Matthew, Mark, Luke & Sam?

Film: Moon

I am going to attempt to build upon on a specific aspect of the movie that I thought was quite intriguing, the naming of the He₃ Harvesters after the Synoptic Gospels found in the Biblical New Testament.  While all four gospels are eventually referenced in the film (John was mentioned much later), direct attention was made to Matthew, Mark, and Luke (time: ~16:00), which are the three books of the Bible (gospels) that comprise the “synoptic problem.” The synoptic problem basically states that the three separate texts are so similar in content that they must have shared an initial source material that all three “borrowed” accounts from.  This is very intriguing because even though it is the harvesters that are directly named, this could be viewed as a parallel to Sam Bell.  With this assumption, we can place the original Sam Bell as the source material {(un?)knowing genetic donor} for the later three clones (Matthew, Mark, & Luke) that all shared a similar fate, incineration…  Finally, the fourth Sam Bell Clone (the one we meet and ultimately dies as the scapegoat) would be assigned as the book of John (not a synoptic gospel, but considered the 4^th gospel); the book that is widely accepted to be much more complex and loving than the three gospels that preceded him in period scribed as well as textual order.  This notion can be strengthened by the fact that the 4^th Sam Bell seems to have overcome whatever issues the real Sam suffered from and is a much more complex character than the others.  Gerty also confirms this achievement and complexity (time: ~50:25).

            An additional view from a synoptic gospel standpoint is through the scope of the word itself.  Synoptic comes from the Greek syn, meaning "together", and optic, meaning "seen," which is quite interesting because we actually see two Sam Bells together…

MTG