CineVegas 2009

Nearing the end of a three-year contract with Lunar Industries, Sam Bell will soon be returning to Earth. The lone occupant of a lunar mining base, Sam monitors the moon's harvest for helium energy. Buoyed by transmissions from his wife and young daughter, he combats isolation by interacting with the station’s robotic computer. But Sam is beginning to unravel. After a hallucination causes his lunar rover to crash, Sam realizes that his life here is not what it seems.

MOON is a philosophical and touching inflection on a genre that often loses sight of story amid the special effects. Director Duncan Jones creates an intimate and insightful character piece anchored by Sam Rockwell's performance; his perceptivity contains the emotional heartache and existential terror of a man gradually stripped of his core identity. So even the visual design and technology, MOON is less about outer than it is about inner space.

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