Moon (movie)

I went with my friends Woody and Jake to the movie Moon, playing at the Bijou movie theater, on Sunday night. I had seen a preview for it earlier in the year and when it hit the normal theaters a few weeks ago it was strangely quickly taken away (even though it has a rating of 89% on rotten tomatoes). We all went in expecting it to be a good movie and we were not disappointed.

Sam Rockwell plays Sam Bell, an employee of Lunar Industries, who is under a three year contract to take care of a mining station on the Moon, with only the assistance of GERTY, voiced by Kevin Spacy. The station gathers a material called helium-3 (likely some sort of high-density helium deposits mined similarly to our modern corn harvesting methods) and sends back to earth to be used as fuel. But Sam Bell's mission takes a turn when he encounters another Sam Bell.

This is a great surrealistic, psychological movie. Sam Rockwell plays off himself pretty well and even though he is playing technically the same characters, we are aware that they have slightly different personalities. This clashing of two similar personalities is what makes much of the action and suspense of the flic, so the entire performance rested on his shoulders.

This is a must see, but because it is unlikely to be found in most theaters, people will have to wait til it comes out on dvd/bluray/whatever.