In our case, the same, with the correction - "The only man on the moon..."
Being alone on a whole celestial body, away from the Earth and humanity is a serious test for the psyche. Astronaut Sam begins to see and hear strange things. Schizophrenia? Overwork? Ghosts of the dead? ("Solaris") Jokes of a delusional AI? (Space Odyssey 2001) Or something new? The film literally mocks, throwing one scenario after another, until the most unexpected remains.
And then slowly develops a dark dramatic story about loneliness on a small lifeless planet. The solution to what is happening frighteningly looms at the very beginning, but all the details the viewer, like the hero, learns gradually, imbuing the consciousness with hermetic sterile madness of the lunar base, where time seems to have stopped and there are no reference points left.
From paranoia to despair: “Moon 2112” – Kafka in space, translated into the language of technogenic metaphors by Philip Dick. Does it make sense to find a way out if there was no entrance? Is self-sacrifice not to save others, but to end the nightmare? And another question: how far can science and business cynicism take humanity?
The bottom line: one of the best science fiction films I've ever seen. Not a masterpiece only because of a few oddities, which are carried away by the intensification of despair writers, apparently, forgot. Forgive me, the final message was powerful. Great movie.
9 out of 10
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