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Date: 2004-04-28 13:34:43

Comment:

I didn't really like the movie all that much.  I appreciate what they were trying to do or say, and I'm happy to see a film that actually requires one to think, but I don't feel that they were able to successfully support their theories with "scientific evidence" or logic.  Their example of the Natives' inability to see the Spanish fleet due to a lack of knowledge of their existence doesn't prove that the Spanish fleets didn't exist.  Whether they saw them or not, whether they liked it or not those ships were still going to land there.  So how are they in control of reality?  Maybe I'm just not fully understanding...  I also had a bit of a problem with the way that they attacked organized religion (Catholicism specifically).  Now I'm not religious or anything, but I feel that attacking doctrines  of Christianity without any physical evidence to disprove their beliefs kinda puts them on the same level as fundamentalist bible thumpers who preach hell and eternal damnation for all who don't share their views.  

I'm all for radical ideas, theories, and ways of thinking, but there has to be solid evidence.  Especially if the movie is claiming to use solid scientific evidence.  Showing me pictures of snowflakes and then telling me they're actually water droplets infused with "the chi of love" does not prove anything.  How do we know the experiment ever took place?  Just because they tell us it did?  Especially considering that "experiment" was supposed to prove a major point...that you can control the "world" around you with your mind.  

I like the message that the film was trying to send, but I really can't take it all that seriously.