For this his heady and extremely proficient feature film debut, director Duncan Jones (notable for being the son of legendary rocker David Bowie) employs both his experience in commercials and his post-graduate background in philosophy to deliver a brilliantly realized old school throwback to the likes of Alien and Silent Hunter, the deeply cerebral films that influenced him as a boy. Films that slowly drew you in with the comfortably familiar, kitchen sink nature of the acting before there was even hinting at the dark unknown that was to come.
Like Scott’s vision of the future, this is blue-collar space; a dirty, humid, glorified refinery amidst the stars, with a crew of one, inside which Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) counts down the days to the completion of his three-year contract overseeing and maintaining the automated lunar harvesters that now supply eighty percent of the world’s energy. His only company is Gerty,...
Like Scott’s vision of the future, this is blue-collar space; a dirty, humid, glorified refinery amidst the stars, with a crew of one, inside which Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) counts down the days to the completion of his three-year contract overseeing and maintaining the automated lunar harvesters that now supply eighty percent of the world’s energy. His only company is Gerty,...
- 6/12/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- JustPressPlay.net
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