Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18999 in VHS
• Released on: 1998-09-07
• Rating: Exempt
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: HiFi Sound, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 106 minutes

Synopsis
A fictionalized depiction of the ecological and holistic teachings of the philosopher Fritjof Capra filmed by his brother Bernt. With Liv Ullman, Sam Waterston, John Heard and Ione Skye.

Customer Reviews

This film could change the way you see the world for ever.
Through a 90 minute conversation we are taken for a walk, sometimes a hike, through the minds of a politician, a poet and a nuclear physicist who talk the world apart down to the atom and beyond and then rebuild it with remarkable insights of clarity and wisdom. We are given a glimpse of how, just by slightly changing the way we perceive the world, we all could change our lives and our futures for the better. This film will stay with you for ever.

Mindwalk Arouses Minds
As a "lifetime Cinema-Student/Critic" I asked for a recommendation from the owner of a (Dollar Video)"$ Video" store, Murrieta,Ca. a couple of years ago. He speakes with a marked accent, I think he may be a European immigrant, one sophisticated and insightful enough to refer me to this unusual film. Thanks to him, BRAVO... This film remains one of my favorites, bringing tears to my eyes for the massive weight, of
responsibility that we should ALL carry for the healing of this planet! I feel schools SHOULD make this movie "required viewing"
and that all, ALL people...would benefit from the time out and focus on the interconnections of all life.
I have since attempted to find more writings from this author, and encourage everyone to obtain a copy and show to all the young minds, to "arouse their minds" as well...Laura "Sparrow" Wilson (Lambert), Grandaughter of ****Admiral Arthur D. Struble, (Retired and Deceased Famous U.S. Navy Admiral)

Very disappointing after a fabulous book
I ordered this video having read all of Capra's works, eagerly awaiting an exhilerating presentation of his ideas, particularly those of the 'Turning Point' which remains a major book in my life. I was totally disappointed by the film for many reasons and sincerely hope that those people who watch it have read Capra before and don't think this was a good representation of what he has to offer. The film was full of unreal stereotyping, with the nice-but-dim politician, the sexist American poet, and worst of all the verging-on-the-edge-of-hysteria French scientist who betrayed all the usual mistaken and repeated images of femininity i.e. her inability to control her emotions, the fact she often avoids answering the politicians questions and if she does she appearing almost to be on the edge of tears. Is this what lies in the section dealing with feminism in 'the Turning Point'? It was like seeing another writer, another viewpoint. Worst of all, the very real and applicable ideas that are present in Capra's work were reduced to what many could perceive to be the ramblings of an isolated and world-weary scientist who cannot find time to love her daughter. Lastly Capra's work is highly visual conceptually and for a training video to merely film three people having a horribly false, forced conversation, this reduced a series of wonderful ideas to a farce. Those who watched it with me could not fail to see this film as badly made propaganda and dispairingly I had to agree with them, all the more frustrated knowing the beauty of the ideas that were being so poorly represented.

Such a shame - please read 'The Turning Point' instead and hope Capra brings out an entirely different film in the near future.