JUNG_E
2023South Korea★ 6.14.5 pt match
What ties these together is grief and figuring out who you are. Both circle the same ground: corrupt institutions and class and money. The feel is the same: melancholic, haunting, slow burn, and escalating.
Moon
2009USALanguage: EnglishDirected by Duncan Jones★ 7.6
With only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is eager to return to Earth. Stationed alone at a Moon-based facility with his computer assistant GERTY, an unexpected accident sets off a series of unsettling events that shake his isolation.
Themes and style
Tone
melancholichauntingcold and detachedtensequietly devastating
Pacing
slow burnmethodicalescalating
Story
unravelingsurvivalescapeinvestigation
Emotion
figuring out who you arelongingparanoiagrieffeeling powerless
Themes
corrupt institutionsclass and moneyold ways vs. new world
Feel
cerebralquietly hauntingdiscussion starteremotionally wrecking
Violence
mildWhere to watch
Foreign films like Moon
These foreign films share the same emotional core, themes, and structural feel as Moon. Every one of them has confirmed English subtitles or dubbing.
