Title: Moon
Director: Duncan Jones
With: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey
Genre: Psychological Science Fiction
97 minutes
Moon is a beautiful movie, and something different for a change.
The movie is simple, yet brilliant. Duncan Jones, who directed the movie, has chosen for a slow, non flashy style. You would expect something fancy for a story in space, but there is non of that. It's slow, low on special effects and it works.
The movie is about Sam Bell (a brilliant play by Sam Rockwell) , who is is an employee for a company called Lunar Industries. His job is to delve 'Helium-3', a special kind of fuel, used on earth. The only partner he has doing this job, is a computer called GERTY (who is voiced by Kevin Spacey), who takes care of everything for him on the ship.Sam can't communicate directly to earth, due to satelite problems. His personal problems come up, just before he would return home. When working in his moon buggy, he has health problems, loses conscience and has an accident.
Before the accident, the movie breathes a very calm, relaxed atmosphere. After the accident, it loses that atmosphere, it is obvious that there is a change, but, the movie remains subtile and calm, only in a different way.
What is so good about the movie, is that there is a mysterious feeling to the movie (also because of the beautiful soundtrack, by Clind Mansell), which leads, using a surprising inversion, to a fresh plot.
Duncan Jones has chosen for a verry ventured, dared script to make his movie debute. The movie is something different, as opposed to what we are used to, and a certain audience will probably not go to see it, because of the 'dull' trailer and the little amount of explosions and action. This is a shame, because it is actually a mind challenging movie with an actual good story.
Sam Rockwell, who plays the movie pretty much on his own (even more than Tom Hanks in Cast Away), sets an amazing roll as Sam Bell. Not many actors would be able to keep a movie interesting for more than 90 minutes on their own. His performance is even better for certain reasons I can not describe, because my review would then become a spoiler.
****
4/5 stars
