What Is Tom Shadyac: What's Wrong With Our World?

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I AM I AM is a documentary that asks the question: what’s wrong with our world, and what can we do to make it better? The filmmaker behind the story Tom Shadyac, one of Hollywood’s great directors of: “Ace Ventura,” “Liar Liar,” “The Nutty Professor,” and “Bruce Almighty.” I AM is a story not about humor but about what life was like for Shadyac after a cycling accident. After the accident, Shadyac had a new outlook on life and wanted to find out more about the world and people we live with. Shadyac and a small crew go out and meet with a variety of remarkable men and women from the worlds of science, philosophy, academia, and faith. Some people interviewed were: Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Lynne McTaggart, Ray Anderson, and John Francis. Shadyac …show more content…

Yet Shadyac found that living a large and rich lifestyle lead to emptiness and loneliness. So, Shadyac left his riches and glamourous lifestyle and only kept the essentials. In 2007, Shadyac got into a bike accident which left him with Post Concussion Syndrome, a condition where the symptoms of the original concussion don’t go away. Symptoms include: intense and painful reactions to light and sound, severe mood swings, and a constant ringing sound in the head. Shadyac tried treatment, traditional and alternative, but nothing worked. He suffered months of isolation and pain, and finally reached a point where he wanted to die. It was Shadyac’s day of darkness and pain that I AM was born. Shadyac, whose last film had a crew of hundreds, consisted of a crew of four, and set out to find, and film, the thinkers who had helped to change his life, and to seek a better understanding of the world, its inhabitants, their past, and their future. Thus, Shadyac interviews scientists, psychologists, artists, environmentalists, authors, activists, philosophers, entrepreneurs, and others in his search for

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