I just saw the movie Moon last night (not the vampire thing, a SF movie), and though there was not a trace of Christian intent in the movie, I was reminded of a couple important things.
If you are going to see the movie, don't read below because it contains spoilers.
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SPOILER ALERT!
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Okay, so this guy was near the end of a 3-year tour of duty on a moon base that supplies a huge amount of the world's energy. He goes out to fix a problem on one of the mining machines and his moon car crashes.
Make a long story short, he is presumed dead and the moon base revives one of his clones. In fact he himself was a clone, and his memories of Earth all manufactured. His clone goes out and finds him alive in the crashed moon car and they begin to work out what is going on.
Now even though they are identical clones, the two of them do not get along at all at first, despite the fact that they are the same person in the same difficult situation. One of them has been on the moon for 3 years, is a bit sickly, and talks to himself. The second is his gung-ho younger self, aggressive, a little hostile.
If you think about it, this is the condition of the human race really. We are all fundamentally the same, and yet we don't get along.
The Earth is sending an inquiry team and they will kill both of them if they find two clones on the base. Finally the younger clone learns compassion, and tries to get the older one off the moon. However, the clones have an expiration date, and the older one is very close to his and he knows it. So the older clone volunteers to be the dead body in the crashed moon car since he will be dying any minute, and the younger clone rides a cargo rocket back to Earth and tells the world about what is going on up there.
Obviously it is a cautionary tale about the abuse of technology too. But the important thought I took away from this movie was, we are all the same really, and we are all in the same boat.
Peace
If you are going to see the movie, don't read below because it contains spoilers.
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.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
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SPOILER ALERT!
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.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Okay, so this guy was near the end of a 3-year tour of duty on a moon base that supplies a huge amount of the world's energy. He goes out to fix a problem on one of the mining machines and his moon car crashes.
Make a long story short, he is presumed dead and the moon base revives one of his clones. In fact he himself was a clone, and his memories of Earth all manufactured. His clone goes out and finds him alive in the crashed moon car and they begin to work out what is going on.
Now even though they are identical clones, the two of them do not get along at all at first, despite the fact that they are the same person in the same difficult situation. One of them has been on the moon for 3 years, is a bit sickly, and talks to himself. The second is his gung-ho younger self, aggressive, a little hostile.
If you think about it, this is the condition of the human race really. We are all fundamentally the same, and yet we don't get along.
The Earth is sending an inquiry team and they will kill both of them if they find two clones on the base. Finally the younger clone learns compassion, and tries to get the older one off the moon. However, the clones have an expiration date, and the older one is very close to his and he knows it. So the older clone volunteers to be the dead body in the crashed moon car since he will be dying any minute, and the younger clone rides a cargo rocket back to Earth and tells the world about what is going on up there.
Obviously it is a cautionary tale about the abuse of technology too. But the important thought I took away from this movie was, we are all the same really, and we are all in the same boat.
Peace
