The Reality of Truth is a new documentary on the rise of a psychotropic plant found in the amazon, known as ayahuasca. The movie follows two travelers on a quest to understand the substance through spirituality. To find out more about the movie and whether you should watch it, please see the review below.
Synopsis of The Reality of Truth
The Reality of Truth, is a different take on the journey to discovering ayahuasca and other plant medicines. It opens with a conversation from Deepak Chopra, and then follows the narrator talking to various spiritualists, scientists and even 1960s psychedelic revolutionary Ram Dass.
Even Michelle Rodriguez, more known for her role in the Fast and the Furious movies, comes along for the ride.All of the discussions are predicated around preparing the crew for their final journey: ayahuasca.
While the film primarily focuses ayahuasca, it does focus on include other plant based drugs that have been used by indigenous cultures, including magic mushrooms and iboga. Rather than looking for a specific plant, the movie focuses more so on the spiritualist side of the psychedelic movement.
What Makes Reality Of Truth Film Different?
Numerous movies have been done covering plant medicines and particularly ayahuasca. The Reality of Truth, rather than simply seeking the experience and taking the medicine, follows through with various religious experts and takes Deepak Chopra’s words as the start of a journey that feels like a voyage through the Joseph Campbell Hero’s Journey.
Exploring different avenues of the possibilities of psychedelics, the film follows both the main cast members and the crew become involved in the experience.
Parts of the movie includes interviews with various experts, although they do not have many names that are highly established within the psychedelic community like James Fadiman, or author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule, Richard Strassman.
What are the Pitfalls of this Movie?
Anyone interested in psychedelics, knows that films on the rediscovery of these plant medicines have been popping up with a lot of frequency. The movie’s strength of speaking about ayahuasca through a New Age health lens is both its strength and its primary weakness.
Some amazing points are made during the film about worldview might be changed by psychotropic substance. At the same time, the movie relies on low hanging fruit for the culprits of why drugs became illegal, blaming it on pharmaceutical companies, rather than on the politics of the time that led to those substances becoming legal.
There is also a lack of criticalness by the writers in their delving into the amazon in search of sacred plants from healers. At no point in the film do participants talk about the deforestation that has become involved with ayahuasca tourism.
In a way, the film feeds into the idea that by travelling back to our roots in the jungle we can find salvation, however, there is never a question of what impact there choices will have on the people living there.
Reality Of Truth Film Pricing
The Reality of Truth can be purchased online for $4.99, or is available free from the company if the consumer is willing to share a post on either Facebook or Google+. The free option lasts 30 days, but once one starts watching they have only 72 hours to complete it.
Reality Of Truth Film Review Summary
If one is interested in ayahuasca and considering this movie is free, it is worth giving it a try. Especially if one is a big follower of Deepak Chopra and already strongly agree with him, then this film could take one down a new avenue of health research.
For those who are more skeptically minded, however, this film might be of interest for its narrative elements, but it would not be as convincing in its objectives. Individuals involved in drug policy may also enjoy this movie to see the justifications that are used by the narrator to make his point.
