"Another Earth" and "21 Grams"

Trycia 2021-12-16 08:01:16

This movie gave me too many surprises. The music is great, and the photography is top-notch. What impressed me the most was the use of the lens when the heroine told the professor the story of the first Soviet astronaut ascended to space. The camera suddenly zoomed in on the heroine's face, coupled with the heroine's charming speech, gave me a sense of movement in space. It can be said that this movie is about a science fiction story, but in fact it is more like using a science fiction shell to talk about forgiveness and redemption. It is difficult for the blind man and the heroine to get inner peace. In the end, I saw the colorful flowers on the bedside of the hostess, and I saw hope.
I quickly connected this movie with "21 Grams" in my mind. Although "21 Grams" is a reward for gratitude, it is also approaching that person in another capacity.
"21 Grams" cuts the movie in a mess, making people confused. The whole movie is supported by the actors. Gives the feeling of deliberate sensation for the sake of sensationalism. This one is not pretending to be deep, telling a simple story with simple lens language, but it has an endless aftertaste. Sadness that is useless to magnify, but always introverted sadness permeates the picture. Maybe it's just the silence of the heroine with a tucked knee, or just a moment of satisfaction from the professor, which will make people feel warm and sad.
If there is another earth, that me, will it be happier than me, she has everything I am missing.
I like this kind of simple but thought-provoking movie.

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Another Earth quotes

  • Rhoda Williams: When early explorers first set out West across the Atlantic, most people thought the world was flat. Most people thought if you sailed far enough West, you would drop off a plane into nothing. Those vessels sailing out into the unknown, they weren't carrying noblemen or aristocrats, artists or merchants. They were crewed by people living on the edge of life: the madmen, orphans, ex-convicts, outcasts like myself. As a felon, I'm an unlikely candidate for most things. But perhaps not for this. Perhaps I am the most likely.

  • Richard Berendzen: It would be very hard to think "I am over there" and "Can I go meet me?" and "Is that me better than this me?" "Can I learn from the other me?" "Has the other me made the same mistakes I've made?" Or, "Can I sit down and have a conversation with me?" Wouldn't that be an interesting thing? The truth is, we do that all day long every day. People don't admit it and they don't think about it too much, but they do. Every day, they're talking in their own head. "What's he doing?" "Why'd he do that?" "What did she think?" "Did I say the right thing?" In this case, there's another you out there.