To really appreciate a movie like this you have to release all of your inner inhibitions and everything that you have been conditioned too throughout your lives. It's hard for people to do this, and religious people have even a tougher time of doing so. To hear that there isn't an ultimate creator for them to throw their problems on or to rely on is disheartening and scary. And in some ways this movie suggests that this is the case. The fact is that when you try to label the movie as fact or fiction then you are missing the point. The point of the movie and all science basically is to be thought provoking. To look at all aspects of reality and to ask questions so that you yourself can become an intellectual being. Being intellectually sound can help you to live a life in which you feel you have more control over. Many instances in the movie this is spoken of. All I'm saying is you need to take the movie at face value and understand that it truly is a revolutionary film because it attempts and does a pretty damn good job at making quantum physics (or what some of you have called new age religion) easy to understand.
