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IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Its scruffy urban America, deadpan comic rhythm, and casually embedded extraterrestrial premise echo the offbeat, low-budget freedom of The Brother from Another Planet, though with a much more punkish edge.
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Why this pick
A nearly wordless outsider moves through a society that projects meaning onto him. Its humane, slyly satirical calm shares the Brother’s blend of innocence, estrangement, and social observation.
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Why this pick
Another alien arrival becomes an oblique lens on American life. Roeg’s film is far more fractured and melancholic, but it shares Sayles’s interest in otherness, exploitation, and a visitor unable to truly belong.
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Why this pick
Its guerrilla New York texture and politically charged, community-minded storytelling make it a strong companion for Sayles’s independent social science fiction, trading a single outsider’s view for a collective one.
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Why this pick
Its spare black-and-white city wandering, deadpan comedy, and immigrant-outsider perspective create a similarly unhurried, observant portrait of American life at the margins.
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01 / THE STORY
The sweet-natured and honest Brother looks like an ordinary African American man, distinguished only by his being mute and—although other characters in the film never see them—his feet, which each have three large toes. Upon arrival in Ellis Island, the Brother displays psychic powers, being able to hear the experiences of the immigrants that came before him. He is able to regenerate a foot that he lost after crashing in the ocean, perhaps to a shark bite. The Brother also has telekinetic powers but, unable to speak, he struggles to express himself and adjust to his new surroundings, including a stint in the Job Corps at a video arcade in Manhattan.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The Brother
West Indian Woman
Fly
Noreen's Client
Sam
Mrs. Brown
Bernice
Willie
