Watching the movie

paulpaterson on 2013/09/01 03:51 of Aranara

Just rented the movie from iTunes and watching it again now. I watched it a while ago but wanted to watch it again to get some more ideas on how to apply the theme. I'm taking notes about the details, main thematic elements etc.

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paulpaterson on 2013/09/01 05:23:

Here are the notes I took from the movie. I tried to capture aspects of the movie, visuals, story, theme, characters etc. I'll refer back to these as the game develops.

  • Intro

    • The power of our future

    • Far side of the moon

    • Energy trapped in rock

    • Clean burning He3

  • Mining base Sarang

    • Locations

      • Bays 01, 02, 03, 04 etc

      • Infirmary

      • Sleeping Quarters

        • Lots of personal items on the wall

        • Photos

        • Letters

        • Untidy compared to rest of base

      • TV room with armchair

    • Lunar industries

      • L logo

    • Somewhat dirty

    • Mostly white walls

    • Large lettering on walls to show locations

    • Occasional red, orange and green logos and indicators

    • White lights

    • Orange and red lighting when an alarm goes off

    • Ticker status indicator

      • Time

      • Information

      • What is on and off line

      • Harvesters in use

    • Secret room

  • Moon surface

    • Visual

      • Undersaturated

      • High contrast

      • Long shadows

    • Long range comms

    • Cold

    • Quiet

    • Views from a distance showing

      • Craters

      • Strips that have been mined

    • Sarang working perimeter

    • “Communications” stations

      • Jamming station 01

      • There are four jamming stations

  • Gerty the computer

    • Gerty 3000L

    • Robotic assistant

    • Happy face - face shows emotion

    • Used for other things

      • Post-it notes

      • Coffee cup on the side

    • Manner

      • Calm

      • Polite

      • Mothering

      • Concerned for Sam

    • Represents the company

    • “I can only account for what happens on the base”

  • Sam Bell

    • Wife (Tess) and daughter (Eve) back home

      • Periodic messages come from home

      • Misses Sam

      • Being apart seems to be good for them

    • Eve

      • Our little monkey

      • Born after Sam left

    • 3 year contract

      • Mining on the surface of the moon

      • Mining harvesters

      • Rover trucks

        • Please drive carefully

      • After 3 years gets to go home

    • Activities

      • Building a small town from toothpicks

        • 938 hours taken to build it

        • Destroyed by other Sam clone

      • Takes care of plants

        • Talks to plants

        • Plants have names

      • Keeps fit on treadmill

      • Skipping

      • Punchbag

      • Plays ping pong

    • Hallucinations

      • Woman in the base

      • Small girl out on the moon surface

  • Themes

    • Loneliness

      • Maintaining your sanity

      • Solitude

      • Toiling alone

      • Trying to remain human and retain connection to back home

      • Realizing your life has passed you by

      • Wanting to go home

    • Beauty of looking back to Earth

    • Suspicion

      • Paranoia

    • Cloning

      • What does it mean to be unique

      • Who is the real Sam

      • Who am I

      • What are my memories

      • Somebody is living my life

      • Are we programmed or are we people

    • Degradation

      • Seeing yourself getting older

      • Being disappointed in what you have become

      • Inevitability of your own mortality

    • Father / son, older / younger brother relationship

      • Wanting to be better than “sibling”

      • Getting on each other’s nerves

      • Fighting each other

      • Trading insults

    • Working against a deadline

      • Initially deadline is end of contract

      • Then this switches to “rescuers”

      • Soon it becomes clear the rescue is actually a bad thing

  • Story

    • Crashes the rover when seeing the girl

    • Wakes back up in the infirmary

    • Has memory loss

    • Sees communicate with others and is suspicious

    • Finds his own body on the moon surface

    • Two clones get to know each other

    • Rescue unit Eliza sent to pick Sam up

    • The search for the secret room

    • The clones fight each other

    • The discovery that Tess and Eve are implanted memories of the original Sam

    • The discovery of the communication jamming stations

    • Realization that older Sam’s body is rapidly degrading

    • Seeing videos of older Sams

    • Finding the secret room

    • Discovery of the huge number of other Sams

    • Seeing Eve on the communicator and finding out that Tess died some time ago

    • The request to wake up another clone

    • Explaining the plan for the old Sam to escape

    • Change in plan, now the young Sam will try to escape

    • Old Sam dies and young Sam puts his body in the crashed rover

    • Setting Gerty to reboot to buy time

    • Programming the harvester to crash into the jamming station

    • Young Sam gets into the helium pod

    • Eliza arrives

    • Helium pod is fired back to earth

    • Harvester destroys the communication jammer

    • Helium pod goes into earth atmosphere

reidrac on 2013/09/01 06:12:

Amazing! Thanks, this is really useful.