What will you feel if there is another earth, another you?
This is the question that centers the new American fantasy/sci-fi drama film of 2011. The movie was directed by Mike Cahill, starring William Mapother and Brit Marling.
Another Earth was a mind blowing of conclusion and questions that will make the audience reflect themselves to the possibility of having another person like you. And how could you be different to that person. It’s a mixed emotion of love, regret, space travel and the existence of another universe where people can live as we on earth.
This is a story that evolves with a young woman named Rhoda Williams, played by writer-producer Brit Marling that had a terrible mistake on the night she is accepted into MIT’s astrophysics program. That night while she was driving she sees a planet, as a physic student herself she was quite curious and leans to get a closer look but she accidentally hits a van and kills the p(–foul word(s) removed–)engers in it.
She was imprisoned for four years for the crime that she accidentally committed. Upon her released, she works as a school janitor far from the thought of her MIT dreams. Her path gets across when she tries to help a composer John Burroughs played by William Mapother that is going also through struggles on his life.
She realized together with John that the planet she saw that night was also the planet Earth she lives on, it was like a reflection of the Earth on the mirror that even people where also exist on that planet. She participates to a contest held that will make the winner have the chance to visit another earth through a free space shuttle ride. Rhoda was so eager to know if what would be her mirror self looks like. Will she be committing same mistake?
Watch “Another Earth” official HD trailer below:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8hEwMMDtFY[/youtube]
Another Earth film received a highly praised and even a standing ovation on its world premiere at the 27th Sundance Film Festival in January 2011.