I want to complain about a movie.
Another Earth. We watched half, and I read the Wikipedia after.
This starts off well: super smart teenage woman gets accepted to mit just as a second Earth is identified on telescopes.
Then she gets in a car crash and kills a kid. She goes to jail. We ship forward four years.
She gets a job cleaning, and goes to the house if the man whose kid she killed. She cleans his house, and makes him sandwiches. Actual sandwiches are made.
He gets better because by cleaning she has helped his depression. They have sex.
This is when we stop watching.
Notice how there's not a lot about the other Earth? They spend maybe ten minutes on it, and spend longer with get taking to the magical person of color who also cleans.
Apparently she then wins the chance to go to the other Earth, and gives it to him because his family night be alive there.
At every step it ignored her pain and priorities to make his center. Her only worth came from cleaning, sex, and making sandwiches. Not being a genuis, which the movie treats as unimportant.
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Definitely sounds like a film to ignore....
ReplyDeleteThank you for suffering through this so I don't have to
ReplyDeleteYup, I was thinking it is good will hunting if will hunting was a woman. "Stay down keep cleaning, we don't care how smart you think you are."
ReplyDeleteI remember watching it years ago and not liking it.
ReplyDeleteI will say that the Other Earth isn't a real part of the movie at all, except that the entire thing is a high concept science fiction metaphor for a parallel life where she didn't kill the kid. She messed up her life and spent the rest of it trying to fix her mistake, wondering about that other world where she assumes things are better.
But it is weird and gross, and I was very dissatisfied with it.