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What The Bleep Do We Know?

Actors: Elaine Hendrix, Marlee Matlin

Release Date: Monday 30th November -0001

Running time: 108 minutes

A thought-provoking dissemination on how quantum mechanics affects the very nature of the reality we believe we're living, What the Bleep follows a scripted Marlee Matlin - interspersed with real-life boffins and CGI graphics explaining and illustrating the theories expounded - as she comes to appreciate how an understanding of sub-atomic physics can reveal to us our innate selves, the workings of the universe, and perhaps even the mind of God. A sleeper hit in the US, where people have been returning time and time again in order to appreciate its full ramifications, the film conveys its essential message of the unity principle, in which each and every element of the universe is connected at both the microscopic and macroscopic ends of the scale; in this, the makers appear to be deploying science (that is strictly theoretical) to 'prove' the existence of 'God'. Derided in some quarters as New Age fluff, hailed in others as the most important film to be made this year, What the Bleep raises far more questions than it answers, most of which are concerned with the nature of reality as created and perceived by our own collective and individual consciousnesses. As a clueless layman when it comes to physics, I loved it.