Which is how we know the target market for this movie is not sci fi fans.
Oh, totally. If this was more of a familiar approach it'd be running through all the
consequences of knowing there's a duplicate Earth with duplicate 'uses' on it. What the hell does that say for our understanding of development, science, society - hell, flatly, the idea that another indentical or very similar Earth arose by pure chance would seem jarringly wrong. Are their only two planets? And if so, why? Are we the products of a kind and loving God who liked the idea of us so much he figured to do it twice? Is the entire human race a carefully enginerred enormously complicated experiment by some shadowy alien intelligences? Does random causality have a sick sense of humour?
What the hell is going on?
But judging from the trailer they're using the concept as, I guess, a way to explore second chances, roads not taken, other selves. That can be an interesting take but it's not a classically SF approach.
But... yeah, the trailers do feel vaguely similar to
Melancholia's (which has odd planetary movements on the horizon but seems more about one woman's mental dissolution), and it may be a decent watch in theatres. I'll keep an eye out for it, I guess.
