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Ground Control to Duncan Jones, Director of Moon

8 June 2009 9:45 AM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »

Sam Rockwell as a lonely astronaut in Duncan Jones's directorial debut, Moon. When did the science fiction genre of filmmaking devolve into science fission—movies in which the nuclear-size explosions and destruction came to matter more than character development?  I suspect the White House destruction scene in the 1996 film Independence Day was a pivotal moment, as was the bing-bang-boom chaos of Michael Bay’s 1998 space soap opera Armageddon. Since then, too many writers and directors of science fiction movies seem to have forgotten that the classics of the genre have more to do with society and humanity than pyrotechnics and even special effects. And if you agree with this premise, then I urge you to see an independent film called Moon that Sony Pictures Classics will release beginning Friday, June 12, in New York and Los Angeles and nationwide over the next few weeks. If you haven’t already heard a lot about the picture, …

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