What The Bleep Do We Know Essay

In the film, What the Bleep Do We Know!?, it tells a fictional story about a woman, named Amanda, who is a photographer. The woman is also deaf and takes medicine to help with her anxiety after her divorce. The film goes back and forth between this storyline and a series of interviewees who talk about consciousness and quantum physics. Throughout the film, Amanda encounters many people, ranging from a little boy playing basketball who makes her question the idea of reality itself, to her weirdly interesting roommate, and to a guy at a wedding that she has been hired to photograph. The story focuses on how Amanda’s husband cheated on her and she now hates the sight of chapels and can’t even set foot in the one she was married in. Amanda goes through many ups and downs, and at one point she has a meltdown, screaming at herself all the negative things she has ever thought, but then gains a new form of clarity. Thoughts have the power to shape what people think, and so Amanda begins to work on her view of the world and herself. What the film is trying to convey is that everything has consciousness, everything is made up of thoughts …show more content…
And fantasy does not have to be explained by science at all. If it is a figment of our imagination, then how can it be explained by the outside world? The beginning of this movie was very hard to understand, although it did come together at the end. But I think that people spend too much time trying to figure out why things are, like how our thoughts control our mental health. It’s almost like we need to be a little more ignorant to what is going on inside our minds. Because if our minds are constantly working and worrying and thinking about things, then it will wear us out. Overall, the film made me question what consciousness really is, but I don’t think that I agree with what the film thinks it