월 (moon) and hurt locker

"Moon" with sam rockwell, as already extensively covered by my collegue, was indeed (to embrace redundancy) refreshing. I am of no expertise to adequately discuss things of the sci-fi, and for that matter, action genres as both seem to be quite coveted taxonomies. Yet, I feel that both give due justice to their respective genres by offering a more deconstructed and at times minamalist approach to their manifestations.
Moon is a departure from something like 2001colon a space odyssey...or rather more like an inversion. Only it is not so much an inversion as it is a reflexive view of the man vs. computer narrative. In this scenario, the computer is not the antagonist but actually another victim, a dehumanized cog caught up in the juggarnaut of progressive industry, space exploration/penetration and economic innovation. At the other end of this series of systems, we understand, is merely another group of people, though more terrestrial, do not actually exhibit much more power and authority over our unfortunate characters other than running the show up there....and being Korean.....? which brings me to the eerie insertion of 사랑 (love) as the company name. hmmmmmm

Hurt Locker depicts similar dehumanizing systems. There are plenty of U.S. v. Iraq showdowns set to almost complete silence that are quite unnerving, yet they are shown as only a mere afterthought to the protagonists' real enemy, which is their specialty, ballistics. The movie follows a crew of bomb disarming specialists, so the real showcase battles exist between them and again, inatimate things of man's making. Like Moon, these objects are not meant to distract, but to emphasize to greater extent, the systems in place that both create and interact with them.

Both films depart on formerly hyperbolic genres in order to create an experience that is both thought-provoking and a bit frightening....but without the enhancement of score, highspeed car chases oorrrrrrrrr...... Michael Bay.

kickass.