The premise of this story is pretty much what the original premise of The Highlander was before quickenings and other immortals were added into the lore after several rewrites. The original script for The Highlander was only about one immortal, there were no others - just him - and how the story revolved on the concept of idea/theme of immortality (whether it was a blessing or a curse).
@Tracchofyre the story got changed during his many retellings of how he first "drafted" the script over the years. The one thing I remember reading was about that in a magazine that is now no longer in publication. Either that, or I went through my own Mandela Effect... who knows? 😅
@Tracchofyre yep, that's how I remember the interview for the article was written. He at one time stated it was a story of only the Highlander, and how he goes through life being immortal and only added details like the quickening, etc. I forgot the rest, but I also remember how one of his drafts included the fact his original immortal wasn't sterile - and that the character every now and then attended his children's funerals later in life over the years.
What happens to John after this story? He eventually goes into space, settles on a small planet that he owns, meets Capt Kirk, McCoy, and Spock. The original writer of this story also wrote the Star Trek episode "Requiem for Methuselah", which is roughly the same story, but in space.
@@sophiawilson8696 By the time he met Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, he had learned his lesson. I just thought it was funny that the guy who wrote the Star Trek episode in 1966 recycled the same idea into a different story 30 years later.
Idk why but the hug the older woman gave him, where she squeezes his arms after, it’s such a subtle human way to say goodbye, and the squeeze always makes me feel loved, I love the squeeze.
It's true - this is a fascinating movie. I confess I spent the whole time thinking of ways he could prove his claim, but of course, he doesn't really want to. It is definitely one of those movies that leave you wondering what it would be like to be him. "What if I had lived that long?" What would it be like to know what daily life had been like though all those aeons? What would it have been like to have seen the 7 wonders of the ancient world? To have heard people talking about Stonehenge when it was initially built - the engineering feat of all time? To have survived war after war after war ... to learn and learn and learn and come to understand all the things that had once been mysteries. Just so much to imagine!
Here's something wild: he eventually DID prove everything 300 years later after fleeing Earth when he met several people from the USS Enterprise commanded by James T. Kirk. He was calling himself Flint by that time. The episode was Requiem for Methuselah. Same author, same character!
I have seen this movie twice. It is one of the best underrated science fiction movies ever made. The great thing here is... all the science is expressed in dialogue, and the special effects are, as far as I can tell, nonexistent. But the STORY! All revolving around one guy who may... or may not... be what he says he is. This is a masterpiece of cinema, and should be required viewing in schools.
I'll add my 2 cents. This is an amazing movie with a great premise. No CGI, just great scripting, casting, direction and acting. What *would* it be like for an immortal? The same theme is found in the short story "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" and Simak's "Times last gift". If you haven't watched this movie and like thought provoking ideas, go watch it.
I've read the story 'Grotto of the Dancing Deer' years ago, I don't know what happened to the book it was contained in, I'd love to get that book again, because it had lots of other great stories in.
Indeed. Also I think the same author wrote a Star Trek episode called "Requiem for Methuselah" with a similar story line but The Man from Earth was a great watch
@@icepicker8528 From what I have read he wrote a few Star Trek Episodes !!!!! I didn't know about this film until this appeared in my feed, I got the film and I actually quite like it, I'm not so keen on the sequel, if they do another sequel I hope they get rid of the 'religious nutter' who stabbed him, and also please that ending !!!!!!!!! I think they might be going towards a 'Cain and Able' type of thing.
@@SuperSlapek Yeah I guess your right, mind you I suppose if someone said that they were Jesus, I suppose the religious minded might go a bit nuts. I'm not religious at all, so to me I'd ask him how he thought about how he has been remembered and written about for the last 2000 years. But I really hope if they do a third one, please keep it away from religious rubbish.
"Do you even know the definition of immortality? It means I and only I can not die. Would you like to take a guess at how many funerals I've been to? How many friendly smiles I've seen turn into flowers before a tombstone? Hmm? And some of them don't even get that ending. I have seen people crumble, disappear without a trace. Ending so horrible no one should have ever seen them. And thats not all. I am afraid of loving anyone. For I know that inevitably at some point they will all crumble away, or betray me...."
I in I can't die. This refers to the source of life. Which is the essence of life itself. People are just personalities. That is your soul. Mind,will,and,emotions. When something dies,the source of life is gone .
I can't believe how thought-provoking this film was or why I have never heard of it before now! Minute by minute, it held me on the edge of my seat! An unknown masterpiece!
They knew the earth was round. Columbus was trying to get to Asia not prove the earth was round. The ancient Greeks had already accurately calculated the circumference of the earth.
Nope. They got it from the Egyptians. They learned from Egypt, Mesopotamia and Persia. Fuck, even the history of science and philosophy has been whitewashed to prop up "Western Civilization"...
A piece of truth is in this story. In his youth, Christ did travel east, interacting and learning from the Buddhists there, who to this day acknowledge Christ as a friend.
As a christian do Iove how the world seems to try so hard to negate Christ as just a teaching of someone else. Yet all other religions acknowledge Christ in this way. Very intersting isn't it?
Amen. What brought me to Christ is after much study and trying to prove that it is just not true (including my Wicca days), one thing came to the top of everything else; why, if He isn't real, do people have such hate and anger and trying to prove what they themselves say, isn't real? Out of all the other beliefs, why are Christians hated and reviled most? A belief to love one another as yourself. To turn the other cheek at times. To not act of hatre but of love. But to stand on truth and be steadfast. Yet, people hate those that do those things taught by those that follow Christ. Then I started to read the Bible with an open-mind. When I was most humbled, I seen why Christ is real and began to follow Him. And it is a harder life at first because people with hate you. But remember they hate us because they hated Jesus first.
@@ahuman4386 or maybe the vatican starting wars, leaders starting wars, the powerfuls justifying their greeds all in the name of Christianity. Maybe you should not ask why Christianity is hated, maybe you should ask what Christians did to be hated. Im not saying Christians did not do good deeds, but they are the top dog. And people hate the top dog.
