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Hello,
There must be an issue with the subtitles, I didn't see the French version, but in the original version, the theory of "I saw Earth 2 so I become desynchronized at that moment" doesn't exist.
In English, they just say that the two Earths became desynchronized when the second one appeared.
"They think the moment we first saw the other earth was the moment our synchronicity was broken."
The "we" for me would be more of a "we" as in inhabitants of Earth 1.
Anyway, for me, there was no accident on Earth 2. But the fact that it was chosen, that must have been its fate, because the fact that the director calls her and tells her that he was moved, I think that shouldn’t be taken into account, especially in the States ^^ It's pure marketing, he’s just saying that to please her and to ease his conscience.
We can easily imagine that he only saw her message once she was selected, and to some extent, he didn't refuse it because he liked the message, but nothing more. (For your information, do you really think they are going to read the 300 million messages received? lol)
So, there you go, chosen on Earth 1, and on Earth 2 by similarity.
About the sad look at the end, well, you have to realize that it's the same woman after all, it didn't even shock me before you brought it up.
Certainly, she is supposed to be in a better mental state since she hasn't killed anyone, and maybe that's exactly why she seems really sensitive to seeing another woman like her. Anyway, I think anyone would have reacted like that Rhoda 2, right?! xD
After all, yes, I admit, the film tries to give off a false air of intellectualism, with pauses everywhere, classical music, but in the end, it's just a super simple film, it’s just boring.
So that’s what I think, I didn’t like it anyway.
But actually, it’s huge, one poorly translated sentence, and everyone understands something else xD
It reminds me of another story ^^
By the way, yes, Rhoda is pretty, that’s the whole point of the film! xD
Otherwise, on a much more general note, it’s emotions that disturb reason. This film is far from being a puzzle.
There must be an issue with the subtitles, I didn't see the French version, but in the original version, the theory of "I saw Earth 2 so I become desynchronized at that moment" doesn't exist.
In English, they just say that the two Earths became desynchronized when the second one appeared.
"They think the moment we first saw the other earth was the moment our synchronicity was broken."
The "we" for me would be more of a "we" as in inhabitants of Earth 1.
Anyway, for me, there was no accident on Earth 2. But the fact that it was chosen, that must have been its fate, because the fact that the director calls her and tells her that he was moved, I think that shouldn’t be taken into account, especially in the States ^^ It's pure marketing, he’s just saying that to please her and to ease his conscience.
We can easily imagine that he only saw her message once she was selected, and to some extent, he didn't refuse it because he liked the message, but nothing more. (For your information, do you really think they are going to read the 300 million messages received? lol)
So, there you go, chosen on Earth 1, and on Earth 2 by similarity.
About the sad look at the end, well, you have to realize that it's the same woman after all, it didn't even shock me before you brought it up.
Certainly, she is supposed to be in a better mental state since she hasn't killed anyone, and maybe that's exactly why she seems really sensitive to seeing another woman like her. Anyway, I think anyone would have reacted like that Rhoda 2, right?! xD
After all, yes, I admit, the film tries to give off a false air of intellectualism, with pauses everywhere, classical music, but in the end, it's just a super simple film, it’s just boring.
So that’s what I think, I didn’t like it anyway.
But actually, it’s huge, one poorly translated sentence, and everyone understands something else xD
It reminds me of another story ^^
By the way, yes, Rhoda is pretty, that’s the whole point of the film! xD
Otherwise, on a much more general note, it’s emotions that disturb reason. This film is far from being a puzzle.
Hello,
I've been following this post from the beginning and I'm trying not to get too influenced by the different opinions in order to form my own when I've seen the film.
I already asked the question before, but didn't get a response. I'm trying my luck again.
Where can we buy the DVD, if it has been released?
When was the film screened, as I can't seem to find a theater showing it?
Thank you for your help.
Best regards
I've been following this post from the beginning and I'm trying not to get too influenced by the different opinions in order to form my own when I've seen the film.
I already asked the question before, but didn't get a response. I'm trying my luck again.
Where can we buy the DVD, if it has been released?
When was the film screened, as I can't seem to find a theater showing it?
Thank you for your help.
Best regards
Hi, here's what I found, there are surely other sites or stores that offer it:
The DVD was released on April 25, 2012
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Another-Earth-William-Mapother/dp/B00727EX0M/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1337699869&sr=8-2
Cdiscount
http://www.cdiscount.com/sa-10/another+earth.html
Fnac
http://video.fnac.com/a4047397/Another-Earth-William-Mapother-DVD-Zone-2
Cultura
http://www.cultura.com/dvd-et-bluray/drame/another-earth,mike-cahill,4579447.prd
Regards
The DVD was released on April 25, 2012
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Another-Earth-William-Mapother/dp/B00727EX0M/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1337699869&sr=8-2
Cdiscount
http://www.cdiscount.com/sa-10/another+earth.html
Fnac
http://video.fnac.com/a4047397/Another-Earth-William-Mapother-DVD-Zone-2
Cultura
http://www.cultura.com/dvd-et-bluray/drame/another-earth,mike-cahill,4579447.prd
Regards
Good evening,
I just saw the movie (yes, it's serious, I know lol) and I don't know if anyone has already imagined the same ending as I did because I haven't seen all the comments, but here’s the ending as I imagine it: Certainly, there was the accident, but at the moment of desynchronization, it's John 2 who dies and him alone! So when John 1 lands on Earth 2, he finds his whole family safe and sound. As for Rhuda 2, she might have suffered because of the accident and lived with the guilt of having killed John 2, so we can only imagine her relief when she saw John 1 show up. Her curiosity then drove her to Earth 1 to find her double, whose brilliant conclusion saved both of them!
