Sundance 2009: "Moon."
"Moon" has the serious/silly premise you'd expect from a '70s sci-fi movie, the type that's meant to make you gasp "Oh, the terrible inhumanity of it all. And yet... that could be us someday!" while not holding up to real examination. (In this case: how could it possibly not be more economical to just bring in workers from China?) But "Moon" also has Sam Rockwell, who gives such a funny, sad, tender performance that the film works as a drama about a man who, thanks to a mixture of high technology and corporate malfeasance, is forced to confront the wrathful person he used to be and the changed one into which he's grown -- to learn to embrace himself, sometimes literally. Rockwell plays Sam Bell, an astronaut nearing the end of his three-year contract at a mining base on the far side of the moon. His only company is Gerty,...
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