DaChispa

I couldn’t wait to see Moon on DVD – and I wasn’t disappointed. For me, the highlight was Kevin Spacey as Gertie, the machine in several parts with emoticons emulate facial expressions. The director didn’t even try to make the machine look human – it was a machine with a screen that used yellow smiley faces (or frowning or puzzled yellow smiley faces) to support its words. It also acted in an inexplicably irrational way. The best part was that they never tried to explain why Gertie made the choices it made, it always looked like a machine and yet there was an impression of personality and free will. Very satisfying film. Sci fi thriller with some philosophy thrown in.