The last film Heather and I watched together was the Julian Schnabel film of Lou Reed performing ‘Berlin’ live at St Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn in 2006. In ‘Levels of Life’, author Julian Barnes lists the ‘lasts’ he shared with his Wife before here death. And while the experience is universal, it’s also the most lonely place.

“Grief, loss, pain, are by no means unique to any individual, no one is spared. The Director Duncan Jones is by the way Davis Bowie`s son.Clint Mansell & Clint Walsh’s reimagining of Lou Reed’s 1973 album “Berlin”, a tribute to Mansell’s late partner Heather who passed away in 2014. Because of his resulting beliefs, his sole mission becomes how to get back to Earth on his own. After his recuperation, he takes an unauthorized trip back to the broken harvester, where he makes an unexpected discovery.īecause of his find, he begins to doubt his sanity, then his true identity, then the company and GERTY’s willingness to do what is best for him.

GERTY tells him that a rescue team named Eliza will come to the station to clean up the aftermath of the accident. Injured, he awakens back at the station in the infirmary, he assumes assisted by GERTY. With two weeks to go, he gets into an accident at one of the mechanical harvesters and is rendered unconscious. All he wants is to return to Earth to be with his wife Tess and their infant daughter Eve, who was born just prior to his leaving for this job.

With such little human contact and all of it indirect, he feels that three years is far too long to be so isolated he knows he is beginning to hallucinate as the end of his three years approaches. There is no direct communication link available between the lunar station and Earth, so his only direct real-time interaction is with GERTY, the intelligent computer whose function is to attend to his day to day needs. His primary job responsibility is to harvest and periodically rocket back to Earth supplies of helium-3, the current clean and abundant fuel used on Earth. For the contract’s entire duration, he is the sole employee based at their lunar station. Sam Bell has a three year contract to work for Lunar Industries. Directed by Duncan Jones, starring Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey, Moon is a science fiction thriller about a solitary lunar employee who finds that he may not be able to go home to Earth so easily.Īstronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet’s power problems.Ĭlint Mansell’s emotionally gripping and melodically thrilling score for psychological luna-drama Moon is released on July 20th on Black Records. 250,000 miles from home, the hardest thing to face…is yourself.

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