The Brother from Another Planet

this often gets billed as a comedy, but i think that's simply because it's so hard to categorize. watching this without knowing a lot about it, i was very surprised at how starkly it begins and how intimate and really kind of scary the whole opening is. it really puts you in the experience of someone totally unfamiliar with humanity.... and the first place they land is new york city. yeesh. talk about being thrown into it. despite operating in the sci-fi genre, the film actually plays out mostly like a drama, where we follow our mute protagonist as he learns about our new society. but he's... read more