willcail wrote:
Is there a new trend of non science fiction films that tries to pass as science fiction? I saw the review of Another Earth on At the Movies and it looked aimless and dull. I wouldn't be surprise if the movie gets added to next year's science fiction marathon.
Well, to be fair, there is a long history of "straight" movies that use the conventions of other genres to tell their story. Heck, the entire TWILIGHT ZONE TV series was based on using SF, Horror and Fantasy tropes to tell Rod Serling's morality tales.
ANOTHER EARTH certainly doesn't seem too interested in the
science of its science fiction, but it's worth catching nonetheless. As to whether it will show up in Boston or Ohio for the marathon, you have to consider that it will be over a year after its Sundance debut (and 8 or 9 months after its theatrical run), so it may not have the
"premiere" vibe that the programmers seem to crave.