If someone tells you that he lived 140 centuries, was a caveman, had the opportunity to sail with Columbus, listened to music with Beethoven, painted with Van Gogh, listened to the teachings of Sakyamuni, a good man ---Jesus, with the wisdom accumulated over time, one day you suddenly found out that he is one of your friends, a colleague who has been with you for many years, what would you think? To question him with countless questions? Still believe him? Ask him countless questions? That Man From Earth is about such a thing. The 35-year-old Harvard history professor suddenly resigned after ten years of work. Colleagues were puzzled. They gathered at his house temporarily and urged him to explain that this man is from the earth! hindsight. But John's reasoning surprised them: John claimed that he was immortal, lived for 14,000 years, and couldn't stay in one place for more than 10 years, or his secrets would be discovered. Facing John's remarks, everyone began to question him. . . His profound knowledge is also so reasonable, because he has enough time to study, 14,000 years, this is not the age of a human, the audience will naturally be interested in what he has seen and heard in these 14,000 years, the director caught While staying at this point, it also leads us into the world he has set up. In the second half of the film, when everyone is listening in a trance, the psychologist suddenly asks John to stop this boring lie. John said a sentence, the story end. At this point, scholars and audiences suddenly realized that all of this was made up by John, and we became his best listeners. s story. But at the same time, we, like the scholar, were skeptical from the previous question, and felt that John was the Jesus. Who knows, maybe it's easier for humans to accept the same things as their self-heating rules. Despite their doubts, everyone left one after another. So far, we have entered the game set by the director. I think so, seeing this, the audience actually has strong doubts in their hearts. Is what John said is true or not, and his words always make people doubtful. The psychologist's dialogue revealed the mystery. It turned out that John was the father of the nearly 60-year-old psychologist. After being with his mother for 10 years, he chose to leave. John answered the psychologist's question, maybe psychology The family could not accept this fact and died suddenly and violently. At this time, the female teacher asked John: "This is the first time you have seen an adult child die, right?" John replied: "Yes", then silently turned off the light and walked under the stars, maybe He was worried that everyone would be like a psychologist who was saying this was a story. It's better to let them refuse to accept what people can't accept. Obviously, two clues in the plot are intertwined. One is John's narration, which is related to the subversion of some past events and the evolution of human history, and the other is the reality of these professors. Do you believe what John said, do you believe that there is such a person who has survived for 14,000 years against common sense? If we call the first clue b clue, then as the latter a clue, it will become the source of b clue, and the existence of doubt is the premise of John's story telling!
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