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The film will explore society's obsessions with the pursuit of happiness and will be presented by Mark Manson alongside Disappointment Panda, a character from the book whose superpower is to... Read allThe film will explore society's obsessions with the pursuit of happiness and will be presented by Mark Manson alongside Disappointment Panda, a character from the book whose superpower is to tell people the harsh truth.The film will explore society's obsessions with the pursuit of happiness and will be presented by Mark Manson alongside Disappointment Panda, a character from the book whose superpower is to tell people the harsh truth.
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It's always so easy for people like Mark to tell us the how and why and what we should do to live a better life when they have $14,000,000 in their back pocket.
Seriously, his ideas aren't new, they're just old ideas repackaged. If you have t figured out how to be a good person before you watch this, this film ain't gonna help. If you think your a pretty good and kind person before seeing this film, it'll just come off as sanctimonious nonsense.
Listen to the audio book, as this certainly is a case of the book being better than the movie.
And the 3 stars are for Disappointment Panda. He's the one thing that kept me engaged.
Seriously, his ideas aren't new, they're just old ideas repackaged. If you have t figured out how to be a good person before you watch this, this film ain't gonna help. If you think your a pretty good and kind person before seeing this film, it'll just come off as sanctimonious nonsense.
Listen to the audio book, as this certainly is a case of the book being better than the movie.
And the 3 stars are for Disappointment Panda. He's the one thing that kept me engaged.
Manson tries to convey to us practical wisdom from his life and the modern era that is controversial and confusing.
His narrative is one of first world drama where he discovers himself. It's okay, but not very well thought out or scientifically backed. I think one would do much better watching an Alain de Botton TED Talk.
True some ideas are better placed in a motion picture narrative. Here the Director has used a mixture of 1980s BBC clips and B-grade acting scenes. It just hasn't cut the mustard for this critical reviewer.
For a better experience I'd suggest 'Ravi Patel's Pursuit of Happiness' (2020)
His narrative is one of first world drama where he discovers himself. It's okay, but not very well thought out or scientifically backed. I think one would do much better watching an Alain de Botton TED Talk.
True some ideas are better placed in a motion picture narrative. Here the Director has used a mixture of 1980s BBC clips and B-grade acting scenes. It just hasn't cut the mustard for this critical reviewer.
For a better experience I'd suggest 'Ravi Patel's Pursuit of Happiness' (2020)
I have not read the book so I don't have much to compare it to, but the film felt more of a speaker making a motivational speech than a documentary. The entire documentary was the author talking about his personal experiences, which didn't resonate with me in any way. I just didn't "give a f*#!" about his own stories so it seemed a little pretentious to me that he was making us listen to all these very basic stories from his past. I did like the in between of talking about entitlement and taking responsibility, but it would have been nice to also hear from professionals to hear their take on it.
He spoke of how his life was turned upside down by an incident at school and how his parents broke up but didn't see any correlation with his own actions. He spoke of his best friend who lived a "dream life" that was entirely false but failed to understand the guy was just a classic psychopath and not a role model. He spoke how he used to be shallow and self centred but now here he is in a film dedicated to his world view featuring no-one but himself. I totally agree with this main point that it's foolish to compare yourself with what's found on YT etc but I found the the guy himself quite sad.
I watched this out of curiosity. Bizarrely I found it quite engaging. Not having read Mark Mason's book or otherwise heard of him prior, I watched his documentary with much interest.
In my opinion, I found it to be more of an introspective of one's own life choices at an early age.
Mark appeared to be quite rational and succinct when discussing his per sieved failings during his early adolescence and in to his early twenties.
That said I'm not entirely sure who he was trying to preach to. Those that still give a Fu@k or those that don't.
A lot if what he said does resonate. So I'll give him some codos, given he has opened up his life to some scrutiny.
As a self help. I'm not completely sure his documentary does him justice.
Maybe Mark should wait until he is a little older and has gone through the trials and tribulations of a long term partnership / marriage any subsequent separation, and or the consequences with respect to children , especially if he were to separate.
He might equally have to deal with the death of any parents, close relatives, siblings or children, when he is a little older.
He can then do a sequel. In order to redefine, what not giving a Fu@k really means.
In retrospect, many other people in life also don't give a Fu@k , myself included. We equally appreciate that life is finite. It doesn't mean we don't take some responsibility.
Perhaps if at the end of the documentary Mark had indicated that all proceeds including his fee from his Netflix documentary were to be donated to a said charity, of his choice.
I might have truly thought that this guy doesn't give an Fu@k.
In my opinion, I found it to be more of an introspective of one's own life choices at an early age.
Mark appeared to be quite rational and succinct when discussing his per sieved failings during his early adolescence and in to his early twenties.
That said I'm not entirely sure who he was trying to preach to. Those that still give a Fu@k or those that don't.
A lot if what he said does resonate. So I'll give him some codos, given he has opened up his life to some scrutiny.
As a self help. I'm not completely sure his documentary does him justice.
Maybe Mark should wait until he is a little older and has gone through the trials and tribulations of a long term partnership / marriage any subsequent separation, and or the consequences with respect to children , especially if he were to separate.
He might equally have to deal with the death of any parents, close relatives, siblings or children, when he is a little older.
He can then do a sequel. In order to redefine, what not giving a Fu@k really means.
In retrospect, many other people in life also don't give a Fu@k , myself included. We equally appreciate that life is finite. It doesn't mean we don't take some responsibility.
Perhaps if at the end of the documentary Mark had indicated that all proceeds including his fee from his Netflix documentary were to be donated to a said charity, of his choice.
I might have truly thought that this guy doesn't give an Fu@k.
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- TriviaBased upon The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life which is a 2016 nonfiction self-help book by American blogger and author Mark Manson. The book covers Manson's belief that life's struggles give it meaning and argues that typical self-help books offer meaningless positivity which is neither practical nor helpful, thus improperly approaching the problems many individuals face. It was a New York Times and Globe and Mail bestseller.
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Original Music and Recording by Karl Sölve Steven (as Karl Steven) & Mark Perkins
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