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Moonrise Kingdom - Let It Be 2012!

I have never been psyched to watch this movie from none other than -  the indefatigable, the most charming of quirky - Wes Anderson.  If you noticed, his other movies The Darjeeling Limited, The Fantastic Mr. Fox almost has the same hue as this one. 

 

 

Another Earth. Another You.

So on my long flight back home, I was enjoying an economy flight with personal TV and found this wonderful  film, Another Earth.  It portrays an answer to this question: What if there is another world that has a same you? What if you get to have second chances?  If you have seen it, tweet me, ping me or email me or whatever.  I wanted to ask about the ending or some parts where it moved me.  It's that kind of a movie where after you watched it you need to  have a cup of coffee with a friend.

It's heartbreaking to watch - to learn to forgive yourself for an action that caused so much pain to others at the same time, changing the course of your life. The girl was supposed to go to MIT, study to be an astronomer as it's her dream, and then one day, crashed a car and killed a kid and a mother.  On that day, she heard from the news that another earth is coming closer near our earth.  Later on, it was discovered that same human beings are living on the other earth - same people, almost the same lives. 

In that case, if true,  if I were to meet myself,  would I be crazily eager to sit down with her and so she could tell me stories about her, or would I freak out, run for my life, scared that I might judge her?  I'm leaning towards the latter.  It's a smooth film, that leaves you thinking and feeling..awkward.

The movie is not so much as sci-fi, it's not horror, it's more...introspective drama I guess. Watch it, so worth it.