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讲述耶鲁的音乐教授一家人，一场车祸妻女去世，只有父亲活了下来，开车的女孩被判了4年，4年后她仍然非常愧疚，负罪感让她想离开，重新开始。她出狱后没有去尝试找好工作，而是自我惩罚地在一家家政公司做事。期间她尝试过各种方法，想死去，那个罪感压得她根本不能生活下去。后来她试着接近教授，发现他活得非常潦倒，就尝试着找借口成为他的家政工，每天去给他收拾房间，那房间真的很乱，常年的垃圾堆在那，酒瓶子，堆得满满的。后来她帮他慢慢恢复了继续生活下去的勇气，他爱上了她，后来女孩真的可以去另一个世界了，教授知道后为她庆贺。就在这晚，女孩把她意外带走教授家人的真相告诉了蒙在鼓里的教授，教授知道真相懵了，把女孩赶走。后来女孩担心教授出事，又跑到他家强行爬窗户进去。教授见到她仍不肯原谅，仇恨差点使他掐死女孩。女孩怀着希望希望他能在另一个地球找到另一个“家人”，就把去另一世界的票给了教授。教授真的去了。女孩在回家路上碰到跟她长得一模一样的另一个她，在另一个地球，还有机会吗？

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Every year at the Sundance Film Festival since 2003, an Alfred P. Sloan Prize has been given to a feature film that centers on science or technology, or depicts a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character. This year, the award was given to "Another Earth," a Fox Searchlight film which, despite a sci-fi sub-plot, is more about psychology and metaphysics than science and technology. Yet, the film is no lessbrilliant than to deserve the award it has snapped up.

The fortune of a MIT student candidate named Rhoda suddenly takes a downturn when she crashes into a stopped car and kills the wife and child of a music composer named John. Four years in prison aren't enough forRhoda to rid herself of her sense of guilt. But when she gets out of jail and approaches sorrow-stricken John, she finds it hard to articulate an apology. So every week, Rhoda comes to take care of John's house to try to make his life better. Gradually, a special feeling develops between the guilt and sorrow-laden duo, until one day the opportunity presents itself for Rhoda to confess her mistake to John.

There is a sub-plot that helped the film win the award and makes it metaphysical. On the night of Rhoda's accident, she is looking out of her car window at another earth that appears within visible proximity. Later it is discovered that the planet is the identical twin of Rhoda's planet, and both start to change fromthe moment they discover each other. This means that there are another Rhoda and John living on the other earth where it is possible that the horrible accident may not have occurred. This possibility proves to bea glimmer of hope to Rhoda and John who have every reason to believe that if they can somehow escape to the other planet, they will live a happier life. But they also would have to face another version of themselves.

The film not only tosses around some difficult questions, but also ventures to provide answers. It impliesthat humans confront themselves every day, and if they are able to find tranquility from within, they don't need to search for a way to a better world.

To convey such a notion in a film could be quite a challenge for a director, but somehow young Mike Cahillhas done a pretty good job with the help of the lead actors. During the melancholic silence that prevails throughout the first half of the film, Brit Marling and William Mapother portray guilt and sorrow incarnate. In the second half, viewers perceive a rekindled longing for new life on the part of John, while Rhoda's face still spells infliction – for the guilt she continues to experience and for holding back the truthfrom John.

"Another Earth" is about how two individuals confront themselves and recover from past misery. The story is creative and thought provoking, while the director and actors have done it justice with their skills. Ona scale from one to ten, I give this film a SEVEN.

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