Posted by fallsfall on March 16, 2005, at 13:02:50
In reply to Re: Go see this Marlee Matlin movie » fallsfall, posted by partlycloudy on November 11, 2004, at 4:18:25
This movie came out on DVD yesterday. I had a Bleep party last night. We watched the movie (for the third time for all of us), ate chocolate mousse pie, and had some really stimulating conversation.
Not everyone will like this movie. But for some of us it is a real mind expanding experience.
It was interesting that each of the 4 of us last night got different things from the movie. I am into the physical, scientific characteristics of emotions - neural nets in the brain, peptides, how the observer affects reality by focusing on one of many possibilities, how I am addicted to depression. One friend was into how we have control over our reality - how we can choose and effect our world, and the spiritual ramifications of that. One friend was into the possibility of parallel realities - of moving into a 5th dimension. The fourth was pretty quiet, but has spent much of the last 25 years researching consciousness.
We all watched the same movie. But even as we talked about individual segments of the movie we each learned different things. It is like it spoke to each of us at the level of where we are right now, and allows each of us to learn and progress from where we are right now (sort of like accepting who you are in the moment, whoever that might be, and moving forward from there).
Every time I have seen this movie, I gain new understandings that I have to process for a while - I go to the library to read more by these scientists, I search the internet, I talk to people.
One thing I picked up this time was that one of them said that when you learn something new that endorphins are released. It has been a really long time since I've had the rush of "I understand this new, cool thing". This movie gives me that each time I see it.
From what I've seen, people have widely different reactions to this film - from "That was stupid" to "This film has changed my life". I would encourage people to see it, because you don't know - you could be one of the "This film has changed my life" people. And you wouldn't want to miss that opportunity. If you decide that you are one of the "That was stupid" people, then you have wasted 90 minutes - not such a huge cost.
PartlyCloudy - I probably wouldn't have seen this movie if you hadn't posted about it. Thank you very much for making me aware of this mind-opening experience.
What did the rest of you think? What did you learn? What questions are you asking now?
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