Man From Earth Movie Review: The Man From Earth

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"The Man from Earth", is a Science-Fiction-Film with the direction of Richard Schenkman and scenario from Jerome Bixby. The film was published in 2007 and tells about a man named John Oldman, he asserted to be a 14.000 years old Cro-Magnon-Man. The plot of the movie is generally taking place in a single room. It is one of the films that I know with the largest scary discrepancy between content quality and cinematic quality. The film has the look of a bad 90´s television film, just as stiff actor and partly uncut dialogues. In addition, it is probably the poorest effect of science-fiction-film ever; it plays completely in a boring wooden hut somewhere in rural America. No robots, no spaceships, no laser swords and however a science fiction. After all, the premise of the film is a fantastic natural environment and makes the film worth seeing.
"The Man from Earth", is about a group of different scientists of university, consisting of Harry (Biologe), Edith (art scientist and faithful Christ), Dan (Anthropologe) and Sandy (Historian). Shortly after this group, Art (Archaeologist) and his student Linda, who are saying goodbye to their college John. John …show more content…

It is also interesting to think about the long live 14.000 years, what would you remember? How much could you save in your memory? How can a person be healthy so long? Human cannot live 14,000 years and a human body would break down. The movie is an antagonism between True and Lie. They cannot believe such weird history, because it is implausible. In this movie it is clear that everyone´s true is something else. John´s friends do not trust him because I think if my friend tells me his secret, for me it would be true. Maybe John does not care because everyone will die and he not and this is his reality. Everything is designed, nothing is as it seems and at the end turns out the questionnaire- what can you still

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