Moon (2009)
You work day in and day out with the conviction that your purpose in life is to do your job. You perform at your best from 9 to 5 or 24/7 or as and when you are required to do. You give your 101%'s effort with the gumption that you are the man for the job; with the motto, to serve is divine.
Hold behold. At the blink of an eye, it dawns on you that you are indeed not indispensable. You are made to just to serve as a cog in the wheel of time. When your time is up, the task will still go on, with or without you, upon somebody else purview! You are just a pawn in the master plan of existence.
That is how life is. You give your life and soul. You think the system would collapse without you. Believe it or not, everything just goes on, with or without you!
This 2009 sci-fi nihilistic drama was directed by debutante Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie). It was set in an unspecified time in the future when the world's energy crisis is a thing of the past. Man has developed a clean energy harvested from the rock over the dark side of the moon, called Helium-3. Sam Wells is about to finish his 3-year contract overseeing the job on the moon base. He just cannot wait to rejoin his wife and young daughter. As the days draw closer, Sam starts having visual hallucinations. He crashes into a harvester during his tours. After recovering from his injuries, assisted by a robot, GERTY, his only companion on the moon, he discovered a severely wounded person outside. He starts becoming suspicious when the person appears to be his splitting image and GERTY can contact Earth at real-time when his messages are delayed.
It opens the ugly story of evil capitalistic corporations cloning humans to do the dirty job that nobody wants to do and implanting false memories to keep them happy.
Isn't it something like our lives? Everyone does the predesignated jobs, without questioning too much but satisfying themselves with pleasant memories and hope of reaching a point of bliss which may just be an elusive dream or conditioning to keep us pleased knowing that we are doing all these things towards a perceived tangible end!
You work day in and day out with the conviction that your purpose in life is to do your job. You perform at your best from 9 to 5 or 24/7 or as and when you are required to do. You give your 101%'s effort with the gumption that you are the man for the job; with the motto, to serve is divine.
Hold behold. At the blink of an eye, it dawns on you that you are indeed not indispensable. You are made to just to serve as a cog in the wheel of time. When your time is up, the task will still go on, with or without you, upon somebody else purview! You are just a pawn in the master plan of existence.
That is how life is. You give your life and soul. You think the system would collapse without you. Believe it or not, everything just goes on, with or without you!
This 2009 sci-fi nihilistic drama was directed by debutante Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie). It was set in an unspecified time in the future when the world's energy crisis is a thing of the past. Man has developed a clean energy harvested from the rock over the dark side of the moon, called Helium-3. Sam Wells is about to finish his 3-year contract overseeing the job on the moon base. He just cannot wait to rejoin his wife and young daughter. As the days draw closer, Sam starts having visual hallucinations. He crashes into a harvester during his tours. After recovering from his injuries, assisted by a robot, GERTY, his only companion on the moon, he discovered a severely wounded person outside. He starts becoming suspicious when the person appears to be his splitting image and GERTY can contact Earth at real-time when his messages are delayed.
It opens the ugly story of evil capitalistic corporations cloning humans to do the dirty job that nobody wants to do and implanting false memories to keep them happy.
Isn't it something like our lives? Everyone does the predesignated jobs, without questioning too much but satisfying themselves with pleasant memories and hope of reaching a point of bliss which may just be an elusive dream or conditioning to keep us pleased knowing that we are doing all these things towards a perceived tangible end!
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