I think Top 10 lists are fun. Many critics write beleaguered sorts of “I don’t really want to be doing this and it’s stupid and rankings are meaningless” disclaimers at the beginning of their lists. Ugh. Look, it should go without saying that any list (or review) is a reflection of the writer’s personality and their un-duplicate-able individual experience. If you’ve read the rest of my writing this year, you will not be shocked by my list. What I’d like to say before I dive in I don’t consider to be a disclaimer, but just necessary context: the films I didn’t/couldn’t see that are on my mind anyway.
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Film Review – Another Earth
In fiction and in film, in our collective imaginations, there have been a lot of visions of what extra-terrestrial life might look like. The most appealing of these populate worlds like Star Trek—the humanoid species we could easily communicate with. These are slightly more enticing to think about than bacteria in traces of water, though I admit I still get excited whenever scientists think they’ve found that. The other vision is what we really want though, isn’t it? Someone out there in a similar situation to ours? What about exactly the same situation as ours?
