I saw a very interesting yet disturbing movie the other day: The man from Earth. It's a sci-fi flick from 2007, and apart from the somewhat original plot, the setting is quite unusual. The main character, professor John Oldman, is about to leave the university where he has been working for the past ten years, and a few of his colleagues and friends want to say goodbye. They gather in his cabin in the outbacks, and as they start talking, an incredible story unveils. However, there are no flashbacks or change of scenery. The effects are entirely psychological due to the things the professor reveals to them. What made me watch this movie was a quote in the beginning of a song that I heard recently:
Time... you can't see it; you can't hear it; you can't weigh it; you can't... measure it in a laboratory. It is a subjective sense of.. becoming what we are, instead of what we were a nanosecond ago, becoming what we will be in another nanosecond. The whole piece of time is a landscape existing, we form behind us and we move, we move through it, slice by slice.
I find this particular quote very intriguing. However, I don't agree with everything that is said in the movie, but it still got me thinking. How does time make us put things in perspective? What is time? What happens when someone does not share our common view of time?
Speaking of time, I think spring is finally here. Considering the unsteady weather we still have a bit left, but it's on its way! It's really unbelievable how much life changes from the dark season to now. Every year we ask ourselves how on earth we survived the winter. And every year we swear that we will not endure such a depressive, comfortless and miserable time again. Well, I'm not going to dwell on the bleak past. To the future and the light!
Time... you can't see it; you can't hear it; you can't weigh it; you can't... measure it in a laboratory. It is a subjective sense of.. becoming what we are, instead of what we were a nanosecond ago, becoming what we will be in another nanosecond. The whole piece of time is a landscape existing, we form behind us and we move, we move through it, slice by slice.
I find this particular quote very intriguing. However, I don't agree with everything that is said in the movie, but it still got me thinking. How does time make us put things in perspective? What is time? What happens when someone does not share our common view of time?
Speaking of time, I think spring is finally here. Considering the unsteady weather we still have a bit left, but it's on its way! It's really unbelievable how much life changes from the dark season to now. Every year we ask ourselves how on earth we survived the winter. And every year we swear that we will not endure such a depressive, comfortless and miserable time again. Well, I'm not going to dwell on the bleak past. To the future and the light!
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