One of my favorite movies. There was a follow-up movie. The ending of which was disturbing. I would hope they would finish the storyline as the FBI was looking for serial killer whose spree covered over 150 years.
Great movie and great acting from the whole cast. It always struck me as funny though. That pretty much all the actors had previously starred in various Star Trek series :) As for immortality, relating to this film, imagine your own close friends group. Imagine being the last one alive from that group (someone always is). In a lot of ways, you would feel like the protagonist of this film. I think this films taps into that too.
Yes, and that's my mom. She lost all her younger siblings, then close relatives and finally all her friends, one by one. The last close friend she had died last month. Mom drowned in sorrow and had a mild stroke.
@@humanbeing1429 I'm sorry, my dad is the sole survivor of his family. His brother's children don't speak to us, so it is my brother, my mother and myself. My mom is wasting away from something she is keeping to herself. I think being the last one would suck.
I saw and bought this movie in about 2011 or so and was obsessed with the ideas, dialogue and fact a movie entirely held in a room could be so captivating. This recap blows my mind and makes me realize all the bits of knowledge I could never fully appreciate then and also nostalgic at the path of self education I have travelled. I think it's true, what he says, not only for him but maybe ultimately for us all in our time. If you told people they would die or have their memories wiped to be reborn while you plan on slipping that fate and continuing on, immortal, they would HATE you for it. It's only human. Of course they would. But I don't think immortals are happy, for all the reasons he gave and that they're bored.
@@joefromdc “and all my friends were vampires Didn’t know they were vampires Turns out I was a vampire myself in the devil town.” Thanks for the piece 👍🏼
Do you ever get the feeling like with Jesus and the apostles. All of them were teachers in their respective fields sitting with John talking and him passing down wisdom and information. Like a loop. He ended up doing the very thing again. People he respected decided to be honest. I get the feeling the physiologist who was his son may have been Judas in reverse. Simulated killing Jim with a gun but didn’t. 😮
John Youngman? The gospels suggest John was the youngest of the apostles, maybe 18 at the time he met Jesus, and about 21 when Jesus was crucified. So perhaps not the right age. Also, if Jesus's ministry took him from age 30 to his death at 33, then again a man who (at least today) looks mid-thirties might not have a credible claim. On the other hand, it would be plausible if John Oldman does in fact age visibly, albeit at an incredibly slow rate -- say, one biological year for every 1,000 calendar years.
Changing identities every 10 years? I would think in Modern Day you could go 20, maybe even 30 or more with the right kind of makeup (adding grey to your hair, hiring a professional makeup artist to add wrinkles, but limit your time out in public). Hell, even make an identity as a recluse, and live 'off the grid' where not many people see you.
This is true, however due to governments government agents and sleeper sales route the country. They would be following him because everything is damn near monitor. So 10 years is approximate in appropriate for this modern daytime. And back then he probably went 20 to 30 years, but they’ll be back down to 10 years because people had a very witchcraft or witchhunt type of mentality. If you’re something different and I don’t understand then you are a demon you must be a demon. Was the mentality of many people back then, even though we’ve come supposedly far today, most people still sport the same type of mentality they fear what they do not understand.
These days it would be too difficult to fake new paperwork every 10 years: Driver's License, SSN, Birth Certificate, etc. He would have to live completely off-grid. But he'd still eventually be found out, once his DNA and fingerprints got into the system. 1 arrest, or 1 visit to the hospital, and the jig is up the 2nd time he goes, especially if it's decades apart, with his face/body remaining unchanged. Off to a secret government lab to be locked away and studied he goes...
I watched this years ago. Its sad its filmed like a low budget TV movie cos the content and dialogue is a little bit thought provoking (couldve gone deeper IMO). Definitely worth a watch, but dont drift off into social media land as it requires your full attention
Stupid bit. He met Buddha and said this guy was the best, but not a mention of Jesus, who worked astounding miracles, raised the dead, and actually rose from the grave Himself, and started the Church… how could he have missed Jesus!?!?
This is such a great movie. For the most part, just a few people in a room, talking. This recap spoils it, though. The power of the movie comes in the slow, deliberate pacing.
...a fascinating and gripping story... it also shows how disbelief can swell into anger and even violence, and how triggered and threatened the conditioned human mind responds to different understandings of life - there is pressure to not stand out too much, or getting attacked... very disturbing, but so widely spread in our world...
Just like Jesus was a copy of romulus, horus, krishna, dionysus, serapis, attis, osiris, buddha, zoroaster, inanna, zalmoxis, tammuz, asclepius, and adonis. And somehow they were all virgin born, had exactly 12 disciples, died for our sins, and rose from the dead exactly three days later. In all seriousness the only similarities between Jesus and mithra's is that they both performed miracles and their holy day is Sunday and even then, that might be a tradition borrowed from Christianity not the other way around. There is literally no evidence of when mithra's birthday was, the only information we have on mithra's cults is second hand and mostly date to after Jesus. December 25th comes from early Christian belief that Jesus died on the anniversary of his conception (Good Friday) and resurrected three days later(easter) so add 9 months and you get December 25th. Of course, nowadays the date of Good Friday changes due to being observed in relation to the spring equinox like it will be observed on March 29 in 2024.
@@greenhardtop5322thanks for saying that, lol. It’d be so much more productive if people actually figured out even the slightest bit what they’re talking about before getting edgy about religion
Criminally underrated and undermarketted. The second started well, but descended into cliche pretty badly. Spoiler: just because you've lived thousands of years, doesn't mean you can go cheap and claim to have been Jesus. It would have been so, so much better to have maybe seen him and then maybe ended as one of the criminals executed alongside him but have YOUR resurrection conflated into Jesus and a religion you despise form from that against your will....but that would be too "hard" and would upset a bunch of people who would almost certainly never see your movie.
