True Films 3.0 - Kevin Kelly

What the Bleep Do We Know?
This is a wonderfully peculiar combination of a PBS science program
meets new age self-help video. That’s right, a part how-to, part drama,
part talking head special spiced with interviews with real philosophers. It
delivers practical advice on how to deal with this philosophical bombshell:
that the reality of atoms is something we construct in our heads.
This movie is shot straight and sincere but I can’t remember a film more
trippy. It’s an odd kinda-documentary. In addition to very well-edited
interviews with world class physicists and cosmologists, and classy
NOVA-ish special effects, we get the meaning of things as channeled by
the legendary psychic Rama – all the while weaving through a fictional
story of a deaf photographer coming to terms with her handicap. Yep.
Bizarre! Corny! Magical! Thought provoking! The bottom line of the film
is the late-night thought that we’re making reality up! It needs all kinds of
strangeness to keep this argument going in daylight, but it is worth the
ride.
By Betsy Chasse and
Mark Vicente
2004, 90 min.
Available from Amazon
Rent from Netflix
A hundred bouncing basketballs indicate the
hundreds of multiple alternative pathways,
or universes, that each decision could lead
to (above). All these alternatives exist simultaneously
in multiple universes (left).
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