Indeed, if all this is true, if there is such a person around us, who can find out, who can confirm? And all this may be a fact of nature.
Divide the movie into stages (spoilers below):
1. The beginning of the story. Harvard professor John Oldman is leaving the place where he has lived for ten years, and several friends/colleagues come to see him off at a house in the suburbs. In this place, there are several plot items that can be echoed, such as the Van Gogh "fake" of the same era as the real one that Edith and others are interested in, and "To my friend Jacque Borne" behind the painting, an ancient hunting bow , and a Paleolithic stone tool, and even most of his friends are significantly older than him in appearance.
2. Prehistoric stage: Under everyone's urging and inquiries about why he left, John half-truths revealed that he was a caveman-Krumag who survived the Paleolithic Age 14,000 years ago, and then he described the prehistoric The self "experience" of the era, the matriarchal society in the tribal era, grows up to 35 years old and stops getting old and becomes the tribal patriarch, and people's panic about him not getting old drives him away and wanders everywhere. Here, everyone discussed the physiological mechanism of immortality. Under the condition of perfect immunity and metabolism, the human body can be immortal.
3. Civilization stage: He traveled east and saw the Mediterranean Sea, experienced the Babylonians in the Sumerian-Hammurabi era, the Phoenicians sailing at sea, and then continued eastward to India, where he met Sakyamuni. However, as John's story has no logical loopholes, and all this does not seem to be a joke, the friends gradually changed from the atmosphere of interest and jokes to panic and unacceptable.
4. Modern times: The arrival of Will, the oldest psychologist with gray hair, John continued his narrative, telling about the diseases he experienced, typhoid fever, yellow fever, black death, etc., but his body had no scars, After the European Renaissance, he received several degrees in higher education. During the period, people from charitable organizations came to carry the furniture donated by John. Will, who had just experienced the pain of losing his wife, mentioned his unforgettable father, John's relatives and friends, etc., and then excitedly pointed a gun at John and declared that he wanted to confirm all this, and Will left.
5. Religion: John mentioned that some characters and stories in the Old Testament of the Bible are actually derived from the myths of some other religions, such as Moses, whose prototypes come from Misis in Syrian mythology, such as the preacher Peter, who just learned some fishing experience, and A 100-word New Testament: Jesus was the caveman who claimed to have survived from the prehistoric Paleolithic period, and his original intention was to promote Buddhist teachings in the West. And all this was difficult for Edith, a devout Christian, to accept. This film is destined not to be liked and accepted by religious people, especially Christians, because it uses John's mouth to declare that religion only sells hope and survival, the old testament sells fear and shame, and the new testament is a good moral signal , the doctrine was never practiced, and fairy tales built churches. The origin of the name Jesus, the origin of Jesus as the Son of God, etc., completely overturned the beliefs and beliefs of Christians.
6. Back to the beginning: Will comes back and thinks John is insane, and under pressure from the crowd, John just says it's all a joke. Everyone's reaction was mixed, Art was hard to accept, Linda was still interested, Edith and Harry accepted it was just a joke, Dan was still suspicious, only Sandy, who admired John, completely believed it. After they said goodbye, the conversation between John and Sandy was listened to by Will. Then, Will turned out to be John's son, Will suffered a heart attack and died... In the end Sandy and John left together.
Note: Cro-Magnon man: Homo sapiens (see Homo sapiens) stage of the late European Homo sapiens. It is named after the Cro-Magnon cave discovered in the Dordogne province of France in 1868. Distributed in Germany, England, Italy, ex-Czechoslovakia and some parts of North Africa. The geological age belongs to the Late Pleistocene. The Cro-Magnon in the narrow sense refers only to the human fossils in the Cro-Magnon cave. The remains of the Cro-Magnon cave represent at least five individuals, probably buried during the late Aurena or Périgord culture. The skull of an elderly male is well preserved, with a brain volume of about 1600 ml; from the perspective of limb bones, the body is tall and muscular. The height of the male is more than 180 centimeters and the female is about 167 centimeters. The question of the origin of the Cro-Magnon population has not yet been resolved.
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