Saw this movie years ago with a friend who INSISTED I watch it. Great movie and it does what it sets out to do; make you think. Every once in a while I think about it. If I had a complaint is that the ending doesn't make it ambiguous. This is one of the few movies that could benefit from an ambiguous ending unlike so many movies that try to pull it off. An open ending would have just left room for debate like the friend group. Most movies with ambiguous endings come off as movies where not even the writer knows how it ends or they just slapped together an interesting idea but don't go anywhere with it.
This was a great movie, it mostly takes place in his one room. You are left wondering until the very end, then you get some answers. Worth the watch and there is a second movie continuing the story. It is good too.
I saw this movie a couple of times, it really messed up my mind, The idea of Jesus living among us is chilling and the realisation is indescribable. I recommend the 2nd part of this movie - The Man from Earth: Holocene
it lost me at Buddha and Jesus. 500 yrs contemplating Buddha and here he is today. no benefits from 500 yrs. then he was Jesus, seriously, Jesus was all about saving peoples souls,, all he does is run away from them. selfishly living 10 yrs at a time. with all his time and experience he could have prevented any wars and plages, but no, he just becomes a victim of them. what a waste of 14000 yrs
I would like very much for my life to be like John's. I think it would be such a gift to live for multiple millennia. The things you'd see, the things you'd know. To exist in this same body and be a witness to the history of humankind, to watch our sun become a black dwarf eons from now has been my dream for as long as i can remember.
I have seen this film and it enoyed me how the 'FRIENDS' gathered as educated, civilized, Intellectuals and yet they still behave as the hated filled jelious primatives of 10000 years ago. And isn't this the real message of this film and why he has to leave.
The "Man From Earth" and part 2, "Man From Earth: Holocene" are some of the best stories ever. They actually explain how people are being deceived by churches by twisting something that was originally just a lesson in family values and social morals not eternal damnation if you don't worship their pagan beliefs. The movie needs to be watched multiple times in order to understand everything completely. Something not many movies can actually capture from the original written version. Another movie that needs close attention when watching is "The Ninth Configuration" , if you don't watch it multiple times you miss the actual story line. The patients aren't the storyline, the conflict between the 2 main characters is, the doctor and the astronaut and their belief in afterlife. I've seen all 3 movies about 10 times each. The actual original story was the script for the startrek episode 3x19 "Requiem For Methuselah"
14:35 you mean "John's wife name was Nola" Right? Not "John's Mom is Nola". I had to watch this part over and over again to finally make sense. Because "John mom is Nola" Doesn't made sense at all.
Before the tower of babbel man lived thousands of years. Also when Jesus was carrying his cross he fell in exhaustion. A man yelled to jesus"get up" Jesus said" I will keep walking after I take a rest but you will not die until I return."
Religion makes more sense if it was just an old person with wisdom of the ages tried to help, and like now, the government and power system attacks anyone trying to change or take away their power. Then their story just gets twisted over time.
There is a way that makes sense to a man. It leads to death. Read the scriptures. It will tell you who Yeshua really is. He is your king and your savior, not some fantasy wish-fulfillment straw man. You don’t want to know the truth because you love your lies and Sins more than your Maker.
i actually had an idea for a story about a woman i knew lol who became a time traveler but by going back in time she became "immortal" and lived for 10,000 years lol would have been an epic saga for sure lol
There is an episode of the original Star Trek with exactly the same premise. I don't remember which season. That was the mid 60s. That was long before Highlander. Obviously a very popular premise.🖖
I remember watching this movie; I really enjoyed the story telling for such a low budget. Going into the Jesus part is a bit jarring. It's pretty telling this is someone's "opinion" of what they think about Jesus is about. It's the one part that should have been scratched. He's an average guy who lived through all of history, except for that time he was Jesus and tried to teach people Buddhism (or something). Otherwise, it was good for a movie with such a low budget it had to rely 100% on story telling. Which it does well. Sadly they made a terrible sequel to this movie, which is totally not worth your time.
great movie makes you think wasn't a fan of the doctor but he did add to movie. they did cut part of his actions in the recap not action adventure just a warning if that's all you like hard to find on streaming now much like dogma. need to get a dvd of it if it exists. i had to get a foreign copy of dogma as it's been removed from english speaking countries it seems
the issue is that even if someone like this really is in existence, all the religious lies and explanations made over the whole timespan formed us humans to not believe whats real, we believe an "idea" of something bigger than us. Everything would just fall apart and the whole cardhouse would collapse and result in chaos. Imagine how the strong religious countries would react to such a revelation. It would be devastating the entire base of their infrastructure of believing^^
I have no doubt if Jesus returned and was proven to be really the Son of a diety the catholic church would have Him killed - along with all the other religions. They're all about money these days and nothing else. Look at all the money they have, but they still beg their believers for more. I believe in God, I just don't follow any organised mainstream religions any longer - I follow my own road.
The "strongly religious" would just ignore anything that contradicts their beliefs, including a supposedly immortal man who supposedly helped start a religion. I'm not picking on the religious in particular. Believers in pseudoscience or certain political views can be just as intransigent.
The only problem is they're trying to establish Buddha before Jesus, but Buddha was after. For a guy that learned to be smart and the silk road existing, the writer has left out a large chunk where he would've me Confucius.
Saw this on Netflix years ago it's not from or set in 2020 and the main character is the person people came to know as Jesus. In reality he is a caveman whose cells perfectly regenerate keeping him from aging, and 2,000 years ago he spread Buddhist teachings and other religious teachings about peace and acceptance. It's a good low budget film, a lit of philosophical tropes about life and human nature and purpose.
Hardliner Christians will have a difficult time with the part about John Oldman describing his time as The Messiah. First of all, let's remember this is a work of speculative fiction, not an assertion of fact or truth. Second, the New Testament's gospels don't say anything about the life of Jesus between the ages of 12 and 30, so there's a whole lot of room for ideas right there. Next, scholars have noted the great similarity in the teachings of Jesus and Buddha, and it's not hard to suppose that Jesus spent some time in India or thereabouts picking up on this philosophy. And finally, the resurrection of Jesus is -- let's face it -- the most controversial human feat in history; either you believe it or you don't, and your choice will reflect on everything else you feel about Jesus and Christianity.
