The seventeen year-old Rhoda Williams (Brit Marling) receives the acceptance letter from the MIT and she celebrates with her friends. In the same night, a planet similar and close to Earth is discovered and called Earth 2. Rhoda drives her car looking to the Earth 2 and she hits the car of the composer John Burroughs (William Mapother), killing his pregnant wife and his baby son. Rhoda goes to prison and four years later she is released and moves to her parents' house. She finds a job of high-school janitor and she tries to commit suicide. She survives and she writes an essay to a contest where the prize is a ticket to travel to Earth 2. Meanwhile the scientists discover that Earth 2 is a mirror of Earth and the synchronicity between the dwellers has interrupted when the planets were seen by each other. One Day, Rhoda decides to visit John Burroughs, who had the life destroyed after the death of his family, to tell him that she had killed his family. However she does not have the nerve to tell him the truth. So she lies and tells that he had won a free cleaning service of his home. Rhoda wins the contest, but meanwhile John and she have fallen in love with each other. Rhoda has to take a decision whether she goes or stays, but she wants to tell John the truth first. "Another Earth" is a melancholic, sad and thought provoking movie, with a dramatic story of redemption. Brit Marling delivers an awesome performance in the role of a teenager that has a car accident and kills innocent people. The essay written by Rhoda is magnificent, in a movie where the characters and situations are well developed. The conclusion is open and I liked the interpretation that Rhoda would have killed John in Earth 2 and also won the contest to visit Earth. My vote is seven. Title (Brazil): "A Outra Terra" ("The Other Earth")
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