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05-12-2005, 09:24 AM

I got my copy at Target but you should be able to get it online just as easily--from Amazon.com or someplace maybe even cheaper. I imagine it's also available from Blockbuster and that other mail DVD service (for the life of me, can't remember the name). It really is a wonderful film. They also have a terrific website at http://www.whatthebleep.com with message boards to help create "study groups" for follow-up to the ideas presented in the film. I'm sure the website contains some links to places you can find the DVD.

Wouldn't it be nice if some good filmmaker (and while the script/story may be on the weak side [I'm also an amateur screenwriter and my dissertation will be on brain scanning during storytelling--visual, oral, and written so am a hopeless critic of film stories], the production values are fabulous) would do a similar film on breast cancer--to open the doors to empowerment of those facing it? (How do you like that for a convoluted sentence?) Oh, no, I may just have given myself a new project--to convince some good filmmaker to do it! ;-)

If enough members here are interested, maybe the site owners here (I'm too new to know who's who yet) might be willing to set up a new forum for it? I know I'm jumping the gun a bit, but I really do want to see a place for breast cancer patients that stresses empowerment through not just information but a positive and productive realignment in thinking. There's just too much evidence (hard as well as soft) that shows that perspective, attitude, and belief can make an enormous impact on both the progession (or lack thereof) of cancer as well as quality of life.

05-12-2005, 09:24 AM	#7
Fontaine Guest Posts: n/a	I got my copy at Target but you should be able to get it online just as easily--from Amazon.com or someplace maybe even cheaper. I imagine it's also available from Blockbuster and that other mail DVD service (for the life of me, can't remember the name). It really is a wonderful film. They also have a terrific website at http://www.whatthebleep.com with message boards to help create "study groups" for follow-up to the ideas presented in the film. I'm sure the website contains some links to places you can find the DVD. Wouldn't it be nice if some good filmmaker (and while the script/story may be on the weak side [I'm also an amateur screenwriter and my dissertation will be on brain scanning during storytelling--visual, oral, and written so am a hopeless critic of film stories], the production values are fabulous) would do a similar film on breast cancer--to open the doors to empowerment of those facing it? (How do you like that for a convoluted sentence?) Oh, no, I may just have given myself a new project--to convince some good filmmaker to do it! ;-) If enough members here are interested, maybe the site owners here (I'm too new to know who's who yet) might be willing to set up a new forum for it? I know I'm jumping the gun a bit, but I really do want to see a place for breast cancer patients that stresses empowerment through not just information but a positive and productive realignment in thinking. There's just too much evidence (hard as well as soft) that shows that perspective, attitude, and belief can make an enormous impact on both the progession (or lack thereof) of cancer as well as quality of life.