{"id":2717,"date":"2012-12-07T21:50:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T21:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2012-12-07T21:50:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T21:50:24","slug":"quick-take-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/07\/quick-take-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Take: Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/moon_screenshot-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2512 aligncenter\" alt=\"moon_screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/moon_screenshot-1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/moon_screenshot-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/moon_screenshot-1-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m a few years behind in seeing <em>Moon<\/em>, the 2009 indie science-fiction film directed by Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie!), but wow, what a great little movie. Sam Rockwell, perhaps best known for <em>Galaxy Quest<\/em> and <em>Confessions of a Dangerous Mind<\/em>, turns in a bravura performance (or is that <i>two <\/i>performances?) in a virtual one-man show about the lone occupant of a lunar mining base who&#8217;s beginning to question his sanity as the end of his three-year tour approaches. It&#8217;s essentially a character study wrapped up in a mystery story that brilliantly expands on some of the ideas explored in my beloved <em>Blade Runner<\/em> &#8212; specifically questions of identity and whether we can trust our own memories, and what a person might go through emotionally when those things turn out to be&#8230; unreliable. I feared for a time that this was going to turn into one of those &#8220;mindf**k&#8221; stories that I have so little patience for, but in the end all is explained and logical and satisfactory. It&#8217;s a moving, very human story with plausible sci-fi underpinnings. And honestly, I think <em>Moon <\/em>looks every bit as good as this year&#8217;s <em>Prometheus<\/em> in terms of production design and FX, and it was done on a fraction of the budget using old-school miniatures instead of CGI.<\/p>\n<p>Highly &#8212; and I do mean <em>highly<\/em> &#8212; recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a few years behind in seeing Moon, the 2009 indie science-fiction film directed by Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie!), but wow, what a great little movie. Sam Rockwell, perhaps best known for Galaxy Quest and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, turns in a bravura performance (or is that two performances?) in a virtual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}