Awesome idea, rough plot

General 2022-03-25 09:01:09

When another earth approaches, it is speculated that there is likely to be a replica of your own planet, so there must be another self there? The premise of the film is very thoughtful and fascinating. It seems that the partition between the parallel spaces is broken, and suddenly they can touch and hug each other. What a curious thing. This premise is very second. Of course, the movie is not actually about the contact between the two planets, but the road to self-redemption caused by the accident. This is a rather surprising plot setting.
But the development of the plot that I don't like is: self-salvation to sleep with the other party, it really feels like eating flies. I think this is the reaction of the male lead. This kind of rotten street routine is really speechless. The female lead said that I Thinking that I made you happy, this really makes a sleazy person like me want to get into trouble and feel like my throat is getting angry. The scene where the heroine vomits in the train toilet after sleeping with each other is a perfect example of how all viewers feel. In this case, why is such a redemption designed? Is this redemption? Is it sincere redemption? This is disgusting, the other party is also disgusting yourself.
In the latter part of the film, the female protagonist asks the male protagonist to go to another earth instead of herself. The theoretical support is that when the two planets face each other, the chain of replication between them will be completely disconnected and lead to different destinies. Then before the car accident happened, another earth had already appeared in the field of vision of this earth, so the car accident probably did not happen. And at the end of the film, the heroine saw herself in another world at the door of her house. The heroine was well-dressed. It seems that there was no car accident there, and the heroine went to college smoothly. So what happened after the male protagonist went up? Did he feel comforted and happy when he saw a happy family, or was he more resentful because he was an outsider? This setting is a test of the male protagonist's humanity, and the female protagonist's road to redemption has not stopped.
In general, this film has a great idea, but the content is very rough, with a luxurious background, but it tells an ordinary plot. Compared with light sci-fi films of the same type, such as "The Man From Earth" and "The Night When the Comet Came", the plot is narrated under the framework of sci-fi, and the gap between this film is big.
The heroine is so beautiful, and she attracted me to watch it entirely by her attractiveness. The footage of the film is very intriguing. Some people like roughness, while others like delicateness. I belong to the latter. In fact, there is no need to pursue alternative lens language and make the film full of inferior quality. The most important thing is to tell the story well.

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Extended Reading
  • Yvonne 2022-03-26 09:01:06

    Small and fresh science fiction, this simple tone makes me always have the illusion that it is a British movie. The first half is not bad, but the latter is still a little bit into the cliché. No special effects, but still moving, 3.5 stars~

  • Angel 2021-12-16 08:01:16

    [Depression] Destroyed an earth, and the film, which is also a sci-fi drama, created another earth, but it was equally desperate. This is actually a story of redemption. On another planet, there is another you, and there is a second chance, but the result is the same loss. Sometimes emotional and fresh, sometimes rough shoulder photography, talented girl Brit Marling is well-written, and next year, it will be a hit with Alan Page's [The East] next year! ★★★★

Another Earth quotes

  • Richard Berendzen: In the grand history of the cosmos, more than thirteen thousand million years old, our Earth is replicated elsewhere. But maybe there is another way of seeing this world. If any small variation arises-they look this way, you look that way-suddenly maybe everything changes and now you begin to wonder, what else is different? Well, one might say that you have an exact mirror image that is suddenly shattered and there's a new reality. And therein lies the opportunity and the mystery. What else? What new? What now?

  • Rhoda Williams: Maybe they're up there. Maybe not. Maybe.