Why so much hype?

Overrated and overhyped

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

"Am Anfang war das Licht" or "In the Beginning There Was Light" is an Austrian 90-minute documentary from 2010, so this one is already over half a decade old. Writer and director is P.A. Straubinger and this one here is easily his most known work, which also has to do with the fact that he is far from prolific. Anyway, with this film here he gives an insight into the subject of some people living without food, maybe even without drinking and solely living off light. Or I should add "allegedly" because in my opinion this is all a huge scam. And actually it would be better not to provide the likes of Jasmuheen with further attention, so they can get even richer and sell more books etc. And they can also not bait people into killing themselves because they believed in the concept like that lady in the woods. In Germany, we have a proverb saying "von Luft und Liebe leben" and that's what the people in this documentary do, but not just metaphorically like in the proverb. So yeah I am very skeptical and I don't believe in the concept, no matter how many years of meditation may have preceded it. If it is really true then why won't they put these people for 10 days under permanent surveillance and see if they are not secretly having a meal? This would be the evidence then and then it also makes sense to run blood tests etc. to explore this unique phenomenon. But not before really scrutinizing them. So yeah, overall I give this documentary a thumbs-down, not because it was handled badly (on the contrary, for a first film it was pretty solid, far from a failure really), but I find the concept pretty revolting and not deserving of the attention. Another weakness is that it got too scientific in the second half. All in all, I give it a thumbs-down. If you still want to see these 1.5 hours, make sure you got a good set of subtitles as with all the languages included in here, it seems unlikely you really understand everything else otherwise.

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The Light documentary is one of my all-time favorites, as it provides certified reports of personal experiences, interviews and scientifically documented laboratory experiments as evidence that there are people living today who do not need food either to live or to sustain their metabolism! They live on "light" alone, a phenomenon called "breatharianism".What is so incredible is that the director P.A. Straubinger travels all over the world and meets all kinds of people who are living as a "breatharian". This film does not try to push an agenda, in fact, it provides a neutral platform with interviews from both the protagonists and the antagonists. Bottom line is, if this state does in fact exist, then maybe we need to start questioning what science declares as the truth and the whole truth. Maybe we can open our minds more in order to begin to understand what our true abilities are as conscious beings...

The quote at the end of the movie ("Mindblowing if you excuse me") describes it best: This film is a wonderful documentary with a lot of scientists talking but not lecturing. Despite whatever you might think about the people shown who claim not to eat or drink in years, the film takes you on a very pleasant and comfortable journey into the areas of life where science has to admit phenomena without being able to explain them. And further. And further into your own imagination of what might be possible in this world and what not.The director admits that the ending is a bit one-sided but well, it's his opinion on the whole subject and you're free to follow or not.The most important fact for me was the stunning camera-work, the very clever editing and a wise choice in the references/people which appeared in the film.