The man from the earth [The Man from Earth] classic lines

Joannie 2022-04-19 09:01:35

No matter how long a person lives, he cannot surpass his age. He couldn't possibly know more than the best of the race.
No matter how long a man lives, he can't be in advance of his times. he can't know more than the best of the race knows
. Ten years of thinking sparks]

Although I have lived for 14,000 years, it does not mean that I am a genius, all I have is time.
Living 14,000 years didn't make me a genius. I just had time.

I met someone, got his name, said a few words, and he died.
I meet someone, learn their name, say a word, they're gone.

Others are like waves that come and go. Like a wave of wheat, it floats with the wind.
Others come like waves. Rise fall. Ripples in a wheat field, blown by the wind.

I get bored every now and then and people keep repeating silly mistakes.
I get bored now and then. They keep making the same stupid mistakes over and over.
[Life cannot be NG nor undoable, for history, mistakes are always repeated, but for everyone in history, most mistakes are the first time ]

The Old Testament sells fear and crime, the New Testament sells moral codes of kindness
The old testment sells fear and guilt. The new testment is a good code of ethics.

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  • Thaddeus 2021-10-26 03:30:44

    How much would it cost to save more than just making movies like this? The discussion on history, religion, biology, psychology, etc., is certainly profound and fascinating, but... it doesn’t give me much thinking, and it feels far away. The whole film is like a few friends sitting around and telling ghost stories when I was young... It's quite interesting.

  • Greyson 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    As a movie, it cannot visualize the concept in the script, so why can't it be turned into a drama or a TV series? One person can conquer so many Chinese audiences in 80 minutes, no wonder the special effects industry is in recession.

The Man from Earth quotes

  • Art: What you're saying, it offends common sense.

    John Oldman: So does Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, that's the way nature works.

  • Dan: The objective measure of a clock, is another clock.