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Do you believe in reincarnation?
Is it related to your belief?
Does your religion against the idea?
What if the science can proof the otherwise?

But most importantly, what if today's researches could finally relate science with beliefs/spirituality? This movie is talking about a random test done by scientists couple that lead them to a huge discovery of the relation between science (which are based on facts/data) and spirituality (which relates to human's soul, feelings and subconscious mind).

I myself do believe in reincarnation, now that I have seen the proofs for the past 10 years. I remember I used to argue with a friend about this and I insisted that there aren't such thing as reincarnation. But from Paulo Coelho's books and testimonials or stories from around me, I slowly started to believe in the idea, especially when a man told me who I was in my last incarnation.


Now if something like this occurs in your life, whether you're a scientist or a religious person, would you change your belief? Would it affect your perspective on seeing this life? Would it trigger more the curiosity in you about the mystery of life? Or would it be just another movie/discovery/news that goes by and forgotten in your already busy life?

And if there are proofs/facts/data that connects the never-ending debates between science and religion, shouldn't it be a great thing to discover? That we could finally find the answer about life mystery? I have found recently the data that is indeed shocking but so true that it works on researches and experiments, but really changed my belief on almost everything in life.

But as Ricky Gervais had said: "Beliefs don't change facts. Facts, if you're reasonable, should change your beliefs." No, I never lead anyone into atheism like Gervais did. I simply want people to see the greater truth, the one hidden behind religions--but not that God isn't there--the one that had been there all along, written/drawn/encrypted on manuscript or other ancient artifacts, the proofs that had been there way before religions existed. Why not grounding our beliefs from the origins--the original one?

I'm not going to discuss about that now, but I put it in my novel, Gerbang Nuswantara, all of the facts that could trigger your curiosity to find out more about Indonesian original history/culture/data. For me, this movie is another great mind-opener--just like Lucy--on the greatest knowledge we're not told. Yet. But it really is a mind-opener.

I like almost all of the quotes from this movie, especially the one that said "eyes are the window to the soul"--that specific quote we're all already familiar about--that is literally proven in the movie. Because I experienced it too when I met my current boyfriend. It was at our very first meeting that we knew we've known each other since forever. And that we are each other's true love & soul mate, and that we could see it in each other's eyes.

Maybe that's why I love this movie so much. Because it's mind-opener. It gives proofs. And it relates to my own personal experience. Now I am curious to have my eyes scanned and see who I was in my past life(s)--in a scientific way. Not that the past mattered, but I always believe that the past holds the key to our future (and the knowledge).


Anyway. Some fun facts about the movie (taken from IMDb):

1. For a brief moment in the opening credits only the letters I and O are shown in the movie title. This gives "IOII". In binary the number 1011 translates as eleven which is an important number throughout the film.
2. In the ending Salomina completed a test and scored 44%. The test involved 25 questions from A-Y. 44% of 25 is 11. In the beginning of the film, 11 is the number that brought Ian and Sofi together. This is a well thought out scene which shows the directors use of fore-shadowing.  
3. Salomina's score of 44% is 11% above the average score of 33% which is yet another occurrence of "11" in the story.