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In the U.S., your chances of being struck by lightning are 1 in 280,000. The odds of winning the Washington Lotto are 1 in 6,991,908. So you're 25 times more likely to regret going out in that thunderstorm.

Opening October 30 at SIFF Cinema at McCaw Hall, the lightning-strike documentary Act of God (through November 5, tickets: $10) is directed Jennifer Baichwal, who earlier gave us Manufactured Landscapes. That may be enough to get plenty of you into the theater, but the movie's combination of sheer visual spectacle, heartbreak, and existential questioning makes it unique.

I'm not saying you can't miss it, but if you go, I think there's a good chance you'll be surprised at the intensity of your response. You leave the theater feeling a bit singed and hallucinating the smell of freshly formed ozone.

There's no narrator as such--Baichwal moves from interview to interview, with astonishing visuals of lightning strikes intercut with the series of "talking heads." Some have won this lottery-...

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