Reviews of Another Earth 2011
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Interesting - loved it at times and was totally frustrated with it at times. Brit Marling will make me see any film. ANY film.
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It was ok, but it was too messy. The main problem was that the movie felt like two movies meshed together: a movie about another earth, and a drama about a woman's struggles to tell the truth about killing the main man's wife and kid. It felt confused and it didn't really have a voice throughout the film. But the thing that really made it mixed-to-negative was the message's delivery. Brit Marling's character, a janitor at a high school, spills…
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An interesting meditation about guilt and the 'what if?' aspect of every day life, with a really low budget they manage to deliver a very interesting scifi movie that uses the scifi elements with great success to highlight it's dramatic themes.
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If you had the chance to escape the stress of everyday life or your personal demons and start again, would you take it? That’s the question posed in Another Earth, although with the small detail of doing so on another planet, identical to our own. The old saying that somewhere out there exists an exact double of you has always been a romantic notion of self fascination and discovery played upon here as Rhoda (Brit Marling) is given the opportunity…
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An intriguing premise and done in a fairly minimalist style that can at times be frustrating but it mostly allows thinking space. Brit Marling gives an excellent performance as the troubled youth who aspires to move to Earth 2, she reminded me a lot of Jennifer Lawrence who perhaps in another life could have done this role, hopefully we'll see more of her. The ending is certainly one to provoke debate, tying into the film's philosophy about life and the…
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a cool, thoughtful indie written by/starring the smart/lovely Brit Marling (see her also-good Sound of My Voice, too!), this ends with a "WO!" moment, like having the theater's rug pulled out from under your seat, but I promise you'll be thinking/arguing with your film friends about it for some time to come!...
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You would suspect that the presence of a parallel world looming over another might serve as a heavy handed symbol; however, this second earth looms in this story like a moon, familiar, subtle, and always dripping its eerie light on the world we're watching.
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I can't be the only one a little miffed about the whole other earth being nothing but a fucking cock tease, it felt like the director had a fantastic idea and completely dropped it for a sudden romantic twist and on top of that, it gives almost nothing to the overall film.
I think in the end it comes off as just 92 minutes of a rather interesting premise that never really takes off and all potential is wasted.
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Through all the improbabilities and implausible ideas in this elaborate work of fiction, Mike Cahill brings us a subtle, affecting and intimate story that takes place as we discover another planet, another Earth, getting closer and closer to our planet. An exact replica. This huge and admittedly outrageous Sci-Fi concept is merely a sub plot to the main event - It is a story of how two people meet and how their relationship, forged through tragedy, grows.
Brit Marling, who…
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