Another Earth
| Movie | |
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| German title | Another Earth |
| Original title | Another Earth |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Mike Cahill |
| script | Mike Cahill Brit Marling |
| production | Mike Cahill Hunter Gray Brit Marling Nicholas Shumaker |
| music |
Will Bates Phil Mossman |
| camera | Mike Cahill |
| cut | Mike Cahill |
| occupation | |
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Another Earth is an American science fiction - film drama by Mike Cahill from the year 2011 . Cahill also wrote the screenplay with leading actress Brit Marling . The film tells the story of a young woman who strives for forgiveness and redemption after a tragic accident caused by her. When a second, as yet undiscovered earth appears, she sees the opportunity.
action
A new, possibly inhabited planet has appeared in the firmament near the Pole Star . On the same day, Rhoda Williams learns she has been admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and celebrates with her schoolmates. She drives home drunk, distracted by the new celestial body, and rams another car. Music professor John Burroughs, the driver, survived seriously injured and his pregnant wife and son were killed. Rhoda is sentenced to four years in prison.
During Rhoda's imprisonment, the unknown planet approaches Earth. Because it resembles the earth like a mirror image, it is named "Earth 2". United Space Ventures is preparing a flight to "Earth 2". A participant place will be raffled in the media, the applicants only have to describe in 500 words why they think they deserve to take part in the flight.
After her release, Rhoda takes a job as a janitor instead of a job appropriate to her skills. Plagued by feelings of guilt, she seeks contact with John Burroughs, who is no longer able to work and relies on medication and drowns his pain in alcohol. Instead of identifying herself, she poses as a representative of a cleaning company. From now on she appears in his house once a week to keep it clean. Gradually a cautious relationship of trust develops, then a tender love affair between Rhoda and the widower. In the hope of a second chance in another world, Rhoda takes part in the competition to travel to “Earth 2”.
Rhoda learns that she has been chosen as a spaceflight participant. John asks her not to go with him; she then confesses to him that she is the woman who killed his family. John, disappointed and angry, tells her to leave his house. Meanwhile, a scientist has put forward the theory that "Earth 2" could be an exact, but also a slightly different reflection of the Earth, on which some events took a different path. Rhoda gives John her plane ticket because his family may still be alive in the alternative world. John accepts the gift and joins space flight.
Four months later: Rhoda returns from work. In front of her house is a young woman who is her perfect image. It is Rhoda from Parallel Earth who started the space flight herself.
background
Another Earth , Cahill's feature film debut, was made on a budget of 200,000 US dollars . Due to budget constraints, the filmmaker relocated the plot to his home in New Haven in the US state of Connecticut . There he was able to use his former home cheaply and convince old friends and companions to work. The limitation of funds led to the greatest possible renunciation of special effects and minimal fees for everyone involved. For example, main actor William Mapother received a salary of just $ 100 per day.
The film premiered on January 24, 2011 during the 27th Sundance Film Festival . Following the festival, the film distributor Fox Searchlight acquired the worldwide distribution rights. Another Earth started in Germany on November 10, 2011.
The music was composed by Fall On Your Sword, with the exception of the song in the music scene with the saw which was composed by Scott Munson and played by Natalia Paruz. Mike Cahill came across Paruz, also known as the "Saw Lady", while riding the New York subway. Fascinated by her game, he contacted her and asked her to coach William Mapother on how to hold the saw to make his game look real on the movie scene.
In film music, there is an instrument for each character. Rhoda is the cello and John is the piano. In the love scene, both instruments can be heard, but not entirely in sync, as both characters do not harmonize completely in real life.
The film ignores the physical consequences of a near-earth appearance of a planet of roughly the same size with a moon (e.g. effects on the tides, gravity and the atmosphere), but not the lighter appearance of the night due to the reflection of sunlight from the other planet.
Reviews
"With little money and lots of clever ideas, debut director Mike Cahill created a highly original science fiction film full of tension and philosophical depth."
“If Cahill didn't have a second earth, including a visual and sound language that finds the cinematic equivalent of Einstein's insight that standards are shrinking in the vicinity of large masses, then“ Another Earth ”would be missing something utterly earthly: wealth to look at the sufferings of his characters from a great distance and thus not to relativize them, but to let them glow on a black background. "
"Mysterious and disturbing soul drama in beguilingly beautiful pictures"
“A touching, excellently played drama about guilt and redemption that credibly describes the rapprochement between two deeply injured people. Using the metaphor of a newly discovered planet that is a duplicate of the earth and on which every person has a doppelganger , the film asks questions about identity and self-observation. "
Awards
The film received the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize and the US Dramatic Competition Special Jury Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival .
See also
literature
- Bernd Kronsbein: Another Earth , in: Das Science Fiction Jahr 2012 , edited by Wolfgang Jeschke , Sascha Mamczak and Sebastian Pirling, Heyne, Munich 2012, pp. 564–566. ISBN 978-3-453-52972-4
Web links
- Another Earth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Another Earth - Official Website (German)
- Another Earth - Official Website
- “Another Earth”: There is a second me on Welt Online
- Another Earth at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Ulrich Pönack: A chamber play-like science fiction metaphor (text version) on Deutschlandradio Kultur on June 17, 2012, accessed on October 16, 2012.
- ↑ Abbe Smith: Hamden filmmaker returns to his roots on Greenwichtime.com of November 26, 2009, accessed October 16, 2012.
- ↑ Jack Welch: William Mapother , Louisville Magazine, July 2011, accessed October 16, 2012.
- ↑ Another Earth - Release dates. IMDb, accessed November 11, 2011 .
- ^ First on Variety: Searchlight nabs 'Earth' , Variety, January 26, 2011, accessed October 16, 2012.
- ^ A b Another Earth in the Lexicon of International Films .
- ↑ Philosophy and Science Fiction - “Another Earth” ( Memento from November 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), article on Stern.de from November 6, 2011.
- ↑ Dietmar Dath: "Intimate Science-Fiction" - The other world answers lovingly. FAZ.net, accessed on November 11, 2011 .
- ↑ Ralf Blau: Another Earth. Cinema.de, accessed on November 12, 2011 .
- ↑ 2011 Festival Awards - Sundance Film Festival. Sundance.org, January 29, 2011, accessed November 11, 2011 .