You don’t really stumble upon many riveting, independent, sci-fi films that look brilliant (let alone, don’t contain aliens and space magic) and capture major emotional themes successfully.
Moon accomplishes this, and with very little CGI at that.
Sam Bell is an astronaut working for a corporation on the far side of the moon.
His job? Maintaining a lunar facility and the automated machines which are harvesting the moon’s surface for Helium 3.
The harvested material is then sent back to Earth to use as energy.
Sam is on the very last leg of a three year contract and is quite anxious to return to his wife and daughter.
Barring any incidents, Sam will be able to leave his solitude.
But something does go wrong ….
nice 
magic
