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: #605 in DVD
• 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: 108 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

More than what I needed


Interesting but it was too complicated for my adult students and it did not hold their attention very long. I will not use it in the future.

A must see
This movie wil surley open your eyes or at the very least it will grab your attention. Down the rabbit is definatly a must see.

Different Things to Different People
This movies tends to create a lot of friction when discussed. It's easy to see why. It belongs in the new/re-branded area of mysticism that dresses up in the trappings of modern physics. Science as a name has belonged to scientists for so long that their not willing to let mysticism use the name just yet.

If you practice Astrology, science of mind, out-of-body travel and so on, this movie is for you. It validates such pre-existing beliefs with the reputable stamps of "Science" and "Physics" placed on the box. The belief-system is now more aesthetically repackaged and can be widely recommended to co-workers throughout the office without being construed as "hokey".

If you're this type of person, don't bother preaching it to those co-workers in the engineering department, though. It won't catch on with them. Admittedly, I'm one of those guys, but I do understand the appeal. Those with any actual background in the hard sciences will just scoff at this or demand that their wasted time be refunded through your positive thinking.

I was disappointed when I went to see the movie because I was hoping for a study in Quantum Physics, as the movie is often proclaimed to be such a study. It's not. I was hoping to see cool (colorful CGI imagery) examples of sub-atomic particle behavior, the Butterfly Effect, maybe even some of the parallel worlds stuff, and so on (even if that is all stuff widely available on the Discovery channel). While this movie did touch on those things a tiny bit (maybe not the Butterfly Effect), for the most part, it was about metaphysics, pseudo-psychology and personal sociology. The movie has a closer relationship with the daily horoscope than with Einstein.

For those of us who prefer that theories be scrutinized and tasked with proof under the scientific method, we really just have to accept the fact that we got something mis-labeled and wasted some time watching it. There's no point in trying to change the views of the other half. Trying to get someone who loves this movie to read some Erwin Schroedinger over Uri Geller is a lost cause. It's just not what they want and sometimes it's best to just move along and smile at the newly discovered love of "Quantum Physics".