The film is formless. In an unusually good sense for this word. Usually the genre of the picture is determined from the first minutes, but this is a completely different, unexpected case. Science fiction? Certainly. But there are fifteen minutes of mysticism here, at the very beginning. There is also a detective here, with the disclosure of a terrible secret in the middle (and this is very surprising, because the riddle that the protagonist is actually a clone is usually held for the denouement), and a bit of a comedy, because it's very funny to watch a person playing Table tennis with his own, do not know how to play a copy. When we see two clones on the screen that obviously should not have met, and we learn that a rescue team is flying to the Moon, and in fact, a squad of cleanups, it seems that the whole film can eventually turn into a thriller. And, of course, there is a drama in this picture, because it's terribly sad when a person learns that his whole life is a lie, an evil joke, only a way to save on training.
A great start for the young, but certainly talented director Duncan Jones. A similar film could be released twenty years ago and easily merged into the fiction series of those times. But even now, the angular interior of rooms, archaic robot Gerti, frank minimalism in computer technology and painted white and glued to the suit with a flashlight Petzl (such sold in any tourist store), do not stare. Moreover, all this looks very harmonious, the stylistics and design are worked out in the smallest detail: it is stained with dirty fingers, where it must be stained, dusty where it should be dusty. It feels like someone from the extras has really lived in these scenery for at least three years.
However, it is difficult to determine what eventually the director wanted to say. There are many ideas, and for each of them you can make a film. For example, the idea that a mega-corporation can clone people and use clones for their own purposes, then throw it away like a waste material, or that a robot can also become a friend, or maybe the idea of a movie is that each life is valuable, and perhaps the film is just about loneliness and love.
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it never made sense to me that there would be table tennis at a facility that was always meant to have only 1 staff member. :)