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Rating: What would happen if a group of people from different ideological, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds found out something that openly challenges their own beliefs? If you found out that everything you’ve always believed (and for that matter, everything someone else has always believed) was untrue, how would you react?
This is the question at the core of this film. In fact, this is the development of the film. All 87 minutes of the movie are based on this question.
"The Man from Earth" is a minimalistic film, shot on a tiny budget, and rightfully so, being solely dialogue set in a rather theatrical manner.
Compelling dialogues that initially develop from mere hypotheses that later transform into reality through a detailed story, with a believable yet surreal progression.
The story we are told is one of a departure, caused by a revelation of a palpable surreality that challenges every bit of human knowledge, its history, its traditions and its culture. Fantasies that gradually become powerful tools of power, great questions are paired with great answers.
An hypnotic story, stripped of all its scenic representation in an ancestral rite that restores all its sacredness to the word.
But this story has much more to give us than a beautiful and original narrative. It restores to us the concept of the Great Question, the one that requires continued research, the question that can be asked on any subject. The answers are never predictable, the horizon never fixed. Nothing is sacred, it is legitimate to question anything.
We must never stop asking ourselves who we are.
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