i had the chance to do nothing for a few hours yesterday so i was looking forward to watching a movie. went and watched what the bleep do we know?!.
overall, the film raises some interesting points about what concepts in quantum physics do to our perception of ideology and existence.
it doesn't go nearly far enough. this stuff is not new to anyone who's read philip k. dick. multiple realities and states of being, combined with an exploration of how we normally take our physical complexity for granted.
marlee matlin does the best she can with a really idiotic storyline. why does this movie need a storyline? and the section about sex and attraction goes on far too long without being very informative. it feels cheap and pointless.
the talking heads throughout offer up some well-spoken clarity to the general concepts discussed, though. you can't help but feel jz knight (ramtha) is trying to take you for a ride (the kind where you wind up in the woods, dazed, without your wallet). the rest of the speakers don't try to push the profound on you quite as badly.
it seems to me that poststructuralist thought already destroys the concept of the binary and makes us conscious of plurality as a necessary perspective on the world. the film uses quantum physics more to re-construct a notion of the godhead, displacing the old with the new. in this regard, a quantum view is just another ideology. but one that is vastly more accepting of the complex realities we inhabit.
had this been done as a straight-forward documentary i think it still could have had mass appeal. the film dumbs itself down in order to get a wide audience at the expense of being a good film. what the fuck do we know? more than the filmmakers give us credit for.
perhaps a worthwhile starting point if you aren't at all familiar with quantum physics and have never considered that reality and existence are a little more complicated than we've been led to believe. it's unlikely, though, that the people who really need to watch this movie will.
{October 21, 2004 01:57 PM}