Watching the movie was an amazing experience because of the two reasons. First, the movie itself is wonderful, a must watch. Second, the environment in which I saw it. You come for exam, certain of the fact that something new is going to happen, and found that it’s a movie which you have to watch. For the first time in my life, I have given an exam which was so relaxing and so much entertaining. That itself made the movie more special.
Talking about the movie, it was so interesting and engrossing that after a while I forgot that it’s not real. After it ended, a logical question came to my mind that how come the protagonist, John Oldman, was present at all the important time era. For example, he has travelled almost entire world witnessing all the important mile stones in the world history. He travelled to east and lived with Gautam Buddha for a while, he himself was Jesus Christ, and he had seen Van Gogh, Beethoven, and Columbus etc. To me, it was not the protagonist telling his story but the whole mankind tracing its journey since its evolution. As if, it was the story of humans starting from their settlement in civilization, witnessing changes in geographical structure of earth, braving deadly diseases to the advancements we have now achieved. After seeing the protagonist, nobody can imagine that he was actually a Cro-Magnon. Similarly, seeing the present form of mankind nobody can imagine all the things that came in existence before this period.
In our hectic life we rarely think about these issues like how we have evolved, what changes have we brought in our way of living, how complex we have made it? But the movie makes you pause and think for the moment. In the movie the protagonist confesses that with the advent of city culture it became difficult for him to lead life simply. At times, he had to even fake his death. This made me realize, how unnatural we have made our life. Man is called a social animal and animals like to roam around freely but for us we need visa and passport to travel to countries whose border we ourselves have defined.
Apart from this, the movie also reflected the innate nature of humans. It’s strange to accept but equally interesting that we tend to listen, see, do, and believe what we want to and think that’s the only reality. It was evident from the movie, when John was telling his colleagues about his reality; they all were so uncomfortable, asking so many questions to prove him wrong. At the same time, Edith, a firm believer and an expert in Christianity finds it difficult to believe that Jesus Christ still exists. On the other hand, the behavior of Sandy was so different just because she was in love with John. May be love brought that entire acceptance in her; she was not at all perturbed and surprised with his reality. Towards the end of the movie, when he confessed that it was all a fiction, all of them were relieved and comfortable.
In the whole process, it became clear that it’s very difficult for us to accept new realities and adapt to changes. We think that the limit lies to the extent we know the things. It answered some of my queries too. Many a times, I held different views about the things being discussed in ethics class because that went against what I have studied in biology but, at that time I forgot that we still know very little and thousands of research are going on throughout the world to unfold nature’s mystery. The basic tenet of science lies on questioning because nothing is true for forever. Even truth changes with context. If we retrospect in past, things were imagined in arts first and then discovered by science. So this movie made me learn that thoughts are really precious, who knows what they will lead to discover.
But, even with so much advancement have we changed? Copernicus, Columbus etc all faced resistance from the masses when they tried to say something new and John faces the same thing in the movie. What will lead to this kind of acceptance is still a question?
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