![]() ![]() Since Dan’s tolerance of Socrates goes so much against his character - he barely listens to his acid-tongued coach (Tim Dekay), or his jealous teammates - Nolte’s figure can be seen as Dan’s intuition come to life, despite author Millman’s insistence that much of this actually happened. Still, what makes this seemingly smart guy put up with such crushing cliches as Socrates pointing at his forehead and opining, “The trash is up here.” Through a string of nightly encounters with Socrates, the young stud, one of the cockier and more talented members of the UC Berkeley gymnastic team, begins to grasp the old guy’s notion that every moment counts. The impression –and Socrates’ subsequent spiel (“wisdom is in doing,” “let go of attachments,” “you think more than you know” - makes him Yoda’s working-class cousin from Berkeley. ![]() Sharone Meir drench the first encounter between Dan and service station operator Socrates (Nolte) in nighttime gloom, capped by Socrates suddenly appearing atop the station roof. ![]() One of the shock devices is the opener, where the young Dan Millman (Scott Mechlowicz) has a nightmare about shattering one of his legs in a gymnastics competition. Horror specialist Victor Salva (just off the “Jeepers Creepers” franchise) brings an edge to the pic that New Age-inspired films like “What the Bleep Do We Know?” and “Mindwalk” lacked. ![]()
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