MOON - The Unquestioned Questions

Rating: 5/10 (7 January 2019)

In sci-fi you always need some kind of unrealistic set-ups to make it possible to tell a (hopefully) realistic story: e.g. a worp engine to reach new worlds in time, quick and cheap cloning and programming of people, computers with feelings. Besides this film makers additionally need some unexplained techniques to keep production costs small: anti-gravity devices, beaming technology and so on. Sci-fi fans are used to accept this basic installations to make the story go.
Therefore I don't ask this questions on the movie MOON - but there are a lot of other unquestioned and of cause unanswered questions:
1. No question from Sam about who is the black haired woman. She is there - she is away. For him it seems to be just ok - not for the audience.
2. The Lunar Industries Corporation make billions of dollars every year with this moon station and nobody asks why they are not able to repair the transmission system within THREE years? The interior of the stations looks clean, modern and new. We are not talking about an old, nearly abandoned space station on the border of the known universe as we know from other movies. In the real world the Chinese just landed a rover on the "dark" side of the moon and they have a working transmission system - in 2018!
3. After his crash with the rover Sam "one" wakes up at the ward. He asks no question who brings him there. In the whole movie the only robot seen is GERTY. This is hanging on a rail system inside the station and surely not constructed for outside missions. Other robots were not seen in this movie.
4. In the first meeting of Sam "one" and Sam "two" nobody seems to be surprised to have a clone. Again no questions. Even Sam "two" thinking he is the original at this time asks no question why he has a clone. It's again just ok.
5. Why are this two clones not able to talk to each other in a constructive problem-solving way? Ok, they have very different personality (that brings another question, see below) but if you are in such a big trouble like this to guys and you are alone on the moon you will surely team up.
6. Why have the clones such different characters? Maybe they have different implanted recalls - but WHY?
7. Sam "two" uncovers that GERTY is able to make live transmissions to earth - even with the jamming transmitters working. Nobody has a question about the sense of this four jammers on the moon's surface.
8. GERTY seems to control the whole station including the transmitters. When his dedication is "to help Sam" why does he not allow him a video call to earth? Another unasked question.
9. Why does GERTY change his mind in really helping the two Sams? No Sam askes - but the audience does.
10. The moon station is a multibillion dollar project supplying the whole earth's energy. But there seems to exist no security system controlling what Sam is doing and where he is. Today every driver of a delivery truck is tracked via GPS and his company knows exactly WHAT he is doing and WHERE. But no question why nobody is interested what Sam is doing.
11. Which sense makes the recorded video of the separation of Sam's wife? The idea of the implanted recall of a family life is to give the clone a reason for good work and to go back to earth. He does not know that the return capsule is an incinerator for his body and that it is not planned to bring him back to earth. With this video of the separation the company takes the risk that Sam neither has interest in doing a good job on the station nor on coming back to earth now - and using the capsule.
I think MOON is a well-produced movie. Sam Rockwell acts the two roles perfect. The SFX are solid and not obstusively. The production design is familiar and gives room for the story because the audience concentrates on the actor and not on any technical gadgets.
The question of "what is life?" has been asked in hundreds of sci-fi movies (Blade Runner, Star Trek, Matrix and so forth) and this is just another way to look into a subject - nothing new for sci-fi fans but apparently for the critics.
But here are so many holes in the story and so many open questions that make it quite pointless to follow the story. "2001 - A Space Odyssey" also leaves you with a bunch of open questions, but on a philosophical level. The open questions in MOON all result from bad craftsmanship on the script.