Required internet form topic about _The Secret_
Posted: 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.