Being Human Page #8

Synopsis: Five bittersweet vignettes that span the entire human history about five different men, all called Hector and played by the same actor (Robin Williams), who find themselves at a critical juncture in their lives. In prehistoric times, Hector lives in peace with his wife and their little son and daughter in a cave on a quite uninhabited island somewhere in the north. His world is shattered when a group of foreign pagan raiders led by a young chieftain and a somewhat pacifistic priest arrive there. In Ancient Rome, Hector is a loyal well-treated slave of Lucinnius, a somewhat naive big trader with political connections. When his latest shipment fails to arrive and the local corrupt governor Cyprion refuses to lend him money for his further endeavors due to bad omen that a professional soothsayer saw while reading the future from a chicken liver, he is ruined. To make things worse, just as Hector plans to ask his master for freedom and elope with his master's female African slave Thalia, L
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Bill Forsyth
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
 
IMDB:
5.4
Metacritic:
33
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
PG-13
Year:
1994
122 min
289 Views


so infinity isn't really infinity.

When did he become Einstein?

Be quiet, Einstein.

Come up here. Your dad

wants to hug you to death.

That's been a while.

Wait till I finish my chicken.

I'm almost done.

You're amazing.

You'll get used to it.

Hey, Thomas,

don't worry about infinity.

Know what that is out there?

A big black sheet with holes

poked in it to let light through.

That's the latest.

That's what I heard.

The whole universe

is inside a speck of dust

in a ball of fluff

in the cuff of a pair of pants

hanging over the back of a chair.

That's not it.

You know what it is really?

The whole thing is

actually stars, planets.

Everything is on the skin

of a bubble of milk

that's about to pop.

It's in a bowl of cornflakes

that someone's about to eat.

Skim milk.

You don't get bubbles on skim milk.

Don't be so logical.

Don't be so unscientific.

I finished my chicken.

[Thomas giggling]

Whoa!

Don't squeeze him so hard

he can't breathe.

See? Come here. Sit down.

I've got a better one.

Well, we're all inside

a speck of pollen

stuck to the wing of a bee.

That's good.

The bee's sitting on a flower.

Don't mention flowers,

Betsy, please. O.k.?

Sorry.

It's all right.

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Bill Forsyth

William David "Bill" Forsyth (born 29 July 1946) is a Scottish film director and writer known for his films Gregory's Girl (1981), Local Hero (1983), and Comfort and Joy (1984). more…

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