Moon is, in many ways, a work of nostalgia. Are the aspects of science fiction, which pay homage to Kubrick and plenty Tarkovski, the most purely narrative, are interested in the oppression of a large multinational, and technical, with special effects and set design taste decidedly retro '.
The result is a film to be recommended especially to a nostalgic fiction that the 2000s have plenty of neglected and that only in this end of the decade looks set to recover.
In the near future the corporation on the Moon Lunar Technologies discovered a new source of energy much more efficient and less polluting fossil fuels , Helium 3 is the energy of the future.
Providentially, its extraction requires little human resources: a single technician can keep an eye on the operation of a fully automated basis, and perform daily tasks of monitoring and collection. Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is to successfully fulfill a contract for 3 years has bound to work solo as a controller of the lunar station, the only company consists of Gerty (voiced by Kevin Spacey), a sentient robot can not remember the HAL 9000 of "Space Odyssey", without giving up on a personality of its own. Sam's life, punctuated by waiting for the video messages of his wife and small daily activities to combat loneliness and paranoia, changes radically with the emergence of glimpses to open eyes. Following an accident caused by one of these hallucinations, the protagonist begins to see another wander around the base itself, and discovered to be able to interact. After the initial bewilderment of course, Sam the two join forces to uncover the truth.
The value of the plot of Moon is not to conform to Hollywood clichés that tend to build whole script on a secret and then reveal a few moments of credits . The mystery of the film, or who is the 'other Sam "and what we do there is revealed by the middle of the stage giving way to the history of evolution in a meaningful way and the viewer to think about the background. The fact that the entire course is set on the moon base and Sam Rockwell is the only player not making the film dull: Several plans are in fact on which the narrative develops, one side is the relationship between the two Sam and the other one with Gerty, as limited as that machine turns out to be far deeper than expected.
The result is an hour and a half story well-dosed, with no accelerations nor long pauses, which is enriched towards the end of a moral not a foregone conclusion. A beautiful science fiction that the director Duncan Jones, who escapes the now almost obvious contamination with the action and becomes a vehicle for a message and emotions altogether sincere. To see.
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