The Man From Earth
I just watched a really awesome movie. Probably the most I've enjoyed a film in which the entirety of it is shot in a man's sparcely furnished living room over the course of a single evening in real time. It's classified as a Sci-Fi film but to be honest it wasn't really science fiction so much as it was a discussion in anthropology.
The only short coming I found with the film was that some of the characters seemed to be overly invested in the situation and their emotions seem out of control and meladramatic.
Example: A formerly logical adult male suddenly pulls a revolver and begins brandishing it at the man telling his life story (and no, the story teller has not just reveal he has killed a member of this man's family or anything to do with the gun wielder what so ever). It would be on par with someone asking me what I had for breakfast, my telling them, "scrambled eggs" and then having them point a gun at me.
It kind of needed these sorts of immense over reactions though other wise it might have been hard to maintain the attention of some viewers with shorter attention spans.
The only short coming I found with the film was that some of the characters seemed to be overly invested in the situation and their emotions seem out of control and meladramatic.
Example: A formerly logical adult male suddenly pulls a revolver and begins brandishing it at the man telling his life story (and no, the story teller has not just reveal he has killed a member of this man's family or anything to do with the gun wielder what so ever). It would be on par with someone asking me what I had for breakfast, my telling them, "scrambled eggs" and then having them point a gun at me.
It kind of needed these sorts of immense over reactions though other wise it might have been hard to maintain the attention of some viewers with shorter attention spans.