I've seen this movie. Definitely worth watching. As I recall it, it poses the question of - if Jesus returned today, he would NOT be what people l expected. And we probably would neither believe or accept him. Because, he'd be a man of NOW, Not the biblical, fictional person we believe he was. He couldn't and wouldn't meet all our expectations and demands of what we THINK he SHOULD be. OR actually WAS.... Catch the movie if you can.
I remember I watched the first 30min of that movie but you don't need to watch the movie to know who was Jesus in reality. He was just a man who created a different religion just to stand up against the Roman Empire. Then the Romans found out about him, executed him and all his followers who were martyrs were taken to Rome. On the way to Rome, these martyrs spread the story and gained more followers. When these martyrs were executed at the colosseum, the movement gained even more momentum to the point that even wealthy and high ranked people in Rome would join it. And that's pretty much it 😅
Languages change often, English sounded like Yiddish, even modern English has changed throughout my life, since the early 80s. Math is the only language that’s a constant and that’s because it’s not created bully humans, It’s a constant / it’s stable in the creation of all.
Lol then why is my daughter doing math in dots now instead of actual numbers? I never learned that in school cuz it didn't exist so yeah math can also change
The "original" English would have sounded like Frisian. Even to this day, one can construct sentences in modern English and Frisian that are grammatically identical, using identical vocabulary (albeit with small spelling differences) and clearly mutually intelligible. Yiddish would have a few similarities but it's not one of the Germanic languages that's actually all that close to English.
Your daughter is using dots probably because common core or whatever has replaced sucks. I used to teach primary school in rural California. Taught 2nd graders math. Tossed out the books and lesson plans and had them learning the bare rudiments of algebra by the end of the school year after going through arithmetic, including long division. Kids can learn a LOT more a LOT quicker if you make it fun, don't condescend, and they have gotten enough exercise to sit still and absorb the lessons.
The premise of this story is pretty much what the original premise of The Highlander was before quickenings and other immortals were added into the lore after several rewrites. The original script for The Highlander was only about one immortal, there were no others - just him - and how the story revolved on the concept of idea/theme of immortality (whether it was a blessing or a curse).
@Tracchofyre the story got changed during his many retellings of how he first "drafted" the script over the years. The one thing I remember reading was about that in a magazine that is now no longer in publication.
Either that, or I went through my own Mandela Effect... who knows? 😅
@Tracchofyre yep, that's how I remember the interview for the article was written. He at one time stated it was a story of only the Highlander, and how he goes through life being immortal and only added details like the quickening, etc. I forgot the rest, but I also remember how one of his drafts included the fact his original immortal wasn't sterile - and that the character every now and then attended his children's funerals later in life over the years.
What happens to John after this story? He eventually goes into space, settles on a small planet that he owns, meets Capt Kirk, McCoy, and Spock. The original writer of this story also wrote the Star Trek episode "Requiem for Methuselah", which is roughly the same story, but in space.
Thanks for that tidbit - I am going to go rewatch that episode right now!
That character never claim he was Jesus, he claim Merlin and some others.
@@sophiawilson8696 By the time he met Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, he had learned his lesson. I just thought it was funny that the guy who wrote the Star Trek episode in 1966 recycled the same idea into a different story 30 years later.
and most of the cast, had acted in some Star Trek series too :)
The Doctor on the Enterprise series is the man wearing glasses.
Idk why but the hug the older woman gave him, where she squeezes his arms after, it’s such a subtle human way to say goodbye, and the squeeze always makes me feel loved, I love the squeeze.
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It's true - this is a fascinating movie. I confess I spent the whole time thinking of ways he could prove his claim, but of course, he doesn't really want to. It is definitely one of those movies that leave you wondering what it would be like to be him. "What if I had lived that long?" What would it be like to know what daily life had been like though all those aeons? What would it have been like to have seen the 7 wonders of the ancient world? To have heard people talking about Stonehenge when it was initially built - the engineering feat of all time? To have survived war after war after war ... to learn and learn and learn and come to understand all the things that had once been mysteries. Just so much to imagine!
Can't see a way that he couldn't prove his story since human scientists know everything he says, and the religious side is nonsense.
Remember he can't remember everything. So unless you write a diary but that would be only when writing became more popular.
Here's something wild: he eventually DID prove everything 300 years later after fleeing Earth when he met several people from the USS Enterprise commanded by James T. Kirk. He was calling himself Flint by that time. The episode was Requiem for Methuselah. Same author, same character!
@@vaasnaad I am going to have to go rewatch that one!
I have seen this movie twice. It is one of the best underrated science fiction movies ever made. The great thing here is... all the science is expressed in dialogue, and the special effects are, as far as I can tell, nonexistent. But the STORY! All revolving around one guy who may... or may not... be what he says he is. This is a masterpiece of cinema, and should be required viewing in schools.
right! and the story takes place almost exclusively in one room.. brilliant production!
same i has read and looking holy bible have only lot story, same than grimms brothers story or santa claus. totally only childrens story all have.
I have watched it multiple times myself and find it a very underrated and creative story.
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I have watched it twice myself, it's brilliant.
I'll add my 2 cents. This is an amazing movie with a great premise. No CGI, just great scripting, casting, direction and acting. What *would* it be like for an immortal? The same theme is found in the short story "Grotto of the Dancing Deer" and Simak's "Times last gift".
If you haven't watched this movie and like thought provoking ideas, go watch it.
I've read the story 'Grotto of the Dancing Deer' years ago, I don't know what happened to the book it was contained in, I'd love to get that book again, because it had lots of other great stories in.
