The Truth: Moon Graffiti Response

     While in class listening to all the case studies. This one was the one that hit me immediately as the most interesting (though this isn't necessarily the case). This is undoubtedly due to my sci-fi space bias, but that's not a bad thing I don't think.

     The hook that got me in class was the speech written for Nixon, and performed for this bit. It was absolutely chilling. This whole piece didn't just connect me to the astronauts, it actually creeped me out. I felt like this wasn't just a sci-fi drama about being lost on the Moon, I legitimately felt like it was a horror piece, even though there was nothing which I could identify as traditionally terrifying. The music and ambience that was layered under everything was absolutely chilling. It made me feel at every moment as if there was going to be some deep dark secret on the moon; that somehow the moon wanted them dead. Yet when nothing like this happened, I also wasn't disappointed. It did a wonderful job of taking us through the hypothetical last couple of minutes of life for these astronauts. The larger meaning to the mission that these two were struggling to find wasn't heavy handed. It felt real. Overall this piece was just stunning. Chilling is the only word I can think of to sum up how I felt throughout the piece.

Josh Hernandez