I am one kind of person who live for more stuff, actually I care much about what people think, and of course what I own. When they compliment me for the success I got with those expensive stuff, I feel proud and happy but not for long. I keep buying stuff, to maintain the proudness about these. Afterall I realize people don't really care about what I got. The movie is somehow describe me, people may call they're crazy to go backward to the norm of society. Yes they do. But It's a good thing for us both in term of metal health and physical health when the environment get more burden from scare resources and pollution. And why this movie don't give any specific direction to minimalism and the purpose of it. I think it advice us to give be concentrate on each individual's important things. And that's what different between people. We can't tell exactly. We gonna find out our all ways. I feel grateful watching this. I will give myself a time to grow and become a minimalist, not because they ask me to or I admire them. But just because I'm tired of the way I used to live : Living for more.

So in college recently, our lecturer showed us this film because we are doing a film project based on plastic and and seeing this opened my eyes on what us humans should be doing to stop cluttering up their homes with pointless junk. Yes it's nice to have a house full of stuff to make it look more lively but sometimes it is best to always narrow it down to some stuff you really need on a day to day basis (utensils, table, toaster,chairs, etc).

Anyways enough gabbing, the documentary was really interesting on how people take on the "minimalist" lifestyle in different ways like making their houses smaller and having less stuff in their houses. I really liked hearing Joshua Fields Millburn (who looks like River Phoenix)and Ryan Nicodemus' stories on how they got where they are today. They have likeable personalities and honestly I could just listen to them all day lol. I'm shocked to see that there was less interest in any of their talks shown in the film. I know they said that they don't care about the quantity of people showing up but man, that is a bit disheartening like the men seem like pretty nice people to listen to!

Yeah just watch it guys if you don't care about the bad reviews, I found it was well worth watching personally!

Maybe if you do a movie about minimalism, you shouldn't brag in the title? Also keep the title short? Would make sense, no? Anyway if we move on from the obvious things, even before watching the movie, let's be clear that enlightenment will not strike everyone who will watch this. Some may be more cynically inclined than others of course.

Having said that, I won't knock the general idea of consumerism taking too much time and emotional value from any of us. But the question is, where to go and how to find a path for ones individual needs. As it is pointed out, how do you keep it minimal, when you have a family? And kids ... just the fact of them going to school at one point ... the social pressure of having the latest gadgets and best clothes ... There is so much more to explore ... but maybe it will give some solace and a sort of guide to some. You can't argue with that either ...