Indeed. Also I think the same author wrote a Star Trek episode called "Requiem for Methuselah" with a similar story line but The Man from Earth was a great watch
@@icepicker8528 From what I have read he wrote a few Star Trek Episodes !!!!! I didn't know about this film until this appeared in my feed, I got the film and I actually quite like it, I'm not so keen on the sequel, if they do another sequel I hope they get rid of the 'religious nutter' who stabbed him, and also please that ending !!!!!!!!! I think they might be going towards a 'Cain and Able' type of thing.
Thats what you get when the script had been worked on for 38 years... Jerome Bixby started with it in 1960 and finished it in 98.
@@SuperSlapek Yeah I guess your right, mind you I suppose if someone said that they were Jesus, I suppose the religious minded might go a bit nuts. I'm not religious at all, so to me I'd ask him how he thought about how he has been remembered and written about for the last 2000 years.
But I really hope if they do a third one, please keep it away from religious rubbish.
"Do you even know the definition of immortality? It means I and only I can not die. Would you like to take a guess at how many funerals I've been to? How many friendly smiles I've seen turn into flowers before a tombstone? Hmm? And some of them don't even get that ending. I have seen people crumble, disappear without a trace. Ending so horrible no one should have ever seen them. And thats not all. I am afraid of loving anyone. For I know that inevitably at some point they will all crumble away, or betray me...."
I in I can't die. This refers to the source of life. Which is the essence of life itself. People are just personalities. That is your soul. Mind,will,and,emotions. When something dies,the source of life is gone .
This is one of my favorite movies. The performances by the actors were fantastic.
I can't believe how thought-provoking this film was or why I have never heard of it before now! Minute by minute, it held me on the edge of my seat! An unknown masterpiece!
The movie is called the man from earth by Jerome Bixby I think he even wrote some Startrek episodes of the original series.
If you liked this movie you might also like the movie Primer.
They knew the earth was round. Columbus was trying to get to Asia not prove the earth was round. The ancient Greeks had already accurately calculated the circumference of the earth.
And with all the technology we have today , they still use the Greek, water well calculation .... and people like you still buy it ...
@@MastaFlex-lz2qzplease enlighten us.
There is a reason I call the 19th century The Age of Mythmaking. So many modern myths like this one come from that time.
Nope. They got it from the Egyptians. They learned from Egypt, Mesopotamia and Persia. Fuck, even the history of science and philosophy has been whitewashed to prop up "Western Civilization"...
@@JakeSmith-em5shI just did
Not a single effect use in this movie yet a marvellous piece of Sci-Fi genre.
A piece of truth is in this story. In his youth, Christ did travel east, interacting and learning from the Buddhists there, who to this day acknowledge Christ as a friend.
Probably the last serious movie to ask these questions. Just sit there and talk for 2 hours, and it's brilliant
This is one of the best movies I've ever seen. So good.
As a christian do Iove how the world seems to try so hard to negate Christ as just a teaching of someone else. Yet all other religions acknowledge Christ in this way. Very intersting isn't it?
Amen. What brought me to Christ is after much study and trying to prove that it is just not true (including my Wicca days), one thing came to the top of everything else; why, if He isn't real, do people have such hate and anger and trying to prove what they themselves say, isn't real? Out of all the other beliefs, why are Christians hated and reviled most? A belief to love one another as yourself. To turn the other cheek at times. To not act of hatre but of love. But to stand on truth and be steadfast. Yet, people hate those that do those things taught by those that follow Christ. Then I started to read the Bible with an open-mind. When I was most humbled, I seen why Christ is real and began to follow Him. And it is a harder life at first because people with hate you. But remember they hate us because they hated Jesus first.
@@ahuman4386 or maybe the vatican starting wars, leaders starting wars, the powerfuls justifying their greeds all in the name of Christianity. Maybe you should not ask why Christianity is hated, maybe you should ask what Christians did to be hated. Im not saying Christians did not do good deeds, but they are the top dog. And people hate the top dog.
i thank god the wickens taught the second christian how to form sentences :/
@@ahuman4386?? Alot of religions were around before christian, Asia has entire books that were made way before the Bible existed.
Oh yeah this is one of the best hidden gems of sci-fi drama and great story telling. I would highly recommend it as a much watch.👍👍
This would be a realistic scenario for an immortal.
This was done already. It's called "Highlander". There can be only One!
😂 yea but Duncan did it better 😅
A real thinker. I enjoyed this film very much. Thanks
One of my favorite movies. There was a follow-up movie. The ending of which was disturbing. I would hope they would finish the storyline as the FBI was looking for serial killer whose spree covered over 150 years.
I like this movie also didn't know there was a sequel.
What was the name of the sequel?
@@chrisp1355 "The Man from Earth: Holocene"
My theory that it the other immortal and he was Alexander The Great who been looking John Old since 16 century.
What's the title of the follow up movie
The Holocene version is great too . Cleverly done ! Is there any more ??
Great movie and great acting from the whole cast.
It always struck me as funny though. That pretty much all the actors had previously starred in various Star Trek series :)
As for immortality, relating to this film, imagine your own close friends group. Imagine being the last one alive from that group (someone always is). In a lot of ways, you would feel like the protagonist of this film. I think this films taps into that too.
Yes, and that's my mom. She lost all her younger siblings, then close relatives and finally all her friends, one by one. The last close friend she had died last month. Mom drowned in sorrow and had a mild stroke.
@@humanbeing1429 I'm sorry, my dad is the sole survivor of his family. His brother's children don't speak to us, so it is my brother, my mother and myself. My mom is wasting away from something she is keeping to herself. I think being the last one would suck.
I saw and bought this movie in about 2011 or so and was obsessed with the ideas, dialogue and fact a movie entirely held in a room could be so captivating. This recap blows my mind and makes me realize all the bits of knowledge I could never fully appreciate then and also nostalgic at the path of self education I have travelled. I think it's true, what he says, not only for him but maybe ultimately for us all in our time. If you told people they would die or have their memories wiped to be reborn while you plan on slipping that fate and continuing on, immortal, they would HATE you for it. It's only human. Of course they would. But I don't think immortals are happy, for all the reasons he gave and that they're bored.
