Another Earth

[Rabelais]

Wow! A moving film.

An earth like planet has wandered into the solar system, Nibiru style, and set up shop near us, dominating the sky. It is a twin to earth. You will need to suspend belief in the implausibility of the astrophysics involved. The planet is simply a prop in a plot that otherwise deals with the human condition and redemption.

A young girl recently graduated from high school, with a lifelong interest in space, learns that she has been accepted to MIT. After a celebratory party in which she has a bit too much to drink, and while driving home, looking out the car at the new planet, she has a head on collision which kills the pregnant wife and son of a gifted professor of music, leaving him in a coma. The girl is sentenced to 4 years in prison for vehicular manslaughter. When she is released, her spirit is broken and guilt ridden. The professor has recovered, somewhat, and is living the life of an alcoholic recluse in the boondocks. OK, that's the set up and I'll go no further so as not to spoil the plot.

The young lady who stars in the film, Brit Marling, also co-wrote it with the director. She is a superb actor and the writing is, in my opinion, brilliant. Its a small budget movie, but that, for me, in no way distracted from it. And best of all... there isn't a psychopath anywhere to be found. When was the last movie you saw that could make that statement?

The ending blew me away. I think you'll enjoy it.

 

[Tigersoap]

I enjoyed it as well because it does talk about redemption, the wish we all have that sometimes we would have done things differently and how to redeem yourself. It's different from your usual blockbuster and that's good.

 

[timmyman]

thanks for the info... will have something good to watch tonight:)

 

[davey72]

I have seen this movie qlso. I have also seen a few other new movies that deal with tye question of an earth twin. I found it pretty interrsting due to the fact that i was wondering if this may be something in our future, and then one has recently been found.

 

[Mrs.Tigersoap]

I really liked this movie and was touched by it. Everything is done is a very understated, subtle kind of way and you would almost forget about this other earth and focus solely on the characters. It's not your usual sci-fi movie, it's more drama with a touch of sci-fi. Brit Marling blew me away. You feel for her, you want her to be able to know redemption, and at the same time, you cannot forget that through this accident, she destroyed a man's life by killing his family. During the whole movie, I was putting myself in her shoes, asking myself :'What could I do if I had done something so terrible?'. Well worth seeing IMO.

 

[Bim]

I have this one on queue to watch, so i'll get to it and give my opinion after. Thanks for the reviews, i'm even more excited to see it now :)

 

[MK Scarlett]

I saw this movie and it touched me too, the game of actors is very good and several aspects of our work here are described in there.
Mrs.Tigersoap already said better than I could what was my feeling looking at it...

 

[seek10]

I watched this today. Seeing the earth in the amazing. the scene where the earth is huge. fascinating. Action of the actors is great. Very gentle movie.

 

[deleven]

Thank you for this. It was a wonder indeed. Yes, the ending blew me away too! :)

 

[theos]

I enjoyed this movie very much. The acting was good and subtle. I really felt the main characters need to make amends and her fear of exposing herself to the unknown of telling the truth. The existence of another earth was almost secondary to the character development. This would've been a most excellent film even without the Earth 2 aspect, imo.

 

[Jones]

I've recently seen this movie and was quite taken with a voice over during one part:

"Within our lifetimes, we've marveled as biologists have managed to look at ever smaller and smaller things. And astronomers have looked further and further into the dark night sky, back in time and out in space. But maybe the most mysterious of all is neither the small nor the large: it's us, up close. Could we even recognize ourselves, and if we did, would we know ourselves? What would we say to ourselves? What would we learn from ourselves? What would we really like to see if we could stand outside ourselves and look at us?"

Dr Richard Berendzen

 

[SeekinTruth]

I've recently seen this movie and was quite taken with a voice over during one part:

"Within our lifetimes, we've marveled as biologists have managed to look at ever smaller and smaller things. And astronomers have looked further and further into the dark night sky, back in time and out in space. But maybe the most mysterious of all is neither the small nor the large: it's us, up close. Could we even recognize ourselves, and if we did, would we know ourselves? What would we say to ourselves? What would we learn from ourselves? What would we really like to see if we could stand outside ourselves and look at us?"

Dr Richard Berendzen

That is a pretty striking comment. Sounds like a film to look into.