"Mothman Prophecies" does not try to be a horror movie which I appreciated. But it also isn't a great drama, it's sort of in-between genres. Little happens for much of the film, and I felt he did too much driving around to other cities, and I didn't like the part about him supposedly teleporting, or forgetting how he got somewhere. I would rather the film covered more of the material in the book and kept the lead as more of a straight-man character to all the spookiness around him. But perhaps that is what really happened to John Keel, I don't know. Perhaps it shows that the researcher, investigator, or viewer cannot observe these phenomena without affecting them and/or being affected by them. Such assertions have been empirically proven in physics experiments. Our importance as humans, as cognitive viewers, with perhaps even transcendental souls or spirits, cannot be ignored.
We as humans affect the environment more than we realize just by being us, and I'm not just referring to tangibles such as pollution. Carl Jung postulated in a collective unconscious informing and influencing each of us, but if we can download info from the cloud so to speak, could we not be uploading info as well, perhaps even in our sleep. Thus our existence on earth could be more influential than we know. Also note some of the dates related to Mothman show how the human calendar is of importance to the other-world. The bridge collapsed 13 months to the day from the first big sighting. 11/15/1966 - 12/15/1967. It is also interesting to research older events around Point Pleasant relating to Chief Cornstalk and his curse; he was executed 11/10/1777 by American soldiers.
Overall, this film does a decent job of covering a difficult ethereal subject. I preferred the book to the movie, but the movie is still worth a watch. The highlight of the film is when Keel speaks to Leek ('Keel' backwards, his persona is split into two parts speaking to each other for the listeners' benefit). The dialogues with Leek are excellent and worth watching. My rating 6/10.
We as humans affect the environment more than we realize just by being us, and I'm not just referring to tangibles such as pollution. Carl Jung postulated in a collective unconscious informing and influencing each of us, but if we can download info from the cloud so to speak, could we not be uploading info as well, perhaps even in our sleep. Thus our existence on earth could be more influential than we know. Also note some of the dates related to Mothman show how the human calendar is of importance to the other-world. The bridge collapsed 13 months to the day from the first big sighting. 11/15/1966 - 12/15/1967. It is also interesting to research older events around Point Pleasant relating to Chief Cornstalk and his curse; he was executed 11/10/1777 by American soldiers.
Overall, this film does a decent job of covering a difficult ethereal subject. I preferred the book to the movie, but the movie is still worth a watch. The highlight of the film is when Keel speaks to Leek ('Keel' backwards, his persona is split into two parts speaking to each other for the listeners' benefit). The dialogues with Leek are excellent and worth watching. My rating 6/10.