If you notice in most vampire movies, the older ones slp for years for that exact reason
@@joefromdc “and all my friends were vampires
Didn’t know they were vampires
Turns out I was a vampire myself in the devil town.”
Thanks for the piece 👍🏼
Good sci-fi does not require special effects, just good story telling and good acting.
One novel that examines what practical immortality would do to people's lives in a group context is A Feast Unknown. An underground classic.
Do you ever get the feeling like with Jesus and the apostles. All of them were teachers in their respective fields sitting with John talking and him passing down wisdom and information. Like a loop. He ended up doing the very thing again. People he respected decided to be honest. I get the feeling the physiologist who was his son may have been Judas in reverse. Simulated killing Jim with a gun but didn’t. 😮
Yes this was an amazing movie, I watched a room full people just talking and it was never boring.
It would have been better if he claimed to have been the apostle John
John Youngman? The gospels suggest John was the youngest of the apostles, maybe 18 at the time he met Jesus, and about 21 when Jesus was crucified. So perhaps not the right age. Also, if Jesus's ministry took him from age 30 to his death at 33, then again a man who (at least today) looks mid-thirties might not have a credible claim. On the other hand, it would be plausible if John Oldman does in fact age visibly, albeit at an incredibly slow rate -- say, one biological year for every 1,000 calendar years.
@@davidanderson_surrey_bcif his cells regenerate, he would never have the appearance of aging.
Changing identities every 10 years?
I would think in Modern Day you could go 20, maybe even 30 or more with the right kind of makeup (adding grey to your hair, hiring a professional makeup artist to add wrinkles, but limit your time out in public).
Hell, even make an identity as a recluse, and live 'off the grid' where not many people see you.
This is true, however due to governments government agents and sleeper sales route the country. They would be following him because everything is damn near monitor. So 10 years is approximate in appropriate for this modern daytime. And back then he probably went 20 to 30 years, but they’ll be back down to 10 years because people had a very witchcraft or witchhunt type of mentality. If you’re something different and I don’t understand then you are a demon you must be a demon. Was the mentality of many people back then, even though we’ve come supposedly far today, most people still sport the same type of mentality they fear what they do not understand.
These days it would be too difficult to fake new paperwork every 10 years: Driver's License, SSN, Birth Certificate, etc. He would have to live completely off-grid. But he'd still eventually be found out, once his DNA and fingerprints got into the system. 1 arrest, or 1 visit to the hospital, and the jig is up the 2nd time he goes, especially if it's decades apart, with his face/body remaining unchanged.
Off to a secret government lab to be locked away and studied he goes...
I think for an character like this. Probably the persone is a billionaire. He can hides himself from anything and anyone
Aka DCs Vandal Savage, one of my favorite villains.
When this was a Star Trek episode, it was called 'Requiem For Methusala'.. Good to see Tony Todd and John Billingsly on set.
Ah yes, I remember. This is the movie about The Emporer of Mindkind (40k), and what he liked to do before the Galaxy went tits up.
I watched this years ago. Its sad its filmed like a low budget TV movie cos the content and dialogue is a little bit thought provoking (couldve gone deeper IMO). Definitely worth a watch, but dont drift off into social media land as it requires your full attention
i think the low budget is what makes it work so well ;)
Stupid bit. He met Buddha and said this guy was the best, but not a mention of Jesus, who worked astounding miracles, raised the dead, and actually rose from the grave Himself, and started the Church… how could he have missed Jesus!?!?
This is such a great movie. For the most part, just a few people in a room, talking. This recap spoils it, though. The power of the movie comes in the slow, deliberate pacing.
...a fascinating and gripping story... it also shows how disbelief can swell into anger and even violence, and how triggered and threatened the conditioned human mind responds to different understandings of life - there is pressure to not stand out too much, or getting attacked... very disturbing, but so widely spread in our world...
What makes life so precious is that it is limited. Failing to age & die means never having a true connection with any part of humanity.
Jesus was a copy of Mithra. Mithra's birthday is Dec 25th 2,000 years before Christians took it over.
Jesus wasn't born in December
Mithra? Who he or it copy from?.
Just like Jesus was a copy of romulus, horus, krishna, dionysus, serapis, attis, osiris, buddha, zoroaster, inanna, zalmoxis, tammuz, asclepius, and adonis. And somehow they were all virgin born, had exactly 12 disciples, died for our sins, and rose from the dead exactly three days later.
In all seriousness the only similarities between Jesus and mithra's is that they both performed miracles and their holy day is Sunday and even then, that might be a tradition borrowed from Christianity not the other way around. There is literally no evidence of when mithra's birthday was, the only information we have on mithra's cults is second hand and mostly date to after Jesus. December 25th comes from early Christian belief that Jesus died on the anniversary of his conception (Good Friday) and resurrected three days later(easter) so add 9 months and you get December 25th. Of course, nowadays the date of Good Friday changes due to being observed in relation to the spring equinox like it will be observed on March 29 in 2024.
@@greenhardtop5322thanks for saying that, lol. It’d be so much more productive if people actually figured out even the slightest bit what they’re talking about before getting edgy about religion
Please do a break down of the next movie in this series. Very good. I feel like i just watched the entire movie.
Criminally underrated and undermarketted.
The second started well, but descended into cliche pretty badly.
Spoiler: just because you've lived thousands of years, doesn't mean you can go cheap and claim to have been Jesus.
It would have been so, so much better to have maybe seen him and then maybe ended as one of the criminals executed alongside him but have YOUR resurrection conflated into Jesus and a religion you despise form from that against your will....but that would be too "hard" and would upset a bunch of people who would almost certainly never see your movie.
Well, it might upset the bible bashers in the US but most of the world wouldn't care and still go to see it.
i'm confused.. this is what happens in the movie
Well written couple of movies. I really enjoyed.
