I'm not deaf and you don't stutter
Last night, Cyber Agatha, Rusty and I watched "What the Bleep Do We Know!?", a movie about the goings-on in our heads that's 50 percent documentary, 50 percent story, and 100 percent pretention. (Hey, in a world where quantum uncertainty is de rigeur, the rules of percentage need not apply!)
I liked the movie, but things became a little too Jesus-y at the end, thanks to the old "If we can't prove something exists, then it must!" argument. All that god talk fell on deaf ears - that is to say, the ears of Agatha and myself, not those of the film's leading actress Marlee Matlin.
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You do realize the movie was produced by some Heaven's Gate-like cult, right? That's why it went from getting tons of buzz to absolutely flatlining shortly after it came out. As soon as the press got wind of this movie's backers, they didn't want to touch it.
Posted by: Dan | June 5, 2006 03:32 PM
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0559144/photogallery-mptv-0
Note the extreme makeover she received after her Oscar win.
Posted by: Rusty | June 5, 2006 04:19 PM
I've gone round and round on the whole god talk experience. I started with live and let live, but now I'm wary to the point of paranoia. After everything I've read and seen, I can't escape the feeling that what these people want is power. Not the power to inflict their views, or to set up a self-serving religiou state, but the kind of power that O'Brien talks about in "1984", the power to cush your heel into another man's face for no other reason than because you can.
I didn't move to Italy specifically to get away from these narrow-minded bigots, but it doesn't hurt. Here, nobody cares what you do. Except maybe the Pope. And even he wears Prada.
Posted by: Tim | June 5, 2006 09:28 PM
There's nothing to say that documentary-ness, story-ness, and pretention-ness are mutually exclusive.
(Had to be said)
Posted by: Stephen | June 6, 2006 07:13 AM
It's bad enough to live in a world where people can't spell "de rigueur."
TOBY SAYS: You lose: http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/de+rigeur
Posted by: anapestic | June 6, 2006 09:31 AM
So if something can't be proven and therefore it's true, it's possible that it wasn't a dream and you really did sleep with Brat Boy Ethan in an alternate universe. No one can prove that's the case, but ... OH MY GOD!
Posted by: Anonymous | June 6, 2006 12:04 PM
Congratulations on finding a website that made the same mistake you did. You can probably also find a lot of websites that will tell you that Brat Boy is deep.
De rigueuris from the French, where a hard g sound can't be made without a u following the g. Check a real dictionary, even a real online dictionary. You made a mistake.
TOBY SAYS: Whatever, I don't speak Spanish.
Posted by: anapestic | June 6, 2006 04:35 PM
congratulations, anapestic. you win the prize. we all bow down at your impeccable command of language. you can go away now.
anyway, i come here to read you, toby. thanks for the entertainment.
Posted by: whatevs | June 6, 2006 07:02 PM
did you also watch the sequel? i liked the original better.
Posted by: mmonk | January 28, 2007 11:29 PM