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Even Worth It?

posted 19 years ago by My_Other
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I'm just wondering if this movie is worth watching. I really enjoyed I Heart Huckabees and Waking Life. I've heard a lot of good things about this movie, however, someone who liked What the Bleep Do We Know? wrote that it was good too, and I hated that movie with a passion that I can't even describe. It makes me wonder if this is worth watching or not. I really don't want to go through the agony of watching another movie like Bleep.

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates

[–] gloski 19 years ago

i liked this movie and also hated what the bleep, but i hated the huckabees movie even more. in fact, of the all the movies you listed i think this is the most objective and entertaining. also, not that i liked bleep, but at leastit gave voice to a large quasi-religous metaphysical movement that was born in the US and continues to gain popularity, while i love hukabees truely makes you dumber for watching it.

[–] HndsmCelt 18 years ago

This is a LOT less crystal gripping hippy junk than What the Bleep Do We Know... and BECEAUSE it is based on much more serious sience it requires more thought and atention, and of course is less "exciting." Bottom line with Mindwalk is that it is a philosophical and scientific film for people who love thinking. Most casual film goers did not and will not like it, no harm no foul it is not a film for every one. But patient people who like to read about philosophy, history and science usualy love it. It is pretty well based on the some of the early work of the physicist Firjold Capra (Turning Point, Web of Life and Tao of Physics)

[–] Owlwise 13 years ago

Agreed -- the flirtation with New Age nonsense is fleeting, and even that is offered more as "what if?" rather than hard dogma. The film as a whole is intelligent & obviously designed to make the viewers think, but it's smart enough to question Liv Ullmann's Sonja toward the end, even though she's clearly the voice of the film's argument. She doesn't have all the answers, and she's aware that she may be losing sight of basic human bonds & relationships in her pursuit of a new vision of life. Sam Waterston's Jack & John Heard's Thomas both leave her with something to think about, as much as she gets them to reconsider their own worldviews. And it's telling that the final words of the film go to the poet.

Well worth seeing, I'd say!

[–] gloski 12 years ago

nice critique