There’s something very Freudian about director Duncan Jones’s debut feature that centers on a lonely astronaut on the moon. Jones is the son of David Bowie, whose fictional astronaut, Major Tom, popped into different songs throughout his career.
Duncan Jones wisely discards his original name, Zowie Bowie, and puts his signature on one of the best sci-fi movies to hit the screen in recent years. The movie is set in the future, yet that’s the only thing we know about the date in Moon. The wars in the Middle East must be over as the humans have found a new clean energy source, Helium-3. The big corporations, however, must be intact as Lunar Industries is the only corporation mining the energy in the far side of the moon.
