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"  Science fiction has been good to the Bowie family. The infectious melancholy of &amp;quot;Space Oddity&amp;quot; gave David Bowie his first hit, and Ziggy Stardust was his first great stage persona. Now David&amp;#039;s son, a director of commercials who discarded his famous-baby moniker Zowie Bowie for the anonymity of his real first and last names, Duncan Jones, has made his feature debut with the suspenseful, poignant sci-fi indie Moon. A chillingly clever homage to Stanley Kubrick&amp;#039;s 2001, the movie stars Sam Rockwell as a space worker whose only companion on his three-year lunar assignment is a computer named Gerty, voiced by Kevin Spacey. Harvesting energy for Earth and longing for his family, he&amp;#039;s as lonely as Bowie&amp;#039;s Major Tom. &amp;quot;My dad has had a huge influence on me,&amp;quot; Jones, 38, says cheerfully from London. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s the smartest man I know.&amp;quot;  His father introduced him to Philip K. Dick and George Orwell, whose near-future dystopias foreshadow the shocking one revealed in Moon. Still, Jones&amp;#039; philosophy degree underpins the movie&amp;#039;s fascinating ethical issues. And he learned about sudden shocks at Gordonstoun, the severe Scottish boarding school where royal sons toughen up. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d been in a perfectly normal school in Switzerland, where we lived on and off since I was young,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;In Scotland I was a wreck; I&amp;#039;d lost my friends and any sense of home. I slept through my exams, spent time drinking, and was asked to leave.&amp;quot; A stint at Jim Henson&amp;#039;s Creature Shop rekindled his love of film, and a return to Switzerland to counsel kids with learning disabilities brought perspective. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m the sum of my experience,&amp;quot; Jones says. &amp;quot;I was trying to figure out where I fit in.&amp;quot; The obvious answer? Behind a movie camera.\u2014 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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