The Man from Earth

The Man from Earth2007

Stars: David Lee Smith, Tony Todd, John Billingsley, Ellen Crawford
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Rating: NOT RATED
Runtime: 87 minutes

The Man from Earth is a 2007 American drama science fiction film written by Jerome Bixby and directed by Richard Schenkman. It stars David Lee Smith as John Oldman, the protagonist. The screenplay was conceived by Jerome Bixby in the early 1960s and… more »



Dan:
Time... you can't see it, you can 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, in stead of what we were a nanosecond ago, becoming what we will be in another nanosecond. The whole piece of time's a landscape existing, we form behind us and we move, we move through it... slice by slice.

Linda Murphy:
Clocks measure time.

Dan:
No, they measure themselves, the objective referee of a clock is another clock.

Edith:
All very interesting, but what has it got to do with John?

Dan:
He, he might be man who... lives... outside of time as we know it.

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