by Lysander » Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:09 pm
Has anyone seen this? It strikes me as just the sort of thing that would get people blogging (ugh) it like crazy, because it's a message that must be told!~! (The message, in a nutshell, is "law of attraction", the theory is that our thoughts influence reality; if we constantly fantasise about awesome stuff awesome stuff happens and if we dwell on bad things bad things happen. I've taken a break from it while the housemates are in the hospital, but my 30-second quarter-documentary veview is thus: it appeals to all of a person's most inner wants and desires in a slightly more subtle way than most, and with (so far anyway) a complete lack of substanciation from anything even remotely accreditable, I don't see what separates this from any other documentary written by a bunch of nonames about anything. When you're dealing with things that far out of mainstream perception it's very easy to spout the philosophy out. From a pure artistic point of view it drags like a motherfucker, and spends basically an hour telling you the same way in a hundred thousand different ways; at htis point I saw the first ten minutes and then wanted to tell everybody--literally, I wanted to not be watching the movie anymore. That's not a very good way to keep your audience. But, it's got me interested enough to see what hte rest of it is; it's not selling anything other than itself so far and I didn't buy it so I don't see what CA$$ they could be exporting me out of this way.
Has anyone seen this? It strikes me as just the sort of thing that would get people blogging (ugh) it like crazy, because it's a message that must be told!~! (The message, in a nutshell, is "law of attraction", the theory is that our thoughts influence reality; if we constantly fantasise about awesome stuff awesome stuff happens and if we dwell on bad things bad things happen. I've taken a break from it while the housemates are in the hospital, but my 30-second quarter-documentary veview is thus: it appeals to all of a person's most inner wants and desires in a slightly more subtle way than most, and with (so far anyway) a complete lack of substanciation from anything even remotely accreditable, I don't see what separates this from any other documentary written by a bunch of nonames about anything. When you're dealing with things that far out of mainstream perception it's very easy to spout the philosophy out. From a pure artistic point of view it drags like a motherfucker, and spends basically an hour telling you the same way in a hundred thousand different ways; at htis point I saw the first ten minutes and then wanted to tell everybody--literally, I wanted to not be watching the movie anymore. That's not a very good way to keep your audience. But, it's got me interested enough to see what hte rest of it is; it's not selling anything other than itself so far and I didn't buy it so I don't see what CA$$ they could be exporting me out of this way.