The Man from Earth (2007)
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.
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This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
In my opinion, the idea of the film is great, immortality is always a good idea for any plot in any movie. However, I think the film was too static and the conversation was always about the same topic, which made it interesting for the first 40-50 minutes of the film. The rest was just dragging it, IMO. PS: Edith is so annoying.
Here are just a few examples of the many, many, factual errors which interfered with my enjoyment of this movie:1) No one thought the earth was flat in Columbus' day. Ancient Greeks had actually calculated, with surprising accuracy, the circumference of the earth According to historian Jeffrey Burton Russell, "no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat."2) The body does not renew/replace all its cells every 7 years. That is a myth and a misconception. Although its true that the lining of the stomach is renewed every few days, other parts can take a decade or more to renew and some parts stay with us from birth to death.3) There are not different versions of the Bible. This is another misconception. There are, however, many different translations, which is different. For example, if you ask two experts to translate a Greek passage (without conferring with one another) you'll get two unique translations, but they'll both mirror the original Greek passage.This could have been an interesting film, but early on I could not suspend my disbelief and the only way to view this film is from the perspective that it takes place in an alternate universe where our knowledge and facts don't exist. It is possible that this script writer lives in the world he created, as do many people, a world where knowledge and facts are supplanted by ignorance and bias.
This movie the is the best way wasting your pressure time of your life. It starts interesting to turn a teenage crap. There are more presusure things you can do instead of wasting your time watching this crap! stay away from this.
Together with my girlfriend I have watched this movie. A very compelling story that is logically correct, I couldn't spot any obvious reasoning mistakes.A braintwister for those who enjoy an intellectual debate. This movie shows that you don't need Hollywood blockbuster money to make an interesting film.Absolutely worth watching.