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Director's Statement
I am very interested in illusions we all believe in. And in order to make you really see how these illusions fool you and me every day, I decided to make a film. As illusions become apparent only when you see through them, this film is full of experiences, experiences YOU will have while watching the film. In fact, you will find out that you are watching yourself. I will not and cannot tell the story here on paper, because then I would destroy your experiences. And besides, if I could tell it, I would have written a book; much easier and cheaper.
In film we have this strange tendency of believing what we see. And there is also this strong desire to identify with actors on the screen. In THE SEA THAT THINKS it becomes apparent that these two mechanisms play a very great role in our daily life, outside the cinema. It will become completely clear that we do not actually see, but that we TRINK we see. And that is all right, but as we also started thinking about what we ARE, we created one big trap for ourselves. We turned ourselves into a ping-pong ball getting hit back and forth by two bats; one bat is called fear and the other bat desire.
The film will show you that a lot of things seen from one point of view look very realistic (like dreams while dreaming), but from another, slightly different point of view (wakening up) turn out to be something completely else.
So this film is about really important issues, about calm, peace, Buddhism, about how to become happy in life. To my surprise and delight it turned out to be a funny film with a deep impact; a film that might change your life. I've already got hundreds, maybe a thousand of e-mails from people all around the world who wrote beautiful things like: "I transformed my life completely thanks to your film." The film is neither an acted movie nor a documentary; it's something in between. To me it's more of an acted film about optical and mental illusions. Just go and see and decide for yourself if your life changed after seeing this film.