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Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

intheair1987 It's quite unfair for those who tune in for the science stuff that the latter half of the movie started going "spiritual". It's really exciting for the scientific parts, but I gotta say, you see, science experiments that seem unexplainable are often inconclusive, controversial, debatable, and might later be explainable. For example: the 2 slit experiment. Remember the tiny electrons that got shoot out? As it turns out, they don't emit light. So for scientists to be able to observe it, the observation device (which is presented in the movie as a big eye) shoots out photons somehow to make the electron detectable. So, what collapses the wave function of the electrons to become particles is actually caused by the photons. It's called the observer effect. Something like taking a photo of a man and he closes his eyes because of the flash. Plus, the latter half of the movie is really, really creepy. It's like they were trying to convince you and convert you into some kind of spiritual cult, like a cult gathering or wake-up-now gathering, brainwashing. I am truly disappointed.

lisaofshades I guess it depends how much you like to be confronted to new possibilities.There's a war between science and religion, and this movie tells them that they are both wrong, and right, and bring them together... so yeah it's mind blowing.I never could understand quantum physics because I'd have too much to learn before it, but they made it extremely easy to understand... and it was mind blowing.I am not one of those people who rely on ads to tell them the "truth", who they are and what they want... I'm a free thinker and the weirder the better, but this movie made so much sense with my own experiences.I almost died and no I didn't see a light or Santa on a cloud...I simply asked myself "what does it looks like after death"... but then my inner voice told me that it's not the right question... so I took some time to think, and since I was letting go of life itself slowly, my mind was particularly open... so I asked: "What does the existence looks like, outside of matter and outside of time?" And then I saw... endless possibilities spreading like the branches of a tree into the future, endless possibilities to reach the same present, like roots... then an endless forest for all living creatures on the planet... that were, are, and will be... My mind opened from a dot in a line... to everything.At another moment,I came to the realization that all sentient being are people. There's no difference between us and animals, even insects. We all make choices and learn, feel, live. (and this really offended me in the movie, to say that animals can't choose because of their frontal lobe, that's just ego. But they did try so hard to open their mind that they have respectable views anyway.) But every single cells in your body can feel, send messages, have different needs, different functions... so from this view... it means that every cells of your body is a different person.And it is true.You are actually the sum of a community of beings, working together. You are all those people who have been, are, and will be. (Every 7 years your whole body is renewed into completely new cells) Just like society.We think we're separate, as a cell feel differently and look separated under a microscope... but when you stand further enough, with a wide enough view and open mind... you see the whole... as one.So just like your brain is made of a network of neurones... that were, are and will be... your whole brain is like one neurone in the whole creation... and the cumulation of thoughts, that influences the world, is what we call god. Deeper than your conscious mind... your sub-sub conscious... is the universe's self awareness... the mind and will of god...Your own thoughts affects your body, and the sums of the thoughts of the collective affects the world... the actions of one might seem to have little impact, but the actions of many in the same direction can change the whole planet (maybe that's why people at the head of companies deny the very existence of global warming... but we did that by burning dinosaur farts in our cars and others, too much too long) And thoughts... have divine powers as well, with an effect less easy to see than moving objects, but intent can still move you and the world itself.I came up with that on my own... it amazed me to see scientists state the same theories with scientific experiments to back them up... and so much more that amazed me... by actually explaining what I noticed but couldn't explain.I do feel like my brain isn't set in the present but can see the past, present and futures as well... They said that your thoughts can change the past... and then I thought that I should use that to help my past self! And I actually did... all those countless times that my inner voiced warned me of danger, the horrors that happened after not ignoring it... and blessing that saved my very life when I did...Because when I was dying... after I opened my mind and saw how immense and magnificent existence is, I saw that I wasn't ready to take it all in, I wanted to stay a little dot on a line a little more...So then I asked myself what I could do to live... and my body simply told me to take care of my needs.I'm still here. Enjoying great movies. Thank you, myself, and all the people who open their mind... to endless possibilities.I discovered this movie from the Dr Emoto's work on the mind's energy effect on water crystals... I believed in chi, but being able to freeze water to observe the effect is amazing... If hateful thoughts make crystals look so damaged compared to the artistic magnificence of love and gratitude... imagine what it does to you and the people around you, knowing that we're 90% water... You can deny it and refuse to believe it all you want.But you'll still feel and live it. Everyday.Enjoy!

