I was disappointed in both "Another Earth" and "Sound Of My Voice."
Each had what seemed like killer concepts but neither were explored to their creative potentials.
AMEN! Totally agree! Both premise looked SO promising and interesting and original, the realization on the other hand was definitively a let-down in both cases.
I mean another earth that was invisible to us the whole time? Another earth that happens to be totally identical to this one wherein the inhabitants all lived in perfect synchronicity with the people of this earth? Synchronicity that was lost as soon as each world discovered the other?? How AWESOME is that for a premise?!
And then what do we get? Boring melodrama about some personal tragedy that had hardly anything to do with the awesome premise of the story!
Such disappointment!
And don't get me wrong, i don't dislike drama or movies that depict real people living normal average lives, not at all. What i don't accept is being lured into watching a movie based on false promises!
How can anybody write such an original and interesting premise and then not exploit it at all?
It's like watching a version of Matrix that would start with Morpheus explaining to Neo that all this is a mere computer simulation, that the world is destroyed and that we are slaves to machines that use us as glorified batteries and suddenly the scene changes and you hear a voice over saying "Meanwhile, 479 miles from there, Billy Ray was tending to his farm" and then we would watch for 2 hours Billy Ray stacking hay for the winter with his pitchfork while cows are grazing in the background in front of a beautiful autumn sunset. THE END - Closing credits roll -_-'
When i think of Another Earth, i can't help but reminisce that classic scene in Misery when Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) looses her grip while telling the story of when she used to go to the cinema Saturdays when she was a kid and says: "I stood right up [in the cinema] and started shouting "THIS ISN'T WHAT WAS WRITTEN IN THE SYNOPSIS, HAVE YOU ALL GOT AMNESIA? THEY JUST CHEATED US, THIS ISN'T FAIR! THIS ISN'T WHAT WAS WRITTEN IN COCKADOODLE SYNOPSIS"" Hahahahhah
Here's the real scene with the real dialogs for those interested or who don't know what i'm talking about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVzX22lrWxA Anyway, to each his own obviously, but as for me, Another Earth was a huge disappointment.
People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefsī²
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