The clear explicit meaning of this film is a message against the exploitation of workers because the ultimate conflict of the film was the Sam clones against Lunar Industries. The clones are literally expendable to the corporation and are killed at the end of their work tenures; the film concludes when Sam escapes and tells the world about Lunar\u2019s conduct. The implicit meaning is probably a message about there being humanity in non-human intelligence and beings, the Clones exhibit genuine human emotions like love for their family, fear and anger. Gerty, despite at first seeming insidious and in league with Lunar, ultimately prioritizes helping the Sam clones he looks after. It subverts what you would most likely expect from a robot with intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I believe that Moon is predominantly a hard science film, its ratio with soft science being something like 80 – 20. The technologies shown in the film are not particularly fantastical, a moon base like what is seen in the film has been a desire of multiple countries’ space programs since the space race and space bases already exist like the International Space Station. Gerty is simply a robot with artificial intelligence, which at the time of film’s release was more conceptual but of course reality has reached that point now. The vehicles and harvesters also have basis in reality, as the actual moon landings utilized jeeps and rovers. The most fantastical science we see in the film is cloning and preservation of clones in stasis, in real life of course cloning has been performed on animals for decades but has not been on humans, and attempts to preserve people and animals in stasis have been attempted as well. The more soft science sociological aspect of the film is the idea that people on earth are receiving their energy from a corporation harvesting it from moon rock, and that this corporation is doing it unethically via cloning one man without the worlds or clones knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Moon, the desire to control our world that science fiction frequently expresses is explored in the activities of Lunar Industries. The energy crisis is solved through the harvesting of moon rock containing helium 3, a real world problem is solved with future technology. I think that Gerty\u2019s inclusion and idea of servant robots in general are another expression of trying to control our own world by making our lives more leisurely. Additionally I think that the central struggle of Sam against Lunar is representative of real workers’ struggles with their employers, and Sam being successful in his escape at the end maybe creates the feeling of having control over your own situation in reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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