[extropy-chat] Movie: WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW!?

[Reason]

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> [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org]On Behalf Of Giu1i0
> Pri5c0

> Has anyone seen this movie? Looks interesting - santatcruztoday.com:
> This sure-to-be cult favorite is a hybrid of documentary and
> melodrama, combining a story about an unhappy, divorced photographer
> (Marlee Matlin) wandering the streets of Portland, Ore., with highly
> abstract theoretical constructs about the nature of God and "the
> wacky, weird world of quantum physics."
> The movie has a website (http://www.whatthebleep.com/): WHAT THE BLEEP
> DO WE KNOW?! is a new type of film. It is part documentary, part
> story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects and animations.
> The protagonist, Amanda, played by Marlee Matlin, finds herself in a
> fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired
> life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the
> quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking
> reality... The fourteen top scientists and mystics interviewed in
> documentary style serve as a modern day Greek Chorus. In an artful
> filmic dance, their ideas are woven together as a tapestry of truth.
> The thoughts and words of one member of the chorus blend into those of
> the next, adding further emphasis to the film's underlying concept of
> the interconnectedness of all things.
> http://www.whatthebleep.com/

You're not going to find any truth in this film; the "scientists" are just
babbling and the mystics are promoting their particular delusional
worldview. The result is the sort of dangerous nonsense that can exist in a
society that is largely illiterate with it comes to science.

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