i must have seen a different film!!

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

I don't have much in-depth knowledge of quantum physics, but with a very good high school physics, I had enough prior understanding to realize that this movie is not, in fact, a crash course in quantum physics, biology, psychology or neuroscience. It seemed to me more of a call to realize that we live with many assumptions that may or may not have any basis whatsoever, and that it is completely within our power to break away from these assumptions, from which we create our daily tendencies. I don't think that the movie ever makes the claim that a basketball can actually be in two places at once, or that we can shape water with our minds. The point is that we are in a universe that is growing larger and more confounding with every discovery that we make, and often times we hide within our own addictive tendencies and make the decision not to move forward. It is indeed incredible that we are all made up of the same stuff as the universe around us, but we alone have the gift of observation, thought and decision-making. We, as individuals, and as a race could make better use of this power to be our own God, to define our world as modern science makes both matter and our mind more pliable. Call out whatever facts or inconsistencies you want, that isn't the message that I am choosing to take from this movie. It was thought-provoking and empowering, even though the creators may not have made some of the best decisions with analogies or special effects.

Although one of the tags for this movie is Sci-Fi (and I must agree - a complete work of fiction), the movie portends to "enlighten" us with what they refer to as new and revolutionary, but in fact what they have done is taken a very elementary understanding of various disciplines (neurology, astronomy, physics, and quantum physics), and contorted that understanding to support ridiculous conclusions. First off, there is nothing new or innovative about this line of thinking. Immanuel Kant, an 18th century German philosopher stated once that we are not passive perceivers of the world, rather that we are the creators of the world we experience. This was echoed in the 1999 movie "The Matrix", whose graphics by the way were far more impressive. Even further back there was an Indian guy who used to go by the name of Siddartha Guatama who became the Buddha back before Christ. The fundamental ideas upon which this tragic film has been based are ancient. They are not new. They are not revolutionary. I am a psychology student and the one subject that was emphasized throughout my courses was critical thinking. Part of critical thinking is the ability to spot faulty logic. Faulty logic is simply stating something the sounds like it might be logical, but cannot be either proved or disproved, and this movie is chock full of it:if we believe with every fiber of who we are, it is possible to walk on water. Critical thinking says, show us. Of the 7 billion people on the planet there must be at least 1 human being who with every fiber of his or her being can walk on water - so show us. a zen Buddhist prayed over water, it was left out over night and it took the form of different snowflakes. Firstly, the film-makers failed to mention that water was frozen. They simply said the water had changed. We did not see any footage of this happening - so how do we know that it didn't snow over night? How do we know it is the same water? -so where do the particles go? There is a portion of the movie that claims that when we can no longer observe particles that they "go somewhere" - it's called the law of the conservation of energy and is expressed by an equation you might have heard of it called E=mc2. There is a bit in this movie that has a ring of truth to it - when they talk about how the brain transmits messages, and how our past experience can color the present. There is substantial evidence to support these things, but for the most part, this movie makes wild, and unsupported claims and assumptions. If you want to tell a story, please do so - but do so without pretending that its real. If people can change the physical world with a simple thought, or defy the laws of physics then there should be no problem proving it.

As a fictional Sci Fi film this movie is neat but as a documentary it is more a theological presentation not Physics. The part where this shows this to the viewer is at the end when they introduce those that they interview. Most are educated people of science then you meet the blond woman in with the odd accent. "Ramtha" Master Teacher – Ramtha School of Enlightenment Channeled by JZ Knight. WTF? So I looked tat up and found ….a main authority for the information being presented, (in the film WHAT THE #$*! DO WE KNOW?) is a 35,000 year old warrior spirit from Atlantis, being channeled by this Tacoma housewife turned... whatever

If there's two points people should get out of the movie, it is:1. We train our brain the way we think. 2. If we have a negative (pessimistic) attitude about something, we won't change.I think #1 is very important in understanding why we get upset so easily sometimes. It has virtually nothing about what happened, but more about how we've trained ourselves to react and behave based on certain stimulus. That is why two different people can have completely different reactions to the same stimulus. If you get upset very easily, even at loved ones, and if you do nothing to try to correct the behavior, it basically gets worse and worse over time.Related to #2, if we don't open our minds and accept the fact that the way we've been thinking is wrong, we won't change. That is why people rarely change. In order for them to change, they need to accept the fact that the way they behaved previously was wrong.It is not surprising how certain people have reacted to this movie. I hope that they have their own ways to find happiness. I am sure that they do, but this movie is a step in the right direction if you want to be happy all of the time. If you don't believe you can be happy all of the time, see #2.