Jerome Bixby's The Man from Earth
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Actor: Alexis Thorpe, David Lee Smith, John Billingsley, Richard Riehle, Tony ToddDirector: Richard Schenkman
Brand: ABE
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: ANCHOR BAY
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- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Color; DVD; NTSC; Widescreen
DVD Reviews of Jerome Bixby's The Man from Earth
DVD Review: Going beyond Sci-Fi, a movie about the way we perceive possibilities!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is not a movie review in the sense of what you would consider a movie review to be, but a review into the way one person's perception was after watching this movie. It is a little insight into preparing you to see the movie in a different way than the way you may have seen it without first reading this. I try to look deeper and get something more from a movie then an average viewer would. I try to see what the script writer envisioned within his/her creative endeavor other then it just being a mere science fiction story. This gives me more appreciation to the immense talent of the writer and for those actors who could see beyond the script as more than just a science fiction story, but instead a story of classic human denials, acceptance, understandings and a real view into how scholars might view reality.
This movie will focus your attention to a deeper level and give you insight into a few different pathways of thought. These are the type of movies that I have always enjoyed. Movies that focus your attention into the way we think and the way others will struggle to maintain a certain way of thinking no matter what evidence is set before them. A way of thinking that has been nurtured into them by society and the mainstream educational system. A teaching that most of us are familiar with that does not allow for expanding the mind outside the box of the so called norm. When we are confronted with something that challenges our intellectual premises, (which are the reality of the way we perceive it through our taught learning's), we then find ourselves struggling within our own minds to face something that we were never prepared for and had no prior data ready to deal with. This in turn turns our whole academic world upside-down, which then in turn threatens our intellectual beings that took us years to learn. It is like data fed into a computer program. The computer makes no sense of it without further established data to properly do its calculation and make sense of it all. So the computer rejects the data as do our own computers (our minds), with neither finding a logical place for it. It will try and go through its thousands of calculations, but in the end it will always reject it until more data is fed in to help create a pattern of norm that starts making sense to the prior programming. Our minds are no different with people trying to make sense of something that they never before gave any possibility that such an equation could exist. So our minds have no prior information to draw from (no prior stored data) and it is left with overwhelming confusion and self-denial. This can even lead to a self breakdown to the intellectual being of reasoning.
What is logical to our minds is based on what we already know. So nothing can be logical because we really don't know anything. What we think we know becomes obsolete at some point in the future when we learn something that overrides, with further data, what we once thought provided the correct answers. We are always evolving and revising what we thought we knew in the past to new data which now becomes the standard, but we continue to arrogantly think we have all the answers. Science has a hard time acknowledging that nothing is set in stone and everything we thing we know will change and the answers will once again become new. So why can't science learn from their own history that we are in a continual state of learning and the answers we think we have answered and don't need to answer again will only be challenged as we absorb more data and the amounts of data out there will always be more then what we will ever fully comprehend. We evolve and learn based on prior knowledge, so the more new knowledge we learn will always conflict with what we thought we knew to only end up replacing it. In the end some of us realize that we really don't know anything. We are the observers within time and space who will continue to evolve by only keeping our minds open to all things being possible and what we learn today will require we rethink what we learned yesterday. However, without thinking outside the box we will be hindered in our spiritual and physical growths.
Once we have accepted, even just one, impossibility that becomes a new reality for us, we then can no longer deny any reality as being possible. This will conflict with many people's thoughts causing them to almost go into a mind shutdown that rejects any such possibility. Many within the academia world have never been provided with prior data due to the restrains of their thinking beyond the box which science teaches them it does not exist. When these people are placed within such a situation they have a much harder time dealing with accepting a possible reality then those who have always held open minds to all things being possible. The brain will not deal well with a situation that seems totally alien. When one has no prior data to draw from to reach a logical conclusion, then the brain will merely reach a conclusion of the situation as being illogical. Not that the brain accepts that it can't be real, that is only an assumption we make through our conscience minds, but only because it has not been given the proper data to arrive at any conclusions other then something being illogical due to the lack of data we have provided it. We are then forced to rethink our entire programming. Many will accept a change in reality while others will try to analyze any change in their programming as just having missing data, which could easily be explained in a logical way if we only had the correct information to fill in the blanks. These people may spend the rest of their lives letting this one event torment them while they continue to struggle within their minds to justify the religion of their science, which they think has all the answers to this 3-dimenional world view. Placed in situations like these will scare many people. This movie, while still a Science Fiction movie, is a study into how highly academic people on an individual level struggle with denial and acceptance into a step beyond their world of perceived reality. The movie puts a face on us all too just how acceptant we are to all things being possible or how we limit our realities to a confined area within the box that we are told to never venture out of. In some ways this movie shows us just how those who (the scholars) are suppose to be enlightening us into a higher learning. However, their closed mind views for peering outside of the box of the so called norm of reality is what restrains them from being great teachers and society from being more then what we are now due to the scholars lack of an open mind. We are souls that are hindered from our own fear and physical apprehensions of the reality of whom and what we really are!
Description of Jerome Bixby's The Man from Earth
Synopsis:Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 11/13/07
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
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Based on renowned sci-fi author Jerome Bixby's final 1998 manuscript, Man From Earth is the long-awaited film adaptation in which Professor John Oldman (David Lee Smith) attempts to convince his fellow faculty members that he is 14,000 years old. Shot almost entirely inside Oldman's cabin as he's about to leave his friends and career, the film's dialogue consists of philosophical chatting about the possibility and ramifications of his alleged birth during the Upper Paleolithic era. As his faculty peers are all anthropology, biology, religion, and philosophy scholars, the conversation levels remain high throughout. Oldman's friend Harry (John Billingsley) is well versed in multiple religions as well as in science, while Gruber (Richard Riehle) is invited to the house mid-story to evaluate Oldman's psychological state. Edith (Ellen Crawford) is the Christian voice, considering the religious repercussions of Oldman's assertion. All the while, Oldman's love interest, Sandy (Annika Peterson), remains quietly contemplative and most capable of believing that he doesn't visually age and has seen epochs and historical eras come and go. Humorous scenes, such as when his friends discover a Van Gogh painting wedged into the back of his pick-up truck, keep the story flowing, though eventually heavy-handed conceptualism does make the film sluggish. Similar to some great episodes of The Twilight Zone, Man From Earth does pose enough grand questions about life and death that urge viewers to wonder if such a man could plausibly exist, and if so, what his fate would be. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of this story is its fusion of spirituality and science by providing viewers a scenario in which proof is impossible, in a world where high value is placed on concrete evidence. ?Trinie Dalton
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