I Like To Trip...Where to And Why? On The Limits Of Thought

A truly revolutionary piece of 60's movie making...capturing the whole mindset and seriousness of The Seeker of truth and religious harmony.
The perennial conflict between science with its quest for empirical truth and/or the mystical experience of knowing G-D the eternal within the limitations of man's knowledge is the main focus of this advanced for the time movie fusing sensory overload effects, intelligent script,fine acting serving up a time-piece of real value that will endure.
When that little "intruder" of our psyche gets to us, forcing us to confront the simultaneous experience of the transient aspects of the ego with the felt sense of the self, the difficulty of reconciliation begins..can wee use artificial means such as LSD,Shaman blood mushrooms,and scientific process and the experiments of man to find the answer to the question of it all? the journey as this movie explains is to realize that truth IS NOT obtainable and it's devasting search can lead to devastion and destruction consuming with a fire that makes us unhuman..Well aren't we Human?
Must we choose life and affirm this shared world by living In The Human? It seems the movie says yes to the notion of the need to harmonize this often divided self.
The movie is not just about altering your state of consciousness for fun to forget your self for awhile but was and remains a serious pursuit for the eternal within and without..It seems that we better be happy with where we are and are going than to seek out the origins of why there is something rather than nothing at all..Man wants what he doesn't have and doesn't want he has..

A film you have to fully understand evolution to fully get

Having read tons of books and articles on the subject of evolution I understand this film very much. I know some who understand evolution far less well will certainly be confused by the intricate plot concerning the big E. As for other complaints by amazon reviewers I'll say this:

1) I find the acting in this film anything but hollywood-like. This film reminds me a lot of Fatal Attraction and other rather realistic 80's hit films. This movie had very realistic acting.

2) The dialogue in this movie has profanity true---but it is delivered in a very sophisticated, educated, and realistic way.Not cheap like in 80's Rambo movies. Realize most of the characters are professors and doctors and such therefore it is extra-cerebral dialogue.

3) Blair Brown is much sexier than William Hurt.

4) Hurt's character in a big scene goes back to the beginning of mankind and discovers how without love, a little anger, happiness and other
emotions life is unbeliavably drab, indifferent and purely a technicality. That's why he quits the search. Why do so many insist it's a cheap ending?

5) Hurt's character quits happily embracing earlier stages of mankind upon realizing that man is not actually, ultimately God and as just a single cell there's no feeling at all, no control, etc for people. People are better off in their current, multi-celled state. Therefore he successfully fights all regressions off in the end (a power he really had all along) because it is no good and this realization makes him appreciate his loving and sexy wife all the more.

6) Hurt's character goes to Mexico---not South America like some posters think.

A classic

This is a horror sci-fi masterpiece just watch it...This film reminded me of videodrome and the fly and a little bit of eraserhead it might not be up there with them but its a classic for sure