PG-13, 92 min.
Director: Mike Cahill
Writers: Mike Cahill, Brit
Marling
Starring: Brit Marling,
William Mapother
I’m not often made
uncomfortable by movies. “Another Earth” made me uncomfortable. Not for its
entire running time, but for a brief period when something that the audience
and the main character know shouldn’t be happening is happening. This is part
of what is a rather remarkable small budget science fiction movie.
The plot follows Rhoda, who
as a teen finds herself accepted into MIT, with her whole life ahead of her.
She’s partying one night when news is announced of the appearance of a planet
in close proximity to Earth that appears to be an exact copy of our planet.
Then Rhoda drives head on into a family of three.
Four years later, Rhoda is
released from prison and she learns of the man who survived the accident, who
was in a coma at the time she was convicted. She goes to offer her apologies,
but loses her nerve and instead offers him cleaning services. Her presence in
his house begins to lift him from his malaise, and she begins to feel happy
again as well. The rest of the plot I will not divulge, other than the fact
that Rhoda has also entered a contest to be the first person to travel to Earth
2.
What evolves from this plot
is a most unique and enlightening science fiction that asks us just how do we
see ourselves. If we could really talk to another self, what would we tell
them? What would we ask them? How would knowing another version of ourselves
change us?
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