D/B Album & Movie Feature: Moon | OST by Clint Mansell

Posted on | September 24, 2009 | Michael Rosen | 1 Comment

250,000 miles from home, the hardest thing to face…is yourself. Directed by Duncan Jones, starring Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey, Moon is a science fiction thriller about a solitary lunar employee who finds that he may not be able to go home to Earth so easily.

Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet’s power problems.

Clint Mansell’s emotionally gripping and melodically thrilling score for psychological luna-drama Moon is released on July 20th on Black Records.

Sam Bell has a three year contract to work for Lunar Industries. For the contract’s entire duration, he is the sole employee based at their lunar station. His primary job responsibility is to harvest and periodically rocket back to Earth supplies of helium-3, the current clean and abundant fuel used on Earth. There is no direct communication link available between the lunar station and Earth, so his only direct real-time interaction is with GERTY, the intelligent computer whose function is to attend to his day to day needs.

With such little human contact and all of it indirect, he feels that three years is far too long to be so isolated; he knows he is beginning to hallucinate as the end of his three years approaches. All he wants is to return to Earth to be with his wife Tess and their infant daughter Eve, who was born just prior to his leaving for this job. With two weeks to go, he gets into an accident at one of the mechanical harvesters and is rendered unconscious.

Injured, he awakens back at the station in the infirmary, he assumes assisted by GERTY. GERTY tells him that a rescue team named Eliza will come to the station to clean up the aftermath of the accident. After his recuperation, he takes an unauthorized trip back to the broken harvester, where he makes an unexpected discovery.

Because of his find, he begins to doubt his sanity, then his true identity, then the company and GERTY’s willingness to do what is best for him. Because of his resulting beliefs, his sole mission becomes how to get back to Earth on his own. The Director Duncan Jones is by the way Davis Bowie`s son.

Clint Mansell is amongst others the soundtrack composer of these movies:
* π, 1998, * Requiem for a Dream, 2000, * World Traveler, 2001, * The Hole, 2001, * Knockaround Guys, 2001, * Abandon, 2002, * Murder by Numbers, 2002, * Sonny, 2002, * The Hire: Ticker, 2002, * 11:14, 2003, * Suspect Zero, 2004, * Sahara, 2005, * Doom, 2005, * The Fountain, 2006, * Trust the Man, 2006, * Smokin’ Aces, 2007, * Wind Chill, 2007, * In The Wall, 2007, * Definitely, Maybe, 2008, * The Wrestler, 2008, * Moon, 2009

http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/moon/ |  http://www.myspace.com/clintmansell

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