pater sparrow 1 (2009)_x264.mp4 Harcoded Eng Subs

Based on an essay by the Polish science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lem (“One Human Minute”) Pater Sparrow’s absorbing and visually striking 1 has a fascinating and ambitious question at its heart about just how limited is our comprehension of the world we live in. To illustrate the point, towards the beginning of the film the narrator of 1 asks the viewer to consider a fifteen-minutes news summary of the world’s events on any one particular day and consider how much it really tells us about the individual experience of the billions of people across the world. Imagine however if the experience of everyone in the world could be written down in a manner that captured the totality of the human experience, even if it was just one single minute of one day. Would the vast scope of what is contained in such a book open our minds to the wonder and miracle of life or would this knowledge drive us mad?