2015 Directed by Matt D'Avella
How might your life be better with less? The popular simple-living duo The Minimalists examines the many flavors of minimalism by taking the audience inside the lives of minimalists from various walks of life.
Somewhere in here there's an important message that could become very powerful and resonant with a lot of people, more now than ever, but there's some trouble sussing out what that is. Is it about our consumerist nature? Is it about uncovering what our purpose in life is? Is it about hugs? I don't know!
There's a little bit too much self-importance at the center of the documentary for me to really want to wrap my arms around it in a big embrace. One guy literally reads a passage from his own book to us ON A BEACH. There's also a lot of minimalists on their iMacs, despite repetitive, negatively-framed scenes of people in Apple stores.
I really like the…
I'm a hugger.
-Joshua Fields Millburn
It's like listening to a crack addict tell you that you shouldn't have a beer with your supper because substance abuse leads to unhappiness.
Two former materialistic douchebags explain how unhappy they used to be and how happy they are now that they've gotten ride of all their stuff and started spreading the word about minimalism. Weirdly neither one of them seem to make a correlation between their unhappiness and that they were douchebags at the time. I also question if they're current happiness doesn't come from the fact that their getting attention through their book.
I can see how living a minimalism lifestyle could make some happy, but this documentary has very little…
watching this was kind of like having a rich person tell u about how they r so much better than u bc they started taking the bus one day a week and bc of that they r singlehandedly saving the environment and were able to save enough money to buy another car. when u actually take the bus every day and it's not a fun quirky choice
Minimalism is a great thing, and something I've been slowly working on integrating into my day to day life for a few years now. And this documentary could have been more than okay for me, but unfortunately the thing that got me into minimalism in the first place is the thing that ruins this film for me - The Minimalists themselves.
There were so many topics and people that I would have loved to have heard more about - the ex-Wall Street broker, Leo Babauta and how he incorporates minimalism with 6 kids (his blog is great), how to deal with wanting to make a massive life change such as quitting your job for something more fulfilling (like The Minimalists…
"Don't give into advertising and consumerism" they say, as they advertise their seminars and books.
— 1/10.
It was good until the weird white guy in stringy leather sandals on a skateboard tried giving me life advice. But that was 2 minutes in and turned out to be the entire movie.
any examination of "minimalism" lacking a critical analysis of capitalism isn't an adequate examination at all
Giving this self-serving feature length book tour promo one star in the interest of minimalism
The academic Patrick Rhone featured in this movie reminds me of Jude Law for some reason. Can we just give him all of Jude laws’ next roles? I’ll feel better watching a Black man take Jude law’s roles; all the same charisma but without the colonialism. Seeing Jude-Law-but-not-Jude-law on screen will also sit better since actual Jude law is a terrible person in real life. Let’s start the petition.
Anyway, this movie is like if the idea of anti-capitalism got coopted and made into a light-beer to sell at a microbrewery. No, I will not explain.
Quite an eye-opening film.
This movie really makes you rethink the things that are attached to you physically. If you need them and the difference to why we like and buy the things we have. I quite enjoyed this movie I think it's alright it made its point and message throughout the movie. I will definitely rethink the things I own and what could change.
i gave up when the guy thought that mixing dirty underwear with clean underwear (along with other clothing) and dividing them with a red underwear was like a BRILLIANT idea. what the fuck
plus this documentary is 100% rich people preaching about minimalism. fuck off
muito focada no contexto estadunidense e aborda questões como: pessoas viverem como escravas do capitalismo, consumismo vs materialismo, menos é mais, foco e saúde mental porém tudo de forma vaga e meio jogada pra reflexão (o que acaba tendo o efeito contrário e se tornando esquecível kk)
A gondolattal egyetértek, mert tudom, hogy az űrt magamban sokszor vásárlással (is) töltöttem be, de mióta rendben van a lelkem ez is a helyére került. A rábeszélés és a mesterkéltség része zavart a filmnek leginkább. Nem hiszem, hogy attól szar ember lennék, mert nem úgy törekszem a minimalizmusra, hogy egy hónapig minden nap kidobok/elajándékozok/eladok valamit minden nap. Utána olvasgattam még cikkeket a témában és azoknak több értelme volt, mint ennek a másfél órának.
It was very good as far as rhetoric and convincing the point goes but it tries to seem like less than it is. It got to the point it just came off as pretentious like this man said he chose to be homeless. Some people don’t have the opportunity.
Rich white Americans got bored of money and started to play poor. Oh, and they made a whole netflix documentary about it of course.
I’m glad that they went with a short(ish) runtime of 79 minutes. In all honesty though, I think this film would have been much better at 30-40 minutes, especially given the subject matter. Of course that’s an unrealistic suggestion cause we’re still at a point where “weird” runtimes are considered to have no market- even in the age of streaming.
Anyway, I’ve seen a lot of these “consumerism bad” style documentaries because I really like the message, and therefore seek it out. I think that this film gets that message across better than most films of similar subject. One thing it doesn’t do, though, is give any sort of practical advice for how to become a minimalist. Feels like every…
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