This movie made me sad. Which is not to say that it's a bad movie. Far from it. Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) works a 3 yr mission on the far side of the moon, mining helium-3 to supply energy to Earth. He has a wife and baby at home and is counting the days until his return. Except that things start going wrong. Sam has nightmares and a unsettling feeling that he is not alone. Even his adorable and ever-so-slightly-creepy robot companion, GERTY, can't help him.
Now I have seen a fair number of science fiction films and generally, dramas set in space fall into one of three categories.
A: evil robots (2001: A Space Odyssey, WALL-E)
B: aliens (Alien, Pitch Black)
C: corporate conspiracies (Aliens)
Considering that Kevin Spacey was the voice of the robot, I would have put money on A. But that's because I'm one of those horrible people who tries to figure out the twist before the plot is even laid out.
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It's not A.
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The ending of the movie made me feel the same way I did when I saw Gattaca, that sort-of-happy-but-at-a-really-high-cost bittersweet kind of feeling. Which is not bad for a film that basically only stars one guy. I like Sam Rockwell in pretty much everything, though, even Charlie's Angels so I'm a little biased.
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