Cinematography

• Eliza ship has a spider like shadow
• Long shot of Sam 2 leaving which Sam 1 sees
• Long shot of Sam 2 in the building – empty without Sam 1
• Yellow and blue lighting when Sam 2 is leaving
• Zoom in to a close up of the countdown
• Close ups of Gerty could suggest a human quality to him?
• Long shot of Sam 3 – meat – can’t see his face

Mise en scene

• Sun glasses – cool gesture – persona
• We see the countdown which contrasts to the emotional music
• Sam 3 – we can’t see his face only body (meat), distant from us but the sounds of the arrival time suggests he is human and matters too
• Gerty’s faces look like the ones that Sam 1 draws on the wall (on the wall, we can see rubbed out faces from where the previous Sam’s have drawn on the wall, as they all went through the same thing)
• Eliza ship has a spider like shadow and a red flashing light which has connotations of danger
• Rescue team have guns

Sound

• Music – the peaceful music like a clockwork toy when Sam 3 wakes up – suggests falseness
• When there is a long shot of Sam 3, we hear the arrival time which suggests he matter/is human too
• “getting things done” music kicks in when the signal thing gets knocked over (?)
• Drums – satellite working
• Sad music when Sam 2 has left Sam 1 means that when we see the countdown, we don’t feel tense, it doesn’t matter as much anymore

Performance

• ‘I hope everything on earth is everything you remember it to be’
• Gertie helps – humanity ?
• Taking the ‘kick me’ post it note off Gertie suggest Sam 2 felt a humanity in Gertie
• Sam 2 prays before escaping
• ‘We’re not programmed we’re people’

Editing

• Parallel action of Sam 1,2 and 3
• Parallel action of Eliza and machine and Sam 2 leaving

Narrative

• Reference to the new Sam and programming
• Sam played by the same actor
• ‘We’re not programmed we’re people’
• Parallel action
• Sam 3’s humanity considered
• Narrative repletion (new Sam)
• Clone of Sam Bell has given evidence (V/O) but called ‘either a wacko or an illegal immigrant… lock him up’. The company claims to have changed the world but can’t change the people. The company probably won’t be shut down (determinism – no matter what Sam did he couldn’t have won). America. Compare ending to beginning.

Ideology

• Existentialism – Sam 2’s purpose was to stand up for what was right
• Determinism?
• Compare beginning and end. Starts with energy problems and how Lunar Industries helps. Ends with illegal immigrant comment – didn’t change the people with the earth and nothing has changed (determinism)
• Lunar Industries admit racism (?) (orientalism)
• Wilful ignorance in humanity – ignore issue
• Nihilism (?)