Murder' Is Finally Back on VOD, 'The Midnight Sky' Trailer: George Clooney Goes Full 'Revenant' in Netflix Drama, Adam Sandler to Team Up With 'Chernobyl' Director for Netflix's 'The Spaceman of Bohemia' Adaptation, LeBron James To Co-Produce 'Dreamland: The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street' Doc About The Tulsa Massacre, Stream It Or Skip It: 'Totally Under Control' on Hulu, Alex Gibney's Unvarnished Rewind Of The Last Ten Months, Stream It Or Skip It: '537 Votes' on HBO, a Slick-but-Terrifying Account of Florida's Role in the 2000 Election, Stream It Or Skip It: 'Rooting For Roona' On Netflix, A Documentary About A Girl With Birth Defects Facing Overwhelming Odds. Most coal, oil and natural gas reserves are nearly gone. Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. As the pod enters Earth, we are told via news reports that Sam2 wreaks havoc.

I will have to watch again and as with all future classics, so can review and enjoy the subtle additions. He exposes the clone program and how Lunar Industries has been insidious.

Spoiler alert: Don’t read this post if you care about spoilers for In the Shadow of the Moon on Netflix. Sam Rockwell did a fantastic job as well.

The Basic Premise of Moon The film opens with an infomercial about Lunar Industries, a corporation that has solved the Global Energy Crisis by finding a way to extract Helium-3, a cheap, abundant and reliable energy source, from the Moon. And then no one brings up the moon again! He’s regularly available for a chat conversation on his website and consults on storyboarding from time to time. By clicking "SIGN UP" above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Notice. This is because the first Sam Bell must be found dead or dying in the stalled harvester by the crew of the shuttle despatched from Earth, and must also find a newly awakened clone as Gerty has told them he has already awakened one to replace the one that was in the accident. What they don’t mention in the movie is if Sam2 would have 3 years to live on Earth after which he will puke blood, loose his teeth, keel over and die. And as we come to conclude, Sam's personality was one of a selfless man - the first one gives his chance up to the second -, so why wouldn't the second do the same for the third?