What the Bleep Do We Know!? | 
 enlarge | Directors: Mark Vicente, Betsy Chasse, William Arntz
Actors: Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix, John Ross Bowie, Robert Bailey Jr., Barry Newman
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  1222 reviews
Sales Rank: 369
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), German (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 108
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D2227088D
UPC: 024543170884
EAN: 0024543170884
ASIN: B0006UEVQ8
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: March 15, 2005
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The unlikeliest cult hit of 2004 was What the (Bleep) Do We Know?, a lecture on mysticism and science mixed into a sort-of narrative. Marlee Matlin stars in the dramatic thread, about a sourpuss photographer who begins to question her perceptions. Interviews with quantum physics experts and New Age authors are cut into this story, offering a vaguely convincing (and certainly mind-provoking) theory about... well, actually, it sounds a lot like the Power of Positive Thinking, when you get down to it. Talking heads (not identified until film's end) include JZ Knight, who appears in the movie channeling Ramtha, the ancient sage she claims communicates through her (other speakers are also associated with Knight's organization). What she says actually makes pretty good common sense--Ramtha's wiggier notions are not included--and would be easy to accept were it not being credited to a 35,000-year-old mystic from Atlantis. --Robert Horton
Description
WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW?! is a new type of film. It is part documentary, part story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects and animations. The protagonist, Amanda, played by Marlee Matlin, finds herself in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking reality. She is literally plunged into a swirl of chaotic occurrences, while the characters she encounters on this odyssey reveal the deeper, hidden knowledge she doesn?t even realize she has asked for. Like every hero, Amanda is thrown into crisis, questioning the fundamental premises of her life ? that the reality she has believed in about how men are, how relationships with others should be, and how her emotions are affecting her work isn?t reality at all!
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 New Age Sewage and Pseudoscience October 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Why one star?
1. The entire logical chain of this film is rendered null by a misunderstanding of the "observer effect" in scientific research. Ask any high school science teacher to explain it to you in simple terms, and you will understand why this movie is nothing more than a farce and fallacy.
2. Masaro Emoto's work does not follow the scientific method.
3. Through clever editing, the producers often twist the words of the authentic scientists featured in the film to support the supernatural claims made in it.
4. The filmmakers are members of a cult religion.
 The Quality of Thinking October 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When "What the Bleep Do You Know" came to the theatre, I was almost alone in the audience. I told a lot of my friends about it; and the second time I went there were seven of us in the audience, six of whom I knew. So this was not well publicized in our small city, but still drew people to it. Had it played more than a week, perhaps we'd have had a dozen! I recently saw a used copy and decided to add it to my collection.
I really enjoyed this docu-drama. I found the use of actors, scientists and animation to have enough diversity to keep my attention. It was both informative and entertaining. Marlee Matlin won an Oscar & Golden Globe for "Children of a Lesser God" in 1986. She does good work as Amanda who has come out of a marriage with an unfaithful husband and chip on her shoulder. Her houseguest Jennifer is played by the perky Elaine Hendrix, who gets to foot paint. I also thought John Ross Bowie as Eliot that Amanda meets while she photographs a wedding did a nice job.
The subject matter intrigues me. As I've thought about this film, I keep considering how our expectations color our perceptions. If you ever heard a record by Harry Nilsson called The Point! (Deluxe Packaging), I keep recalling, "You see what you want to see; and you hear what you want to hear." In much that same way, if we work to make our thinking positive, I believe we perceive the positive aspects of things happening around us and draw more positive things to us. I particularly was impressed when I watched the DVD how one scientist planned his day. I've been trying to work with this idea, thinking about being positive and loving with the people with whom I'm in contact, even praying for those where disagreements seem to persist. My experience is that when I do this, I have a better day!
I was also very impressed in The Urantia Book how it says that thoughts are things. We know although it's not able to be seen, air is a thing. For those of us living in the hurricane belt, we know air (wind) can be destructive. In the same way, I think this film illustrates the chemical counterparts of thought in the brain. Just like air can be positive and life-giving or destructive and life-taking, I believe the consequences of thought can also be similar. Yet few work to seriously address the quality of their thinking.
When I watch this film, I don't perceive it as having to believe everything in it before I can get something from it. Parts of it have relevance to me, particularly I'm in a bit different place in 2008 than I was when the film came out in 2004. So I recommend this film. I seem to get new things as I watch it over time. Enjoy!
Pretty Good Worth Watching September 30, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I enjoyed it very much. The scenarios with the deaf woman were really unnecessary but not so distracting to make it unwatchable. It was fun, thought provoking, etc. I would recommend it if you like this genre.
 what the bleep? September 26, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I viewed this film in theatre at the time of its release and thoroughly enjoyed it. Life is so full of wonders and this was still another way of exploring another level of it. Another level yet the basis of our daily living we are unconscience of. Great film to view either alone or in group setting.
We literally create our own possibilities September 26, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Have you ever had a movie recommended and watched it just to see what all the fuss was about? That's how I came to watch "What The Bleep Do We Know." If you are interested in the power of the human mind and how it affects self-development, it's my turn to recommend this DVD to you.
First let me say I know nothing about quantum physics. What The Bleep Do We Know isn't a DVD for scientists; it's for everyday people who want to understand how the human mind works to help create our day-to-day lives. Think of What The Bleep as The Secret under a fascinating scientific microscope.
My husband and I watched this DVD for the third time last night and we were both taking notes. I have five pages of notes and "aha's." If you're ready to change negativity into possibility thinking, I suggest it's time to watch What The Bleep Do We Know.
Marlee Matlin plays the main character Amanda who is negative, angry and stressed. In Amanda's life, the glass is always half empty. Through a series of eye-opening "coincidences" she begins to see how her life can be more content, fulfilled and satisfying.
This DVD is a wonderful lesson about quantum physics and the human mind disguised as a well-made Hollywood movie. Every assertion made in What The Bleep Do We Know is backed up by scientific fact and explained in very colorful and interesting detail.
If you're ready to understand the scientific "secret" of your mind and how it literally creates the world around you, I highly recommend What The Bleep Do We Know. I believe though, you have to be in the right place at the right time in your life to truly appreciate the power of this message.
The biggest lesson I learned: We literally create our own possibilities.
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