The movie tells about life a teenage girl in America. She is a successful ever student among her friends. She got to study hard and she earned very good grade from her high school. After entering the 18 years of age and having quite big party to cheer her time being a fully adult and preparing major turning in life, she once drove a car back to her home in New Heaven. While driving a car, as she was so interest in scientific stuffs especially in space programme she turned on radio and listening to it. Once she heard from the host that they now found another planet which is really like our earth with human being living there, she paid attention to it so deep and ignored her driving. While she so much focused on that broadcasting, she accidently drove a car to crush with another car consisting of a parent with very lovely young child.
First Release: 2011
Film director: Mike Cahill
Running times: 90 minutes
Actors: Brit Marling, William Mapother, Robin Taylor, Mathew Earlbach
Plot of the Movie:
Rhoda found guilty for did not care of her driving ran her car to hit and killed two lives, she was put into prison for four years. She spent her life in the prision to the maximum and she then was released due to her commitment and her respect to laws and duty.
When she came back home, she felt nothing except remorse about her insense driving that killed people's life. She was so regret and she can't forgive herself. She for the first two weeks to just stay in her room and trying to order her mind.
In her room, Rhoda can access to internet with her Macbook note. Whatever she was good at in her early age came to her mind. She typed in internet browser and search for space programme. She watched few minutes a video clip about Amerian spacing launching. She is interested in that programme. Then she moved to another menu in the same website and she found a programe for essay competition which could win a ticket to another space. She wanted to join but that night she did not submit her application.
Later days, she has been learning a lot about her life and human being's life in general. She began to understand herself more and more. She, after that, find a job as cleaner. She has to work hard and she met many good and friendly co-workers. She loves her job. For about three months, she fully understood herself and she started to write an essay for the space visit progamme.
At the same time, because Rhoda can never forgive herself, she had to find the guy she crushed her to. She wanted to do something good to him and his family. As she works in cleaning service, what she can do to him is by serving his house to look much for more organize.
She found that guy and she was so regret about it as he almost became a foolish man. He was hit by the car accident and he lost lovely members, his wife and a little cute son. He gave up everything lives his life so mess in his house. He gave up his profession as a professor of music at the university. He just stays in his house day and night.
When the Rhoda found Burroughs, she wanted to say sorry for what Rhoda had done to hime and the family but he did not have time to listen to her. What she can do then is just keep cleaning his house and hope one day she can discuss this problem with him. As she performs very good in his house, she cleaned everything and get them in organized, the guy appreciated her and he started to turn back to his normal life. He gave sometime to talk with the girl. They two then got to know each other more but the girl did not tell him yet about the traffic accident that it was her the real killer.
They enjoy time together and Burroughs falls in love with her and their lives started to be more romantic. The girl found out that it's good time to tell him the truth about her mistake. As she prepare to tell the truth, Rhoda got an information that she won the ticket to space. She first ran to him and tell him that she won the ticket and she has to go but the guy told her to not go. And she reject by saying that i don't to live in this word because i did a lot of bad things. And Burroughs asked what kind bad things. She told that she is the one who killed his wife and son. That guy got mad and ask her to leave his house. But the Rhoda then thought that she has to do something to make guy's life better. Then she decided to give the ticket to him. The guy accept the ticket and Burroughs was so happy with it. Rhoda is living her life peaceful since.
