“WE HUMANS AND OUR LIVES”

AN INSIGHT FROM THE MOVIE “THE MAN FROM EARTH”

Who are humans??? What is life??? What is the role of our heart and mind???

The biggest mystery of all times is that where have we humans come from, why are we named as humans and who has named us, humans. Our “existence” is what needs to be discovered. We humans as everyone knows are meant to take birth, live and die..... So what happened to John Oldman, why hasn’t he died as yet!!! We humans are meant to live for a 100 odd years, then how is it that John Oldman is shown as a normal human in the movie and has still been living for a period of 140 centuries.

I understand that movies are meant to entertain and they do at times cross the line of creativity and imagination but the point that i am trying to make here is why is it that many people like me cannot just stop thinking about the fact that what if the story of this movie actually did exist in some part of this world, a thought that runs across other minds too....... What if there is a person in this real world that has been living over the last couple of centuries??? A question that has no answer to it because may be we do not want to answer such questions. May be we are not ready to think on the lines above “life and death”. We have decided and confirmed to ourselves that life and death are the two sides of the coin that will and always happen. The happening of the former gives the conformance for the happening of the latter.

In the entire movie it is shown that John Oldman had his friends and colleagues always running through an entire mix of thoughts. In the end of the movie when his friends and colleagues actually were almost convinced on to believe him, John Oldman just breaks the ice and agrees to have been lying all this while and that is when we just witness a thought of relief on the faces of all his friends and colleagues. A relief of the fact that yes this is just not possible, a relief that something like this can never exist, a relief that everyone will die someday just like me, a relief that confirms to our thinking, and many such thoughts. This is the relief that has been a cause due to the thoughts of our mind that has created a world of reality around us, which allows us to see and understand things the ways in which, we wish too. Our heart is what allows us to think out of the box but it is our minds that restrict our thoughts to our self created world of reality.