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| Genres: |
Documentary |
| Countries: |
Canada |
| Actors: |
Suchet, David | Brown, Max | Coleman, Simon | Dunbar, Adrian | Fellows, Bill | Hill, Daniel | Howes, Adam | Nixon, Ricky | Pritchard, Phil | Richardson, Laurence | Riddell, Richard | Stacey, Ian | Wainwright, Robert Hartley | Whiteley, Jayson | Wilson, Chris |
| Directors: |
Faughnan, Sean |
| DOWNLOAD: |
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Documentarian Jennifer Baichwal helmed this reflective documentary that ponders the spiritual, emotional, and metaphysical ramifications of being struck by a lightning bolt. According to the National Weather Service, the odds of this incident befalling any given person are about one in 700,000, which makes many a survivor question why he or she fell prey to this unusual calamity; some infer a cosmic reason, some reject that possibility, but most fall somewhere in between as they feebly attempt to come to terms with it. In the film, Baichwal speaks with a number of well-known victims, including the novelist and screenwriter Paul Auster (The Music of Chance), the improv-driven prog rock guitarist Fred Frith, and others, and evaluates how the interviewees’ lives forked off in new directions after a massive discharge of electricity descended from the sky and landed on them.
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