: Another Earth
Interesting, though clearly low-budget, quirky movie about a woman haunted by a car accident that killed most of a family. After she gets out of prison (she was a drunk minor) she visit the lone survivor, the father, but is afraid to tell him who she is and pretends to be a cleaning service and ends up cleaning his house on a regular basis. Meanwhile, on the night of the accident, scientists discovered a duplicate earth in space. The woman had been very interested in space and follows the news of the other planet with interest. It turns out it’s identical to ours — even down to the same people having the same experiences — except that the moment the two planets became aware of each other (the night of the accident), they started to diverge. This leads the woman into thinking that maybe the family she killed is still alive on the other earth, and when she wins a ticket on a space flight to the other earth, she gives it to the man, hoping he’ll find his wife and son.
It’s a neat idea, but the film is extremely slow and thinks far too much of itself. It’s also a bit confusing and awkward, and I really hated the music which made me want to scream was so saccharin and slow. (Fortunately, the music isn’t playing throughout.) The performances are okay, but the low-budget of the film comes through in places and that’s not good. Ultimately it’s interesting and unusual, but not the breakthrough it wants to be.
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