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''Another Earth'' is a 2011 independent [[Science Fiction]] film directed by Mike Cahill and written by Cahill and leading actress Brit Marling. It was distributed by [[ |
''Another Earth'' is a 2011 independent [[Science Fiction]] film directed by Mike Cahill and written by Cahill and leading actress Brit Marling. It was distributed by [[Fox]] Searchlight Pictures. It is about the discovery of [[Counter-Earth|a duplicate of planet Earth]] and its effects on the lives of two people. |
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Rhoda Williams is a young woman who has just been accepted in MIT. She has a great future ahead of her, but after celebrating by drinking, she has a car accident when she is distracted by the sight of a planet in the sky that resembles Earth. The struck car belongs to a composer named John Burroughs, and his wife and children die in the crash. He himself is left in a coma. |
Rhoda Williams is a young woman who has just been accepted in MIT. She has a great future ahead of her, but after celebrating by drinking, she has a car accident when she is distracted by the sight of a planet in the sky that resembles Earth. The struck car belongs to a composer named John Burroughs, and his wife and children die in the crash. He himself is left in a coma. |
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=== Tropes in ''Another Earth'': === |
=== Tropes in ''Another Earth'': === |
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* [[Alien Sky]]: Actually, it's Earth's sky with [[Title Drop|another Earth]] in it. |
* [[Alien Sky]]: Actually, it's Earth's sky with [[Title Drop|another Earth]] in it. |
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* [[All the Myriad Ways]]: [[Playing |
* [[All the Myriad Ways]]: [[Playing with a Trope|The film plays with this.]] |
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* [[Ambiguous Clone Ending]]: {{spoiler|Rhoda meets herself and the movie ends. Which Rhoda is which? Who visited who? Whose viewpoint are we at? Did one Rhoda have a better life than the other? It's never answered.}} |
* [[Ambiguous Clone Ending]]: {{spoiler|Rhoda meets herself and the movie ends. Which Rhoda is which? Who visited who? Whose viewpoint are we at? Did one Rhoda have a better life than the other? It's never answered.}} |
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* [[Convenient Coma]]: So John can't recognize his family's killer. |
* [[Convenient Coma]]: So John can't recognize his family's killer. |
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* [[Conveniently Close Planet]]: The other earth, right out there in the sky. |
* [[Conveniently Close Planet]]: The other earth, right out there in the sky. |
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* [[Counter-Earth]]: Sort of. |
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* [[Death By Origin Story]]: John's family. |
* [[Death By Origin Story]]: John's family. |
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: John has one when Rhoda reveals {{spoiler|that she was the one that killed his family.}} |
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: John has one when Rhoda reveals {{spoiler|that she was the one that killed his family.}} |
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* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Rhoda's counterpart apparently did have a successful life?}} |
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Rhoda's counterpart apparently did have a successful life?}} |
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* [[Twist Ending]] |
* [[Twist Ending]] |
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* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: We never do find out what the tapping noise was in Rhoda's cosmonaut story. |
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* [[Wonderful Life]]: Inverted. |
* [[Wonderful Life]]: Inverted. |
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