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Originally Posted by Janszoon
It's funny you bring this movie up. The first time my parents' took me to see a movie at an arthouse cinema, there was a poster for Mindwalk in the lobby. It caught my eye for whatever reason, and though I still have never seen it, I've always wondered about it. I'm curious to hear what you think of it.
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Hey - dropping in with some feedback about
Mindwalk.
The film has only one user review on RYM, who had this to say about it:
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I love food for thought conversational films like Before Sunrise and Waking Life, so Mindwalk has been a film I wanted to see for years. Sadly, it does not live up to my expectations or come close to meeting the standard those films set -- then again, this came many years before (and yet many years after the mini-masterpiece My Dinner with Andre). I really like John Heard in The Newsroom so it's neat to see him in an early role here, though he's not much of a presence. The drama that connects the story parts between conversation is contrived and boring. Even worse, the conversations are unnatural, dull, and cyclical. I don't need to be thrilled by what is discussed if I can see the actors are thrilled and get by on that (see: My Dinner with Andre). Nothing here clicks. I like the setting and found something relaxing about the first half of the film before it delved into nonsense. Not worth seeking out -- then again, I found it on YouTube so eh.
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I have to agree with this reviewer. The majority of the film is a painfully dull explanation of rudimentary grade-school physics. Yes, yes… mostly empty space… yes, yes… remarkable that rocks feel solid. Yes, we get it - our world is one of molecular interconnectedness and the autonomy of our form vanishes at the subatomic level. I can only presume that the film aimed to pander to a very ignorant audience, but that sort of demographic doesn’t take the time to watch dialog-focused cinema anyway, so perhaps that’s why I’ve never heard of this film before now.
Mindwalk takes two hours to present the comparatively holistic perspective of system theory as an alternative to the mechanical perspective of a traditional Newtonian world view. Surprisingly there is no mention of general relativity, but that dropped ball was sadly picked up by that wretched
What the Bleep? movie.
Innerspace score: 1.5 stars.
Verdict: Skip it, even for free on YouTube.