This is the best movie I've ever seen. I just finished watching the 2013 Director's cut. It is my first exposure to this movie, and I have never read the book.
Why? It shows exactly how I've thought and felt my entire life. No one has ever come close to understanding the choice tree I go through for every thing. I have always known this human life does not exist as almost everyone seems to think. Time is a tool, and nothing else. I don't feel I belong here, only forced to act out a part for now, until I can go back home.
I mostly kept quiet about my thoughts. I had an understanding, fabulously intelligent, family but they could not make much sense of my thoughts. It wasn't until a brillant college professor suggested I read further into quantum physics that I felt validation, finally.
Then came 'A Course In Miracles'. I am not alone anymore.
Thank you Jaco Van Dormael. I am indebted to your vision.