Plot: Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is an astronaut who works alone on the dark side of the moon mining nuclear fuel to send back to earth. Gerty (voiced by Nicholas Cage) is a robot who generally helps him. Sam is waiting for a supply craft to come to take him back to earth to see his wife and daughter. When Sam is injured in an accident, we learn that the Evil Corporation that owns the mine is using Sam in a clever but immoral way.
Review:Moon is a science fiction movie where one man is asked to sacrifice in isolation so that the whole of the earth can live with abundant fuel. On the other hand, that man has a terrible and short life, and his employer lies to him to make his life bearable.
The film has its slow parts, and reveals its secrets carefully. Happily this is not another evil robot movie where Sam has to fight the computer as in 2001. In this movie Gerty is a helpful bystander.
I thought the ending was excellent. It gave a nice close to the action.
Sam Rockwell gives a good performance and he is on screen almost constantly.
Cast: Sam Rockwell
Written and directed by: Duncan Jones
Rating: 2.5 flasks
[Big Spoiler] I want to believe that the real Sam living out his life on earth. The movie is about what rights do synthetic clones have, and can you treat them worse than regular people. It brings up issues of slavery or humane treatment for animals.
