Another Earth
Ambitious little indie film that does not go after his brilliant ideas existential “Another Earth” by Mike Cahill is a superficial exercise in style that seeks ardently his emotion.
Rhonda (Brit Marling) dream to fly to Earth 2. To discover who she really is and especially forget her past behavior. Meanwhile, she does the housework, insisting earnestly with a musician (William Mapother) to clean her house. The young woman feels she owes a debt to this man who is still fragile after the death of his wife and child. Perhaps their suffering will heal each other…
“Another Earth” could have been a great sci-fi metaphysical and philosophical. This script borrows ideas from “Solaris” and “Gattaca”, but never knowing what to do with this material daunting. Lack of means, the feature keeps both feet on the ground, exploring more personal and emotional dimensions of his characters. These beings to the abode smooth and unpleasant unveil themselves progressively, never completely. This choice is commendable to be elusive, except that the most compelling performers would certainly have better served the purpose. Brit Marling seems to wander (and no doubt wanted it) and sticking her game icy little more than burning William Mapother.
No doubt the director Mike Cahill is aware; because it does everything for a little mechanically inflate its staging. His beautiful images are also slightly inflated by a camera deliberately unstable, pretentious narration, a horde of symbols and a perpetual quest of effects. Yet he should trust the power of his subject (the duality between the two planets which confers individuality) and only lead to good effect deliberately slow pace which is derived on a beautiful moon soundtrack, which sometimes gives a few impressive moments.
However, they are not numerous enough that the viewer is fully committed to the story. Despite its rich raw material and important topics that include feelings of guilt and forgiveness, emotion is greatly lacking. Yet that is what was meant to cement the effort, propel at the frontiers of the universe. Instead, it is only a futile attempt to who knows pique curiosity without the meeting completely. Lovers of science fiction and existential contemplation is better to make a major pressure is distributed to the hypnotic “Love” by William Eubank, a bit more tight, but much more developed, or even the fascinating “The Clone Return Home” of Kanji Nakajima, destabilizing wish.
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