Being Human (1994 film)

Being Human is a 1994 BritishJapanese comedydrama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Robin Williams, John Turturro, Bill Nighy, Vincent DOnofrio, Robert Carlyle and Theresa Russell. The film portrays the experience of a single human soul, portrayed by Williams, through various incarnations. Williams is the only common actor throughout the stories that span mans history on Earth.

In the first incarnation, which appears to be a caveman, a mans family is taken from him by raiders due to his cowardice and hesitation. Before his wife is taken away, she says, Dont lose the childrenThe next incarnation is in Ancient Rome in which he, Hector, is a slave to a foolish master who loses his fortune and is compelled to kill himself by his creditors and orders Hector to join him. Hector longs to be free to find the children and wife he had before he became a slave, but he has fallen in love with another slave and forgets his waiting family. ........

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