Review of The Secret

The Secret (2006 Video)
3/10
Some entertainment value, obviously the rest is crap
15 August 2007
I give the film a 3 and not its well deserved 1, because it offered me some laugh-out-loud moments with its level of dumbness. In case people haven't noticed, this is not a documentary, this is a 90 minute advertisement, with the names of so-called "experts" flashing on the screen for ages (if it was a documentary everybody knows that names are only shown once and without embossed signatures). No wonder each one of the "gurus" is on the business of "get rich quick" or "succeed in your life" or "find happiness" and the like.

I can only feel sympathy for people who consider elementary school advice like "think positive" a ground-breaking "secret", well kept for centuries. And I find amazing that they are prepared to suspend their brain function in order to believe that you can avoid accidents, bills, diseases or catastrophes just by not thinking about them or that you will get money just by thinking about money. At least they must understand that the only people actually getting money from this advice are the advisers themselves.
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