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What the Bleep Do We Know!?

“If I changed my mind, would I change my choices? If I changed my choices, would my life change?
I create my reality: I wake up and consciously create my day in the way I want it to happen.”

There are films that don't belong to any category or genre, and have such a persuasive force that they represent an emotional shock and an intense life experience for those who watch them.
This What the Bleep Do We Know!? (2004) has been circulating in the United States for quite some time, a strange, unclassifiable film, a mix between a documentary, a fantastic story, a philosophy treatise, and a thesis in Applied Quantum Physics, but which actually talks about Spirituality and Other Possible Worlds.
A truly surprising media and cinematic event that has been hailed as a miracle by those who have seen it and has perhaps started a new cinematic genre oriented towards metaphysics and the esoteric and spiritual investigation of the Soul.
After the screening of the film, for example, requests for further information about the topics addressed seem to have increased, sparking interest in spiritual research and intellectual growth with a flourishing of books and publications dedicated to the film and the worlds it evokes. It is not surprising that the film continues to be screened incessantly in U.S. cinemas for more than three years with unanimous enthusiasm from both the audience and critics, managing to be distributed in more than 35 states. Not to mention the related DVD, which sold about a million copies in the U.S.…

Clearly, this What the Bleep Do We Know!? will never be an easy commercial success and will (perhaps) only be aired on Rai3 late at night, but despite this, it is proving to be an unthinkable success: people evidently also need to think about “something more” than this monothematic reality that has been instilled in us and seems indispensable.

The docu/film (shot by a team of not well-identified professionals) revolves around the character of Amanda, played by Marlee Matlin (Oscar winner in Children of a Lesser God), a divorced, depressed, and crisis-stricken photographer who deals with life by swallowing antidepressant and anxiolytic pills. A mere pretext to evidently talk about something else.
Interspersed with truly remarkable Computer Animation parts, the film unfolds on a double level: narrative (dispensable) and philosophical/existential (the most interesting and innovative) with the inclusion of short testimonies from physicists, molecular biologists, doctors, an anesthesiologist, mystics, teachers, scientists, and scholars addressing Amanda's vicissitudes in both scientific and spiritual ways, speaking in the end about life and each of our choices.

It's just a pity that the film has NOT yet been distributed in Italy (perhaps there is no interest here for these things? Is the audience perhaps missing?), but you can still find copies with Italian subtitles or, for those familiar with American, in almost complete format here.

Recommended for those seeking a spiritual path, philosophy enthusiasts, or anyone who, at least once, wants to ask themselves questions about who we are and how we interact with the surrounding reality and our mind.