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Another Earth proves the hardest thing is living with yourself
In the new movie
Another Earth, a duplicate of our own planet appears from the far side of the sun, and starts moving towards our Earth. This could be the set-up for a disaster movie, or a story of war between Earths.
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What you might not expect is that this premise would lead to an introspective, character-based drama about two damaged people who try to heal from an unspeakable trauma, under the light of that second Earth. The movie s science fiction conceit adds another layer to the story, instead of being the story. In the middle of a summer filled with huge concept-driven movies, this Sundance Festival fave is a refreshing change.
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Does Mike Cahill feel seen? The 41-year-old writer-director of science fiction has now made three films, each higher-profile than the last, about ways of seeing. This is literalized most literally in the second of these efforts,
I Origins, which is also, not unrelatedly, the worst titled. Released in 2014, it’s about vision scientists searching for the origin of the human eye look, a pun which, if you didn’t know, is “the window,” as one character literally says, “to the soul.” They find it in the genes of a sightless worm, but not before Karen, played by Brit Marling, warns her lab partner that she, at least, has no interest in getting famous, in being seen: “Recognition makes me nauseous,” she says.