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2011 Films
Posted in Lists and Top 10’s, tagged 127 Hours, 13 Assassins, 1920 The Battle of Warsaw, 30 Minutes or Less, 50/50, A Lonely Place To Die, adèle blanc sec, Animal Kingdom, Anonymous, Another Earth, Apollo 18, Attack the Block, Battle: Los Angeles, Beginners, Biutiful, Black Swan, Blitz, Blue Valentine, Bridesmaids, Captain America: The First Avenger, Colombiana, Contagion, Cowboys and Aliens, Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark, Drive, Drive Angry, Fair Game, Fast Five, Faster, Footlose, Fright Night, Green Lantern, Hanna, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Henry’s Crime, Hereafter, Hugo, I am Number Four, Immortals, In Time, John Carpenter’s The Ward, Julia’s Eyes, Justice, Kill List, Limitless, Melancholia, Midnight In Paris, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Moneyball, My Week With Marilyn, NEDS, Never Let Me Go, One Day, Oranges and Sunshine, Paul, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Priest, Rabbit Hole, Real Steel, Red Riding Hood, Red State, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Sanctum, Scream 4, Season of the Witch, Senna, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Source Code, Stake Land, Submarine, Sucker Punch, Super 8, Take Shelter, The Adjustment Bureau, The Art of Getting By, The Awakening, The Beaver, The Conspirator, The Debt, The Eagle, The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec, The Fighter, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Guard, The Hangover: Part II, The Help, The Ides Of March, The Inbetweeners Movie, The King's Speech, The Lincoln Lawyer, The Mechanic, The Resident, The Rum Diary, The Silent House, The Skin I Live In, The Thing, The Three Musketeers, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, The Way, Thor, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Tomorrow, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Tree Of Life, Troll Hunter, True Grit, Unkown, Warrior, Water for Elephants, We Need to Talk About Kevin, When The War Began, Win Win, Wuthering Heights, X-Men: First Class on January 1, 2012| 2 Comments »
Another Earth
Posted in Film Reviews, tagged Another Earth, Brit Marling, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, Melancholia, Mike Cahill, Rabbit Hole, William Mapother on December 11, 2011| 2 Comments »
Driving home from a party promising young student Rhoda (Brit Marling) hears a radio DJ describe a new earth like planet that has been discovered. She is distracted by the sight of the planet and causes an accident killing the family of music professor John Burroughs (William Mapother – cousin of Tom Cruise). After being released from prison four years later, Rhoda is looking for direction and redemption in her meagre existence and in her menial job. She is also in pursuit of a place on the first flight to “Earth 2” for reasons that are not clear to her.
Don’t be fooled into thinking this is a sci-fi movie, the new planet is always there in the background and in the thoughts of the characters but just as in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia this is a movie about people. Taking successful and ambitious characters and breaking them creates an interesting dynamic that defines the tone of the film. Its hard to make a compelling movie if the audience dislikes or has no connection the main protagonist, but how do you make a connection with a character whose selfish and careless actions have had such an effect? Rhoda is isolated from society and her family, but the isolation is self imposed, as if she feels the enforced exile of her prison sentence was inadequate. We follow Rhoda throughout the movie, she is in just about every scene, with this exposure we are forced to explore the psychology of the character and her actions. With this, we see her crime and her search for redemption, the camera, and with it us the audience are both accuser and conscience for her actions and her character, this is how we feel for her.
All of this would have fallen flat with anything less than a strong central performance, however this movie is elevated by a stunning performance by Brit Marling, who wrote the movie along with (first time) director Mike Cahill. I don’t know if the film has the profile to be an Oscar contender, but it really should. Debuting at the Sundance Film Festival and being picked up by Fox Searchlight, it is an independent movie with a growing profile.
It is easy to draw comparisons with other movies like Melancholia, Rabbit Hole and even Journey to the Far Side of the Sun but this is very much its own movie whose meaning and message are open to interpretation, it is all the better for it. Whatever your thoughts I hope you agree that it is an engaging movie made by people who love what they are doing, most notably Brit Marling who is surly destined for stardom.
Four Stars out of Five