A movie as profound as 'K-Sex Stranger' and 'This Man From Earth'

Joana 2022-04-22 07:01:31

Within our lifetimes, we are marveled. As biologists have managed to look at ever smaller and smaller things and astronomers have looked further and further into dark night sky, back in time and out in space. But maybe the most mysterious of all is neither the small nor the large, is 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 can stand outside ourselves and look at us?
Our lives are full of wonder, biologists see smaller and smaller creatures, astronomers look farther and farther, into the black night sky, into time, into The universe, but perhaps the miracle of miracles, neither big nor small, but us right in front of our eyes. Can we recognize ourselves? Even if we could, would we know ourselves? What do we say to ourselves? What will we learn from ourselves? If we could get out of our bodies and look at ourselves, what would we say to ourselves?
These lines are my favorite and the center of the film. Maybe there will be another earth, another self, but how does that affect us? Just like a person looking in a mirror, you can look at yourself in the mirror from outside the mirror, but if you try to step over it, the mirror will also fall apart!
Watching this movie reminds me of "K-Sex Stranger" and "This Man From Earth", the style is really similar to K-Sex Stranger, and I like the style of music very much~~

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Extended Reading
  • Percival 2021-12-16 08:01:16

    Forgive. The human mind is too strong, the farther away from the human mind, the better. Recently, a feeling of emptiness and remoteness seems to be getting stronger and stronger, covering my small universe. I stand on the reef of an isolated city island, looking at the sky every day...Life, except for people, I want to understand.

  • Alexander 2022-03-26 09:01:06

    It's too soft, although it's a soft sci-fi, and the literary atmosphere is too heavy. I don't think the screenwriter has let go. Since the theme of the parallel universe has been borrowed, it should be more imaginative. Dig deep enough.

Another Earth quotes

  • Rhoda Williams: You know that story of the Russian cosmonaut? So, the cosmonaut, He's the first man ever to go into space. Right? The Russians beat the Americans. So he goes up in this big spaceship, but the only habitable part of it's very small. So the cosmonaut's in there, and he's got this portal window, and he's looking out of it, and he sees the curvature of the Earth for the first time. I mean, the first man to ever look at the planet he's from. And he's lost in that moment. And all of a sudden this strange ticking... Begins coming out of the dashboard. Rips out the control panel, right? Takes out his tools. Trying to find the sound, trying to stop the sound. But he can't find it. He can't stop it. It keeps going. Few hours into this, begins to feel like torture. A few days go by with this sound, and he knows that this small sound... will break him. He'll lose his mind. What's he gonna do? He's up in space, alone, in a space closet. He's got 25 days left to go... with this sound. So the cosmonaut decides... the only way to save his sanity... is to fall in love with this sound. So he closes his eyes... and he goes into his imagination, and then he opens them. He doesn't hear ticking anymore. He hears music. And he spends the sailing through space in total bliss... and peace.

  • DJ Flava: Just imagine that you're asleep, and then you wake. You're not sure where you are. You're not sure if anyone else is around. What would you probably do first? You would likely look around and say, "Hello? Hello?". You're attempting to find "am I alone?". We - here on Earth - would like to know.