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A Flickering Reality: Cinema and the Nature of Reality

by F. David Peat

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How real is the external world? How valid are our memories? Could we ever go back in time? Are there parallel universes out there? What happens when we are touched by the famous Butterfly Effect? Are we really the people we think we are? Are we truly in control of our own minds? Our sense of reality has been sent reeling by the sciences of matter and of mind and this revolution can be seen in its most graphic form in movies, a place and time where we "dream in the dark." A Flickering Reality explores the most exciting, creative, and mind-expanding movies of the last decades--movies that stretch our vision of reality to the limit.… (more)
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How real is the external world? How valid are our memories? Could we ever go back in time? Are there parallel universes out there? What happens when we are touched by the famous Butterfly Effect? Are we really the people we think we are? Are we truly in control of our own minds? Our sense of reality has been sent reeling by the sciences of matter and of mind and this revolution can be seen in its most graphic form in movies, a place and time where we "dream in the dark." A Flickering Reality explores the most exciting, creative, and mind-expanding movies of the last decades--movies that stretch our vision of reality to the limit.

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