I wonder sometimes what kind of people write plot summaries and classify movies into genres. Are they, as a principle, on some misguided quest to mislead the reader in the most aggravating way possible? Is this what they are after? Why are they doing it?!
As I was writing about IO, another equally badly-billed movie crossed my mind. I watched that one a long time ago. Its name was “Another Earth”, and it was billed as a science fiction (š¤£š¤£š¤£ this fact never fails to make me smile) and its summary on imdb is: “On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.”.
The person who wrote the summary probably saw the “duplicate earth” photoshopped on the sky and thought oh it just must be kinda science fiction stuff, what else right..
Anyways.. The another earth in “Another Earth” serves exactly the same purpose as the Io in the “IO”, and is almost equally present (that is, almost not at all).
Another similarity for me, btw, is the equally strong performance of the lead actress.
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And since I am writing about it, I need to mention this little story.
Guess what movie is this?
“A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.”
So.. so what? Its hard to write a less motivating line than that, its my honest opinion. I watched this film anyways and I’m still in awe.