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NOW: What the BLEEP!? - Down the Rabbit Hole
Extended Director’s Cut [Runtime: 156 min., with 20 min. from 1st. Bleep film]

San Diego SPECIAL SCREENING (2 1/2 hr. runtime): Saturday, April 8, 2006 - 2:30 PM

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Screenings will start promptly on time. Arrive 1/2 hour to 15 minutes prior to show time. Tickets/receipts valid for designated screening only.             San Diego SPECIAL SCREENING (2 1/2 hr. runtime, with 20 min. from 1st. Bleep film): Saturday, April 8, 2006 - 2:30 PM

What the BLEEP – Down the Rabbit Hole is an extended Director’s Cut of What the Bleep Do We Know!? It includes new scientific findings that supplement the original movie, and it goes more deeply into the concepts explored.

We still follow Amanda as her uninspired life unravels to reveal the uncertain world of quantum mechanics hidden beneath her normal, waking reality. But in the Director’s Cut, the interviews are lengthened and a full 95% of all interviews is new, never before seen footage exploring the links between quantum mechanics, neurobiology, human consciousness and day-to-day reality.

Featuring 90 minutes of new interviews and two new scientists, Dean Radin, Ph.D., and Dr. Masaru Emoto, and author of The Field, Lynne McTaggart; and introducing Dr. Quantum in 20 minutes of new animation, this is the deeper exploration that you’ve been asking for.

After four years and thousands of hours working with the scientific information presented in What the BLEEP Do We Know!?, the filmmakers were sure about at least one thing: There was much more to know.

As they worked with the material, they laughed and admitted you just don’t get quantum physics, biology and psychoneuroimmunology the first time through. Or the first hundred times through.

Audience responses, website responses, letters, emails and conferences all indicated the same thing: People wanted a deeper understanding of all these concepts, and a deeper knowledge about how they affected them individually and as a collective.

Thus the extended Director’s Cut of What the BLEEP – Down the Rabbit Hole was born.

Perception is a funny thing. Most of Down the Rabbit Hole will seem really familiar, but look, and especially listen, more closely. A lot of information is there that wasn’t there before.

In fall 2004, a controversial documentary called WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW? created a small but rabid following, amassing more than $12 million in theaters and forming a community of people who believed the film’s definitions of reality and individual being, using quantum physics, particle distribution, neuron release, and other complex scientific processes to explain how each of us can change the world. Some reviewers called it "a cult film," "New Age hooey," "bad science," "repetitive and stupefying," and "a complete waste of time, energy, and film." Others wrote that it was "challenging, cryptic, [and] mystical," "provocative," "a mind-bending hybrid," "an irresistible comic romp," and "weirdly entertaining." Here’s what we said in our three-star review: "The talking heads in this fascinating docudrama will alter your conception of what the world is, the scripted mini-drama following Marlee Matlin will confound you with its amateurishness, and the animated sections will both entertain and annoy you with its silliness."

All of that and more is true of the much longer DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: THE NEXT EVOLUTION, a re-exploration of the original film, using much of the same dramatic linking footage but with many new interviews with the same and new contributors in addition to old and new animation, including the introduction of cartoon superhero Dr. Quantum, voiced by the great John Astin. One of the things we like best about the two films is that you don’t find out who the talking heads are until the credits; thus, you get to make up your own mind about what they’re saying without prejudging them because one happens to be a Columbia physicist while another claims to be channeling an ancient mystic philosopher. Delving into complicated discussions of perception and reality, arguing that everything is connected through time and space, discussing the battle between science and religion, comparing love to neurological addiction, and illuminating such terms as "entanglement," "intention," "dreams of infinite possibilities," "co-location," and "time-reversal symmetry," the speakers will either infuriate you or open your mind up to an infinite world of possibilities. As one of them says, "We are running the Holodeck." How your body chemistry is made up, your past experiences, and your in-bred belief system will all play critical roles in helping you decide whether this film is an important examination of who we are — and who we can be — or whether it’s just a bunch of hogwash. But as it says in the closing credits, "Agreement is not necessary — thinking for one’s self is."

The Village Voice Tracking Shots by Michael Atkinson

… the science on the table is fascinating enough to give you pause, and perhaps even steer you toward further reading and a renewed interest in taking meditation seriously. Nobody mentions the ancient Asians, but isn't controlling your environment by way of “intention” and “spiritual” training where all that martial arts came from? Nothing new is shopped here, but BLEEP was and is meant as a bouncy introduction for religion-conflicted boomers, and unlike most theatrical sludge, it won't make you feel stupid. PBS should come calling.