"Another Earth" and "21 Grams"

Trycia 2021-12-16 08:01:16

This movie gave me too many surprises. The music is great, and the photography is top-notch. What impressed me the most was the use of the lens when the heroine told the professor the story of the first Soviet astronaut ascended to space. The camera suddenly zoomed in on the heroine's face, coupled with the heroine's charming speech, gave me a sense of movement in space. It can be said that this movie is about a science fiction story, but in fact it is more like using a science fiction shell to talk about forgiveness and redemption. It is difficult for the blind man and the heroine to get inner peace. In the end, I saw the colorful flowers on the bedside of the hostess, and I saw hope.
I quickly connected this movie with "21 Grams" in my mind. Although "21 Grams" is a reward for gratitude, it is also approaching that person in another capacity.
"21 Grams" cuts the movie in a mess, making people confused. The whole movie is supported by the actors. Gives the feeling of deliberate sensation for the sake of sensationalism. This one is not pretending to be deep, telling a simple story with simple lens language, but it has an endless aftertaste. Sadness that is useless to magnify, but always introverted sadness permeates the picture. Maybe it's just the silence of the heroine with a tucked knee, or just a moment of satisfaction from the professor, which will make people feel warm and sad.
If there is another earth, that me, will it be happier than me, she has everything I am missing.
I like this kind of simple but thought-provoking movie.

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Extended Reading
  • Janelle 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    A beautiful film about redemption. The shots and colors are all great, the ending feels a little hopeless, and the plot is very catchy. The love between the male lead and the female lead is atrocious. . , look tangled

  • Ignatius 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    A story about redemption, placed in a sci-fi background, and exuding a fresh and literary atmosphere. If there was another Earth, would the other you still be that choice? PS Britt Marling deserves attention.

Another Earth quotes

  • 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.

  • 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.