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Here’s a cool little movie whose topic has been in recent conversations around the house. It’s a film by Tom Shadyak, a guy famous for making movies I’d never see like the Nutty Professor and Bruce Almighty. He’s obviously good at what he does, it’s just something outside my range of interest. The film opens with a brief look at his career and the reason for deviating from his accepted genre and making this movie. He poses the question “What’s wrong with the world today and how do we fix it?” to a pretty distinguished panel including Desmond Tutu, Noam Chomsky and various writers and scientists.

Eventually the question finds a deeper root and the topic sort of shifts to the many ways we are connected to everything around us.

This is when it gets familiar and fun for me. The idea of everything being connected in deep but unseen ways is not new, but I find that people who take acid and alchemists seem to have the most conviction in its apparent truth. I didn’t know most of the experts in the film, but they were clearly identified and their credits given. And I’m not sure about some of the science they quoted, but it didn’t matter since I already agreed with their conclusions and didn’t need to have it clouded with facts.

I thought it was a pretty happening flick, the product of having a bijillion dollars so you can have guys like Tutu spout their smiling opinions and I’ll watch it again, might even get a (heaven forbid) DVD of it.