Benjamin Stewart Kymatica Rhetorical Techniques

The film Kymatica (2009) directed by Benjamin Stewart is a spiritual enlightenment that uses quantum science and metaphysics to try to understand our lives and what they mean. This film centers around the fact the even though we humans seem insignificant in this universe, we can beat this insignificance by being our own true self. Things in our lives can become a trap and block our understanding of our true self and purpose. The film is very philosophical and makes the viewer consider things they may have never even thought of. This is what makes it enlightening. The film takes the audience to new perspectives by using many different rhetorical techniques. The purpose of the film is to expand the consciousness of the audience by informing

The scenes are usually black backgrounds with images, text, or the occasional piece of footage added over this background. This directs the viewer’s attention to what is being shown and really intensifies what is being said. At the beginning of the film, the word, “Creation” is shown in white letters on a black background. As the words linger there, the audience gets a chance to think about what this word means. After the audience thinks, the film takes over and informs the audience what this means and how it is an important part of this needed harmony. Showing simple but powerful images is a key technique used by the filmmakers. The documentary has images from history, and these pictures, diagrams, and paintings all tell a story. The use of history really adds ethos to the film. This rhetorical technique helps the film relate their main arguments with something that the audience believes to be true. For the most part, people trust history; we learn about history in school, read about it in books, and are told about it from scholars. By relating main arguments to historical events, the film can really get the audience to understand and accept their

An educational or historical film needs to be fair in this way, and some documentaries are, but most documentaries are very biased. This bias can inspire the filmmakers to twist the truth just a little to make their point. This twisting of the truth can lead to multiple fallacies. Kymatica states that vanity leads to segregation and competition, competition leads to fear and greed, greed leads to deceit and immorality, and immorality leads to illness and self-hate. While in some cases, this logic works, it is not true for every situation; competition does not always lead to fear or greed. Not only does the documentary seem to be fallacious, but the writers use a lot of generalizations. For example, the film uses many cases where evidence seems to support an argument, but it leaves out all of the evidence that contradicts the argument. The film is partly aimed towards people who ignore or do not realize this. The film is most likely geared towards people who are curious in nature and who may be having difficulties finding their place in this world. A person like this will find great comfort in the fact that they are not alone in this search. We are a planet consisting of billions of people; everyone goes through this. Kymatica and its ideals will “enlighten” anyone, but the truly curious and “lost” audiences will get more out of the film and be more likely to go along with the