The plot of the story is very simple, and the scene is very "simplistic". The dialogue between several people is the main plot. The inside and outside of a wooden house are all the scenes.
Harvard University history professor John suddenly resigned after ten years of teaching. Colleagues rushed to his residence in the suburbs to see him off. After he stopped talking, John revealed the reason for his unspeakable resignation: He is a prehistoric caveman and has lived for 14,000 years because of something unknown. The reason is that he will always stay at the age of 35 and never die. Every 10 years, in order to prevent people around him from discovering the secret of his immortality, he starts a new round of migration, changes his status, and lives again. He used to follow the Buddha's practice and was regarded as a god by primitive tribes. He had met Columbus and was better with Van Gogh. What's more terrifying is that he is even Jesus!
Authoritative friends of John's archaeology, psychology, and biology first laughed at John's statement, but as the conversation progressed, they found that John's statement was so true, and their seemingly solid outlook on life and knowledge began Shake...
In my opinion, most sci-fi movies seem to devote too much energy to imagining the stories of the past 200 years or the next 100, using large investment, large actors, large structures, and large productions to attract audiences. Of course, it's easy, and most of the audience is also attracted by it. In the movie theater, they were frightened by prehistoric monsters, envied the superpowers of aliens, or felt fear, worry, or inexplicable excitement because of the imminent destruction of the earth.
But "This Man Comes From Earth" only "completed" a "science fiction" through questions and answers, disputes, and doubts among a few people.
The whole story seems relaxed, gentle, relaxed music, warm fire, gentle tone, and a little episode about love, but I don’t know why, as long as you stop, a sense of tension will be involuntary immediately. Climb into your heart.
The climax of the film undoubtedly comes from the section where John claims to be Jesus. He gave an explanation of the origin of the Bible and the evolution of the image of Christ, which almost collapsed his colleagues, and indeed implicitly agreed with it.
In empirical terms, we can prove that one thousand sheep, ten thousand sheep, and one million sheep are white, but we cannot prove that all sheep are white. In other words, it can be falsified but not true. The film is said to be based on a science fiction novel. But maybe we should pursue further. The entire history of Western thought has had a profound tradition of skepticism and agnosticism from pre-Socrates (of course they also have traditions of determinism and knowability), holding certain conjectures on all matters, then refuting them, and finally constantly correcting them. It may be the reason why scientific knowledge can continue to grow, and it may be the reason why we are always fearful and grow smoothly.
The only cliché seems to be at the end, when psychologists heard that John turned out to be his father who left without saying goodbye in his childhood. This can be handled better. There is no need to die a person.
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