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- TriviaCommentary in documentary partly provided by neuroscientists and academicians, but predominantly provided and driven by former retail workers, stoke brokers, managers, and business owners who became minimalists; in essence those, arguably, who helped create the problems minimalism is trying to solve in the first place. This follows a trend known in humanity, where those that create the problem often realise and have to end up being the ones solving it.
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Jay Austin: We're not going to ever be able to achieve the environmental gains that we're seeking, while still expecting our lives to be the same. We're going have to give up a lot. The secret is that a lot of that we're not actually going to miss.
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Pretentious well-to-do people downsizing a difficult thing to empathize with...
Having spent the last two-and-a-half years living on a 25 foot long sailboat, I am in a position to say a word or two about minimalism. And it could be said that in the realm of living a minimalistic life people who live on boats have been doing it for a long long time, much longer than what these filmmakers propose.
What I appreciate about the film is that it does propose a great many good thoughts for conversation on how life can be more full with less stuff.
Unfortunately where this film fell quite flat for me was in that most of the interviews are with people who are well- to-do making six-digit incomes and deciding that they don't want a big house instead choosing to live a minimalistic life which is fine. But a great many people choose to live minimalistic lives that are not as wealthy, and are simply working-class folks.
And as some of the reviewers here have pointed out a film about minimalism should be perhaps much shorter and to the point, so here is mine on the advantages of a minimalistic lifestyle.
I am asked often what it is like for my life on my small sailboat and the answer is that I have found stuff creates anchors. Like the death with ten thousand small cuts these anchors are each and of themselves so tiny, so small, so insignificant, that one does not notice them but in totality they wind up creating a sort of quicksand trapping you in place, doing a thing so that you may hold on to these things.
And that a life where your identity is deeply embedded in the things around you that are yours is in fact an extremely hollow form of existence.
As it stands for the warmer half of the year when I arrive home from work if there is wind, 15 minutes later I'm out sailing with very few anchors trailing behind.
I'm glad someone is saying these things about minimalism, I'm just not so sure these guys did the best job of it.
What I appreciate about the film is that it does propose a great many good thoughts for conversation on how life can be more full with less stuff.
Unfortunately where this film fell quite flat for me was in that most of the interviews are with people who are well- to-do making six-digit incomes and deciding that they don't want a big house instead choosing to live a minimalistic life which is fine. But a great many people choose to live minimalistic lives that are not as wealthy, and are simply working-class folks.
And as some of the reviewers here have pointed out a film about minimalism should be perhaps much shorter and to the point, so here is mine on the advantages of a minimalistic lifestyle.
I am asked often what it is like for my life on my small sailboat and the answer is that I have found stuff creates anchors. Like the death with ten thousand small cuts these anchors are each and of themselves so tiny, so small, so insignificant, that one does not notice them but in totality they wind up creating a sort of quicksand trapping you in place, doing a thing so that you may hold on to these things.
And that a life where your identity is deeply embedded in the things around you that are yours is in fact an extremely hollow form of existence.
As it stands for the warmer half of the year when I arrive home from work if there is wind, 15 minutes later I'm out sailing with very few anchors trailing behind.
I'm glad someone is saying these things about minimalism, I'm just not so sure these guys did the best job of it.
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- leifthor-1
- Dec 24, 2016
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- 極簡主義:記錄生命中的重要事物
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- $261,865
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- $261,865
- Runtime1 hour 18 minutes
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