One lonely film

Rating: 7/10 (25 April 2010)

I have to disagree with the high ratings for this film.
The story, as it has it, is quite far out when it comes to logic. There is no lunar gravity inside the station, and the implausibility of this base being staffed by 1 person, who discovers that there are a whole bunch of clones with his DNA being stored and readied for action, and eventually the eventuality that he is not the original.
There is quite an emotional touch in the film, however, one which the core of the film revolves around, involving the family of the central protagonist that leaves his family and finds himself removed from having live contact to his daughter and his wife, only to discover he was unable to message them directly. A heart moving sequence reveals what has actually happened in the duration that this clone of Sam has missed while been away, which is touching and eerily depressing.
I found myself wanting to stop the film due to the sense of loneliness prevalent in it and sterile 'HAL' (from Space Oddysey) interactions, but found that I wanted to play it through to the logical conclusion to reveal what actually happened, and to see the protagonist reunited with his daughter, and righteousness restored. None of this is covered, however, and you're left with a blank with only a few lines of text to explain the story of this clone that would have occurred on his return. So the situation is never resolved, and thinking about this draws a bit of a mental blank. In essence, the film leaves you feeling that this barbaric act of cloning a single miner on the moon is something that would still be continuing, without anybody on earth raising some sort of alarm about the situation, and thus this morbid act continuing on forever. Not a happy film by any means.