Little Dialogue driven film based on a play of the same name that at the very least is fairly interesting most of the time.
The premise is simple, a teacher who has just resigned invites a few of his colleagues over to say goodbye and drops a bit of a bombshell which I shant spoil.
Now then, the whole film is set pretty much in a single room except for a few excursions to another room or to outside. The cast is only 7 deep, and as I said in the beginning, plays sort of like a play but transfers to the screen pretty well.
The whole cast is fairly strong except for what I thought was a pretty bad ending, not in concept so much as execution on both the actors and the scripts part, but the idea was good enough that it didn't bother me much.
Being a dialogue driven film is really fucking hard, it's so easy to lose the viewer in a movie like this because when the dialogue starts to stray and you start to lose interest, it isn't like there's an action scene, a joke or an alien explosion coming to get you back into the flow. This film has a couple of slow moments but the subject matter is so fascinating that I think most people will be willing to tough it out thru those stretches.
All in all we've got a solid little movie for the brain, whose shortcomings are more than made up for by it's originality and ability to interest the viewer.
You'll enjoy spending some time with The Man From Earth.
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