Directed by Mike Cahill
Produced by Hunter Gray, Mike Cahill, Brit Marling, Nicholas Shumaker
Written by Mike Cahill, Brit Marling
Starring: Brit Marling, William Mapother
Music by Fall On Your Sword
Cinematography: Mike Cahill
Edited by Mike Cahill
Production company: Artists Public Domain
Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures
Release date: 22 July 2011 (United States)
Running time: 92 minutes
Country: United States
Budget: $100,000
Box office: $1.8 million
"Another Earth" is a romantic science fiction drama film directed and co-written by Mike Cahill. The story is about a young girl who makes mistakes and dreams about cosmos.
Cast
- Brit Marling as Rhoda Williams
- William Mapother as John Burroughs
- Jordan Baker as Kim Williams
- Robin Lord Taylor as Jeff Williams
- Flint Beverage as Robert Williams
- Kumar Pallana as Purdeep
- Richard Berendzen as himself (narrator)
I saw Mike Cahill's "I Origins" several months ago and really liked it - the style, the idea, the acting. Then I'd been searching for something similar but only today I realised that I missed "Another Earth" and in vain.
What now may I say? A beautiful story, charming music, wonderful acting - everything impresses except camera shake.
Advantages
- Mike Cahill
- Brit Marling as Rhoda Williams
- William Mapother as John Burroughs
- Music
Disadvantages
- Camera shake
"Strangenesses"
- Two planets
Clue Moments
- The crash
- Telling the truth
Rhoda kills John's family, then works for him hiding the truth and after that they fall in love. A real tragedy which becomes happiness just because the main hero doesn't know her story. And here Rhoda must make a decision: stay with the lover and continue hiding the truth or leave him and follow her dream. Strangely enough but she chooses to refuse everything. And the main question: it's all because of love or oppressive feeling of guilt?
Soundtracks
- Fall On Your Sword - The First Time I Saw Jupiter
- Fall On Your Sword - Bob The Robot
- Fall On Your Sword - The Specialist; Am I Alone?
- Fall On Your Sword - Naked On The Ice
- Fall On Your Sword - Rhoda's Theme
- Fall On Your Sword - The House Theme
- Fall On Your Sword - The End Of The World
- Fall On Your Sword - Rhoda's Application
- Fall On Your Sword - Making Contact
- Fall On Your Sword - I Am Over There
- Fall On Your Sword - Purdeep's Theme
- Fall On Your Sword - The Cosmonaut
- Fall On Your Sword - The Specialist; Look At Ourselves
- Phaedon Papadopoulos - Sonatina In D Minor
- Fall On Your Sword - Rhoda's Theme; Running To John
- Fall On Your Sword - Forgive
- Fall On Your Sword - Love Theme
- Fall On Your Sword - The Other You
- Fall On Your Sword - The First Time I Saw Jupiter; End Titles
Quotations
* * *
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.
* * *
Richard Berendzen: It would be very hard to think "I am over there" and "Can I go meet me?" and "Is that me better than this me?" "Can I learn from the other me?" "Has the other me made the same mistakes I've made?" Or, "Can I sit down and have a conversation with me?" Wouldn't that be an interesting thing? The truth is, we do that all day long every day. People don't admit it and they don't think about it too much, but they do. Every day, they're talking in their own head. "What's he doing?" "Why'd he do that?" "What did she think?" "Did I say the right thing?" In this case, there's another you out there.
* * *
Purdeep: Listen to me. Keep your mind clear. And that's it. You will have peace of mind. My dear, don't worry. Learn to adjust yourself.
* * *
Richard Berendzen: Within our lifetimes, we've marveled as biologists have managed to look at ever smaller and smaller things. And astronomers have looked further and further into the dark night sky, back in time and out in space. But maybe the most mysterious of all is neither the small nor the large: it's 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 could stand outside ourselves and look at us?
* * *
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?
* * *
John's Son: You would go?Rhoda Williams: Yes.
John's Son: You don't know what's out there.
Rhoda Williams: That's why I would go.
* * *
Rhoda Williams: When early explorers first set out West across the Atlantic, most people thought the world was flat. Most people thought if you sailed far enough West, you would drop off a plane into nothing. Those vessels sailing out into the unknown, they weren't carrying noblemen or aristocrats, artists or merchants. They were crewed by people living on the edge of life: the madmen, orphans, ex-convicts, outcasts like myself. As a felon, I'm an unlikely candidate for most things. But perhaps not for this. Perhaps I am the most likely.
* * *
Rhoda Williams: If you met yourself, what would you say?John Burroughs: Hey, you up for a video game? Probably beat me. What would you say?
Rhoda Williams: Better luck next time.
* * *
Rhoda Williams: I saw this image when I was a kid. The photograph of Jupiter taken by NASAs Voyager. Beautiful. But nothing special until shown in rapid succession. Suddenly Jupiter was alive. Breathing. I was hypnotized.
* * *
Rhoda Williams: Maybe they're up there. Maybe not. Maybe.
* * *
You may see the trailer here.
Plot: 8/10
Entertainment: 7/10
Acting: 7/10
Originality: 8/10
Music and Sound: 7/10
7/10
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