There is a follow-up to "What The Bleep Do We Know". It is called "What The Bleep Do We Know? Down The Rabbit Hole" and it is packing them in at trendy art theaters in Greenwich Village and around the country.
Immortalists should study these films carefully. They use techniques that combine "hard science" with mysticism and successfully sell it as a kind of rational introspection.
The film's use of a blue-eyed gray-haired wizard/genius/guide through the complexities of it all reminds me of the use of "The Dragon" in "The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant!" At the risk of making some people mad, you could describe the Bleep Guide as an almost transhuman cartoon figure.
Cultural and scientific debates extend into the arts. Cinema is a potent tool. I wouldn't object to having a "Mr. Enlightenment" showing viewers how they might well live forever through science.
Yes, these two "Bleep" movies pander to references to "God". Interestingly, they reject the image of "a man on the clouds" and embrace the idea of "the God within".
I can embrace that idea. If "God" exists, he must exist within me because he certainly isn't anywhere else.
A religiously-inclined friend who dragged me into seeing "Down the Rabbit Hole" freaked out when I suggested that I "rather liked" the idea of "the God within", and since "God" was within me, I was truly actually God! If one cannot believe in oneself, what is left? :-)
The reviewers at the NYT say the "Bleep" films tap into a market that no one dreamed existed. Everyone is trying to figure out the parameters of this apparently lucrative market.
Probably, the most important impact the "Bleep" films have had is creating an interest among investors in films that popularize science. That may open the door for a lot of "pop science" rubbish. However, it also opens the door for us.