Edward Chan Having no prior knowledge about the "what the bleep" series, I picked up this film with the following two assumptions:1) It is an in-depth exposition of quantum mechanic principles and how it relates to everyday life.2) It is *not* an attempt of some obscure occult movement trying to link the "spiritual" and the "physical" worlds.The first 30 minutes or so was a barrage of ideas that may or may not have to do with quantum physics or to each other. Then it got a little more weird ... when they talked about how meditation could influence electronics and crystal growth, and how basketballs can be at one place and everywhere (may work as an example, but not in reality). I started skipping sections after sitting for about an hour. When I heard something about some Atlantic warrior God ... okay, that's too much ... I wonder if the meditation is doing something to my DVD player.I really wonder how they get a line-up of all these doctors and professors. (Okay, one was a priest-turned-physicist, and a couple of them got their degrees at on-line universities). I can only imagine that, the physicists and doctors, at least those who were reputable, were somewhat deceived when they signed in for the interviews.In the end, I felt cheated, to see that, this is nothing more than a propaganda for some new-age occult religious movement, based totally on misrepresented scientific principles. I wish they were a little more up front about their film, or at least put a disclaimer on it, to let the viewers be aware its purpose.In my opinion, the whole film was meant to confuse the viewer with sound bites from all the interviews, while a "message" slowly builds up with the Amanda plot line. The leaders of the cult probably assume that they fan easily manipulate the viewers' intelligence the way they do to their own followers. Sorry, I am not a physicist, but I know enough to say that it is all rubbish.Out of ignorance, incomplete understanding, many of these so-called philosophers and religious practitioners claim that Einstein's theory of general relativity and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle are the missing links between the scientific and spiritual world. To quote the words of Prof. Dick Feynman, "as always ... when philosophical ideas associated with sciences are dragged into another field, they are usually completely distorted." Indeed, this film distorts what is quantum physics and the filmmakers feel no qualms about it.

tragicdragon There is an amusing little tale in Flavius Josephus' "Against Apion" about an ancient Egyptian superstition. A Jew is traveling with some Egyptians who suddenly stand still upon the sight of a particular bird descending on a tree. Their belief demands that they stand still as long as the bird remains perched on the tree branch. The bird is supposed to be able to foresee the future. Then the Jew shoots the bird and says: "If this bird can foresee the future, why did it come here, for then it must have known I was going to kill it." I get the same feeling from this film. I generally take an optimistic view and when something appears to be less than positive, go out of my way to find something good in it. So how come I think this film is about the worst example of pseudo-science and pseudo-religion; degrading, misrepresenting and insulting both science and religion if my thoughts influence my perception and reality? The entire film is going nowhere. The opening animation suggests a parody on new age attempts to fuse science and religion in a rather unwholesome way. Then it switches to documentary style. Very soon it becomes clear that the science presented is anything but groundbreaking. The double slit experiment is hardly new. Concepts of science are thrown around without explaining them. I'm not a scientist so I do not know what a Bose-Einstein condensate is and from my scientifically trained friends I heard that Schrödinger equations are difficult to understand even for them. So let's switch to my field of training: theology/psychology. That's when I felt like stopping the DVD in disgust. People are victims because they think they are victims? Try selling that to someone dying of hunger in Darfur! This is anything but spiritual and a very convenient way to avoid responsibility. It goes even further in degrading religion. The old worn out cliché of God as a big daddy up in the sky keeping score and Jezus as big brother placating big daddy for us is brought up again. "Many" Christians believe this, it is said. Well, I sure don't and how many is many anyway? The interpretation of Genesis is even worse. If this is the standard for both religion and science, I can wholeheartedly understand the scientific criticism on this film It's teeming with logical fallacies. So after the snowflake nonsense I was ready to stop watching this film and label it new age baloney and possibly harmful to the uneducated and uncritical. Trying to find some good, I switched to another perspective. Could this be the depiction of the thought processes of a depressed photographer, trying to make sense of life after being hurt in marriage, her mind clouded by negative thoughts and tranquilizers? In the second part of the film it seemed to go that way. But then the film abruptly ends with Dr. Quantum giving a demonstration of "flatlanders". That book was written in the 19th century! Verdict: 3/10 (some of it was amusing) unimaginative, uninspiring, shallow, containing some truths, some half-truths and a lot of unsound thinking, degrading both the glory of science and God. A better tale can be made out of this. For instance: our unity can easily be demonstrated by showing the evolution of the universe. Our peptides are made of atoms created in stars and flung into space when these stars became (super)nova. I don't need grossly misinterpreted quantum physics to understand that were are all united. The oxygen I breath to maintain the life in my cells is produced by algae in the ocean and trees on land. In turn I breath out carbon-dioxide to feed the trees. This is classical biology and enough to make me gasp with awe and wonder. Move out into space in your imagination and look at the planet. Can you see boundaries separating the landmasses into countries?