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I recall watching "Nikita" with enthusiasm as a young man, how naive was I back then to what I am today.

Today I see the show as full of psychopaths and killers, it's unclear on whose authority they're even acting, and every episode a number of highly trained agents die basically for questionable reasons and objectives. Many die just because of faults or internal conflicts of the so-called 'sections', which is actually a pretty accurate reflection of what any governmental actions involving violence are usually resulting in.

The show lives of Peta Wilson, but her daily renewed styling like a supermodel in a dark secret spy unit is utmost implausible, just as her and "Michael"'s overacting with him as emotionally cold and hardened but still somehow 'loving' man and her as the 'wild beast' that also has tears in her eyes in every episode. It's a taste too much of everything to feel plausible. They see each other after being separated for years and don't even smile, let alone hug. The complete inability of pretty much everyone in the series to act like normal humans who are capable of speaking sentences longer than 5 words or showing a wider emotional range than a flatline with a few bumps in between made watching the series past Season 2 really challenging tbh. But I loved the concept, and it felt fresh and exciting until then.

This is a really nice movie to watch together with your partner or family during a weekend when having nothing else to do. The movie doesn't provide anything too deep or churning (so it should be perfectly fine for 10+ year old's to watch), basically it consists of a few story threads that eventually get intertwined and suggest to focus on the real things and values in life: connection, caring, love.

Production is good and the music very tasteful and supporting the story. Hint: fans, don't miss the final credits. ;-)

And, before I forget: ever dog / animal lover will also love this movie. :)

For what I know about the subject, psychedelic 'therapy' is not meant to be revelatory or unearthing, like to 'uncover more details' about ones' childhood, to 'understand' the reasoning of why parents acted a certain way etc., I think the documentary has been a bit misleading in these regards, and I'm surprised the therapists seem to have raised such expectations in the patients.

Psychedelic drugs when used in psychotherapy often allow to find a new perspective on things, take away fear and inhibitions to confront the past or sensitive topics, and that is it what allows for new developments.

Anyway, a very interesting documentary, we need to get back to explore and re-evaluate the potentials of psychedelic therapy, highly valuable research that was stopped when Nixon declared 'war on drugs'.