What the Bleep! Down the Rabbit Hole

2006
6.4| 2h36m| en| More Info
Released: 03 February 2006 Released
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Country: United States of America
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Interviews with scientists and authors, animated bits, and a storyline involving a deaf photographer are used in this docudrama to illustrate the link between quantum mechanics, neurobiology, human consciousness and day-to-day reality.

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WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.
Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.
Portia Hilton Blistering performances.
Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
rha8 A load of pseudo-scientific nonsense seemingly aimed at the gullible by members of a New Age cult/organisation fronted by J Z Knight, who according to John Olmstead (http://skepdic.com/ramtha.html) said the warrior/god Ramtha "...first appeared to her, while she was in business school having extraordinary experiences with UFOs.She must have a great rapport with her spirit companion, since he shows up whenever she needs him to put on a performance. It is not clear why Ramtha would choose Knight, but it is very clear why Knight would choose Ramtha: fame and fortune, or simple delusion?" "...conducts sessions in which she pretends to go into a trance and speaks Hollywood's version of Elizabethan English in a guttural, husky voice. She has thousands of followers and has made millions of dollars performing as Ramtha at seminars ($1,000 a crack) and at her Ramtha School of Enlightenment, and from the sales of tapes, books, and accessories (Clark and Gallo 1993)." Another reviewer, Johann Hari, had this to say: The global understanding of science is being slowly contaminated.If you want an example of this new pseudo-science, check out the dismal, brain-rotting movie What the Bleep Do We Know? which arrived in the UK fresh from sleeper-success in the States. Marlee Matlin plays a woman who is having a strange day; she meets a boy who is capable of bizarre physical tricks, and he asks her, 'How far down the rabbit-hole do you want to go?' The film claims to be a serious study of the philosophical implications of quantum physics, and Matlin's story is intercut with interviews from people who seem to be scientists. At first, they simply point out some of the extraordinary things that have emerged from the study of matter at a quantum (sub-molecular) level. But gradually the film begins to stir in unscientific (and absurd) extrapolations from quantum physics. The movie's 'scientists' begin to claim that discoveries in quantum physics provide proof for a whole range of fantastical New Age claims. They say you can walk on water if only 'you believe it with every fibre of your being'.The real scientist Richard Dawkins summarises the film's assumptions: 'Quantum physics is deeply mysterious and incomprehensible. Eastern spirituality is deeply mysterious and incomprehensible. Therefore they must be saying the same thing.' Sadly, Dawkins' reaction is an exception; many newspapers have lauded the film as a 'brilliant scientific study'.Okay, so it's a dumb movie, you might think, but what harm does it do? On its own, very little. But What the Bleep ... bears all the hallmarks of the new pseudo-sciences. One typical tactic is to take a gap in scientific evidence and fill it with faith-based claims. For example, geologists have discovered a gap in the fossil record which makes it hard to explain how evolution worked at certain periods. The neo-creationists seize on this and claim it as 'proof' that evolution didn't happen at all. (Incredibly, over 40 per cent of Americans believe them). The New Agers do the same with the gaps in quantum physics. (From The Independent a UK quality newspaper).
mitchij2004 I'm keeping this short by saying its not really a documentary b.c i didn't learn a damn thing because I'm totally convinced that everything these brainwashed idiots are spouting off is all completely made up with no actual science to back it up. instead your left with cartoons that make little to no sense, a series of really ****ing lame little side stories about characters that you really couldn't give two ****s about, and an overall sense of disappointment when you're forced to remove the DVD from your player fearing that it will self=destruct itsself rather than be mistreated. i hate it 1/10 (this is my opinion =i hope its helpful)
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?
vikingwench I naively thought that this movie would explain to a dummy like me some of the more curious and fascinating aspects of quantum physics.I guess the "dummy" part of the above equation was the operating factor.What a stupid and annoying movie - to suck someone in with the lure of actually learning something only to find out that this little fairy-tale was about as in touch with reality as the original rabbit hole of Alice in Wonderland.Some re-packaging would be in order to warn other unsuspecting naifs that this is an exercise in credulity with abysmally lame ignorance on display.The best thing about it: anticipating watching it.The worst thing about it: watching it.

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