Increasingly odd occurrences beset a lonely moon-harvester.
One of the best science-fiction films of the 2000s, Moon is a tense, mesmerizing portrait of isolation, paranoia, and sanity/the lack thereof. Featuring (duh) an incredible performance from Sam Rockwell, Moon evokes the psychotic, techie tones of a Philip K. Dick novel (the fact that the main character is a hybrid maintenance man/moon farmer is a direct nod to Dick’s work), recreating the author’s vision more fully than any of the films actually based on his work, except for maybe A Scanner Darkly. It also plays sort of like a small-scale, intensely personal 2001 — even featuring a HAL-inspired AI program named GERTY, voiced by a particularly wry Kevin Spacey. Interestingly enough, Moon was directed by Duncan Jones, aka the freaking son of David Bowie. Jones went on to direct the better-known, but less effective Source Code.
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