The film directed by a young American director I had never heard of is a thought provoking journey. It is a story of a scientist and his wife (also a lab rat) who research the human iris and its connection to the very existence of the human.
It dives into the Socratic notion of 'I know one thing - that I don't know anything' to some extent I thought.
While the couple are ardent believers in the Big Bang theory and have no interest in considering 'divine intervention' as a possibility, their foundational belief is shaken with observed incidents.
It therefore also takes the viewer into the realm of understanding the idea behind Occam's Razor. Not Gillette mind you - Occam.
Some ideas resemble those observed in another almost flat book I once read called 'Flatland'. You believe what you see and what you see may be limited to where you exist. Therefore the belief system is only as good as much as the laws that your kind defined to support the theory that furthers the beliefs.
Movie had one interesting dialog (between the protagonist and Archie Panjabi - she is one sexy lady IMHO although to have Panjabi instead of Jughead next to Archie threw me off) that captures the essence of what the theme is - when the Dalai Lama was asked that if they found enough evidence to disprove God, what would his reaction be? He said that if he read all the evidence, all the research, and it was irrefutable, he would accept that reality. But she spins this on him, and asks that, if some kind of evidence, and research suddenly disproves science, how would he respond?
It dives into the Socratic notion of 'I know one thing - that I don't know anything' to some extent I thought.
While the couple are ardent believers in the Big Bang theory and have no interest in considering 'divine intervention' as a possibility, their foundational belief is shaken with observed incidents.
It therefore also takes the viewer into the realm of understanding the idea behind Occam's Razor. Not Gillette mind you - Occam.
Some ideas resemble those observed in another almost flat book I once read called 'Flatland'. You believe what you see and what you see may be limited to where you exist. Therefore the belief system is only as good as much as the laws that your kind defined to support the theory that furthers the beliefs.
Movie had one interesting dialog (between the protagonist and Archie Panjabi - she is one sexy lady IMHO although to have Panjabi instead of Jughead next to Archie threw me off) that captures the essence of what the theme is - when the Dalai Lama was asked that if they found enough evidence to disprove God, what would his reaction be? He said that if he read all the evidence, all the research, and it was irrefutable, he would accept that reality. But she spins this on him, and asks that, if some kind of evidence, and research suddenly disproves science, how would he respond?
I remain a fan of Flatland since I read it in the eighties. A Punjabi flatland is an interesting extension.
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