It went beyond simply being a movie. It came alive.

Rating: 10/10 (14 January 2014)

We arrived a little later than we planned to the movie theatre and were upset when we walked in to find that the only available seats were in the front row. We awkwardly looked up at the screen during the last of the previews. I wasn't in the mood to feel upset about these unfortunate seats, so I decided to enjoy it. In the end it was because of this that the entire movie touched me even more and ended up feeling like an epic personal experience. I didn't see the back of anyone's heads or anyone getting up to use the washroom, or any other distraction to remind me I was in a movie theatre. It was just me and the screen. Me and the complex characters and their beautiful world: their eye lashes, their pores, their emotions, the tiny perceptual moments they experienced: dust floating in the sunlight, water droplets in the shower; these tiny beautiful moments which make up our lives. It was good from the beginning but each moment kept getting surprisingly deeper and deeper. I don't even know if I can put into words how I feel about this movie. It was amazingly brilliant, beautiful, intense, and meaningful. It's truly a masterpiece. The depth of life expressed in this film almost felt TOO INTENSE in certain moments, yet it's exactly how I feel sometimes. This film was an expression of the feeling of being overflowing with joy, of being deeply, overwhelmingly alive. They perfectly captured this particular way of seeing the world through the music, the style of filming, the script, the lighting, and the camera angles. The characters in this movie are actually versions of ourselves. I saw my own thoughts and ideas manifested on screen by someone else and to take it all back in again filled me with that overwhelming intense alive/joy feeling. It was about love, life, perception, reality and beyond. As the film went on and more thoughts and more questions were expressed not only did the characters evolve and grow but so did those in the audience. We all grew as spiritual beings, intellectual beings, beautiful beings. Samantha evolved so much that she surpassed our physical material world. Alan Watts was incorporated for a reason. If you don't know who he is you must look him up and read his teachings: expand your mind. Expand your world. I feel so excited about all of this. More and more people are "waking up" and honestly this film is about just that: coming alive! And loving love, loving life! This was the most amazing film I have ever seen and it went where I have never seen or felt a film go before- beyond simply being just a movie. It came alive. It was honestly THAT epic. Successful in each and every way, beautiful in every aspect, this is the film of the year and if not of all time (Too intense? Maybe... BUT I FEEL IT. DON'T YOU? If not, watch this film!).