This $10,000 thing is not just cost-effective, it has a very wonderful structure, like a "chinese box". A confined space, this caveman has the perfect audience: anthropologists, archaeologists, Christian fundamentalists and psychologists. The whole story starts with a hypothesis of John, which several listeners started to just regard it as a novel subject, so they asked and questioned John with great interest in an attempt to bring him "back to reality", but actually perfected to support this hypothesis material. It's no wonder that John's so-called "facts" are not bullshit: he has lived for over 14,000 years, he hasn't gotten old since he was 35, and he has to move every 10 years so that people around him don't discover the truth, he describes The life of ancient people, the path of human migration, the paintings that Van Gogh gave him, he survived from smallpox and the Black Death, he even made friends with Buddha, and later he became Jesus by accident. The movie is chock-full of lines, but it's not boring at all, and the precise details give me goosebumps. In the meantime, psychologists tried to shoot John to overthrow his immortal remarks and other emergencies, which made the film rhythm. At the end of the conversation, not only the people in the movie, but also the audience did not know whether what John said was true or not. Just when everyone was close to collapse because of the subversion of common sense, John chose a white lie, and the end revealed unexpectedly. the truth. If it were you, how would you express this idea? Conversation creates the confrontation between John and his friends, the film and the audience, the reality and the madness, and makes this confrontation the driving force of the film. I can't think of such a good and cheap way to do it.
In addition to awe-inspiring realism, we need some crazy ideas, like Tim Burton's Big Fish, Twelve Monkeys, or assuming you're the only survivor in the world, and some more unreal, about time and memory. Movies, novels, rock, and drugs sell so well because all of us can't help imagining a more tense world, sometimes without even knowing why.
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