{"id":9168,"date":"2011-12-09T00:50:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T00:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/another-earth-film-review-an-ill-considered-mixture-of-realism-and-science-fiction\/"},"modified":"2011-12-09T00:50:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T00:50:50","slug":"another-earth-film-review-an-ill-considered-mixture-of-realism-and-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/09\/another-earth-film-review-an-ill-considered-mixture-of-realism-and-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Earth film review: An ill-considered mixture of realism and science fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&#038;authornamef=Chris+Tookey\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Tookey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last updated at 12:10 AM on 9th December 2011<\/p>\n<p><span>Another Earth (12A)<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><b>Verdict:<\/b> More arty nonsense<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong><br \/>\n<span><span><span title=\"Indie film Another Earth: Pretentious twaddle and an ill-considered mixture of realism and science fiction\n\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"Chris Tookey\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span><span title=\"2011-12-09T00:10+0000\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nRating: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"rating\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/0b2frating_showbiz_1.gif\" width=\"55\" height=\"9\" alt=\"1 Star Rating\" title=\"1 out of 5\" \/><\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/><span>Writer-director Mike Cahill\u2019s acclaimed American indie film is about a beautiful, gifted young scientist (co-writer Brit Marling) who causes a car crash that accidentally kills the wife and child of a middle-aged music professor (William Mapother).<\/span><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She goes to apologise to him, but impulsively keeps her identity a secret and becomes his cleaner. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>SCROLL DOWN FOR TRAILER<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2011\/12\/09\/article-2071889-0F1BE8FB00000578-680_468x654.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"654\" alt=\"Sci-fi indie flick: A second Earth appears in the sky, you see, and it contains an alternate reality that's a mirror-image of our own \" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sci-fi indie flick: A second Earth appears in the sky, you see, and it contains an alternate reality that&#8217;s a mirror-image of our own <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>This might be just another personal tale of personal redemption, except that it also dabbles in science fiction.<\/span><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A second Earth has appeared in the sky, you see, and it contains an alternate reality that\u2019s a mirror-image of our own \u2014 an idea first explored in the 1969 British film, Doppelganger, also known as Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Our heroine wonders if, by visiting this planet, she could erase her mistake.<\/span><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The film needs an agonisingly slow 97 minutes to reach a point at which the story takes an interesting turn, whereupon it ends abruptly. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That makes it both long-winded and profoundly unsatisfying.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2011\/12\/09\/article-2071889-0F1BE8F400000578-648_468x341.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"341\" alt=\"Pondering regrets: Our heroine, played by Brit Marling, wonders if, by visiting this planet, she could erase her mistake\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pondering regrets: Our heroine, played by Brit Marling, wonders if, by visiting this planet, she could erase her mistake<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>The sci-fi element is annoyingly underwritten. No one explains how a large planet can suddenly appear so near Earth. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And wouldn\u2019t it have huge gravitational effects? Even Lars von Trier\u2019s Melancholia had more grasp of science.<\/span><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And don\u2019t get me started on the sentimental subplot about the heroine\u2019s only friend, a blind Native American janitor, who seems to have wandered in from an Oliver Stone movie, and a bad one at that.<\/span><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is the kind of miserabilist film that routinely wins respectful reviews because it\u2019s so un-Hollywood. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And it\u2019s true, you couldn\u2019t get further away from the feelgood banalities of New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/span><span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But just because Another Earth is an ordeal to sit through doesn\u2019t mean that it\u2019s deep. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is pretentious twaddle and an ill-considered mixture of realism and science fiction. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>They simply don\u2019t go together \u2014 not on this earth, at least.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>See original article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/reviews\/article-2071889\/Another-Earth-film-review-An-ill-considered-mixture-realism-science-fiction.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"Another Earth film review: An ill-considered mixture of realism and science fiction\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Another Earth film review: An ill-considered mixture of realism and science fiction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Chris Tookey Last updated at 12:10 AM on 9th December 2011 Another Earth (12A) Verdict: More arty nonsense Rating: Writer-director Mike Cahill\u2019s acclaimed American indie film is about a beautiful, gifted young scientist (co-writer Brit Marling) who causes a car crash that accidentally kills the wife and child of a middle-aged music professor (William Mapother). She goes to apologise to him, but impulsively keeps her identity a secret and becomes his cleaner. SCROLL DOWN FOR TRAILER Sci-fi indie flick: A second Earth appears in the sky, you see, and it contains an alternate reality that&#8217;s a mirror-image of our own This might be just another personal tale of personal redemption, except that it also dabbles in science fiction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Another Earth film review: An ill-considered mixture of realism and science fiction - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/09\/another-earth-film-review-an-ill-considered-mixture-of-realism-and-science-fiction\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Another Earth film review: An ill-considered mixture of realism and science fiction - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Chris Tookey Last updated at 12:10 AM on 9th December 2011 Another Earth (12A) Verdict: More arty nonsense Rating: Writer-director Mike Cahill\u2019s acclaimed American indie film is about a beautiful, gifted young scientist (co-writer Brit Marling) who causes a car crash that accidentally kills the wife and child of a middle-aged music professor (William Mapother). 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