The 2007 sci-fi film "This Man Is from Earth" has garnered global acclaim despite a budget of less than $200,000. Maybe the connotation of the film, the plot, and the character acting skills are not very good. But the creative brain hole and rhythm grasp are really powerful. Compared with other science fiction movies in the same period, Eleven thinks that this film can almost be worthy of the word "god". But unexpectedly, 11 years later, the film came out with a sequel called "This Man is from Earth 2: The New Age". How to say it, well, it is also a "god work".
Unlike the first film, where several people gathered in a small gray room and there were no extra props and scenes throughout, this film seems to have a lot higher "budget", with scenes such as university classrooms, corridors, several houses, basements, suburban mountains, caves and so on. The picture also seems to have become much more refined, well, it looks like it gives people a particularly "high-definition" feeling. If you expect this movie to play the "find the stubble" game exactly like the first one, then Eleven thinks that you should be very disappointed, this film has a douban score of only 4.9 points, and Eleven dimension guesses that this should be the reason.
Just as the so-called greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment, the second film style and the first one are too different, resulting in many people think that this film is particularly bad, it is simply the work of the dog tail. Of course, if you can completely put aside the influence of the first movie and treat this movie as a separate movie, Eleven thinks it is still quite good. At least there is a complete storyline, the character acting skills are much richer than the first one, the scene changes are also very smooth, the debate with the students about Buddha and Jesus in the university classroom is also quite meticulous, and the conversation with the young man in the basement is also very strict.
Moreover, because of the rapid development of human science and technology, it has caused great harm to the ecological environment of the earth, which has led to the "Jesus" beginning to grow old, and the injuries suffered cannot heal quickly, "Jesus". How to say it is also going to die, it feels quite ironic, this film Eleven dimension feels that the connotation expressed is actually a little deeper than the first one, just like the protagonist in the film said: No one is immortal, perhaps after the explosion of human technology, the earth has entered a new era. "Jesus" couldn't bear to start getting old (in fact, because after ten years the Lord had grown old).
The end of the film is an open-ended ending, as to whether "Jesus" continues to live forever, changing places every ten years to continue living, or growing old like ordinary people. Director Scheinkman did not give a concrete result. Of course, the director said in the easter egg at the end of the film that if this film can recover more funds, it is not ruled out to shoot a third sequel, and even people plan to make it into a TV series. Well, Eleven thought it was a very good idea. Overall, this film personally feels quite good, if you are interested, you can go to see it.
After watching this movie, Eleven Wei checked it on the Internet and found that the director of the original movie took the initiative to upload resources to pirate websites for everyone to watch and share. And people made an Easter egg at the beginning and end of the film, calling on everyone to share it after watching it, and if possible, donate some money to show their support. It is said that people have earned many times more income than the release of the film in this way of piracy. In this regard, Eleven can only say a word of admiration.