I love this movie. It causes you to think. To question. To imagine.
Most movies do this...
Saw this movie years ago with a friend who INSISTED I watch it. Great movie and it does what it sets out to do; make you think. Every once in a while I think about it. If I had a complaint is that the ending doesn't make it ambiguous. This is one of the few movies that could benefit from an ambiguous ending unlike so many movies that try to pull it off. An open ending would have just left room for debate like the friend group. Most movies with ambiguous endings come off as movies where not even the writer knows how it ends or they just slapped together an interesting idea but don't go anywhere with it.
This was a great movie, it mostly takes place in his one room. You are left wondering until the very end, then you get some answers. Worth the watch and there is a second movie continuing the story. It is good too.
Was a great movie and it made a lot of sense when he explained it.
I saw this movie a couple of times, it really messed up my mind, The idea of Jesus living among us is chilling and the realisation is indescribable.
I recommend the 2nd part of this movie - The Man from Earth: Holocene
It's a very engrossing movie with zero special effects, and one set.
it lost me at Buddha and Jesus.
500 yrs contemplating Buddha and here he is today. no benefits from 500 yrs. then he was Jesus, seriously, Jesus was all about saving peoples souls,, all he does is run away from them. selfishly living 10 yrs at a time.
with all his time and experience he could have prevented any wars and plages, but no, he just becomes a victim of them. what a waste of 14000 yrs
Your basically retelling highlander without the fighting for the prize
“There can be only ONE!”
Kids don’t know about Highlander 😆.
I would like very much for my life to be like John's. I think it would be such a gift to live for multiple millennia. The things you'd see, the things you'd know. To exist in this same body and be a witness to the history of humankind, to watch our sun become a black dwarf eons from now has been my dream for as long as i can remember.
And Ohh, the Taxes you'd pay.
I have seen this film and it enoyed me how the 'FRIENDS' gathered as educated, civilized, Intellectuals and yet they still behave as the hated filled jelious primatives of 10000 years ago. And isn't this the real message of this film and why he has to leave.
The "Man From Earth" and part 2, "Man From Earth: Holocene" are some of the best stories ever. They actually explain how people are being deceived by churches by twisting something that was originally just a lesson in family values and social morals not eternal damnation if you don't worship their pagan beliefs.
The movie needs to be watched multiple times in order to understand everything completely. Something not many movies can actually capture from the original written version. Another movie that needs close attention when watching is "The Ninth Configuration" , if you don't watch it multiple times you miss the actual story line. The patients aren't the storyline, the conflict between the 2 main characters is, the doctor and the astronaut and their belief in afterlife. I've seen all 3 movies about 10 times each.
The actual original story was the script for the startrek episode 3x19 "Requiem For Methuselah"
14:35 you mean "John's wife name was Nola" Right? Not "John's Mom is Nola". I had to watch this part over and over again to finally make sense. Because "John mom is Nola" Doesn't made sense at all.
My old lady's name is Nola.
@@guugleiswatching I know, the narration said, "Nola was John mom
@@spectra9954 uhhh how d'you know? I was just saying that my lady friend name is Nola.
@@guugleiswatching ok
this happened to me too! i just figured i misunderstood as it became clear from context that john was the guys dad
This is phenomenal and all forms of story is based on some form of truth
Before the tower of babbel man lived thousands of years. Also when Jesus was carrying his cross he fell in exhaustion. A man yelled to jesus"get up" Jesus said" I will keep walking after I take a rest but you will not die until I return."
It really was a great movie.i would have liked to see more like flash backs.
i bet the other person he met was the Count of St. Germain
Aiight
Who?
There was a sequel where some high schoolers figure him out
What was that movie called I know this movie is called the man from earth. But this has a narrator in the movie the cast spoke.
we don't talk about it :/
I Love this movie , took a long time to find it again online . this movie is so underrated . i think its fantastic .
😂 Barron will get it all, and take great delight in flipping the birdie to Don Jr, Eric , and Ivanka. 😂😂
Religion makes more sense if it was just an old person with wisdom of the ages tried to help, and like now, the government and power system attacks anyone trying to change or take away their power. Then their story just gets twisted over time.
Of course it does, because that's the only way your human mind can accept it. Some people have had real experiences with God.
How much sense does the absence of religion make to you?
@@txcaviaha
There is a way that makes sense to a man. It leads to death. Read the scriptures. It will tell you who Yeshua really is. He is your king and your savior, not some fantasy wish-fulfillment straw man. You don’t want to know the truth because you love your lies and Sins more than your Maker.
@@johntessier8064he never existed. And the maker doesn't care about so called sins.
If immortality was real, it would be both a gift and a curse
This is a good movie. I like it.
i actually had an idea for a story about a woman i knew lol who became a time traveler but by going back in time she became "immortal" and lived for 10,000 years lol would have been an epic saga for sure lol
There is an episode of the original Star Trek with exactly the same premise. I don't remember which season. That was the mid 60s. That was long before Highlander. Obviously a very popular premise.🖖
season three and episode 20
I remember watching this movie; I really enjoyed the story telling for such a low budget. Going into the Jesus part is a bit jarring. It's pretty telling this is someone's "opinion" of what they think about Jesus is about. It's the one part that should have been scratched. He's an average guy who lived through all of history, except for that time he was Jesus and tried to teach people Buddhism (or something). Otherwise, it was good for a movie with such a low budget it had to rely 100% on story telling. Which it does well.
Sadly they made a terrible sequel to this movie, which is totally not worth your time.
great movie
makes you think
wasn't a fan of the doctor but he did add to movie. they did cut part of his actions in the recap
not action adventure just a warning if that's all you like
hard to find on streaming now much like dogma. need to get a dvd of it if it exists. i had to get a foreign copy of dogma as it's been removed from english speaking countries it seems
What’s the name of the movie?
