Documentary-drama surprisingly successful
What the Bleep Do We Know?
William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente
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!
4/5
