'Another Earth' is a thoughtful sci-fi romance

Los Angeles: Can not bear to sit through another robot or a super full of extremism or the R - rated comedy rut this summer? "Another Earth" provides a welcome alternative to discerning moviegoer.
This indie drama - a winner in this year's festival Sundance Festival - is a science fiction love story. But there is no one in the strange sight. Instead, the film also all human characters a little more alienated from their own feelings sometimes, trying their best to push down and mask painful feelings.
That is exactly what the title says: a Second Earth, complete with its own moon, has suddenly appeared. It's outstanding, shining in the horizon, can be seen from our day and night with all the excitement and potential.
This land, the other appears first on the night of very smart is one of the senior secondary schools, Rhoda Williams (played by newcomer Brit Marling, who participated in writing the screenplay with director feature for the first time Mike Cahill), celebrates get accepted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Driving home after a night of partying, she runs a light and criticize in a car less respect for the composer John Borroughs (William Mapother) and his pregnant wife and young son.
When the flowers come out of prison a few years later, she seeks to John, the only one in his family had survived. It's both, and John shells themselves just before, and cut off emotionally from others of the after-effects of the tragedy. Without revealing their true identity, and include the same in his life. Slowly, the two help each other to begin to return to the land of the living.
Throughout the film, and there is ongoing debate on the radio and television for the other land, and planning a trip there. Shades of "Fringe" TV: Is it possible that everyone at home has a doppelganger on the ground the second, which is similar to the twin yourself, which may just be a happier and more successful than you? It's a question a special appeal to all of Rhoda and John.
Marling is a rangy blonde with a long face, which is just this side of the interest rather than be beautiful suck-up. There is a silent intensity of her performance, which is the most hauntingly effective for self-restraint, especially Rhoda begins to shed the emotional numbness.
It is a measure of the ability of "the last land" for the transfer of the scenes that when you get out of the movie, you'll find yourself staring upward, and verification of hope almost to see if the earth was the second did not take the appearance of