Ima Moon ya

          The most obvious connections from moon can be drawn to 2001 and Blade Runner. Hal and GERTY are robotically identical, but their purpose in the film does vary a teensy bit. In 2001, Hal is there largely to contrast with the humans on board the ship, Hal being the most human of all the crew members. Once again, GERTY is a very human-like robot in that he seems to genuinely care about Sam. What makes moon interesting is not the contrast between GERTY and Sam but rather the comparisons. Both are technically "programmed" and yet they both have rather human characteristics, furthering the discussion on what is human and does Sam still count even though he is technically a scientific creation. That conveniently leads into  a comparison to Blade Runner, and how similar the Replicants are quite similar to the Sam clones. Both the clones and Replicants are used for labor but are given human emotions and thoughts. This leads back to the reoccurring theme of "if it feels and acts like a human, is it a human? and if not what is human?" And once again the answer is left up for the audience to decide. Things to Come also plays a part with the background of Earth. Both movies take place in the future of when the movie itself was released and play into realistic scenarios of how the future could end up. While Things to Come uses that as the plot for the entire movie, Moon simply uses the background information that humans mess things up and that is why Sam is on the moon. It still makes the movie feel more genuine because it does seem like a believably crappy future we will probably have.
        What I thought was different and what made the film unique was the ending. With films that deal with "what is human" themes it is often left with nothing really changing. In Blade Runner the audience is left to understand that the main character was a Replicant and now he is going off to live out what is left of his "life", but nothing really changes in the world he is in. With Moon, the audience is left with those news sound bits that make it seem like the Sam clone is going to, somehow, change the future. It seems like he is spreading awareness of what is happening and that might lead to people rising up and seeing what the company is doing as inhumane. It is left open ended but a bit more satisfying than other sci-fi movies that deal with similar themes.