“WHAT THE #$*! DO WE KNOW?!” is a film i watched yesterday. It had to be the strangest and most annoying intellectual spree into film i’ve ever experienced. Where do i start. The movie is ultimately boring. <\/p>\n
Ok brief outline, it is apparently a jaunt into physics and describing the world and what quantum mechanics means for our understanding of the world.<\/p>\n
Problems:
\n1) They fuck philosophy left and right. These ‘physicists’, oh shit i think they are physicists but i don’t really know because the film doesn’t tell you who the hell they are, sit around explainingquantum mechancis and what it is that this ‘science’ has told us about existence. They throw around phrases like, “Quantum mechanics tells us that the observer alters the object just by merely observing. ” and, ” We have looked all through the body and we can’t find something called the observer, (i.e. i assume he is talking about the soul) but yet we readily accept the fact that we play the role of observer.” How does this fuck philosophy? Just that Kant was arguing this shit in the 18th century. Quantum mechanics is pretty fucking new. THEY DIDN’T SOURCE HIM FOR THE IDEA AT ALL!!!<\/p>\n
2) They kept making these broad claims like, “reality is 99% mystery and 1% understood” and, “quantum mechanics tells us a partical can be in two places at the same time, could you imagine what that means for us? WE could be at two places at the same time” WTF?! where the hell did they get that.. fallacy of composition.. sorry the movie sucks..<\/p>\n
3) They have this framework of drama that is ultimately gay. This woman who is a photographer, ultimate observer see?, loses his boyfriend and we follow her around as she is bitchy all day. she has a dream and there is this explanation about how indians couldn’t see the clippers off the coast because they never had any experience seeing clipper ships and therefore they were invisible. Apparently a shaman examined the movement of the water and noticed the objects causeing it and then he told the other indians about the ships and suddenly they all saw the ships… I WISH I HAD A SOURCE FOR THIS BS. Does that mean we walk around ingoring things that don’t fit in our worldview? How does that explain lunatics? YOU CAN’T JUST STATE THIS SHIT WITHOUT ADDING BACKING!<\/p>\n
i’m done.. the movie sucked.. waste of time.. i left in the middle of it.. i might rent it one day and try and find the sources for the worthless film but i doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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