The Man From Earth. On netflix streaming.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

What a neat story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Earth

The Man from Earth is a 2007 science fiction film written by Jerome Bixby and directed by Richard Schenkman. The film stars David Lee Smith as John Oldman, the protagonist of the story. The screenplay for this movie was conceived by Jerome Bixby in the early 1960s and was completed on his death bed in April 1998, making it his final piece of work.<2> The movie gained recognition in part for being widely distributed through Internet peer-to-peer networks and its producer publicly thanked users of these networks for this.

The plot focuses on John Oldman, a departing teacher who claims to be a Cro-Magnon (or Magdalenian caveman) who has somehow survived for over 14,000 years. The only setting is in and around Oldman's house during his farewell party, with the plot advancing through intellectual arguments between Oldman and his fellow faculty.

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1. One of the first movies I watched on Netflix a couple years ago

I've been telling everyone about this excellent movie.

[supernova]

2. I liked this a lot

I'm a lover of small indie films and this is just such a one. It's a great campfire tale.. because well, it is a campfire tale. :D

I did however find myself longing for bigger budget enhancements of illlustrations of how he survived as a hunter/gather. As a person just forming a city, how he survived the plague. Nothing big, but a picture book effect would help.

It kinda reminded me of its modern subject counterpart: Mindwalk.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100151/plotsummary

In fact, it might make an interesting evening of compare/contrast to watch the two together.

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3. "Mindwalk" sounds interesting. Too bad Netflix doesn't have it

[supernova]

4. Found it!

It's on Google Video...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9107401959308808776