
What the Bleep Do We Know: Down The Rabbithole
A deaf photographer named Amanda moves through a fictional storyline that frames the film's real subject: interviews with physicists, biologists, and New Age writers making the case that quantum mechanics underwrites human consciousness and even shapes perceived reality. This extended cut expands the original theatrical version with 20 minutes of new animation and new interviews, built for a DVD set that runs over 15 hours across six sides and includes 5 hours of uncut interview footage plus a filmmaker Q&A. Topics addressed in detail include the double-slit experiment, quantum entanglement, and the biology of cellular healing, each illustrated with animated sequences meant to make abstract physics visible. The DVD also lets viewers choose how deep into the material they go, or randomize the structure so the film reassembles itself differently on each viewing. The interviewees present a coherent worldview linking quantum indeterminacy to free will and spiritual practice, a claim mainstream physicists dispute, though the film does not stage that argument directly. Amanda's arc supplies the emotional throughline connecting the science to questions of perception and belief.