The Man from Earth: Holocene Page #8

Synopsis: 14,000 year-old "Man from Earth" John Oldman, now teaching in northern California, realizes that not only is he finally starting to age, but four students have discovered his deepest secret, putting his life in grave danger and potentially destroying the world's most popular religion.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Richard Schenkman
Production: Falling Sky Entertainment
 
IMDB:
5.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
60%
Year:
2017
98 min
Website
815 Views


Heaven here on Earth right now.

Rational humans have existed on

this planet for 200,000 years.

Right? The New Testament has only existed

for a fraction of that time, Philip.

No, no.

This is liberal theological nonsense.

What, so you're a Methodist now?

- I'm not being clear...

- Nah, you know what?

I've had a personal relationship

with Jesus Christ as my savior

for the past ten years now.

I think I know who Jesus is,

and I can tell you right now you

don't sound anything like him.

I don't know which translation

of the Bible you've read,

- whose version...

- It's so seductive, isn't it?

It's so seductive.

The desire to believe you is so strong.

But if word of your existence got out

and Isabel had her way and people started

worshipping you, it could destroy the world.

I have no intention of starting a religion.

You're a real smooth talker,

Professor Young.

While you're certainly not Jesus, you do

remind me of someone else from the Bible.

Someone with miraculous

powers of persuasion.

Someone obsessed with

transforming the world,

overturning the true message of the Bible.

You're not Jesus Christ.

You're the Anti-Christ.

Cut me loose, Philip,

so we can discuss this rationally, please.

(LAUGHS MOCKINGLY)

Sure, yeah.

Cut loose the Anti-Christ.

- What harm could possibly come from that?

- Why don't you listen to yourself?

A minute earlier, you're prepared

to believe that I'm Jesus. Now...

I'm the Anti-Christ.

I'm not sure who you are.

Maybe you're just a regular guy

who's a really good story teller.

But you're the one who claimed to be Jesus,

and right now, you sound more

like the Great Deceiver.

Do you even know what the Anti-Christ is?

The concept doesn't exist in the Bible.

It's a distortion that superstitious

monks created by pulling

completely unrelated passages together.

Now the word "Antichrist"

appears in the Epistles of John...

but it never refers to a single person.

You know that I'm talking about

the really really bad guy

from the Book of Revelation,

whatever medieval monks named him.

Okay.

What malevolent creature

from the Book of Revelation do

I remotely resemble to you?

There's the seven-headed Beast

who is wounded to death.

His wounds miraculously heal.

You can do that.

The Beast blasphemes God and Heaven,

much like your theology of many paths.

Ultimately everyone left on Earth is

worshiping him.

Seems like you're pushing for a similar plan.

All that's missing is the 666.

You got any tattoos?

(SCOFFS)

The nonsense about the Beast

is fantasy literature and nothing more.

You really don't believe

in the Bible, do you?

It's a book, written by people.

Whatever you are, you're a

serious enemy of the Bible,

and your message could have catastrophic

effects on the Christian faith.

You are a threat.

I just want to be left alone.

I don't believe you.

I haven't lied to you once.

Hah!

I have an idea.

Let's have a little test of faith.

For me or for you?

Both of us.

I know what I believe in.

Okay.

So if I am the Beast

what do you think God

would have you do with me?

Probably kill you.

Then do it.

Let's end this.

I didn't exactly say

you were the Anti-Christ.

I just said it could be a possibility.

Well, that's good news.

If you're not going to kill me

for being the Beast,

you're going to have to let me go sometime.

There's still the possibility that you

could be Jesus, and I can't let you go

until I know one way or the other.

I already told you I was.

That doesn't prove anything.

Then plunge your knife into me

and find out for sure.

If I'm Jesus, I'll survive.

Or die and be reborn.

Maybe you're just a manipulative

story teller, and I'd be a murderer.

That's right.

But it still comes down to the same

choices:
stab me or let me go.

So just, stick this knife

in your eye or something?

Why not place it on my right side?

- Like the Roman soldier with the spear.

- Yes.

So you want me to stab you

right now as an act of faith.

I didn't say that.

But what if I want to?

Then you would be...

(FLESH TEARS)

(JOHN GRUNTS)

Philip.

P-Professor?

P-Professor Young?

J-Jesus Christ.

What...

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

(KNIFE CLATTERS)

(SNIFFLING, CRYING)

Hi, you've reached Philip.

Sorry I can't get to the phone right now...

No answer.

(BEEP)

Philip, what's up? Where are you?

We have Dr. Jenkins, we're really close.

Call me.

So what's your problem

with him, anyway? Hm?

- Me?

- Yeah. What'd he ever do to you?

Aside from the fact that he ruined my life?

That problem?

(SCOFFS)

Don't get salty, dude.

What happened, Dr. Jenkins?

Well, you read my book, Isabel.

Yes?

You were all good friends, academic peers...

He told you his story one night, then

"just kidding" and poof, he vanished.

I was angry. I felt betrayed.

We all felt betrayed.

And I left there that evening, wanting

to expose him for the lunatic

- that I thought he was.

- So you became a ninja stalker.

I'd given up hope of finding

him until I saw your email.

But that doesn't explain how you

went from a skeptic to a believer.

I'm an archaeologist.

I dug deep, looking for the truth, but I

couldn't disprove his fantastic story.

So I published.

And...

Got run out of Dodge on a rail.

Sucks to be you.

Tara...

No, I would agree.

I guess the ambulance

has already come and gone.

Well, they left the front door open.

Maybe there's a note.

Start calling hospitals.

There can't be that many in this town.

- Professor Young's truck is gone.

- Hello? Anybody home?

Still no answer. Philip, what's up?

Where are you?

Hello?

(FLOORBOARD CREAKING)

- Look, there's blood.

- Oh, no.

Oh, sh*t.

Okay, okay.

What went on here?

I don't know.

Philip said he was calling an ambulance.

You need to call the police.

- We don't know what happened.

- That's why you need to call the police.

Philip might have done something stupid.

Don't touch that.

You have to dial 911.

There's a broken chair and some blood.

We don't know what went on.

Two people and a car are missing.

We have to find Philip.

No, you have to call the p...

I'll do it.

Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait,

wait, just one minute, okay?

I don't want to get in trouble, okay?

No one does.

Let's just think about what happened.

If the ambulance came, then

Professor Young is in the hospital.

No. The paramedics would have

stopped the bleeding down here.

There wouldn't be a blood trail all

the way up the stairs right there.

- We're not criminals.

- No, no, you have no choice.

If the cops come,

then we all get arrested, okay?

Forget college, forget everything.

Our lives are totally over, period.

But where are they?

Do you think Professor Young killed Philip?

- I...

- No way.

Maybe Philip killed Professor Young.

Now that is impossible. Because he

would have had to cut his head off.

And there's not enough blood

in here for that.

Ewgh! That's a little graphic.

Maybe they both just drove away together.

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