Anybody seen this movie? If so, what did you think of it? If not, you should, then tell what you thought of it.
“The Man From Earth” is a time travel movie that never travels through time; it’s very much a talky movie in every sense of the word, as the entire film consists of a group of people sitting around a cabin discussing theories and hypothesis, much of it based on truth as told by one man who may or may not be lying. It is, for all intents and purposes, a play shot as a movie, based on the last story ever written by noted sci-fi writer Jerome Bixby. And you know what? It is one of the best movies I’ve seen all year. When I say there is no action in “The Man From Earth”, I mean there is not a single shred of action in the entire movie. That is, if you define “action” in traditional cinema terms — people doing things of the physical nature in service of narrative progression. The film, from beginning to end, is one big discussion on the nature of man, theorizing how, or why, a man would exist if he lived thousands of years, from the Cro-Magnon era to the present day. How would such a man function? How would he survive? What would be his reason for existence, if there were one at all? More..... http://www.beyondhollywood.com/the-man-from-earth-2007-movie-review/
