So, I have just finished watching the movie called "Moon", directed by Duncan Jones and I have managed to strike some similarities in minor details and in themes of this movie and Death Stranding.
SPOILER ALERT FOR THE MOVIE "MOON": First of all, what really started my thoughts on this was a really minor detail from the movie. If you have watched the movie, you know that the main characters name is Sam Bell. While his last name doesn't have anything to do with my assumptions, the first name is as you already know the same as the one of Norman Reedus' character in the game. Now what really got me going is the fact that the last time Kojima decided to put an easter egg by using a name for a character (or in that case, the real name of the character) based upon a movie he wanted to reference was in MGS1 when Otacon and Solid Snake tell each other their real names. Then they both proceed to laugh about their real names being Hal and David, Snake saying they might as well take a trip to Jupiter, referencing "2001: A Space Odyssey". It struck me odd at first but it kind of makes sense to me, when I think about it.
"Moon" is a sci-fi movie set on, you've guessed it, the Moon. It follows a story of Sam Bell, a person in charge of Moon's "mining base" which extracts clean burning Helium 3 required to supply the Earth with electrical power. Movie's plot deals with primarily one character, his struggle to stay sane on his 3 year working contract while being the only one on the base, AI, human psychology and dreams.
My interpretation of the "plot" is that you are never actually sure what is real, as the main character gets into an accident, after the whole of the movie starts losing reality, or at least common sense. After the crash of the vehicle he used to go extract resources from one of the mining stations/rowers, he awakens back in the mother base he left. There an AI named Gerty who is in charge of the base tells him that he had an accident but he doesn't appear as himself, missing injuries he had prior to the crash as well as the ones caused by it.
Gerty is a robot which is confined to the base and it doesn't make sense that Sam got evacuated because he is the only person on the Moon. Sam starts noticing things which don't make sense to him either. Soon he tricks Gerty into opening the door to the surface, since Gerty got orders from Earth not to do so. Then Sam uses another truck to go to the crash site and finds himself in the crashed vehicle. He brings him back to base. You as a watcher are constantly thrown hints that it might be Sam's Imagination and near death experience causing him to hallucinate the rest of the movie's story. But the story more or less progresses against all of that and the movie's end establishes the reality in what happened on the screen.
The key part I find amusing between this possible "Death Stranding" and "Moon" connection is it's weird reality. Sams appear to be clones of the One Sam who is hinted to have been at the station and left it years ago. When ever an accident happens, current Sam is replaced by a clone of himself and he continues on with the work. Not unlike the theories around the internet that Death Strandings core game mechanic is being "reborn" into that strange reality as one of his clones (Baby is the clone of Sam theory).
Movie's sci-fi themes, overall strangeness of its perceived "reality" and something not being fully explained is what draws parallels with Death Stranding in my mind, at least.
Here stated is only the base of the possible easter egg but maybe someone can find even more parallels then I did. I would love to see that. What do you guys think? Am I reaching out here or is there actually some connection here? Or at least an easter egg or two hidden in Death Stranding's trailers already about this particular movie?
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