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movie review - Phenomenon

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 1997.02.20

I was astounded. This movie had broad streaks of Hollywood crap running through it, but it certainly started much better than I'd expected. It's about a guy who witnesses a bright object coming down from the sky, and wakes up with *powers*. I suspect it's got something to do with Scientology, as the lead is played by John Travolta. But the plot runs aground somewhere in the middle and the whole becomes less than the sum of the parts. Too bad! That's hardly groundbreaking.

Not recommended.

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It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

—Wendell Berry