Hippie Tripe


After seeing Nova do 4 episodes devoted to Brian Greene's Fabric of the Cosmos I saw this on netflix and mistakenly thought this was going to be a science documentary on our current understanding of physics and possible nature of time. The first fifteen minutes set at CERN had my hopes up though the sound was poorly done with the narration and interviews barely audible above the background hum of that obscure "space" genre of music otherwise only found on NPR on rare occasion at the wee hours of the morning. As it went on with unrelated topics such as some holdout homeowner in the lava fields of Kilauea, abandoned homes in Detroit, and a cremation of a pauper in India I figured out that the creators of this movie were just a bunch of hippies putting out unrelated stories thinking they were "deep man, deep." Finally, when we got the silly moving graphics at the end, did it dawn on me this tripe was intended to be the "ultimate LSD movie" for weirdos who like that highly unpleasant drug. Only some drugged out Deadhead might find this interesting, for a real immersion into the concept of time watch Stephen Hawking's Documentaries on Netflix or Brian Green's Nova episodes on PBS online.

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