This movie only chatting but fascinating..not boring make us thinking what if..
the issue is that even if someone like this really is in existence, all the religious lies and explanations made over the whole timespan formed us humans to not believe whats real, we believe an "idea" of something bigger than us. Everything would just fall apart and the whole cardhouse would collapse and result in chaos. Imagine how the strong religious countries would react to such a revelation. It would be devastating the entire base of their infrastructure of believing^^
I have no doubt if Jesus returned and was proven to be really the Son of a diety the catholic church would have Him killed - along with all the other religions. They're all about money these days and nothing else. Look at all the money they have, but they still beg their believers for more. I believe in God, I just don't follow any organised mainstream religions any longer - I follow my own road.
Relax, it's just a movie, lol.
Really? So, if tomorrow everyone comes to know there's no God or no heaven/hell, everyone would turn into murderers?
The "strongly religious" would just ignore anything that contradicts their beliefs, including a supposedly immortal man who supposedly helped start a religion. I'm not picking on the religious in particular. Believers in pseudoscience or certain political views can be just as intransigent.
You need to watch the SECOND movie then, because it shows what would happen almost blow-by-blow as you suggested.
Love this film, it was so interesting, once I got into it I didn't want it to end ❤
The only problem is they're trying to establish Buddha before Jesus, but Buddha was after. For a guy that learned to be smart and the silk road existing, the writer has left out a large chunk where he would've me Confucius.
It seems that Bhudda's time was about 4 centuries before Jesus.
@@Loukyan Yeah a big plot hole there, when the Buddhist religion is only 2,500 years ago. So it would then create a 1,500 year absence.
@@growlusnotneeded3251Christianity is only 2000 years old. Buddha existed before Jesus. This is fairly common knowledge. You are mistaken.
What movie title is this I seriously want to watch this.
I went into this movie without knowing anything about it...Blew my mind. Great movie. I didn't like the 2nd one.
Really good movie !
I had never heard of it until now, i will watch it.
Saw this on Netflix years ago it's not from or set in 2020 and the main character is the person people came to know as Jesus. In reality he is a caveman whose cells perfectly regenerate keeping him from aging, and 2,000 years ago he spread Buddhist teachings and other religious teachings about peace and acceptance. It's a good low budget film, a lit of philosophical tropes about life and human nature and purpose.
Cool havent sen this one 😮
There was a Star Trek episode with the same idea.
I loved that movie, but alas, as is so often the case they did a sequel which destroyed the "Dream" of the movie.
So good❤
The problems of Saint Germaine... put simply,... immortality can be a curse!
Hardliner Christians will have a difficult time with the part about John Oldman describing his time as The Messiah. First of all, let's remember this is a work of speculative fiction, not an assertion of fact or truth. Second, the New Testament's gospels don't say anything about the life of Jesus between the ages of 12 and 30, so there's a whole lot of room for ideas right there. Next, scholars have noted the great similarity in the teachings of Jesus and Buddha, and it's not hard to suppose that Jesus spent some time in India or thereabouts picking up on this philosophy. And finally, the resurrection of Jesus is -- let's face it -- the most controversial human feat in history; either you believe it or you don't, and your choice will reflect on everything else you feel about Jesus and Christianity.
title please
I've seen this movie. Definitely worth watching. As I recall it, it poses the question of - if Jesus returned today, he would NOT be what people l expected. And we probably would neither believe or accept him. Because, he'd be a man of NOW, Not the biblical, fictional person we believe he was.
He couldn't and wouldn't meet all our expectations and demands of what we THINK he SHOULD be. OR actually WAS.... Catch the movie if you can.
Great movie this one.
It's a great movie, I've seen it more than once. I also saw the sequel which is ok.
What's the name of the movie
The Man from Earth (2007)
Immortal: Do not speak to me about religeon, witch! I was there when it was created!
This was actually a great movie.
Okay what’s the name of the movie please?
Cool thanks.
I remember I watched the first 30min of that movie but you don't need to watch the movie to know who was Jesus in reality.
He was just a man who created a different religion just to stand up against the Roman Empire.
Then the Romans found out about him, executed him and all his followers who were martyrs were taken to Rome.
On the way to Rome, these martyrs spread the story and gained more followers. When these martyrs were executed at
the colosseum, the movement gained even more momentum to the point that even wealthy and high ranked people in Rome would join it.
And that's pretty much it 😅
14000 or 4000? Video said 4000 right?
DNA will make it harder for these types to stay hidden!
loved this movie, one of my favorites.
What if you leave me alone, and i wouldn't tell this unsual story that i live 25,000 ago 🤣i bet you will call me crazy
The movies pretty good it's worth the watch
Fantastic story. Worth the watch.
....don't watch the sequel. It was bad and makes a mockery of the original.
Both the movies are directed by the same person. Richard Schenkman.
But written by different people.
John’s son dies in his arms
Languages change often, English sounded like Yiddish, even modern English has changed throughout my life, since the early 80s. Math is the only language that’s a constant and that’s because it’s not created bully humans, It’s a constant / it’s stable in the creation of all.
Math did bully . Google discovery of irrational numbers and resulting deaths by Pythagorean sect
I'm sorry, but English has never sounded like Yiddish, especially older versions of English that don't have the Middle English vowel shift.
Lol then why is my daughter doing math in dots now instead of actual numbers? I never learned that in school cuz it didn't exist so yeah math can also change
The "original" English would have sounded like Frisian. Even to this day, one can construct sentences in modern English and Frisian that are grammatically identical, using identical vocabulary (albeit with small spelling differences) and clearly mutually intelligible.
Yiddish would have a few similarities but it's not one of the Germanic languages that's actually all that close to English.
Your daughter is using dots probably because common core or whatever has replaced sucks.
I used to teach primary school in rural California. Taught 2nd graders math. Tossed out the books and lesson plans and had them learning the bare rudiments of algebra by the end of the school year after going through arithmetic, including long division. Kids can learn a LOT more a LOT quicker if you make it fun, don't condescend, and they have gotten enough exercise to sit still and absorb the lessons.