Documentary-drama surprisingly successful
What the Bleep Do We Know?
Directors: William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente
Cast: Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix, Barry Newman, Robert Bailey Jnr, John Ross Bowie
One of cinema's great surprise Box Office hits; one of the most successful films ever made, no less!
Which is strange since it is a documentary-drama which features for its 108 minutes the examination of quantum physics!
We are in a complex world of parallel universes and the answers to questions we haven't yet even thought about asking; it's that sort of maverick film.
Already scientists and others of that ilk are getting the vapours over the authenticity of the film's arguments, so much so that the tagged-on fictional story of an unhappy photographer (Matlin) and her search for self-healing and enlightenment hardly comes into it.
There's a lot of mumbo-jumbo scattered throughout the film but what should delight us is the fact that such an unpromising subject should have turned out such a successful film.
Hollywood, eh!
Star Rating: 4/5
