outstanding science fiction movie

Rating: 8/10 (9 June 2019)

"Moon" is well worth a detour. It's got a good, intricate plot, a clever screenplay and fine direction. Sam Rockwell is also quite good as a stressed-out astronaut who might be going sane, going mad, or both at the same time. (Here it's hard not to think of the oldies but goodies along the lines of "It's not because you're paranoiac that there aren't people out there trying to get you" or "I know I'm not a schizophrenic, my other self told me so".)
In its own way "Moon" reminds the viewer of the bitter fact that technological and scientific progress can go hand in hand with moral barbarity, especially when monsters like extreme patriotism or savage capitalism rear their ugly heads. Completely inoffensive persons get treated as replacable, interchangeable, fungible - but it's all for a higher goal, of course. The common good asks for an occasional little sacrifIce...