Wednesday, 21 December 2005

• Currently Watching What the Bleep Do We Know!? By Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente, Elaine Hendrix, Barry Newman see related

  

   

  There are documentaries and then there are “documentaries.”  What do I mean by this?  If you purchase a program from National Geographic, PBS, Discovery, the History Channel, etc…you are most likely buying a documentary.  If you are watching Bowling for Columbine or Fahrenheit 911 then you are watching a work of fiction that presents itself to be a documentary…so there you have it, a “documentary.”  It is the sort of film that tries to promote a specific set of views while completely dismissing facts and evidence that contradict the directors position and even manipulating or distorting facts to conform to their reality.  One such film I have come across that also does this is "What the Bleep do we Know?”

   

  What the Bleep do we Know attempts to trick its audience into believing that it is a sincere attempt to use current research in Quantum Physics to explain the unexplainable.  What it is really doing is promoting the belief that we determine our own reality, and indirectly, the belief in “Ramtha” who is apparently the spirit being channeled by a woman named JZ Knight that is a 35,000 year old warrior spirit from the lost continent of Atlantis.  This JZ Knight is actually in the film.  She is presented as one of the authorities on the subjects being discussed.  She speaks with a  phony accent…since Ramtha doesn’t use English as a first language.  JZ Knight is American. 

   

  Unlike Michael Moore, whose movies I suppose makes one question its validity almost from the start…well that is if you are informed enough to begin with to realize his interpretation of events just don’t coinside with reality…it took me a little while to realize what “What the Bleep do we Know” was trying to do.  The “experts” that they have in the film are not named.  There is no name below the person when they are being interviewed, nor is there a title…such as PH.D in Physics…etc.  This is provided at the end of the film, but not during which I found to be odd.  I am one to pause a film and spend an hour research as soon as I think something fishy is going on, and this is exactly what I did when a good way into the film it decided to promote the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto who claims that ones emotions can influence the shape of crystallized water molecules.  For instance…a water molecule that is frozen after being blessed by a Buddhist monk looks like a beautiful snowflake.  The film then goes on to promote the idea through the remainder of the film that we can influence our bodies by how we feel since we are made up of a large percentage of water.  I had a yoga instructor that basically repeated word for word what this movie was spewing out and couldn’t figure out where she was getting this New Age nonsense from at the time.  Well, now I do, and it is after seeing that sequence of the film that I began my research.  Dr. Masaru Emoto’s research is full of holes, lacks double blind testing procedures, and has not been validated by third party research.  Not only that, but Mr. Emoto attempts to sell such blessed water as a product to promote well being.

   

  It is all utter rubbish. I am saddened that people are so easily fooled by films and books of this nature.  Especially when they find it they think they have found something that will inform them, but rather it is merely presenting propaganda for the directors and producers view points.

   

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