Movie Thoughts: Moon

I went to see this movie a couple weekends ago having never heard of it (which isn’t saying much since I so rarely read media nowadays). I had read the synopsis, to put it roughly, about a man on an “energy” mission to the moon who ends up saving a man in a rover who looks exactly like him. The “saving the man who looks exactly like him” is what pretty much set me off to go see the movie, and I was not disappointed.

By the time I finished watching this movie questions flooded to mind: How do you know you’re real? What does it mean to be real? How do we define real? I’m reminded of the movie Bug in which a character tells another character who’s gone off the deep end that none of what she is experiencing is real, and she responds by asking him how she knows he’s real.

The movie also reminded me of some saying I came across a while ago about there being few originals but many replicas. So one interesting thing about this movie was, as the viewer, not being able to determine originality. This difficulty seemed to speak to the movie’s theme regarding authenticity, and to what extent it even exists.

The movie only has Sam Rockwell, with the exception of a robot assistant voiced by Kevin Spacey. It’s a good movie, one I’d watch again. It’s a film that leaves us with more questions than answers, which is my kind of movie.