Once you accept this setting, of course there will be no bugs. Isn't it natural?

Trycia 2022-04-21 09:01:36

Personally I find it lacklustre. I feel that this film may have a little impact on people who are not particularly strong in their religious beliefs. For people like me who have never believed in religion at all, and even have a little doubt about science, basically The whole film just wanted to say so what...
I saw a lot of people saying that because they couldn't find the flaw in what this man said, they felt that the worldview was overturned. But, in fact, this man said nothing more than two kinds of things:
1. Things that everyone knows (he first said some "common sense" that at least people today generally believe to have been "proven", so he said this aspect of things , of course, it must be "fulfilled". This part is nothing new, and of course it is expected)
2. Made up things (some people who like this film think that the highlight is. Based on "brother lived countless years" this Suppose, you can basically make up anything outside the scope of the above 1. When you meet the Buddha, you are Jesus. What is so strange? What is subversive? "Countless years" is a strong assumption, if you just assume "brother lived 50 years", then a lot of things can't be made up so happily. And if you assume "God is omniscient, omnipotent and unpredictable" , that the whole universe has happened, is happening and will happen things can be compiled in - because God is omnipotent and omnipotent, and there is no need for reasons - because God is unpredictable. If you like the story he tells, I think ok (Isn’t there a kind of sci-fi that is just wild, let go of your imagination). But if you like this story because you think there are no bugs in this story, I think it’s bullshit. When you accept the assumption that “brother has lived for countless years” When you started, you already accepted everything that could be made up based on this assumption, so when he made up those stories on the basis of this assumption, it was no surprise. To make it clearer , if you accept the assumption that "all triangles are equilateral triangles", you will inevitably come to the conclusion that "all triangles have three angles of 60 degrees", which will certainly not contradict your assumption - Since you're derivation based on this assumption, what's so surprising about this? But that doesn't mean your assumption itself is fact)
All in all, intellectually, I didn't learn anything new from watching this movie. If it's an anti-Christian work, it might work for those specific groups of people. For those who didn't believe it at all, it felt like an itch.
In addition, at the technical level, although no one stipulates how the film must be shot, and it is indeed low-cost, I think this kind of production is just an interview video.

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The Man from Earth quotes

  • Dr. Will Gruber: If I shot you John, you're immortal? Would you survive this?

    John Oldman: I never said I was immortal, just old. I might die. And then you could wonder the rest of your incarcerated life what you shot...

  • Dr. Will Gruber: We will die, you will live. Will you come to my funeral, John.

    Sandy: You've gone too far, John didn't ask to be what he is.

    Dr. Will Gruber: And we did not ask to hear about it...