Moon

Tomorrow, that is the 20th, is the 40th anniversary of
the first moon landing, when man first set his foot on moon.
On this occasion it is obviously not by coincidence that I am writing
about a movie called Moon. I have seen it yesterday and am bowled over
by it. The movie is set in the future when mankind has solved it's
energy crisis by mining HE2, that is Helium 2, from the surface of
moon. At the beginning, it looks like the company responsible for the
mining is penny pinching by having a single astronaut there, who is on
a 3 year contract. When the astronaut is recording messages to be sent
to his wife and daughther back home, instead of having a live
conversation, the reason given is that it is because of a solar storm,
it sounds reasonable enough. The astronaut starts imagining a woman in
the base, and just when it starts looking like a psychological
thriller, a terrible accident happens and secrets start tumbling out ,
quite literally. From here, a the audience is bevildered until the
truth sinks in, and u walk out feeling that you have just seen a great
sci- fi movie. I am spell bound, and I still don't know what to say. I
love sci-fi, usually becuase of the great effects, but this film is an
exception. It has no effects to talk about, but a great story. And my
advice is don't miss it.