Duncan Jones' 'Moon' is a classy homage to Kubrick's
'2001: A Space Odyssey' and a tasteful and subtle love letter to science fiction.
You could say that with 'Moon', Jones boldly wears his influences on his sleeves but I think this embrace of cliché is one of the film's strengths. We know the territory, but we enjoy the journey irrespective. Getting Kevin Spacey to voice GERTY, a sort of benevolent Hal, was inspired. You have the impression that at some point the GERTY
is going to turn, that something insidious will happen and it's this possibility which sustains the tension.
The film opens as an advertisement for Lunar, an energy company which supplies the majority of the worlds population with energy resources obtained from the moon. Astronaut Sam Bell, played brilliantly by the ever impressive Sam Rockwell, is nearing the end of his 3 year contract to the company and misses his wife and young daughter. Growing increasingly weary he makes what one could call without revealing too much, an act of self discovery.
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