The Man from Earth
The Man from EarthThe Man from Earth
From one of the acclaimed writers of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone comes a story that transcends both time and space...
Overview
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.
My opinion : The Man From Earth utilizes its conversational one room setting and mesmerizing screenplay to the finest degree as we are invested further and further on into a captivating and controversially groundbreaking conversation about what having a discussion with an immortal would be like. The idea of physicists, therapists, historians, scientologists stuck all in one room with actors performing well enough to show us exactly how these people from different educational backgrounds, traditions, cultures would react to such a marvelous albeit haunting discovery of this 14 000 year old man. A highly underrated low budget sci-fi bend where it’s subject matter forces the viewer (if they are intelligent enough) to engage and even almost be part of this tense conversation/debate. There lies the magic of the movie.
79/100
