介绍:
Every year at the Sundance Film Festival since 2003, an Alfred P. Sloan Prize has been given to a feature film that centers on science or technology, or depicts a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character. This year, the award was given to "Another Earth," a Fox Searchlight film which, despite a sci-fi sub-plot, is more about psychology and metaphysics than science and technology. Yet, the film is no less brilliant than to deserve the award it has snapped up.
The fortune of a MIT student candidate named Rhoda suddenly takes a downturn when she crashes into a stopped car and kills the wife and child of a music composer named John. Four years in prison aren't enough for Rhoda to rid herself of her sense of guilt. But when she gets out of jail and approaches sorrow-stricken John, she finds it hard to articulate an apology. So every week, Rhoda comes to take care of John's house to try to make his life better. Gradually, a special feeling develops between the guilt and sorrow-laden duo, until one day the opportunity presents itself for Rhoda to confess her mistake to John.
There is a sub-plot that helped the film win the award and makes it metaphysical. On the night of Rhoda's accident, she is looking out of her car window at another earth that appears within visible proximity. Later it is discovered that the planet is the identical twin of Rhoda's planet, and both start to change from the moment they discover each other. This means that there are another Rhoda and John living on the other earth where it is possible that the horrible accident may not have occurred. This possibility proves to be a glimmer of hope to Rhoda and John who have every reason to believe that if they can somehow escape to the other planet, they will live a happier life. But they also would have to face another version of themselves.
The film not only tosses around some difficult questions, but also ventures to provide answers. It implies that humans confront themselves every day, and if they are able to find tranquility from within, they don't need to search for a way to a better world.
To convey such a notion in a film could be quite a challenge for a director, but somehow young Mike Cahill has done a pretty good job with the help of the lead actors. During the melancholic silence that prevails throughout the first half of the film, Brit Marling and William Mapother portray guilt and sorrow incarnate. In the second half, viewers perceive a rekindled longing for new life on the part of John, while Rhoda's face still spells infliction – for the guilt she continues to experience and for holding back the truth from John.
"Another Earth" is about how two individuals confront themselves and recover from past misery. The story is creative and thought provoking, while the director and actors have done it justice with their skills. On a scale from one to ten, I give this film a SEVEN.
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