In Ryan Gosling’s latest hit Project Hail Mary, he plays an astronaut who finds himself alone in space, until he runs into a similarly isolated extra-terrestrial. There’s no such respite for the character in Duncan Jones’s Moon (2009).
In Moon, Sam Bell is all by himself on his mission, with only the artificial intelligence system named Gerty for company. Unlike Project Hail Mary, there are no laughs or lump-in-the-throat moments to make Sam’s ordeal bearable.
Moon is steered by a single actor, Sam Rockwell. Other characters appear only as distant images on a shaky satellite feed.
Sam Bell is an employee of the Lunar corporation, which is extracting helium from the moon for use on Earth. There’s only enough work here for one person. Sam has to maintain his spacecraft and venture out every now and then to load canisters with helium to send back to Earth.
Sam is stultified by the routine and talks to himself when he isn’t chatting with Gerty (voiced by Kevin Spacey). Sam has two weeks left until his contract ends. He can’t wait to go back to his wife and daughter. But then he makes a shocking discovery.
Based on a story idea by Duncan Jones and written by Nathan Parker, Moon is a low-budget, high-impact space drama that packs several...
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