Product Description

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. She is literally plunged into a swirl of chaotic occurrences, while the characters she encounters on this odyssey reveal the deeper, hidden knowledge she doesn?t even realize she has asked for. Like every hero, Amanda is thrown into crisis, questioning the fundamental premises of her life ? that the reality she has believed in about how men are, how relationships with others should be, and how her emotions are affecting her work isn?t reality at all!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #651 in DVD
• Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
• Released on: 2005-03-15
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, German, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 109 minutes

Amazon.com
The unlikeliest cult hit of 2004 was What the (Bleep) Do We Know?, a lecture on mysticism and science mixed into a sort-of narrative. Marlee Matlin stars in the dramatic thread, about a sourpuss photographer who begins to question her perceptions. Interviews with quantum physics experts and New Age authors are cut into this story, offering a vaguely convincing (and certainly mind-provoking) theory about... well, actually, it sounds a lot like the Power of Positive Thinking, when you get down to it. Talking heads (not identified until film's end) include JZ Knight, who appears in the movie channeling Ramtha, the ancient sage she claims communicates through her (other speakers are also associated with Knight's organization). What she says actually makes pretty good common sense--Ramtha's wiggier notions are not included--and would be easy to accept were it not being credited to a 35,000-year-old mystic from Atlantis. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews

"Know"?
The word "Know" implies knowledge and this movie is about irrational belief, not knowledge. Science and reason are used to support religious ideas in the form of New Age only where they can be supportive. The lines of reasoning that conflict with the theology are ignored. The result is a slick series of nonsensical connections.

Pretentious charlatans posing as scientists!
This movie, presented as a documentary, is not based on truth. My spouse, a physicist, noted some claims that were untrue early into the program. I noted the Columbus claim was completely fabricated, and also untrue (Native Americans actually came out to greet Columbus' ships; it has been historically documented). There were no names or affiliations listed for the "experts", I became suspicious, because that is highly unusual for a documentary. I next noted a fake accent/affect by some bleach-blonde that seemed to fancy herself as an "alien" or such, so I looked up the movie in Wikipedia. The three directors are students of Ramtha...a metaphysical cult. It is in fact, a propanganda piece with non-experts or quacks posing as experts. The only academically affiliated physicist on the movie was furious that his contributions were so heavily edited, as to completely distort his comments. He does not at all agree with the assertions in this "movie". Save your money, buy a great NOVA piece or anything but this garbage. BTW, the bleach-blonde woman's occupation listing is a "channeller" of Ramtha, which explains the fake accent and complete weirdness. Bleachy alien woman claims Ramtha appeared to her in the kitchen of her Tacoma, Washington mobile home in the 1980s---now she is a full cult member. Indeed, she was actually "channelling Ramtha" IN THIS PIECE!!! CREEPY WEIRD! A bunch of charlatans...pure, utter garbage. Too bad the Columbia U. physicist got caught up in this trash. I might just burn my copy so I'll feel slightly better.

What the Bleep Do We Know?
What the Bleep Do We Know is an enjoyable film but scarcely a place to search for truth and deep insights about the mind-body relationship. The several experts who participated in the movie occasionally had some very interesting things to say and questions to ask. However, the film was edited to present their comments out of context, and then abandoned each one before they could be examined critically.

This movie was too "new age" and somewhat misleading about the academic or practical backgrounds of some of their contributing experts. While I recognized several of these folks from other fine science films, one was a very charming and attractive lady with a strange accent who turned out to be a new age channeler.

This film is recommended strictly for entertainment and possible discussion. I also suggest seeing it without high expectations, but if you get something positive out of the experience, good for you.