If you have never done anything wrong in your life

Yasmeen 2022-04-19 09:02:07

This is an independently produced literary film in a soft sci-fi packaging. Except for the vast majority of famous people and the many righteous devils on the Internet, everyone else has probably done wrong in their lives, things you wish you could do all over again and not let it happen. If there is another earth very close to us, all the people and things on this earth are there. Everything that happened, happened there. One day, people and things on these two earths will no longer be in sync. You want to see if your mistakes will be different and redeemed on another Earth. Such is the story.

This film moves forward quietly but not dull, nor does it have the false pretense of some "artistic films". If you don't like the fast-paced Hollywood style, don't watch this.

The actress Brit Marling, who graduated from the Department of Economics at Georgetown University, has achieved remarkable results in her first performance. She is also the screenwriter of the film. Directors Mike Cahill and Brit are former and later alumni of the Georgetown Economics Department. The background of the film is his hometown of New Haven, Connecticut. This is his first non-documentary directed. I'll be interested in the movies the two of them work together in the future.

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  • Dovie 2021-12-16 08:01:16

    The first 2/3 part is very good. The last part describes the relationship between the psychological conflict caused by redemption and escape and the Earth II through a voice-over, which greatly reduces the aftertaste of the film, and the theme is therefore superficial. I really don’t want to see the physical relationship between the hero and the hero...

  • Kaela 2021-12-16 08:01:16

    The director’s debut work is really good~ Very small and fresh shots, the heroine is beautiful. Although halfway through the plot, I was still impressed. Without special effects, you can still shoot sci-fi movies (although this should only borrow a setting from sci-fi). The picture quality is very similar to that of DV, and the investment is small, which can give independent filmmakers a lot of inspiration. Fortunately to have a photo with the director, hee hee

Another Earth quotes

  • 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.

  • DJ Flava: Just imagine that you're asleep, and then you wake. You're not sure where you are. You're not sure if anyone else is around. What would you probably do first? You would likely look around and say, "Hello? Hello?". You're attempting to find "am I alone?". We - here on Earth - would like to know.