Friday, November 05, 2004
A Theological Reflection on What the #$BLEEP*! Do We Know? ? Hope Beyond Quantum Physics?
What follows before is my attempt to exegete this movie, and in the end to draw some helpful and I believe true elements from this presentation. I personally loved the film?but then I have strange tastes in movies. I have seen in four times, and have laughed at the narrative shown to us to support the films theories and thesis. Having said that?
The challenge of the movie ?What the #$BLEEP*! Do We Know?? is that it is not easily categorized. Is it a documentary? Is it a fictional film? Is it modernist? Is it postmodernist? Well?yes, no, and wrong question.
First let me say that this movie is the strangest concoction I have experienced. It is one part Quantum Physics, one part Pluralistic and New Age theology, and one part physiology and importance of intention. It is not, as some have billed, a ?real world Matrix.? Far from it (though The Matrix trilogy itself allows for a lot of connections to this and many other movies and narratives)! Instead, it the story of a worldview that the makers of the film are inviting you to believe in ? in fact, they would say, it is the only true narrative out there (point one on why this is not really postmodern, but more modern or hypermodern).
