The Mike Cahill and Brit Marling film that came before I Origins, with which it shares a lot, both tonally (poetic but anchored in a sense of human action) and conceptually and thematically (a science fiction high concept that enacts connection beyond normal bounds, in interplay with a story of loss and possible, partial recovery). I reckon it works better as mood- than thought-piece, aided by the uncanny visuals of the loomingly large 'Earth 2' overhead and cutting of scenes to bring out feeling and allusion, but on that level it works well, and it is also thoughtful about the people at its centre.
To me, it also felt like there was a trace of Three Colours: Blue in Another Earth - possibly an entirely unintended echoing and one to which I might be especially likely to be attuned, but there's the composer who loses their family in a fatal car accident, the image of the hand running along a wall surface, and the drenchedness of the film itself in shades of blue...
To me, it also felt like there was a trace of Three Colours: Blue in Another Earth - possibly an entirely unintended echoing and one to which I might be especially likely to be attuned, but there's the composer who loses their family in a fatal car accident, the image of the hand running along a wall surface, and the drenchedness of the film itself in shades of blue...
