Duncan Jones
A Philosophical Sci-Fi Drama that Mines the Depths of Consciousnesses
Who is Sam Bell? That is the overriding question in Duncan Jones's directorial debut, Moon, starring Sam Rockwell. Rockwell (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Choke) plays a lone miner on the far side of the moon named Sam Bell, who slides into cosmic identity crises. Not just of the human
variety, but (warning: Plot Spoiler) as a human clone. Moon is a philosophic exploration into the complex notion of human cloning juxtaposed against the solitude of space exploration.
Duncan Jones's academic background is rooted in philosophy and it was only later that he took his burning questions to the big screen. Jones shows a promising launch as a filmmaker; a preferred platform for philosophers in the Twentieth Century. The questions of 'what is consciousnesses' and 'how do we acknowledge identity' are prominent in Moon. The genre of Science Fiction is no surprise for Jones, whose academic thesis was, How to Kill Your Computer Friend: An Investigation of the Mind/Body Problem and How It Relates to the Hypothetical Creation of a Thinking Machine.
