What the BLEEP do we know?

First movie I rented was Noi, which was excellent. Weird Icelandic film about this kid who lives up in what equates to a backwater redneck town that gets like 8-10 feet of snow a night. I wanted to catch it at the Madison film fest last year but missed out- and now I know what I was missin'.

Second movie I rented was What The Bleep Do We Know? I fell asleep while trying to watch it. From what I saw it's decent exploration of a general idea of quantum physics and metaphysics, but for the most part it seems to be interviews with crazy old people you wouldn't let around your kids. They kept trying to push this idea of "Reality to us is what we see in our mind," which makes sense. But most of the guys took it farther to "If you break things down small enough there is no separation between ourselves, the world around us, and other people." It's an idea that I understand- we are made up more of empty space than actual particles. The thing is is that there are methods of dilineation to establish things like "this is my arm and this is a table. Separate." These guys seem to honestly believe that through thought we can change the genetic structure of outside physical objects. They also claimed to be able to do this. One guy went so far as to say that when he wakes up he spends an hour "creating" his day. Again: Crazy people. I started to drift off around the comment that "if we can remember the past that must mean we can also see our future." I'll finish watching it later but I really don't think I'm going to take anything more from it outside of ridiculous conjecture. Also they intersperse this with an ongoing narrative featuring the deaf girl from West Wing to try and show us real world applications of these ideas. The narrative part seriously looks like late-nite showtime programs I used to try to get away with watching when I was like 11. I kept half expecting it to break down into softcore porn.

Either way Riverwest has nothing they rent except for underground, experimental, indie and foreign film, so for the $10 I'm going to get to see a lot of random shit you can't find easily. Kind of cool. They have a lot of older Lynch stuff like Eraserhead and his shorts that you can only acquire by dropping $100+ on his site, or via E-Bay I guess. If I'm not mistaken one of the collaborative projects I did for a class is rented at this place, but I didn't bother to look. Fun times. At least it's close and open late.