I just saw the movie (yes, it's serious, I know lol) and I don't know if anyone has already imagined the same ending as I did because I haven't seen all the comments, but here’s the ending as I imagine it: Certainly, there was the accident, but at the moment of desynchronization, it's John 2 who dies and him alone! So when John 1 lands on Earth 2, he finds his whole family safe and sound. As for Rhuda 2, she might have suffered because of the accident and lived with the guilt of having killed John 2, so we can only imagine her relief when she saw John 1 show up. Her curiosity then drove her to Earth 1 to find her double, whose brilliant conclusion saved both of them!
Good evening
As for me, I made my life easier... I just told myself that on the other Earth, Rhoda didn't give her ticket to John... Or John explained to Rhoda what happened, and she wanted to give her version of the events to her double...
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Could you mark your discussion as resolved when you have the right answer? Thank you.
As for me, I made my life easier... I just told myself that on the other Earth, Rhoda didn't give her ticket to John... Or John explained to Rhoda what happened, and she wanted to give her version of the events to her double...
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Could you mark your discussion as resolved when you have the right answer? Thank you.
Good evening
I just rewatched the movie and for me the accident did occur on Earth 1 and 2! Otherwise, how does Rhoda 2 manage to win her place on the shuttle? Not by buying her ticket, that's impossible!! She couldn't have earned 3 million dollars in just 4 years, even at MIT, especially after finishing her studies! And for me, it's impossible that she won the contest if there hadn't been an accident. She says in her letter:
"all these ships sailing towards the unknown did not carry nobles or aristocrats, artists or merchants. They were filled with people scarred by life, madmen, orphans, ex-convicts, outcasts like me!! As a former inmate, I am the most unlikely candidate for many things but maybe not for this. Maybe I am the most suitable candidate."
So for me, if Rhoda 2 hadn't had accidents, she would never have written that; she would have written something different and would never have won the contest! Knowing that the guy who organized the contest clearly says he loved her letter!
So for me, both Rhodas had the accident, except with the desynchronization Rhoda 1 gives up her ticket and Rhoda 2 keeps it.
And finally, in the last scene, I feel like Rhoda 1 understands that ultimately the accident happened on both Earths. She turns around to reflect and has a face that gives me the impression that she gave her place away for nothing to John because the accident did indeed happen!
There you go :p
I just rewatched the movie and for me the accident did occur on Earth 1 and 2! Otherwise, how does Rhoda 2 manage to win her place on the shuttle? Not by buying her ticket, that's impossible!! She couldn't have earned 3 million dollars in just 4 years, even at MIT, especially after finishing her studies! And for me, it's impossible that she won the contest if there hadn't been an accident. She says in her letter:
"all these ships sailing towards the unknown did not carry nobles or aristocrats, artists or merchants. They were filled with people scarred by life, madmen, orphans, ex-convicts, outcasts like me!! As a former inmate, I am the most unlikely candidate for many things but maybe not for this. Maybe I am the most suitable candidate."
So for me, if Rhoda 2 hadn't had accidents, she would never have written that; she would have written something different and would never have won the contest! Knowing that the guy who organized the contest clearly says he loved her letter!
So for me, both Rhodas had the accident, except with the desynchronization Rhoda 1 gives up her ticket and Rhoda 2 keeps it.
And finally, in the last scene, I feel like Rhoda 1 understands that ultimately the accident happened on both Earths. She turns around to reflect and has a face that gives me the impression that she gave her place away for nothing to John because the accident did indeed happen!
There you go :p
There is no Rhoda2 or Earth2 in reality. It is a fictional film, and everything takes place in the imagination of Rhoda, who is completely disoriented by the accident. She immediately has a vision of another world to escape to (a little schizophrenia to escape a particularly painful psychological situation) where she would find a way out with a redemption that would allow her to live normally again. This obsession gradually grows: it is represented by the enlargement of Earth2 (in her mind). Her brilliant brain then imagines very realistic TV scenes to explain to her rational mind the unsettling and totally implausible presence of this other earth in the sky (which only she sees in her delirium). To cope, she explains her situation with great balanced awareness to her lover. Then Rhoda becomes pregnant (vomiting...). Hence her joy in arranging the flowers and setting up the house where she wishes to start her new life with her redemptive child: he symbolizes the reconciliation with the Father whose life she had shattered and whose family's future she had ruined. Thanks to her love (deliverance) and this child that follows, this family will come back to life. And her visions of another earth have ceased: the sky (and her calmed mind) is bathed in a new, soothing light: she has healed from her obsessive guilt. It is what her vision of herself, upright and assured at the end, makes her understand in an instant. She finds herself, finally, facing herself, balanced, upright, and resolved. She will "manage," that is, take on her adult responsibilities and repair her wrongs by restoring the peaceful and paradisiacal flow of Life (that she had disrupted). The symbol of this personal determination was precisely her choice of "cleaner" to erase her damages. In Christian terms, one would speak of forgiveness of her fault: she thus obtains the redemptive absolution that opens the doors of paradise to her. She will regain her self-confidence and lead the brilliant life she was destined for all along. Her accident was a tragic detour in her journey, but all’s well that ends well (as always in the USA). Very beautiful film, poetic, moralistic, symbolic, vivid, striking, and profound. A cult film?
Thank you lolobrico95 for your explanation! And I think exactly the same thing as you! I have clearer ideas now. However, there is something that's been bothering me for a while. We agree that on Earth 2 the accident didn't happen, and Rhoda 2 has no connection with John; she didn't give him his place and went to see her double on Earth 1. But here's the thing: John 1 did indeed go to Earth 2 to see his family while Rhoda 2 was on her way to Earth 1. However, at the end of the film, we clearly see that Earth 2 has disappeared, which would mean that John and his family no longer exist? And that Rhoda 2 would be doomed to live with her double on Earth 1 for the rest of her life?
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