(Preview) Movie Club | Moon (2009)
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What is Movie Club covering in this preview episode about Moon (2009)?
Hello, Task Force. This week on Movie Club, we are covering the 2009 movie Moon. You can catch it over at redwebpod.com. In Moon, we follow astronaut Sam Bell's three year shift at Lunar Mining Facility, which is finally coming to an end. After having hallucinations and a near fatal accident, Sam must solve the mystery before the company crew arrives. If you haven't seen Moon already, it's fantastic. We'll recap the movie, stopping to react and giving our thoughts. But it's an amazing episode, an amazing movie.
What is the basic plot setup of Moon and Sam Bell's role at the lunar facility?
And here's a preview. In the near future, a company called Lunar Industries will build a station, an automated lunar facility to mine the alternative fuel from the moon's soil. Lunar Industry provides energy for 70% of planet Earth. They must be rolling in money at that point. God, I know. 70% is for the earth is wild. They must be like the richest company ever. Dang, dude. That's like, that's gotta be one of the biggest sci-fi conglomerates ever. Yeah, actually, I would think so. That's Waylon Nutani level. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, we're sucking the moon dry. That helium. It's like, oh my God. It's like a more realistic version of spice. They got these harvesters scooping the ground. Oh, yes, they do.
Yeah. but talk about a monopoly man wait a minute okay that just pisses me off more knowing about where we're going yeah dude it's insane it's like what do you mean this is such an overt corporate like employee relationship conversation here yes i mean it's it's kind of in your face eventually more so than you know at this phase here at the beginning but yeah oh now i'm angry The facility is fully automated requiring only a single human to maintain operations. Oversee the harvesters and launch canisters bound for Earth containing the extracted Helium-3.
How does Lunar Industries' monopoly and Helium-3 extraction shape the film's world?
mm-hmm sam bell played by sam rockwell nears the end of his three-year work contract we learned that sam is supposed to rotate back to earth in two weeks we see sam leaving the station heading to a harvester with a full load of helium-3 and then returning the helium-3 canisters to the station for transport to earth a cool little like day in the life he wakes up he you know he's running around we learn a lot here we learn he's the only person three years by himself but also all he has to do is just these harvesters are automated they're out harvesting his helium-3 he just goes in picks it up brings back all good Yeah, I kind of appreciated how easy the job was. I feel like a lot of times in sci fi, you know, it's like, oh, we need these engineers with these backgrounds and mechanical mechanics and then science and all that.
And it's like, no, this dude just kind of hangs out. Yeah. yeah he just goes out picks up the thing and ships it like anybody could do that and he kind of it makes him that much more relatable versus like a mechanical engineer biochemist genius right the way that when i rewatch this the way i thought about it because having and i love this movie and i'm gonna go watch it again soon but project hail mary when he just wakes up and he you know it's It's like, this man could do everything. Yeah, dude. Dude, reading that too, I will say I'm not going to be the movie versus book kind of person because they both do it really, really well. So consume it however you want. I will say no spoilers. I still haven't seen it.
Okay. Well, then it'll be even more vague. But like reading the scene that, this is the opening of both stories, but reading how Grace discovers himself is a really interesting thing because you get to be in his mind, but the movie did it. You get to see how he's discovering himself But outwardly, it's two different ways to explore that same kind of notion, Fredo, that you're kind of implying. Again, I'm being vague. Incredible stories. I can't recommend it enough, Christian. I can't believe you haven't seen it. Oh, I know. I want to so bad. Oh man, you're in for it. Yeah. Yep. Yes, you are.
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