Not a movie, just an afterthought
Personally, I am a big fan of "This Man From Earth", and I have mentioned this movie countless times in the circle of friends. It's also my top ten movie on my personal movie list. Now that the sequel has been released, I am watching it with certain feelings. I give four stars, three stars to the film itself, and one star to the director. He started a global experiment in trust in the film, and that's a big idea.
Because from a certain point of view, the fans who liked the first movie should be some people who are very pursuit of ideas and spiritual world activities. Then they should be able to respond to the director's experiment. But if it fails, it may really prove that the performance of people in the face of interests is really disappointing.
Let's talk about the movie itself, which is a lot worse than the first one. Mainly the content of the story. The first, where they're chatting, reasoning, at the heart of logic, ostensibly revolves around John's origins, but is actually human history (with an emphasis on religion). With impeccable logic, religion is overthrown and mortals are satirized. But in the second, it turned into a few students trying to prove that their professor was John. Since the audience clearly knows the answer, there is no suspense in the student's behavior.
Maybe for fans of the first movie, we are more like seeing a group of high-IQ professors discussing and reasoning about a certain issue, and then John uses his omnipotent logic to open up a new thinking for everyone. In the second movie, it became a story about a few students trying to catch John who wanted to hide, and a girl with big breasts and no brains trying to seduce John. This is kind of boring. (The second half of the movie kind of reverts to the structure of the first, but it seems a bit late)
When the director put John and a student in the same room, many fans may think that with John's wisdom, the elementary school students will be said to be dark, and finally put John. But the student who remained was an extreme religious person. The trouble caused by extreme religious people, are there still few such examples in real life? You cannot solve a person's beliefs with the truth.
In other words, you cannot logically prove that there is a problem with beliefs. Because those who raise doubts are just "crooked and heresy", they can't even listen to them, let alone think about their right and wrong.
In other respects, the film strongly criticized the modern business society. In the business society, the creed of "maximizing profit" has made food full of all kinds of things that are harmful to the body (pollution, hormones. This is indeed true) .
All in all, the second film becomes a suspense-free suspense film that doesn't explain things as well as the first. There is also an open ending at the end, leaving the interface for the sequel. However, this second one is really not as good as the first one.
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