So tonight, I was watching various movies on Netflix streaming, and decided to watch one it had recommended before, but I hadn’t watched. Jerome Bixby’s The Man from Earth, it has a very interesting premise, what if you were 140 centuries old? Would you have anything to prove you were? Would your friends be able to prove you are not?

This is a story of a professor who claims that he is one of our earliest ancestors, and he just never died. His friends, who are fellow professor’s are at first thinking he is only telling them a story, but how could you really prove that the person next to you is only 35, and not 140 centuries old?

So Sunday, I went to go see The Curious Case of Benjamin Button at my local theater. It is a very interesting film, though I did find it expects you to really suspend all of your beliefs about what you know about the human condition.

In this story Benjamin grows up while getting physically younger. He happens to be growing up in an Old Folks home that his adoptive parents run, so all of the other patients there believe he is the same age as they are. This leads to some disappointments when people are surprised as to how young Benjamin acts at times, thinking he is in his 80′s not 7.

Overall, a very good movie, but takes a while to get to the action, but well worth the wait!